Excerpt from The Rainbow Round the Throne, or Judgment Tempered With Mercy: A Discourse Before the Legislature of Georgia, Delivered on the Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, Appointed by the President of the Confederate States of America, March 27th, 1863

Dan. 7 13, 14, 27. The evanghlical Isaiahftbo, lift; up the voice of the ancient church unto us a'child is bbm, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon hil shoulders; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Coun sellor, the Mighty God. The Everlasting Father, the Prince of peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne armed and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth even forever. Ish. 9 6, 7. It is moreover not a little significant of Christ's supre macy over the earth, that in the great assize, when the throne shall be set upon the clouds and the books Ishall be opened, it is He who shall sit and judge both the quick and the dead for God hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man Whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given afiuraneetball men in that he hath raised from the dead. Acts 17 31. Pi nally the lonely Seer of Patmos turns his telescopic gaze into the heavens and reveals the grand Assembly in their solemn worship around the throne and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands, and every creature which is 'in heaven and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, heard I singing, blessing and honor and glory and 'ower be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto he Lamb forever and ever. Rev. 5: 11, 13. Such is the-testimony rolling up in one grand volumeyi'om thescriptures of God to this fiendship of Christ over the nations. The ancient bards of the church with inspired ecstacy woke the proph etic harp to this song. Its music ffdats upbn the air through the whole night of the preparatiotiftill Apostles catch and swell the strain with kindred and responsive notes. The church, with songs and choral symphonies. Bears the an them on until it breaks at the foot of the judgment throne and its dying echoes are caught up into heaven. The aisles of whose vast cathedral ring with the pa'an of triumph, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ. And he shall reign forever and ever. It is a truth full of refreshment lo the pious that the government of this world is not in the hands of the unknown God, under the administralirm of cold and in flexible law; but in the hands of God in t'luixr. Who rules not only as the creator but as the, restor: -r. The r-'llllf' bands which uphold the frame of the Universe are also stretched in peaceful benedictions over the guilty and the lost. The whole scheme of Providence is committed to 'iim who once bowed his head in anguish under the load n' human woe. The clouds which seem black with wrath as tlxexg Names around the seat of stem and gushes net?

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