We do not thank God a hundredth part
enough for the blessings which He has given us. We do not trust Him
a hundredth part enough for the blessings which He has in store for
us. If some of us here could but see and feel for a single month how
people are off abroad; if they could change places with a French, an
Italian, a Russian labourer, it would teach them a lesson about God's
goodness to England which they would not soon forget. May God grant
that we may never have to learn that lesson in that way! God grant
that we may never, to cure us of our unthankfulness and want of
faith, and godless and unmanly grumbling and complaining, be brought,
for a single week, into the same state as some hundred millions of
our fellow-creatures are in foreign parts! Oh, my friends, let us
thank God for the mercies of the past year! Most truly He has
fulfilled to England his promise given by the mouth of the prophet
Isaiah: "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee;
and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. For I am the
Lord thy God, the Holy One, thy Saviour. Thou hast been precious in
my sight, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee,
and peoples for thy life."
Away, then, with discontent and anxiety for the coming year.
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