THE SACRIFICE OF CONTINUAL PRAISE. 81 whether freedom shall yet survive, or be covered with a funeral pall, wrapped in eternal gloom ; this is the tremendous issue we are trying to-day. Let it stand forth distinct and clear. No wonder despots sneer, or that lordly aristocracies that have grown great, and rich, and strong, upon the labors of the people, sympathize with our si a very-nurtured foes. No wonder the down-trodden of all lands; the wronged and the crushed ; the little ones of earth whom Christ owns as His peculiar care, pray for our triumph. Their prayerswill be heard and answered. I cannot close with words more fitting, than in the language of the eloquent Robert Hall, addressed to the soldiers of England, about to go forth to meet the armies of the first Napoleon ; and it it is a prayer most suitable to ascend to heaven on such a day as this, in behalf of our own cherished army and its beloved commander. “ And Thou, sole ruler among the children of men, to whom the shields of the earth belong, gird on thy sword, thou most mighty, go forth with our hosts in the day of battle; impart, in addition to hereditary courage, that confidence of success that springs from thy presence; pour into their hearts the spirit of departed heroes, and inspire them with thine own; and while led by thy hand and fighting under thy banners, open thou their eyes to behold, in every valley, and in every plain, that which the prophet beheld by the same illumination : chariots of fire, and horses of fire ; ‘ then shall the strong man he as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together,
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