Excerpt from A Thanksgiving Sermon, Preached in the National Palace, City of Mexico, on Sunday, October Third, A. D. 1847: On the Occasion of a Public Thanksgiving for the Victories Achieved by the Army of the United States, in the Basin of Mexico, Under Command of Major-General Winfield Scott My Brethren of the Army Our generalimchief, having in an order, prompted by christian duty and feeling, and highly proper and'becoming in an official point of view, palled upon his brethren in arms, to return both in public and private worship, thanks and gratitude to God, for the signal triumphs, which they have recently achieved for their country-and assembled as we now are thus publicly to acknowledge the favoring Providence of the Lord of Hosts, and to render to His Holy Name, our praise and thanksgiving for the same; which is our reasonable and bounden duty let us my brethren of the army, consider with some attention the nature and greatness of the blessings for which our gratitude is called forth. 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.