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ADDRESS,
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WORCESTER, (MASS.J
The Fourth of July, 1825,
BEINQ
THE FORTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY

BEFORE AS ASSEMBLY CONVENED FOR THE PUREOSE OF CELEBRATING
THIS EVENT RELIGIOUSLY.

BY SAMUEL AUSTIN, D. Ih

Published in compliance with a Tote ofthe Gentlemen immediateljr
engaged ia the CeIebration<

WoROE&TER : Printed by Wiluam Mannino.

ADDRESfea

APOLOGIES from the speaker, on occasions
like this, are seldom welcome, and rarely of any
advantage. I will only remark that the exigen
ces to which your Committee were reduced,
principally in consequence of the failure of the
Rev. brother who was appointed to address you
at this time, and the peculiarly grateful circum
stance that the celebration is of a religious char
acter, are the only considerations which could
induce me, at this period of my life, and in the
present state of things, to appear before you in
the suggestion of such thoughts as a few detach
ed moments have allowed me to collect. It re
ally seemed wrong that the public testimonials
which were expected should utterly fail.
The event which we commemmorate is famil
iar to all of us. It ought to be so. It ought to
be preserved in our grateful recollections, and.
transmitted in every manner of impressive in
struction to following generations. It stands, and
it must stand, as an event of high interest in the
records of our country, and in the estimate of the.

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world. As the years have revolved it has been^
and through succeeding years, till time shall be
no longer, it will, with its relations and effects,
unquestionably continue to be, the hallowed
theme of the orator and the poet, the patriot
and the Christian. Names sacred to a just fame,
who had a primary agency in the revolution it
involved, must continue to be memorialized by
every kind of public attestation short of a relig
ious homage.
The bii-tb of our hatibh is not to he ascribed,
in the slightest degree, to a party influence; and
the annual celebration of it ought never to have
been profanied by exci'temehts originating in par
ty feeling. It is an event wholly of public Con
cern, and every sehfiment that is publickly ut
tered re'Specting it should be such as can be ac
corded by ingenuous and impartial attachments
only. We have assembled to commemorate this event
religiously ; not merely as tnembers of the civil
community which hSs received and enjoyed the
blessing of such an independent existence ; but
rather and properly as members ofthe great hu
man family, bound to them by relations superior
to alltehaporal ties; as creatures, lovers, and wor
shippers of that adorable h^ng who is^God over
all blessed forever; as constituting a section of
his immense and hbly empire; and as sharing in
the labours, and hoping to participate in the ul-
titiiate triumphs, of thbse Who, through faith and
patjehce, inherit the promises. Party consider*

ations, it is obvious, must be altogether intrusive
here. Every feeling of our heart must revolt
from them. Nothing can agree to the object we
have in view but enlarged and disinterested af
fections, the full influence of that charity which
is the bond of perfectness. This charity " think-
eth no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoic
eth in the truth." It leads the subjects of it to
be " kindly affectionate one towards another, in
honour preferring one another." It binds and
harmonizes, by a common interest, an interest
which benevolence only can embrace, and which
transcends in value infinitely all that is earth
ly. It flows out in kindness to an embittered
enemy ; and it is its peculiar prerogative, in
stead of rendering evil for evil, to overcome evil
with good.
Our religion, thus pure as the breath of heav
en, does oblige us, my brethren, to repent of our
sins, to deny ourselves, to take up our cross dai
ly, and patiently and circumspectly to follow
Him who hath overcome the world. It enjoins
that, we exercise ourselves in this, to have al
ways a conscience void of offence towards God
and towards men. But it requires us, with equal
force of obligation, to dismiss forever that sorrow
ofthe world which worketh death. It surrounds
us with light and truth, and endless sources of
holy satisfaction. It spreads before us a banquet
of love. It speaks to us in music, ten thousand
times more exhilarating than that which awakens
the mirth of the ball-room. It furnishes us with

