Excerpt from Reverses Needed: A Discourse Delivered on the Sunday After the Disaster of Bull Run, in the North Church, Hartford Adversity kills only where there is weakness to be killed. Real vigor is at once tested and fed by it; seen to be great as the adversity mastered is great, and also to be made great by the mastering. This, too, is the common feeling of man kind, for thus only comes it to be a proverb or current maxim. And the proverb holds good of all sorts of strength, that of the muscles and that of the nerves, that which lies in resolution and that which comes by faith in God, that which is moral and that which is religious, that which is personal and that which is national, that which belongs to civil administration and that which pertains to the deeds of arms. Small is the strength, anywhere and everywhere, that can not stand adversity, and small will it stay, and smaller will it grow, to the end. The last Sabbath morning, when you were assembled here in the sacred quiet of worship, the patriot soldiers of your army, that to which you had contributed your sons, your fellow citizens, and your money; that whose prepara tions and advances you had watched with exulting confidence and with expectation eager as the love you bore to your dear country itself, were being, joined in battle with its enemies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.