THANKSGIVING SERMON. 31 They are principles of action which are effective, full of energy, and which can endure reverses and become stronger by defeat, and which no changes of fortune and no discouragement can eradicate. 'They will not become giddy by victory, nor will they expire in the confusion of battle and amid garments rolled in blood. They will not move with the multitude simply because the multitude move, but only as it moves right. They will not change to time-serving and trickishness, but will stand stable and firm. They will not blow up the flame of war without reason, nor will they cry “ Peace, peace,” when pride and contention, animosity and strife, wrong and wrong-doers, are breaking up the integrity of the nation, and overturning the harmony and prosperity of the world. They are agitating principles only against evil, coalescing and combining with every element of goodness and rectitude. There is no safety for a nation, that despises or dishonors them. Patriotism is never so pure, so exalted, so to be relied on as when it springs from moral principle, and is founded in affectionate reverence for God. “ It is better to trust in the Lord than to have confidence in men; it is better
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