Excerpt from The Psalter and the Sword: A Sermon Preached in the Broadway Tabernacle Church, on Thanksgiving Day November 27, 1862 For two generations they had been cowed by a haughty, insolent foe; now, their nationality was restored, the martial spirit was revived, and victory was assured by their cause and by the promise of God. They built the wall, every man with a weapon in his hand, and with sentinels and trumpeters posted to give the alarm of an invasion. When Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, ahd the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were going up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, and conspired all of them together to come and to fight. Against Jerusalem, and to hinder it: Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night. And Nehemiah said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, 'be not ye afraid of them; remember the Lord which is great and terrible, and fight for vour brethren, your sons, and your daughters, vour wives, and your houses.' And the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. When the wall was finished, a day of thanksgiving was observed by a grand military procession, the priests and Levites leading, singers and trumpeters heading each column, and all the people marshaled in the ranks, with the high praises of God in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand. 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.