"In everything give thanks" (1 Thess. 5:18).

What can show more clearly the baseness of fallen man than the ingratitude which every saint may discover to exist in himself? How light would many a load become if, while carrying it, thanksgiving were offered under the conscious certainty that "all things work together for good!" The same hand which divided the Red Sea, raised the widow's son. In whatever state a Christian may be placed, he is the only happy one who is "giving thanks always for all things."

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