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Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Elizabeth, N. J., August 6th, 1863: On Occasion of the Public Thanksgiving Appointed by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States; To Commemorate the Signal Victories Vouchsafed to the Federal Arms The right hand of the Lord is exalted; the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly. Psalm CXVIII: 16. As good citizens you have read and re-read the excellent proclamation of our Chief Magistrate. It has been your privilege to ponder with undissembled gratitude to God, the wonderful successes which have recently crowned our arms; mingle your sympathies with the sufferers in this needless and cruel rebellion; offer your earnest prayers that God would change the hearts of the insurgents; and devoutly ask that the whole nation might be led, through paths of repentance and submission to the divine will, back to the perfect enjoyment of union and fraternal peace. This you have already done and are daily doing, but now you are assembled to perform the same duty in a more public manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.