THANKSGIVING SERMON. gg the proper business, the true honor and blessedness of man. When God called the American people from lands of tyranny and persecution ; when he drove out the heathen before them, and gave them this fair land for a possession to themselves and their children; when he carried them triumphantly through the conflict which resulted in establishing us one of the independent nations of the earth; when he gave us a Constitution and a government so fitted to our wants, our enlargement, and our prosperity, it was that we might honor him, and promote the wise and benevolent ends he had in view in assigning to us this honored place among the kingdoms of this world. This is our high calling; and we may despair of accomplishing it if we ignore our dependence upon him and our trust in him. He is worthy of this confidence, and requires us to cast ourselves upon him for the accomplishment of his designs and our vocation. Independently of him, we do but rush upon our own destruction. Look the world over, read the history of the past, and you will find that the happiest nations and the most honored were those whose character and laws, whose liberty and order the most
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