Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 10

18. A. L. Stone, The Work of New England in the Future of Our Country: A Sermon Delivered before the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1865 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1865). (48 p.)

Sermon on the text “And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places; thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in” (Isaiah, 58:12), in which the pastor proposes that New England will be the leading moral force unifying the country once the war is over.