The Battle of Fort Sumter: Its Mystery and Miracle, God’s Mastery and Mercy: A Discourse Preached on the Day of National Fasting, Thanksgiving and Prayer, in the First Presbyterian Church, Charleston, S.C., June 13, 1861

June 13, 1861 sermon in Charleston treating the fall of Fort Sumter as evidence of God’s providence, defending the Southern cause and condemning Lincoln’s actions.

Thomas Smyth was an Irish-born American Presbyterian minister and theologianwho served as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, for over four decades, authored numerous works defending Presbyterian polity and doctrine, and held to Old School confessional standards while engaging major issues of his day. He also wrote The Unity of the Human Races Proved to Be the Doctrine of Scripture defending monogenism and was a prominent religious figure in the antebellum and Civil War South.

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