Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached in the Winthrop Church, Charlestown, June 18, 1865 It is true, indeed, that in an important sense this anniversary is national and not local. W e cannot, if we would, appropriate to ourselves the honor of that early conflict. If the nation was rocked into existence in Faneuil Hall; these rivers and these surrounding hills first echoed to, the voice of her struggling life. Defeated on yonder height, she retreated to other fields, where she was finally victorious. It was not merely a few ...
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Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached in the Winthrop Church, Charlestown, June 18, 1865 It is true, indeed, that in an important sense this anniversary is national and not local. W e cannot, if we would, appropriate to ourselves the honor of that early conflict. If the nation was rocked into existence in Faneuil Hall; these rivers and these surrounding hills first echoed to, the voice of her struggling life. Defeated on yonder height, she retreated to other fields, where she was finally victorious. It was not merely a few citizens of Cambridge and Charlestown and other neighbor ing places, who, on June l6th, 1775, paraded atsunset on the University common, and after the prayer of President Langdon, repaired, with arms and entrenching ltools, to Charlestown heights. It was a new nation making her first real though scarcely conscious stand for the right of self-gov ernment - Of self-existence. That eminence -was then consecrated as a nation's altar, and Warren and his fellow-patriots fell there as a nation's sacrifice And yet, . It would be unpardonable in the i'nbah itants 'of this city, if they. Did not cherish a local' 'de o mmemorates. That soil, consecrated by the. First Considerable conflict for national independence, is within our city limits Up that very hill, where in winter the (school-boy coasts, ' the haughty Briton, twice. Led his well-trained tr00ps, only to see them swept back in confusion beneath the reserved and steady fire of yeoman muskets. These very beav ens reflected back the light of the five hundred burning dwellings of Charlestown. We litre up0n this historic ground; and God forbid' that we should ever ignore or misprize the sacred associa tions which cluster around us. God forbid that even the stirring and wonderful events of the last few years should displace iour recollections of earlier patriotism, of earlier sacrifices, of earlier achieve ments. Our national history is one history; and though later clusters of glorified ones are intro 'duced into the country's galaxy, yet the fixed stars, which have so long and so benignantly shone there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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