The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-09-05 00:00:00

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MESSRS. MACLIIRE, MACDONALD, AND MACGREGOR,
Lithographers to Her Majesty ;
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to the very great expense incurred, the Standard
will, on that occasion, be charged SIXPENCE.

The Post-offiee authorities have announced their
intention to expedite the night mails for the
North of England and North Wales by dis-
patching them three hours earlier. This will
necessitate the posting of THE STANDARD before
nine o'clock on Monday night, instead of mid-
night, as heretofore; and, in consequence, we
are compelled to request that all advertisements
and communications may be sent to the office
before six o'clock on Monday evening at the
latest. The alteration will afford an advan-
tage to our northern subscribers in the delivery
of their papers some hours earlier; and to those
in North Wales there will be a gain of nearly
twenty-four hours.

tiberpool :-;tanbarb,

TUESDAY

MORNIIVG, SEPT. 5, 1854

THE BOUNTEOUS HARVEST.

ANOTHER week has passed of glorious weather
for the in-gathering of the harvest, which was
never more plenteous, whether we consider the
breadth of land which had been tilled with bread

corn, the productiveness of the yield, or the con-
dition in which it has been housed. Such a
measure of blessing is beyond all ordinary expres-
sions of gratitude to the Giver of all good, and
should call for a spontaneous effusion of thankful-
ness as near as possible commensurate with the
greatness of the gift. It is not simply an addition
to the stock of food, but the blessing is vouchsafed
at a time when its beneficent effects are indefi-
nitely multiplied. Coming after a season of high
prices, the bounty of Providence will be directly
and palpably felt by all classes, from the highest
to the lowest ; it will relieve the nation from a
monetary pressure which must otherwise have
ensued from carrying on an expensive war ; and it
will stimulate domestic industry, and home and
foreign trade, so that no one who is willing to
work need be without employment. It will also
materially assist in promoting measures of social
amelioration, and, if advantage be taken of this
opportunity, greater progress may be made in
civilisation than at any previous period of our
history. Under such circumstances, it

s an im-

portant inquiry what ought to be our duty, and
the answer must be obvious to every one who is

not so totally occupied with the this:

world as to ignore the existence of an over-ruling

Providence which governs all things aright. It is
our boast, and perhaps no vain one, that England
is the great centre of Christianity, professing a
purer faith than any other people, and setting an
example to the rest of the world. It, therefore,
behoves us more especially not to neglect the
opportunities afforded of testifying to the
of our faith, and few are presented like the prese
for a manifestation of national gratitude. We
should remember the warning of MOSES to the
children of Israel before their entry into the pro-
mised land, and which is peculiarly applicable to
our own condition at the present time :

sincerity

When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt
bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath
given thee.
Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God in not
keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his
, statutes which I command thee this day •

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built
goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy
silver and gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is
multiplied ;
That thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord
thy God ;
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might
of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God : for it is
he that giveth thee power to get wealth.

It requires no stretch of the imagination to com-
pare our position as a nation at this time with
that which was thus foreshadowed of the people
of Israel; and, if our own sense of obligation does
not teach us the duty which we owe, we should at
least be warned by the fearful consequences which
ensued upon the iforgetfulness of the Jews. The
inference from all this must be plain to the
humblest intellect, and we look forward to the
realisation of what must be the sincere wish of
every Christian. It will not be long before the
harvest is brought to a conclusion, and it will
then be the duty of our rulers to appoint a DAY OF
NATIONAL THAN for the blessings vouch-
safed to us. This should be done in no niggardly
way, by merely ordering an extra prayer on a day
already devoted to Divine worship ; but a day
should be taken from the ordinary affairs of life,
from the pursuits of money-getting, from the
labours for the meat which perisheth, and specially
dedicated to the outpouring of a people's gratitude
for the blessings which they will enjoy every other
day in the year. It can be no great sacrifice even
to the poor man, since the harvest has made