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Excerpt from Lessons of Encouragement From the Times of Washington They teach us that the fortunate events which have helped to establish and unfold our national life, and the illustrious men who took the lead in those events, were ordained of Heaven, and that we should remember them with pious gratitude, and should hand them down in honor to our posterity. There is no other way to keep bright and unbroken the links of that mystic chain which binds us in dutiful affection to the Past and to the Future. It is a sad mark of degeneracy, when a people never stop, both for their own and for their children's sake, to commemorate the virtues and take counsel of the example of their forefathers; just as it is the sign of a poor and shallow domestic life when, rooted in the present alone, it is enriched by no old and hallowed family memories. This Christian Sabbath, as you are aware, is also the anniversary of the birth-day of that incomparable man, whose name is still enshrined, as is no other, in the reverence and grateful affections of the American people. It is a day to be forever marked with a white stone. He, whose birth it recalls, was justly entitled the Father Of His Country. He was, and is, our greatest earthly benefactor. In raising him up to be the leader of our revolutionary armies, and then to be the wise counselor, organizer, and first President of the infant Republic, God bestowed upon us a gift for which neither we nor our latest posterity shall ever be sufficiently thankful. The influence and character of George Washington have done more to form the Union, and to render it so worthy of our love? than any other single human cause. The world has seen as yet only the first fruits of this benignant and mighty influence. When the fierce storm of civil discord now beating upon us, and threatening wreck to the great Ship of State, whose keel was laid by that wise master-builder, shall have passed away, I doubt not the name of Washington will become again, as it wa
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- Publication date2024
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- ISBN 13 9781331399131
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- Number of pages28
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