the reason, the object for, and even makes our
virtue essentially to lie in, " rejoicing with joy
unspeakable and full of glory." It tells us that
" the joy ofthe Lord is our strength."
As this is an annual festival, corresponding in
no inconsiderable degree with the festivals which
the Church of God has in other ages religiously
observed, I will, as evidently agreeing to the pur
pose for which we have assembled, attempt to
state to you some of the reasons which are pre
sented, in the birth of our nation, for that joy
which your religion warrants, and that praise in
which it will necessarily flow.
I cannot but suggest, in the first place, as an
important religious truth, and as the basis of ev
ery other consideration pertaining to it, that it
was not a casual, but a providential, event. It
did not properly originate in, and result from, the
contingent volitions of men. The Declaration of
our Independence was indeed the deliberate act
ofthe population of the country, in the persons
of their representatives ; and we will never
cease to honour those men, for their uncommon
intelligence, wisdom, and fortitude. We believe
there seldom, if ever, was, collected so much per
sonal merit in any preceding deliberative assem
bly convened for a nation's political salvation. —
We believe that the combined energy with which
the declaration was supported was becoming its
nature, and singularly efficacious. But we de
voutly and gratefully acknowledge the hand of
God in this event. He inspired the noble reso-

lution, and his stretched-out arm brought it to its
desired result. In acknowledging this, we mean
to acknowledge more than that common agency
by which all things subsist, by which the laws of
nature go forward, the seasons revolve, and hu
man life is sustained. There are certainly special
providences, providences in which the hand of
God is conspicuously seen, in which his power,
and wisdom, and goodness, and faithfulness are
eminently illustrated and glorified, and which, in
an uncommon manner, and on special grounds,
demand our profound attention and the tribute
of our praise. Thus the deliverance of his cho
sen people from Egyptian bondage, and their fi
nal conquest and quiet possession ofthe promis
ed land, had every attribute of a remarkable in
terposition. It was celebrated in sacred song,
as such. It was required to be memorialized by
the observance of a public institution. Thus the
restoration of the Jewish people from the Baby
lonish captivity was abundantly predicted, and is
as abundantly adverted to, in language of exul
tation and praise, as a remarkable interposing
providence, in which God eminently appeared in
his glory. Thus also, subsequent to the advent
and ascension of our beloved Lord, the spread of
the gospel and the wonderful extension of the
Church among the Gentiles was a remarkable
interposition of the hand of God which we
cannot but gratefully distinguish from the or
dinary events of his agency. It is then proper
to speak with a special emphasis of the provi-

dence of God, and to mark its specially gracious
characteristics in the birth of our nation. He
willed that the bond which held us in subjection
to a foreign and oppressive power should be
broken. He willed that we should be a sepa
rate, and, in respect to the other nations of the
earth, a free and independent people. And he
willed it for an end infinitely transcending all
that comes within the conceptions of the mere
politician. He willed it for that end in which
his infinite benevolence has its complete gratifi
cation. He is wise in counsel, and excellent in
working : wise in counsel, because he acts froia
intelligence which traverses all the relations
which subsist amongst his creatures- — which has
perfectly and constantly in view all things, past,
present, and to come, and which cannot err ; and
from the impulse of infinite and pure goodness :
excellent in working, because the means are all
ofhis devising, perfectly adapted to the end de
signed ; and, as managed by him, of infallible ef
ficacy. He declareth the end from the begin
ning, saying, "My counsel shall stand, and I will
do all my pleasure." He ruleth among the na
tions, setting up one and putting down another,
as pleaseth him. He is King of kings, and Lord
of lords. Those who act the most conspicuous
part on the theatre of the world, and who proud
ly arrogate to themselves eminence and glory,
and sometimes divine honours, are as entirely in
his hand, are as really instruments of accomplish
ing his counsel, as the multitude who servilely

