These people amply fulfill the expectation.

Regarding it as my solemn duty to fulfill efficiently these obligations, not only toward Mexico, but other foreign nations, I have exerted all the powers with which I am invested to defeat such proceedings and bring to punishment those who by taking a part therein violated our laws.

He brought it to God as his own promise, and pleaded, if it could be graciously done, that He would literally fulfill it to the suppliant.

It will he seen from this that, blessed as was the work of faith, still the spirit of persecution was permitted by the Lord only to make his own children rely more confidently on Him, and that he might fulfill more positively his promise, "No evil shall befall thee, no harm come nigh thy dwelling.