2S THANKSGIVING SERMON. conspicuously that the righteous shall adore the hand that lifts them up, and the wicked shall feel the blow that crushes them—so conspicuously that “ the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.” In these things we may glory. On these we may rely. These we are under sacred obligations to honor. If you ask how we shall honor them, I answer by distinctly recognizing them; by our obedience to God’s commands; by our reverence for his name and his institutions ; by our submission to his will, and by our regard and solicitude for his kingdom of truth and righteousness, peace and joy. And do you ask why we ought to glory in these things ? I answer, Heaven glories in them, and earth may well glory in them. Heaven long ago began the ascription,“ Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just and true are thy ways, O thou King of Saints!” And the earth may well respond to the ascription. God himself glories in just such weighty realities as these. Mercy and justice—justice, without which wickedness is sure to be triumphant; mercy, without which we all perish—“ in these things do I delight, saith the Lord.” This, too, is
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