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Excerpt from The Robbers of Adullam: Or a Glance at Organic Sins; A Sermon, Preached at Cambridgeport, November 27, 1845
This is Thanksgiving day. A day consecrated by the example of our fathers, for rendering praise to Almighty God for the bounties of the year. A day on which they recounted his mercies and rendered thanks for all his manifold blessings. A day for the exercise of a generous hospitality to kindred and friends, and for sending portions to the poor and the needy. The heart of every son of want should be made glad the widow and the orphan should sing for joy. God has crowned many past years with the abundance of the fruits of the earth and with the wealth of the seas. The rich harvest has waved over extensive fields; ?eets of laden vessels have crowded every harbor. The voice of health has been heard in all our habitations; children of the youth, the arrows in the hand of the mighty, crowd the play-ground and throng the school-room.
The cry of war, if it has been heard at all, has been so distant and faint that it has created scarcely any alarm. As for His judgments, we have not known them. 0 come, then, let us worship; let us kneel, let us bow down before the Lord our Maker. He is our Shepherd, and we are the sheep of his hand.
In rendering praise to God, it is always appropriate to consider the obligations which his goodness imposes. A careful consideration of our duties, and a faithful discharge of them, is one of the most acceptable offer ings we can present.
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