1863 EVERARD KEMPSHALL. Thanksgiving Sermon During Height of Civil War. Superb Content. Ephemera written and published fo r

written and published fo r the bicentenary of one of the greatest losses the Christian pulpit ever endured

I thank you for the Pamphlets you sent me

I have no material News to send you

and turning my eyes to the city & its hundred steeples glittering in the sun

1863 EVERARD KEMPSHALL. Thanksgiving Sermon During Height of Civil War. Superb Content. Ephemera written and published fo r"Thus, as the conflicts upon the battlefield have brought the men of the East and of the West should to shoulder, heart to heart, in this struggle for our nation's life; and as the carnage of war has mingled the tears of widows and fatherless children, as over a common grave, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, so have these sacrifices and trials, these rejoicings over common blessings, and tears over common sorrows, brought about this sublime spectacle