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bow at their feet. He saves and he destroys ;
he wounds and he heals; and none can deliver
outof his hands. He is our God, and we will
praise himTr-our fathers' God, and we will exalt
him. The Bible we receive as an inspired revelation
of his character and counsels to men. And it is
one of the most prominent doctrines taught in
this book, that the redemption of the Church is
the great end, at least with respect to this world,
which he has in view in all the dispensations of
his providence which affect it. Christ is head
over all things unto the Church; and the Church
is his body, the fulness of him who fiUeth all in
all. Hence it is denounced, " The nation and
¦kingdom that will not serve thee, shall perish ;
yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted." And
hence the prediction, and the warning to the ru
lers ofthe world, founded upon it. — "Ask of me,
and I will give thee the heathen for thine inherit
ance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy
possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod
of iron ; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a
potter's vessel. Be wise now, therefore, O ye
'kings ; be instructed, ye judges of the earth. — ¦
Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with tremb
ling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye
perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled
but a little. Blessed are all they that put their
trust in him."
Inspired and uninspired history is to the Chris
tian supremely interesting in this view. Each
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of them, particularly the former, presents that
grand series of events by which this admirable
work of grace has been carried forward. The
Church appears to have been perpetuated
through every age as the special charge of the
Almighty. Though feeble to human appearance
in the extreme, and constantly in circumstances
of exposure, weakened by treasons, hypocrisies,
and alienations within, and assailed by a host of
adversaries from without, she has continued to
live. She has survived the wreck of the great
est empires, and been steadily advancing to that
increase of numbers, of light, and strength, and
spiritual beauty, in which she presents herself
now to our joyful notice. Guided by the instruc
tions of the scripture, and by that wonderful se
ries of accordant facts which history details, can
we doubt a moment, my brethren, that the ex
tension of the boundaries, and the increase ofthe
spiritual glory, of the Church was the specific
object her King and her God had in view, in
placing us in a situation in which we might, re
lying upon his protection, control our own inte
rests, and put at defiance the oppressors of man
kind? All the antecedent circumstances and
events which connectively prepared the way for
it, the principles and the manner of our becom
ing an independent people, and the unexampled
civil and religious prosperity we have experi
enced during the forty-nine years we have en
joyed this independence, agree perfectly to this
sentiment. Taking the event into view in the

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religious aspect of it, with all its correlate cir
cumstances, it naturally carries us into the adop
tion of the language of the ancient Church,
" Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy peo
ple. Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the
great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the
hand of Moses and Aaron."
This feature in the-history of our country, and
in the revolution, which put us in the possession
of national independence, has been too much
overlooked in the addresses which have enter
tained the public in these annual celebrations.
Leaning strongly to considerations and objects
merely political, as best agreeing to the biasses
of the majority of the people, and as if things
temporal constituted the supreme concern of
man, the peculiar aspect of the revolution, as
marked with religion, has been unreasonably,
not to say impiously, cast into the shade. Why
this so general reversion of the objects of our
thought ? What comparison can a mere civil
institution, however well it may be organized,
whatever temporal hopes it may suggest, or what
ever secular advantages it may in fact yield,
hold with that kingdom which is properly the
kingdom of heaven, and which we are assured
can never be moved.-* Let every man under
stand that but for the influence of our holy relig
ion, and the purpose of God respecting his own
Zion, never would the design have been formed
to plant a settlement like that which the pilgrims

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gOught and estabhshed on the barren shores of
New-England. Never would the perils of the
enterprize have beeh so undauntedly loabed in
the fape, and so patiently and perseveringly sus
tained. Never would the only asylum which
creation seemed to provide hiave been so prompt,*
ly and so wisely occupied. Never would the
savage tribes have been so extensively and so
effectually conciliated. Never would have ex
isted the strange phenomenon of the rise of a
free and prosperous community^ so deeply imbu
ed with the Christian spirit that even their civil
enactments, and every shape and tendency of
their economy was intentionally and distinguish*
ably regulated by a sacred and supreme respect
to religion. Never would such eminently excel>»
lent institutions, giving a. peculiar and most pro,.
pitious tpne to public feeling, and casting so sin
gularly favourable a character upon the succes
sive generations of our countrymen, have existed.
Never had the public mind been kept so perpet
ually- and so vigilantly awake to whatever con
cerned the highest advantage of the whole, or
been so admirably harmonized in securing it.
Never had civil and spiritual despotism been so
vigorously and so successfully resisted. Never
had the population of this country felt that uni
versal thrill of sympathy, or been so extensively
roused by it to harness themselves for the bat
tle, and to venture their all, when the metropo
lis of this then province was occupied by the
irpops Qf England, and- it was threatened: tO b©

