S E R M ON. “ Su Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is the fruit of our lips, giving thanlss to His name.” Hebrews 13: 15. T KNOW not how better to begin the attempt to excite in your hearts emotions of gratitude to God. for the mercies of the past year, than by reading the most excellent proclamation of our worthy President, by whose authority we assemble to day: By the President of the United States of America: PROCLAMATION. It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our National life another year, defending us with his guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad and vouchsafing to us in his mercy many and signal victories over the enemy who is of our own household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes, as our soldiers in their camps, and our sailors on the seas, with unusual health. lie has largely augmented our free population, by emancipation and by immigration, while he has opened to us new sources of wealth, and has crowned the labor of our working-men, in every department of industry, with abundant reward. Moreover, he has been
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