48 THANKSGIVING SERMON. hearts with confidence and our lips with praise ? But, while this is the hour of thanksgiving, it becomes us to be humble as well as thankful. It may be doubted whether there is any true gratitude where there is no humility. Humility is the breath of gratitude, because we are so unworthy and ill-deserving*; gratitude is humility’s song, because the God of nations so delights in exercising loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. Let us therefore bow in humble gratitude be- fore the eternal throne, and, while we discern streams of light in the cloud that hangs over us, commit this conflict and its issues to Him. Let us take heed lest we think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think, and lose sight of Him by whom kings reign and princes decree justice. It is the great God who is speaking to us. Let us give glory to Him before he cause darkness, and our feet stumble upon the dark mountains. The wisdom of the wise, the power of the mighty, the wealth of the rich, consist in feeling their dependence upon Him, in acknowledging their obligations to Him, in giving Him the glory to whom all glory belongs.
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