Abstract

This chapter presents a sermon delivered by M. J. Michelbacher. The occasion for the sermon was one of the many days of fasting and prayer proclaimed by the governments in Richmond and in Washington, DC during the Civil War years. Jefferson Davis proclaimed nine such days during the life of the Confederacy. While it is difficult to know how seriously the fasting component was taken by the population, religious leaders were apparently committed to observing them as occasions for addressing their people in specially prepared sermons, many of which were summarized in local newspapers and subsequently printed in pamphlet form. The themes were generally the acknowledgement of divine providence, the recognition of failures and sins, and the need to pray, in an appropriate posture of humility, for God's favour.

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