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Excerpt from The Voice of the Innocent Blood: A Sermon Preached in the First Congregational Church, Washington, D. C., National Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1880
And the Lord said unto Cain, What has thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. - Gen., iv, 10.
There is no better method of showing our gratitude to God, for what He has made this nation, than by trying to realize our highest possibilities. This is the noblest Te Deum which we can offer Him this Thanksgiving morning. God's standards are per feet for nations as well as men. We struggle up one height, and we think we have reached the very summit of His purposes and of our Opportunities. We want a chance to rest and look the landscape over, forgetting that God's commandment is always, Come up higher! There remaineth a rest for the people of God. But there is no rest for them here. When one good thing has been done, it has only prepared the way for the next thing which God would have done. It is God's stepping-stone upward, and we are to plant our feet upon it and mount..
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