Excerpt from Discourse: Delivered on the Fast Day; Recommended by the President of the United States WE have been called into the sanctuary to-day - not by any specific ordinance of the Most High; not by the sum mons of an ecclesiastical sect; nor even by the authoritative requisition of our city or state corporations - but because a deep working sympathy is pervading all parties of this great community, and compelling them to respond to each other in tones of grief. The nation assembles to mourn a depart ed chief. Circumstances, strongly marked, and distress ing to all, have occurred, revolving around a death-bed scene in the nation's mansion - throwing the public mind back on a fearfully tumultuous scene, and forward in appalling augury Of future events - and, at the call of him whom Providence has now placed in the chair of state, we have come to weep before the righteous and omniscient God. This seems to be required on the presumption that we have done, and may still be doing, much which is wrong in his sight. The voice of conscience speaks; and, tracing our affliction back to sin we have committed, compels to humble meditation, and proposes no relief but in earnest prayer. Our chief magistrate feels it to be right we should thus appear in the courts of the Lord 5 and the millions of our'land approve and consent. 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.