... was forced upon us by the exigencies of the war.And, independently of that, such was the infatuation of the Southern mind on the subject that there seemed tobe no prospect of its ever being ... year, and on the 2d May, 1839, it was dedicated, under the name of the Church of the Messiah. The burning of our sanctuary had [80] proved to be our upbuilding; the position of the Stuyvesant ... as the ages vary, yet the experience of the individual is buta picture of the universal mind, of the world's mind. The steps are the same, ignorance, fear, superstition,implicit faith; then...