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overwhelmed in orie generial conflagrafSdn; Nev»
er would we have heard of Bunker-Hill, or its
monument. Never would the joint appeal have
been so prayerfully and so successfully made to
Him who rideth in the heavens by his name Jah,
who is the ever faithful guardian of Zion, and
who rebukes kings for her sake. Never had
such generous sacrifices have been made on the
altar pf liberty. Never had the principles of just
government been so well understood, or present
ed in so fair a form of administration. Never
had the shrewd guesses of political writers on
the other side of the Atlantic been so confound^
ed, had it not been for the influence of evangelic
truth, and had not the ensigns of salvation been
waved through our land. In short, never had
we existed and maintained our existence so
long as an independent and flourishing republic.
What, my brethren, could have kept the ship
of State so long and so securely at her moorings
but the hand of God moving by the wisdom he
inspires .''
Does any one imagine — can any, at all versed
in these subjects, be so miserably ignorant of the
insufliciency of mere political establishments
which originate in the crude conceptions of
worldly wisdom, and are subject to the caprice
of changeful and aspiring men, as to say, that
they either meditate or can gain such achieve
ments ? Solon, Lycurgus, and Numa are names
of celebrity as human lawgivers. But what did
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with that fair fabric of rational liberty and equal
government which has been reared in this coun
try .-' What an intermixture of imposture, imbe
cility, vice and crime, in the theories they im
posed ! We must not forget that a debasing
idolatry, which had falsehood and cruelty writ
ten upon the front of it, was a vital principle in
the governments they devised. Ancient Greece
stands in the annals of history as republican and
free : but how slight and transient was the bond
which held together the Grecian States ! How
convulsed were they by a perpetual series of in
testine and foreign wars ! What was Sparta but
a band of freebooters ? Athens, that proud city,
where the philosophers talked their moral gib
berish to their pupils — where the populace were
turned upon the fingers of her impassioned ora
tors, and where the ostracism sent into banish
ment the best of her citizens — what was the pos
ture in which Paul found it ? Did he not find it
wholly given to idolatry ? Do we not know that
Corinth was a sink of sensuality, and polluted
by those crimes which are its invariable attend
ants .'' Rome was a republic. It was gigantic :
it spread itself, by a long series of conquests,
over half the globe : it was the fourth beast of
Daniel, dreadful and terrible and strong exceed
ingly, and it had great iron teeth : it " devoured
and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue
with the feet of it." Policy was never, it is true,
more thoroughly understood or carried into such
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Senate kept the world in awe. Her capital was
enriched with all that art and nature could yield.
The trophies of her victories were hung up in
every vestibule. Her generals led captive kings
and queens in splendid triumph through her
streets. But what was there that was Roman
on which the eye of Christian benevolence can
fix with satisfaction ? A rancorous hostility,
which separated into opposite factions the pa
tricians and the plebeians, continued for ages.
Roman virtue was well expressed in the denun
ciation of one of her most eminent Senators,
" Delenda est Carthago."
Switzerland and the United Provinces of Hol
land are the best, and almost the only valua
ble examples of republican government in mod
ern Europe; but they owe nearly all that is
good in them to the influence of the Christian
religion. Such then are the superior honours we award
to the religion we profess, the sneers of skepti
cism notwithstanding. And we will not suffer
these honours to be torn from her brow.
But I have better things still to say of our na
tional independence, as religion is concerned in
it. We shall here speak in our own peculiar
dialect, and bring into view scenes which are
specially dear to our hearts. Not only was
there a powerfully religious influence perpetu
ally acting in the antecedent course of things,
during the revolutionary struggle, and in the
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Believe our national existence, with all its pow
