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AMEN SISTER AND GRACE TO ALL CHRISTIAN PATRIOTS!

“Thou crownest the year with thy goodness.”
- Psalm 65:11

All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us;
both when we sleep and when we wake his mercy waits upon us. The sun may
leave us a legacy of darkness, but our God never ceases to shine upon his
children with beams of love. Like a river, his lovingkindness is always
flowing, with a fulness inexhaustible as his own nature. Like the
atmosphere which constantly surrounds the earth, and is always ready to
support the life of man, the benevolence of God surrounds all his
creatures; in it, as in their element, they live, and move, and have their
being. Yet as the sun on summer days gladdens us with beams more warm and
bright than at other times, and as rivers are at certain seasons swollen
by the rain, and as the atmosphere itself is sometimes fraught with more
fresh, more bracing, or more balmy influences than heretofore, so is it
with the mercy of God; it hath its golden hours; its days of overflow,
when the Lord magnifieth his grace before the sons of men. Amongst the
blessings of the nether springs, the joyous days of harvest are a special
season of excessive favour. It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts
of providence are then abundantly bestowed; it is the mellow season of
realization, whereas all before was but hope and expectation. Great is the
joy of harvest. Happy are the reapers who fill their arms with the
liberality of heaven. The Psalmist tells us that the harvest is the
crowning of the year. Surely these crowning mercies call for crowning
thanksgiving! Let us render it by the inward emotions of gratitude. Let
our hearts be warmed; let our spirits remember, meditate, and think upon
this goodness of the Lord. Then let us praise him with our lips, and laud
and magnify his name from whose bounty all this goodness flows.
Let us glorify God by yielding our gifts to his cause.
A practical proof of our gratitude is a special thank-offering to the
Lord of the harvest.

C.H.SPURGEON

SOLI DEO GLORIA!