Excerpt from The Union, the Constitution, Peace: A Thanksgiving Sermon Delivered in the Locust St. M. E. Church, Harrisburg, Pa Victory is turned into mourning. Victories and sorrows go hand in hand; and no mere splendor of victory can atone for such multiplied and Wide spread sorrows. A land one vast field of blood, full of breaking hearts and - victory? And yet we are told - 1 It IS meet and right - equal.ly in these tri umphs and sorrows - to recognize and confess the presence of the Almighty Father and the power of his hand. 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.