Excerpt from Praise for Victory: A Sermon, Preached in Park Street Church, Boston, February 23, 1862R IN the old Theocratic days of Jewish story, God was nearer to earth and mingled his hand more immediately and visibly in human affairs, than he seems to most men to be and to do now. Instead of a divine power working nature, we have scientific systems instead of a divine headship over nations, we see the ultimate sovereignty in cabinets and courts, instead of a broad divine providence moving the whole front of human progress, we read only the confused and con¿icting measures of national policies. It were good to get back, overleaping mediate causes and agencies, nearer to God's feet, and discern in our fateful changes his palpable interposition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.