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Excerpt from The Lessons of Our National Conflict: Address to the Alumni of Yale College, at Their Annual Meeting, July 24, 1861
Fathers and Brethren of the Alumni: The distinguished scholar and divine who last addressed you, on an occasion like this, found his fitting theme in the history of our venerable Alma Mater, as recorded in her Triennial Catalogue. The public mind was then in a mood to sympathise with a review of our peaceful past, and to enjoy an effort so tranquil and scholarly to gather up those suggestions of wisdom and hope which may be derived from our former experience, to guide and encourage our future. Blessed peace! How bright is its sunshine, as in memory we contrast it with the stern and solemn realities which now surround us. The present hour seems to me to demand a very different theme. We are now called to learn the lessons of adversity: we must now find strength for an hour of conflict; fortitude to endure and hope to sustain and cheer us in darkness and gloom. It is fit that we remember that all the nations that have ever achieved anything worthy of the grateful remembrance of mankind, have passed through their seasons of national adversity, and that the lessons of those seasons have been even more important to their development, their education, and their greatness, than those derived from seasons of prosperity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
