---
title: 'Piety Secures the Nation’s Prosperity: A Thanksgiving Discourse'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Gardiner Spring Plumley'
date: 1866-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Personal Piety'
- 'Church-State Relations'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Jeremiah 17'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/plumley-1866-piety-secures-the-nations-prosperity-a-thanksgiving-discourse
---

# Piety Secures the Nation’s Prosperity: A Thanksgiving Discourse

1865 Thanksgiving sermon: national prosperity depends on piety. Praises God for peace after the Civil War and urges Christian virtue in public and civic life.

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