Excerpt from Thanksgiving in the Times of Civil War: Being a Discourse Delivered in the First Presbyterian Church, Troy, New York, Nov, 28th, 1861 The main drift, or aim, of this inspired song, is now before us. The text The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men, - con tains a great thought, in keeping with the Spirit of the whole production, and will furnish the suggestions for this occasion. 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.