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Show PBI:BS OP PRI:l'l''l'l88 AND SAWTBB, No.l9WaterStrecL SERMON. Shall the iron break the Northern iron und the steel ?- J£REMIAU xv. l:l. You have imagined my subject beforehtmd, for there is but one suLject on which I could preach, or you could listen, today. Yet, how hard it is to say one ·word of that. You do not ask, at a funeral, that the bereaved mourners themselves shou]d speak, but you call in one a little farther removed, to utter words of comiOrt, if comfOrt there be. :But to-day is, or should be, to every congregation in J)fassachusctts, a day of funeral service- we are all mom·ncrs- and what is there for me to say? Yet, even in this gloom, the faculty of wonder is left; as at funerals, men ask in a low tone, around the coffin, what ·was the disease that smote this f~Ur form, and m·c we safe from the infection? So we now ask, what is lost, and how have ·we lost it, and what have we left? Is it all gone, (men say,) that old New England heroism and enthusiasm? Is there any disinterested love of Freedom left in :Massachusetts ? And then they think with joy, (as I do,) that, at least, FTeedom did not die without a struggle, and that it took thousands of armed men to lay her in the grave at last. |