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Show Gilbert Haven. sncrcd and potent as it became in England when V nne, and Sidney, and Russell mounted it. S uch a th rill of' ind ignation nncl remorse will frcC7.C th ' oul of· •yc ry ma n, North and South, .~laveholder aml abolitioni -t, as n ' ver ~tru ck thruugh the heart of a O'r •at Chri:;tian nati on l> •fore. L et John 0 Brown's great words he fulflll eu : ''Now, if it is deemed necc ·sary that I houlcl forfeit my life for lhc furthercnce of the ends of justic , and min()'lc my ulood furth er with the hlood of my chil<lren, and with the ulood of millions in tltis . lave country who c rights are di · r cp;ard ·d uy wick e<l, cru el, and unju t ennctmcnt , I say let it be done." Out of tha t death life will leap; life for those mi ·crc'l.blo millions now worse tlwn dead. To his memory honor ' will he paid; tatucs will bear his tern, mild f(·ature to posterity ; and when Virginia is free, as free he will b<', one of her first acts will be to erect a. monument. to hi.· m ·mory, on the very spot where disgrace, defeat and death n ow overwhelm him- as one of the fir ·t acts of thi Commonwealth after she had achieved her liberty, was to rai~ the lofty memo· rial to the " monomaniac" \Varren, and hi · slain and defeat· ed comrade~, r ebels, like the c, again ·t a legal hut tyrannical power. l\Iay God help us all to give our. cl ves to Him, in the consecration of a holy heart and life, and th •n to tl1e g reat moral warfare with every vice, chicfest of which, in the cry of the clown-trodden, and the crime of the down-treader, is American Slavery. II. SERMON DY R EV. G EORGE B. CHEEVER.• IT were a cheering and blessed grntula tion, could we a~sure each other t his day that this precious promi:-;e is our. , and that we beh old the brightening igns of' its fu lfilm ·nt. But as a promise, it ha a condi tion. I f judgment do r eturn unto ri O'htcowmes , if wick ·d tatutcs, and the wickcll obcdi-t:> ence of them and the sy-:itcm of wickedness which they e~ tauli -h and su::;ta in, arc wept away, and the people return unto God, to do ju tly, love mercy, and " ·alk humuly with him, then indeed he will ue with them; he i::; with tht'm, a nll cannot f01·~akc them. And if there be the signs of uch r eturn the very lJcO'inninO' of it is r)roof that God's mc·rcy has ' 0 0 begun. !low lJl •sseJ an<l gloriou would be OUl' COIH1 ition, if judgment were r eturned unto righteousnc~s! And it mu. t be so r eturned, o brought back, ancl we with it , or God mu t ca t u~ off. Let u.' prai c God for eve ry r ecord of such r eturn in other , and for a ll the in · truction, drawn f'rom their succc ~s, as to the methods uy which the r emoval of' a g reat evil was accompli hed, the r •ntmcialion of a grcnL wickedness effected, a great and peaceful r cvolu t ion broug ht auout, where utter ruin had ueen threa tened. \V e need a ll the l ight * l~n tit l P<l : cc 'J'ho E xnntplo 1mrl th o l\Tr thotl of Emnncipatlon h.V tho ('onstit ution ot' our Conn try, a nd tho \\'or <l of Ood." Preached in lho Uhu rch of tho l'urilnns, TlmnhRg iving Day, Nov. 2-t, 1850, \ ly Hcv. George B. Cheever, 0 . n ., fl'(\()l P~ nl m xciv.] ~.HI : U}'or tho Lord will n ot ctlHl ofT Ills people, neith er wil l ho fo~'Mitl\~ h il'4 i nla' r i llliH'P. llnt judgment t;hall l'Ollll'n liUlO 1'i~h lCOUI:IUCI:IS1 l\llll t\11 tho lllH'I~ht Ill hear! !-h llll ful· low i t." · ( 141) |
