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Excerpt from The Nation's Prospects of Peace: A Discourse Delivered at the Officers' General Hospital, and Repeated at the Hampton Hospital, Near Fort Monroe, Va., On Thanksgiving Day, September 11, 1864
With weary striving and with longing faint, I breathe it back again in prayer to Thee.
As some rare perfume in a vase of clay, Pervades it with a fragrance not its own, So when thou dwellest in a mortal soul, All heaven's own sweetness seems around it thrown.
Such is the peace of those, whom faith assures, will be future members of the general assembly of the first born, through reconciliation with God by faith in the righteous ness of Christ.
We cannot fail to trace the Christian's peace in its analogy to national peace, as the latter is conditioned by the energy of the former. When organized wrong, crystallized from seething dissensions, threaten public tranquillity, then politi cal Pauls wisely issue the rules for peace.
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