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Proclamation for a fast day.
--The proclamation of President Davis for a day of national fasting and prayer will be universally observed through the Southern States.
We rejoice that the Executive of the Confederate Republic has from the first, by this and similar acts, given official expression to the religious public sentiment of the Southern States, which contain a larger proportion of persons connected with various religious denominations than any other portion of this Continent.
It is the universal custom of Christian rulers to acknowledge, at least formally, the government of a Divine hand, and to implore its favor; but we are sure that, in the present case, it is more than a form, and is inspired by that profound sense of the need of Divine interposition which is felt by every Southern man who believes in a God, as well as by gratitude for its evident exercise already in our behalf.
In a late sermon, delivered upon the fiftieth anniversary of his ministry, Bishop Meade
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