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John Pierce

John Pierce was a nineteenth-century American theologian and public intellectual whose work Requisites to Our Country's Glory articulated a distinctive vision of Christian nationalism that sought to reconcile evangelical piety with civic virtue during a period of significant social transformation. His theological writings engaged contemporary debates about the relationship between religious faith and national identity, contributing to broader antebellum discussions about America's providential destiny. Pierce's intellectual legacy reflects the complex intersections of theology, politics, and cultural authority that characterized American religious thought in the decades preceding the Civil War.

From Requisites to Our Country's Glory

DR. JOHN PIERCE S ELECTION SERMON. 1849. REQUISITES TO OUR COUNTRY’S GLORY. A BEFORE lis fercllfnnj Cwg? JL ®riggs, GOVERNOR, HIS HONOR JOHN REED. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, THE HONORABLE COUNCIL, THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS, THE ANNUAL ELECTION, WEDNESDAY, 3 JAN. 1849. BY JOHN PIERCE, D . D. Senior Pastor of the First Congregational Church, in Brookline. BOSTON: DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, STATE PRINTERS 1849. . COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. In Senate, 5 January, 1849. Ordered, That Messrs. Wright and Copeland be a committee to present the thanks of the Senate to the Rev. John Pierce, D. D., for the discourse delivered by him, on the 3d instant, before the Government of the Commonwealth, and to request a copy thereof for publication. CHARLES CALHOUN, Clerk. DISCOURSE. No subject seems more appropriate to the occasion, on which we are assembled, to the Body to be addressed, to the place, hi which we stand, or to…

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Requisites to Our Country's Glory 1849 Pierce's election discourse addresses the moral and religious foundations necessary for national prosperity, urging civil leaders toward virtue and divine dependence. →

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Nehemiah 5:193× Romans 13:43× Deuteronomy 5:292× Deuteronomy 32:472× Esther 10:32× Exodus 18:212× Galatians 5:132× Haggai 2:42× Isaiah 1:262× Isaiah 33:62× Jeremiah 6:82× Psalm 85:92×

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