ers and means, is to be principally ascribed ; but
there was forever secured, by the force of public
opinion, and that permanent constitution of gov
ernment which the collected wisdom of the coun
try produced, an unrestrained religious tolera
tion. The gospel has, in consequence, been
here perfectly unmanacled. Christian benevo
lence has had its full scope, and Christian zeal
has seized the occasion and put into action the
means. God meant it should be so. He design
ed that this should be a prominent effect of the
revolution, and that, in connexion with it, there
should be opened a broad space, where his word
might have free course, run and be glorified ;
where his Church might proceed, not in the atr
tire of a harlot, but in that of a chaste and love
ly virgin ; where Christianity might conspicuous
ly appear in the sublimity of its doctrines, and
the excellency of its effects ; wherp the good con
tained in the promise might be realized, " The
wilderness and the solitary place shall be .glad
for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blos
som as the rose : it shall blossom abundantly,
and rejoice even with joy and singing : the glo
ry of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excel
lency of Carmel and Sharon : they .shall see
the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of
our God."
God has been, in the high sense of the passage*
as the dew to us. His Spirit has been poured
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we tnay safely affirm has had no parallel since
the days of the apostles. In consequence^ there
has been a glorious flowing together of repent
ing sinners to Zioni, which has diffused ineffable
satisfactions among all her people. Turn your
eye, my brethren, over the States north of the
Patowmac and the Ohio ; traverse the whole re
gion from Passamaquoddy to Washington, and
from the shores of New-England to the Missisippi.
It is true that there is much to deplore. There
is darkness to be dispelled, and there are wastes
to be reclaimed. But consider how thickly
planted, and how much beautified with salvation,
are the Churches of our Lord Jesus Christ. Con
sider what a vast augmentation, from the little
band of pilgrims to this host of lovers and wor
shippers of the God of Abraham. Who that
loves our Anierican Zion — who that loves Zion,
wherever she may be found, can but say, with
Balaam, forced into favourable predictions which
he did not himself well understand, " How good
ly are thy tents, O Jacob ; and thy tabernacles,
O Israel ! As the vallies are they spread forth,
as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of
lign-aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as
cedar-trees beside the waters."
And is not the gospel spreading its glorious ef
fects among thousands and thousands of the abo
rigines of the wilderness } Have there not been
gathered from among them some very desirable
examples of a consistent and amiable piety.-*
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Have not some of their children been found a-
mong the ambassadors of the Lord of Hosts.*
And is not all this to be considered as within the
compass of God's designs in putting us in posses
sion of the means, and the uncontrolled right to
apply them to objects of benevolence, as our
consciences should dictate .'* Nay, my brethren,
are we not at liberty to go farther still than all
this, and to connect the astonishing things that
have been brought to pass in Europe, and in
deed among the nations and tribes of the earth
extensively, in the spread of the light of evangel
ic truth, subverting idolatry, and gathering sin
ners into the fold of the Shepherd of Israel, with
the event of our rising into an independent em
pire, and with the obviously salutary influence
of the religion of the gospel upon the population
of this country ? Besides the numerous societies
that have been formed among ourselves, the cir
culation we have given to the scriptures, and the
many efficient and faithful missionaries that have
gone out from us, is it too much to believe, that
Christians in Europe have been put upon those
enterprizes which we admire, and which are ac
complishing so much that piety delights in, part
ly at least, by the spectacle which this country
has furnished .'' Could it be that the contrast,
which an unadulterated Christianity had pro
duced among us, to the demoralizing and sangui
nary convulsions, which, under the influence of
an impious philosophy, shook Europe to her
foundations, could come up to the view of saga-

