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Excerpt from The Claims of God to Recognition in the Assassination of President Lincoln: A Sermon Preached on the Day of National Himiliation and Prayer, in the Chanceford Presbyterian Church, Lower Chanceford, York Co;, Pa;, And in the Prospect Methodist Episcopal Church, Fawn, York Co;, Pa
Be still, and know that I am God. - Psalm xlvi: 10.
The general belief of commentators is that this Psalm refers to the deliverance of Judah from the hand of Sennecharib the Assyrian, by the miraculous destruction of the army of that powerful and boastful heathen king. Though the exhortation of the text may have here a limited import, the limit arises not so much from its nature as the circumstances in which it is given. In its own character it is general. In either joyful or sorrowful events, prosperous or adverse circumstances, the voice of the Lord may be heard, ever saying, "Be still, and know that I am God." Both in joy and sorrow men are apt to forget their Maker, and as a consequence to give expression to their feelings without due reference to him whose overruling providence has ordered the events over which they rejoice or grieve. Thus exultation or depression, with their respective manifestations, may be sinful: and the very danger that they may become so, justifies the imperative counsel in the text. Be still - still your undue and Godless feelings - cease from them - leave them off so far as they ignore the hand of the Lord or render you forgetful of bis wisdom, and unmindful of his providentially indicated purposes. The duty is, not to cease from either joy or grief, or their manifestations, but from those phases of either which shut out the sovereign ruler; and to learn the lessons of his Supreme Godhead - his uncontrolled direction of the affairs of men.
We have assembled this day under circumstances which render the consideration of the text peculiarly appropriate.
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