Government and rebellion. A sermon delivered in the North Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Sunday morning, April 28, 1861, by Rev. E. E. Adams. Published by request.

by Michigan Historical Reprint Series

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26 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

Reviews

[Charles van Buren · Rating 2 out of 5]

Poorly thought out sermon

A Yankee sermon justifying war against the South preached at the same time that Southern ministers were delivering sermons justifying Southern war against the North. Here is a quote, "There may be criminal rebellion even against a wicked and oppressive government. The people may take the law into their own hands, and put to death, or imprison their rulers, without first having tried constitutional methods of redress. But I speak of rebellion against good government--such as we have already had in review." This pretty much captures the intellectual level of this sermon. People living in a country which has rulers, very likely have no constitution and hence no constitutional redress. The United States has a constitution but we have no rulers despite Valerie Jarrett's proclamation that after the inauguration, the Obama administration would, "hit the ground ready to rule."

[Miles Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adams' sermon is absolutely a model of Evangelical nationalist discourse that grew in earnest just before, during, and after the US Civil War. He acquaints the life of the United States with Christianity and affirms most of the constitutional deviations that plagued northern intellectuals and Evangelicals in the mid-nineteenth century. Much of his sermon in actually quite bloodthirsty, and his celebration if war foreshadows the way in which 20th Century Evangelical fell prey to gnostic and militarist conceptions of a vaporous notion of a so-called "American" nation or people.

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting

A very interesting sermon given within the context of the civil war in the United States from a presbyterian minister.