Excerpt from God's Controversy With the Nation: A Sermon Preached in the Free North Church, Stirling, on Wednesday, 7th October, 1857, the Day Appointed as a National Fast on Account of the Insurrection in India WE meet to-day under unusual and very solemn circumstances. We meet, not as a congregation of our own church, or of any denominational church, but as one of the congregations of the professing Christians of the kingdom. We meet at the earnest call of our civil rulers, who have proclaimed a fast. We meet to humble ourselves before God - to acknowledge God's judgments which have been inflicted on us - to confess his righteousness in afflicting us - to confess our sins as justifying his judgments. We meet to unite in earnest supplications to Him that he may stay His judgments - that He may shut up the vials of His wrath - that He may command the sword to return to its scabbard - that He may pity and have mercy on us. Our meditations, therefore, ought to be of a kind to help and to stimulate us in these duties; and I desire, accordingly, to lay before you such views of truth as may be suitable for the occasion - that we may keep this fast with understanding, as well as with awakened feeling. We shall consider, I. The grounds on which, I fear, we must conclude that a time of judgment has overtaken as; II. The causes of God's controversy with as III. The duties to which the righteous J adge is certainly calling us. 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.