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Excerpt from A Sermon on the Death of Lieut. Sylvester Rogers: Son of Freeman S. Rogers, of Nashua, Who Was Killed in the Battle of August 29th, 1862, Near Bull Run
Life, at the very best, is a warfare and the battle-field has no dangers too terrible to give emblems of what men and women encounter in the great struggle of the world. Indeed, life is one long battle between good and evil. All there is noble in human history is comprised in the victories of right over wrong of truth over falsehood. All that has been achieved, all that we hold sacred to-day in government, in religion, in individual liberty, are only trophies of that great fight carried on from age to age, where the children of light contend against the legions of darkness and the king dom of God gains victories over rebel principalities and powers and wickedness aspiring to high places. If we could trace but the least of all those blessings we enjoy as a Chris tian people to-day, we should find it going back through long generations to remotest times, and along the way we should find thousands of sacrifices and blood poured out like water for its purchase. If an Omnipotent Hand should lift but one of those glorious principles, of which Free Institu tions are the fruit, and hold it up to our View, we should see the whole human race clinging to its roots. Its fibres run into all the institutions of the past and clasp the bones of dead generations back to Adam. Everything valued and cherished in our modern civilization has been fought for, has been suffered for, has cost the noblest sacrifices. This is. What has given such sublime significance in Christianity to the word sacrifice. From Him, who gave his life on Cal vary in this great battle of good against evil in the world, to the humblest human being, Who, amid the phantoms of temptation around him, sees dimly the shining image of duty and follows it, as best he can, we instinctively honor and glorify all, who have, by their lives or by their deaths, help ed on humanity in the divine progress of liberty, knowledge, justice and truth. He has fought the good fight, who has struck even one blow against the enemies of man and has fallen in his place of duty with his face to the foe. The common good of the race is built up from these individual sacrifices.
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