THANKSGIVING SERMON. 23 and the moral, the civil and the religious, in and by all accomplishing his own benevolent and holy ends. We shall never feel as we ought, nor conduct the great and solemn work in which we are employed as it ought to be conducted, until we feel our dependence on God, and lay ourselves in humble prostration at his feet. 11 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it ? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself as if it were no wood!” There is no lesson more important at such a day of rebuke as this than that we “understand and know Him”—Him, the Eternal and Infinite One, who was, and is, and is to come, when the nations are dissolved, and the heavens and the earth have passed away— Him who, while time is measuring off and, in its rapid and silent progress transforming all created things, remains the same, yesterday, to-day, and forever—Him whose immensity is as unbounded as his being, who comprises all, and is comprised by none; who sees alike in the thickest darkness and in the bright sunlight, and from whom there is no retreat, on
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