Discourse Delivered in the First Baptist Church, Providence, R. I: On the Day of Public Thanksgiving, July 21, 1842 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Discourse Delivered in the First Baptist Church, Providence, R. I: On the Day of Public Thanksgiving, July 21, 1842

At a special meeting of the Charitable Baptist Society, held this day, it was unanimously Resolved, That the thanks of this Society be pre sented to the Rev. Dr. Wayland, for his interesting and instructive Discourse, delivered before said Society on Thursday last, being the day appointed by the Governor of this State, by virtue of a resolution of the General Assembly, to be observed by its citizens as a day of public Thanksgiving and Praise to God, 'for the signal interposition of his kind and fatherly love, so recently and strikingly manifested in rescuing them from the horrors of civil war, anarchy and death,' and that he be requested to furnish a copy of the same for the press. And it Was also Resolved, That the undersigned be a Committee to communicate to you the above resolutions, and to carry the same into effect.

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Excerpt from Discourse Delivered in the First Baptist Church, Providence, R. I: On the Day of Public Thanksgiving, July 21, 1842

The offering of thanksgiving to God, my brethren, is one of the most pleasing duties of a pious soul. The daily mercies which, as individuals, we receive, call for those daily acknowledgments which every good man loves to breathe out in the retirement of the closet. The blessings which we enjoy as families, we delight to acknowledge around the domestic altar. And when a nation, which is only a more extended family, has experienced special and peculiar deliverance, it is seemly that it should collect together its multitude of people, and that all who profess or call themselves Christians, in their several temples should reverently bow the knee before the Father of mercies, while with grateful hearts they utter the memory of his great goodness.

Such are the circumstances in which we are assembled on the present occasion. Almighty Cod has, in a signal manner, appeared for us in delivering this community from the horrors of civil war. The instances of his interposition have been so frequent and so manifest, that 1 have not seen an individual who has not humbly acknowledged them.

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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.