Excerpt from Our Country; Its Peace, Prosperity, and Perpetuity: Thanksgiving Sermon Preached in Coeymans, Albany County, N. Y., Thursday, November 27, 1862
"Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem; they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls and Prosperity within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. I will seek thy good, because of the House of the Lord our God." - Ps. cxxii: 6-9.
In accordance with the acknowledged usage, we most cheerfully comply with the recommendation of the Chief Magistrate of this State, to assemble for public worship, and devote it as a "Day of Praise, Thanksgiving and Prayer to Almighty God," devoutly acknowledging His power and goodness, and our dependence on His mercy and forbearance.
The Psalm from which we have selected our text, contains an impassioned and earnest expression of regard, on the part of the sacred writer, for his native country, and the city with which more especially, its honor and glory - its history and religion, were associated. With no people, probably, has the love of country ever been more strongly marked than that to which the Psalmist belonged. To the Jew, Jerusalem was Judea, and Judea was the world. To love Jerusalem was to love his country, and to go out of Palestine was equivalent to go out from the habitable portions of the earth.
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