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Excerpt from Sermon Delivered by the Rev. Samuel B. Bell, D.D: In Steven's Hall, Corner of Broadway and Forty-Seventh Street, New York City, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov, 24, 1864
Deuteronomy XVI: 13. - "Thou Shalt Observe The Feast Of The Tabernacles (Seven Days) After That Thou Hast Gathered In Thy Corn And Thy Wine."
Thanksgiving Day has come to be our Feast of Tabernacles. It is kept by us, at the same relative time as kept by the Jews - that is to say, after we have gathered in all our crops. (Here the Proclamations by Abraham Lincoln, President, Horatio Seymour, Governor, and C. Godfrey Gunther, Mayor, were read.) These, our chief executive officers, call upon us, among other things, to give thanks to Almighty God for the health and plenty of the land. And well we may, for there has never been a more prosperous year than the past, throughout the whole of our history; save and except only those portions of the country that have been visited by the devastations of civil war.
This civil war is the only blight, upon what otherwise might have been the happiest year in the existence of the nation. By whose fault is this unnatural strife? - When we talk about our nation, whatsoever theme we discuss, whatsoever topic we pursue, whither soever our conversation tends, we feel that it is merely trifling, if not on this - for underneath all, our minds and hearts are on the war. We feel that this is the question of our age.
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