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 thus look around us in search of these benefactors, to whom we owe the homage of a grateful heart, can we forget Him who is the author of all our mercies; our guide in perplexity; our friend in misfortune; our defence in danger? We cannot lift up our eyes without beholding monuments of his kindness, and of his love. Let us rejoice in his goodness, and offer up our thanks for his guardian care. And may not one of us ever deserve the reproof which was once addressed to an offender by a prophet of the Lord: "Him in whose hand is thy breath, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified."

 

WE are all engaged in the pursuit of happiness. There are many different means by which it is pursued, but all search for the same object; and among those means there are none more respectable and effectual than constant and useful employment. While the hands are 