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cious politicians and considerate Christians, with
out forcing upon them more powerfully the con
viction, that religion, as taught in our bibles, is
the life of man, and the security of States, and
must be spread through the world ? There are
certainly connective influences in the scheme of
Providence. There are, according to Ezekiel's
vision, wheels within wheels; and they perform
their revolutions in perfect order, and in the
concurrent accomplishment of the purpose of
Him who worketh all things according to the
counsel of his own will.
With respect to the future, it is an immense
field, in which anticipation has delighted to
range. I depend on nothing but the purpose
and promise of God. Political prophets may
spin out of their own brains delineations of great
and wonderful things, which will never be real
ized. They may be certain that whatever is at
once republican and American must be superior
to whatever has been seen in the old world.—
But God " frustrateth the tokens of the liars,
and maketh diviners mad : he turneth wise men
backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish."
What he has purposed will be accomplished, and
no more ; and his word is our only source of in
formation respecting that purpose. There it is
declared that " peace shall be extended to Zion
as a river, and the glory of the Gentiles as a
flowing stream — that the kingdom, and the do
minion, and the greatness of the kingdom under
the whole heaven shall be given to the people of

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the saints of the most high God, and they shall
possess the earth." There is enough in these
assurances for faith to anticipate with respect to
this world. And I simply ask the question, —
Have not the numerous Christians in this coun
try had, and what hinders but they should have —
must they not have, till this grand spiritual occu
pation of the earth is effected, an important in
strumental agency in bringing it to pass ? Can
we bring such a stigma upon our reputation, or
deprive ourselves of the honours of such an a-
chievement, by drowsily losing sight of the ob
ject, or suspending, for a moment, our efforts .'*
I ought, perhaps, my brethren, for a short
space, to descend from these high considerations,
to notice what has been accomplished, and seems
to be in the way of a more extensive accomplish
ment, by means of our independence, in renovat
ing the civil state of the world, and improving
the temporal condition of man. Our religion
teaches us to rejoice in all that is really good,
though it may have its place in this world only,
and though it may not be intrinsically of a relig
ious nature. Christian feeling always interposes
to relieve ; and the heavier the burden is that is
thrown off, the more it is gratified. How tre
mendously heavy is that burden which civil and
spiritual despotism has imposed for ages upon
almost the whole population of the globe ! The
world has been a sort of universal bastile, in
which have been chained down to darkness and
wretchedness nineteen twentieths of the human

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race. Superstition and idolatry have spread,
and excluded all that is true, and wise, and good,
almost from the face of the earth. But what an
electric shock has been felt around the thrones
of despots, in the halls ofthe Inquisition, and in
distant regions of heathenism, by the force of
that triumph of rational liberty which has been
gained here ! What light has, in consequence,
been spread, and what mighty energies have
been put into action, not in all cases successful,
but in many gloriously so ! What was it that
kindled the fire of liberty in France, and which
has in fact, notwithstanding the passing away of
those charming prospects that were once pre
sented, so materially improved her condition,
but the sparks which were caught from the altar
on which such sacrifices were offered in this
country .'' What roused so many efforts for the
extirpation of despotism and superstition in
Spain, Italy, and some parts of Germany, but
the excitements which the triumphs of liberty
here have produced ? Is it not to be ascribed,
in a very considerable part, to our influence, as
enjoying the felicities of the true religion and a
free government, that Greece is roused to eman
cipate herself from the oppressions of Turkish
domination, and that that vile thing, the Ottoman
Empire, and that viler thing, the Mahometan im
posture, is wasting away ?
Next, turn your eye to those vast and beauti
ful countries where the Andes lift their lofty py
ramids, and rejoice in the success of those pa-

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tient and persevering efforts which have been
excited there. Mexico is also to be viewed as
having secured to herself independent empire.—
In short, our own emancipation was virtually
the emancipation of this whole western conti
nent. — But I forbear ; and it is time that I
should close.
Let the day inspire us with that joy of the
Lord which is our strength, " God hath done
great things for us, whereof we are glad. He
hath not dealt so with every people : praise ye
the Lord. Let Israel rejoice in him that made
him. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their
King." Praise him with a concert of voices, ex
pressing a perfect concurrence of pious affec
tion. " Praise him in the sanctuary. Praise him^
in the firmament of his power. Praise him for
his mighty acts. Praise him according to his
excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound
of a trumpet. Praise him with the psaltery and
harp. Praise him with stringed instruments and
organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals.
Praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals.
Let every thing that hath breath praise the
Lord. Praise ye the Lord." And by all means
let us live as well as speak his praise. Let us
put our religion, which is his most reasonable
service, into its full influence over ourselves,
over those committed to our care, and, as far as
we can, over the favoured country we enjoy. O
that it had its genuine dominion over all the pop
ulation of these United States, and were cherish-

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ed both by the high and the low, as the grand,
vivifying power by which individuals and com
munities are to live. Then would personal lib
erty be as certainly secure, without distinction
of colour or origin, and be as fully enjoyed as
public, and every stain upon our national repu
tation be cleansed away ; and we should indeed
be that happy people whose God is the Lord.

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