The Grateful Sacrifice
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Excerpt from The Grateful Sacrifice: A Thanksgiving Sermon, Preached in Emmanuel Church, Baltimore, Nov; 24, 1864 Jesus upon Olivet gave us a law which bears importantly upon the text and the times. To give love for love and blessing for blessing is so manifestly a profitable exchange for man, that it entitles him to neither commendation nor reward. But the return of good for bad to our brother, this is the temper of soul which shall make us "the children of the Highest." By a parity of reasoning, the giving of gratitude to God for prosperity is but signing a receipt for the delivery of valuables; an act of justice not of merit. The rendering back however of thanksgiving for chastening, the lifting up of praise from a heart that is charged with sorrow, the kissing the hand that smites, the recognition of a beneficent Providence in the hour of sternest discipline, this it is which is gilded with the golden light of God´s favor, - for it is an exercise of that faith which works by love and is proved by tribulation. On this day, the appointed season of national thanksgiving, we are once more gathered in our houses of prayer to offer the "sacrifices of righteousness" beneath dark and frowning skies. We are invoked to give thanks to God even while our back is bowed and smarting; under the rod of correction. It is a sublime exercise of faith. Not but what there is still enjoyed by us a rich remnant of blessing, but so prone are we to exact the full measure of prosperity, that we sit down in discontent when the cup is diminished or temporarily withheld. Thus constituted, if faith assumes office in our time of trial, we are lifted by it into upper levels and a clearer light. Therefore the "sacrifices of righteousness" which we offer to-day, is but the "putting our trust in the Lord." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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