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Excerpt from A Sermon Preached on the National Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 1863 It is man's prerogative alone, as head of the animal creation, to register and rehearse the deeds of his Maker. Brute creatures behold events, but they behold them as facts not as phenomena, that witness to a power behind, and within, and above. Another and yet higher attribute of man is, that he can sort these facts into a system and a sequence can develope a design in the deeds of his Maker can prove a plan in His providence, and bear wit ness to a wisdom in all the ways of God as he traverses His world to and fro; and so man can lay his intellect alongside of God's mind. And a third and superlative faculty of man is, that what his mind thus perceives his heart and soul appreciates and adores. He is mute with admiration. He thrills with reverence. He is rapt and possessed with love. He rises to his feet and shouts his exulting gratitude, and thus his heart and soul are side by side with God's heart. They pulse together. The sympathy makes them one. This attribute of man is moral not mental, higher and diviner than mind, for mind is a mechanism but the moral is a character and a state of being. This makes man kin to the angels even while he' is first cousin to the brutes. It proves him capable of Heaven even while he crawls and gropes in the dust and dirt of the earth. 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."