The Christian’s Best Motive For Patriotism: A Sermon Preached in the College Church, Hampden Sydney, Va., on a General Fast Day, November 1, 1860

Dabney urges Christians to seek the nation’s good for God’s house, warns that political strife and civil war ruin the Church, and calls for prayer, fasting and confession.

Robert Lewis Dabney (1820–1898) was a Southern Presbyterian minister, theologian, and educator best known for his influential teaching and writing within nineteenth-century Reformed theology. He served for many years as a professor at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, where he shaped generations of Presbyterian ministers through his lectures in systematic and pastoral theology. Dabney was also a prolific author whose theological works and essays continue to be published and read for their rigor, clarity, and strong confessional commitments.

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