Excerpt from The Appeal of the Nation: Five Patriotic AddressesFour of the five Addresses that follow were printed separately by the Old South Society, for free distribution. Although the editions printed were large, they are now practically exhausted, and the demand continues. It has seemed to those in charge of this matter that the collection of these Addresses in a single inexpensive volume, with the addition of a fifth, delivered Good Friday evening, Apr'l 6, 1917, and here published for the first time, might continue to serve the'cause of good citizen ship at this critical hour in our history. To this appeal I have been unable to withhold consent. Although spoken from the pulpit on Sunday mornings, with the exception above noted, I have called these utterances Addresses rather than Sermons, because the text selected is used more as a sacred motto for the ideas presented and less as governing the entire movement of thought. This distinction holds less, if at all, in the second and third Addresses than in the other three. The descriptive name matters little, however, since it raises merely a point in professional usage.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.