Our Country Its Sin And Its Duty

Author : Daniel Foster
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ISBN 13 : 9781331849964
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Our Nation's Sins and the Christian's Duty written by Daniel Foster and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Nation's Sins and the Christian's Duty: A Fast Day Discourse We have met to-day in compliance with the invitation of our Governor, to keep the annual Fast, which was established by our fathers as a stated yearly service in the very infancy of New England. In the Proclamation, appointing this Fast Day, we are invited, among other things, "to consider, in the spirit of Christianity the private and public sins of this community." I propose to respond by a serious and earnest discussion to-day, of this subject, - our Nation's sins arid the Christian's duly. You will find my text in the 64th chapter of Isaiah, a single clause of the 5th verse: "We have sinned." The Prophet speaks for Israel, for the whole nation in these words: And now this day, may the minister of Christ, as the representative of this whole nation, take up this language and say, we, the most highly favored of all the families of this earth, have greatly abused our high privileges, shamefully neglected our precious opportunities, and with stubborn will, "have we sinned." I ask your attention now to a brief statement of our National history: Within the memory of some who are alive to-day, this country was subject to Great Britain, and numbered fewer inhabitants than are now held as slaves in the Southern States. But our fathers were oppressed in various ways by the government, which treated them as aliens and strangers, and they resolved, at length, that they could not submit longer to this oppression, without the entire loss of manhood and honor. And therefore they declared themselves independent of the government which oppressed them, and pledging fortune, life, and honor, in the great issues which they dared, they reared aloft the standard of Liberty, and gathered beneath its folds, entering upon a doubtful, protracted, and severe struggle for the precious right of self-government. 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.