Excerpt from Two Sermons: I. Signs of Our National Atheism; II. The War Begun
These are days when the noise of tumultuous events breaks over into the quietude of the Sabbath. As it sometimes happens with our lake, which lies out here, behind the bluffs: when there is a powerful and persistent sweep of the winds across the water you will hear the roar of the excited billows, reverberating along the shore and breaking, in softened thunder, over into the city, pouring the echoes of the storm down the streets, through the windows and doors of our houses, even into the sacred silence of the inmost chamber - so is it now with the tempestuous roar that comes up from the stormy deep of this turbulent nation. The low thunder and the shrill hiss of this popular whirlwind break in upon every sphere of life, resounding through the shop, the counting-room, the office, the court house, the exchange, the market, the school, penetrating the very vestibule of religion, and invading even its inmost temple. Only one week ago to-day, from morning till evening, and late into the night, groups of men were gathered upon the corners of the streets, waiting for the telegrams from Fort Sumter, and eagerly discussing the latest news, with every demonstration of excitement. Many forgot the house of God altogether; and some of those who visited the sanctuary were thinking more of the telegraphic despatches than of the Word of God.
Now, it is in vain to talk of holding back the popular mind from thinking upon this inflammatory subject.
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