Show tuf THE bri or 01 UNITY the follow ing extract is from a sermon recently preached by henry ward vard B beecher at his clerch in Bro brooklyn oldyn 4 0 il ua blessin bl 96 6 of rt ty ji who shall r need to descant upon them wh nation has within thin A period of eighty 0 ye beus mrs risen from the c condition ond i of separated colof eo lofti vi S by war bankrupt on oil the eve of dissen themselves res with no flyod fix government and with scarcely anything but floating floa tAng on chieh tt t form a government what kotlier nation has within so short a period that c condition 0 11 to a dignity an and 1 strength such that nations three thousand miles distant dist bat are re interested in humbling and dividing it it was told me inc in england riot ot oe ifor twice nor thrice nor half a seare score of times you suo arc too strong and we cannot afford to have you united jor for Y yoi 0 n will dominate lo minate and dictate policy to the world if y yon oil go on oil in the way you yon 11 litre are I 1 coile ohe and wen men there c did not hesitate ate to say we hope the flit south will and breakup braak up the union which ili threatens to overshadow all the nations of the globe and read laws to them my reply was gentlemen if we overshadow all the nations of the globe and read laws to them they shall not be laws of it a tyrants hand or a selfish ered we e will read a new evangel evall gel of 01 lib arty and justice and prosperity and wm will stand a as the older elder brother of nations that are beginning to walk with their faces andal am proud of this nation not noc on account of its warehouses or its ita L hips or arms or arts or ol tm L hut because it is the representative senta renta tive or of the latest and best development ef 0 chrit christian tian ethics ir in civila 01 ity it is iq that which makes us 9 great reat in and the leader of nations in their toward universal liberty r ar adf iff with all these clangs 0 before our nur minds do we need to argue argei t all the question of the blessings blessin s 6 df unity unit Y or national government il 1 |