Download or read book A Discourse Delivered in the 2d Presbyterian Church in the City of Baltimore on Thursday the 20th of August 1812 written by Samuel Knox and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Discourse, Delivered in the 2d; Presbyterian Church, in the City of Baltimore, on Thursday, the 20th of August, 1812: Being the Day Appointed by the President of the United States, for National Humiliation and Prayer The Maryland Chasseurs, whom I have the honor to command, and who composed a part of the congregation in the 2nd. Presbyterian church on Thursday last, the day appointed by his excellency the President, and approved of by Congress, as a day of fasting and general humiliation throughout the United States; beg leave to express their sincere thanks to you for the excellent Discourse delivered on that occasion, as deeply impressing on their hearts, the sublime duties which they owe to their God and their Country, in the holy cause which the present crises of our affairs has created, and in which they are ardently interested: believing it would be of general importance that the same should be published, I have been desired, on behalf of the corps, to request you will be so obliging as to permit the publication thereof. 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.