Thanksgiving a Sermon Preached in the Arch Street Presbyterian Church Philadel
Thanksgiving a Sermon Preached in the Arch Street Presbyterian Church Philadel
Charles Wadsworth
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Our text takes much higher ground. It enjoins thankfulness in all circumstances. Even if they should seem utterly distressing. And teaches us that true thanksgiving is not a selfish emotion gratified by prosperity, but a vital grace in the soul, existing independent of cir- cumstances or condition. Let us then in our brief remainder of discourse consider Thankfulness as a gracious affection of the soul — What it is? and How it is to be strengthened? First. — What is the thankfulness tchicli the... text enjoins ? And we answer that it is not a simple, but a composite emotion — consisting of joy from benefits. And love for the benefactor. Simple joy alone has no determinate moral quality ; it may be good, it may be thoroughly evil. Without love it is altogether bad and abominable. Thankless delight belongs to the 25 class of selfish and malevolent emotions, and may be felt in full strength by a beast, or a demon. Joy sanctified by love is that heavenly grace which the Bible calls " Thankfulness.
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