Excerpt from The Sword of the Lord in the Land, And, Proud Boasting Our Besetting Sin as a Nation: Two Sermons Preached in Christ Church and St. John's, Savannah, on the 2d and 3d Sundays in Lent, in Connexion With the Awful Catastrophe on Board the Princeton Three times hath the sword of the Lord descended upon the. Highest places of power, and each time under circumstances so peculiar, yet teaching so precisely the same lesson, that the na tion must be judicially blind, if it read not the meaning of this awful handwriting! These visitations have not been lessons for individuals; they are lessons for a nation, and should be inter preted for the understanding of a nation else will the next hand writing be not against the rulers of the land, but against the peo ple; not against the Governors, but against the Government; be mene, mene, God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. Dan.v. 26. 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.