Excerpt from The Mexican War: A Sermon Delivered on the Annual Thanksgiving, at Conway, Mass., November 26, 1846 There are, indeed, difficulties attending the discus sion of political affairs in the pulpit. If the preacher has any political preferences himself, as it will be strange if he has not, there is danger of his passing beyond the moral and religious, to the purely political bearings of public measures, and thus, by passing from the pastor into the partisan and turning the pul pit into a rostrum, of sullying the purity and destroy ing the influence of his ministerial office. On the other hand, there are diversity of Opinion and strong party feeling among his hearers, and the consequent danger of being misconstrued and Of giving offence. This, however, is no reason for silence. The preach er can have no respect for himself and deserves none from his hearers, who models his preaching only by the desire to please. If his office has any claim to be an embassy from God, the preacher must be guided in what he says simply by the will of Him who sent him. 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.