Excerpt from A Sermon, Preached on the National Fast Day, at Church Green, Boston

I Shall take for my text this morning, the Psalm which I have just read to you. It is applicable to the occasion on which we are met together. Its application here, to-day, is even more striking than it was originally. In this way it was that many a text of the old time was "fulfilled, " - filled fuller of meaning, when applied to the events of a later day. And so it is now.

For here God hath planted a nation, far greater and more prosperous than that of the Hebrews. He has "cast out the heathen, and planted it." It is by ordinance divine, we believe, - though we do not defend every human action connected with it, - that poor, ignorant, wandering tribes were to give place to a great and civilized people. This North American continent was not meant to be a mere hunting-ground. Not wild native growths were to overrun and occupy it, but the seeds of civilized empire were to be planted here.

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