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Excerpt from Causes of National Solicitude: A Sermon Preached in the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church, New York, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov, 25, 1847 "Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling." - Psalms ii:11. We are assembled to-day, my hearers, at the call of the Chief Magistrate of our State. This day witnesses a sublime spectacle in the history of our country. It is interesting and encouraging to behold, in our Chief Magistrates, a disposition publicly to recognise the overruling Providence of God. Whether they are called to this by custom or example, or by a conscious sense of duty and obligation, it is, of itself an occasion for gratitude. The duty of public thanksgiving, for national blessings, is recognised in the Bible, and is consonant with the purest feelings of Christian patriotism. It became an annual custom with our Puritan fathers. It has prevailed, with more or less uniformity, down to the present time. It is also an interesting coincidence, that this day has been set apart, and will be observed by so many of the States of this Union. May we not suppose, if there be patriotic joy in heaven, that the Sainted Spirits, who watched over our institutions in their early formation, are filled with extatic delight at this days spectacle? They behold not a single State, but as it were, a nation gathered from their worldly business and cares to present the offerings of praise and thanksgiving to God. In these humble services are furnished the pledges of fealty and fidelity to the trust committed to their hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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