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title: 'The National Crisis: Being an Address Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.H., July 30th, 1862'
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authors:
- 'George Lewis Prentiss'
date: 1862-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Providence'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Exodus 3'
- 'Isaiah 2'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/prentiss-1862-the-national-crisis-being-an-address-delivered-before-the-phi-beta-kappa-society-in-dartmouth-college-at-hanover-n-h-july-30th-1862
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# The National Crisis: Being an Address Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.H., July 30th, 1862

1862 address viewing the Civil War as a providential national crisis, urging prayer and patriotic duty while interpreting events as divine judgment and purpose.

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