-edgement.  And my brethren we may name among the first of these blessings a continuance to us of the offers of salvation. Though our sins have been inumerable they have not yet as we would hope cast us beyond the pale of mercy.  The voice of God is yet calling us to heaven.  The Saviour is yet interceding for us and the Spirit is yet striving with us.  It is God in his merciful providence who has given to many of us a disposition the past year to unite from Sabbath in public worship in this house of prayer.  It is He who has presented to us so much harmony of sentiment and feeling and suffered no root of bitterness to destroy the comforts of our religious privileges.  And how great have been his temporal mercies the past year!  Why have the fruits of the earth not been smitten with blasting and mildew?  Why have not the former or the latter rain been withholden?  O look upon your crowded storehouses and barns- upon the abundance the earth has poured forth from her lap the past year into your bosoms.  Look upon these and on this day of Thanksgiving remember the poor and the needy.  O remember the many millions that groan being burdened with ignorance, with sin and misery and do not I beseech you use this world as abusing it.  Do not suffer the riches of the past year to be comforted by an inordinate selfishness nor your gold and silver to be counted lest the rest of them be a witness against you and eat your flesh as it were fire.