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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 19, No. 20.

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ANOMALIES.

By C. A. M.

THE North is armed, but it is an armed neutrality, rather than an armed crusade. It is marshaled in array of battle, but not for the extermination of its foe. The South is in arms that slavery may be perpetuated; the North is in arms, determined that slavery shall not be injured: two great armies diligently guarding the one stupendous wrong of the earth: two great armies of countrymen carefully guarding the dragon that has stung them both into fratricidal madness, and will sting them both to death.—Rev. O. B. Frothingham's Sermon, The Year's Record of Sadness and Gladness.
Two armies drawn up in battle array, Both fighting for slavery—each in its way!
Two governments, hostile, but both agreed Of all the trouble to save the seed!
A war that has festered nine months or more, And nobody daring to touch the sore!
A thousand remedies all applied, And the only true one left untried!
Merciful heaven! Is the nation mad? Or—truth more terrible yet, and sad—
Has God departed and left us, still To follow the bent of our own wild will?
To work out, under his wrathful eyes, Our fearful measure of wrong and lies?
O, for some prophet, with burning word, Straight from the presence of the Lord,
To thunder the truth in our guilty ears, That God has been whispering us for years:
"Hear, O, people; the Lord has spoke! Loose each shackle, and break each yoke.
"Let my opprest and my poor go free: The voice of their sighing has come to me.
"Not oblations and altar-fires, Mercy and justice my hand requires.
"Mercy and justice, as I am true, As ye give to others, I give to you."
C. A. M.