Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-12-14
TMANKsGIVING SERMON

cause oil Truth VIII be Subserved thereby.
Hoping for a favorable answer, we remain,
Respectfully, your OBJ DIT serv'ts,
A. w. WILLIAMS, Il. o. CRAWFORD,
II. A. PLANTS. G. M. EVANS,
II. STivERs, II. IL. SWALLOW,
w. j. PRALL, S. A. M. MOORE,
II. l.. OSBORN, S. M. BRIGHT,
ARTHUR MERRILL, M. HECKARD,
RI. Il. DANIEL, }. w. G. STAcKPoLE,
o. BRANCH, ID. REED.
PoMERoY, Dec. 3, 1853.
Messrs. n. ". .HWlian,s, T. Il. Plants,
Ia and others:
Gentlemen-The Thanksgiving
Sermon you request, L hereby place at
your disposal, trusting that it's publication
may, in some degree, prove serviceable to
the cause of Truth, as you are pleased to
intimate. Very respectfully yours,
ISRAEL S. TWOMBLY.
"He hath not dealt SO with any nation."-Psalm
l47: goth verse.
The entire verse in which this quota
tion occurs is as follows, viz:
ale hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for
his Judgments they have not known them. Praise ye
the Lord"
The latter portion of this psalm--from
the 9Th to the goth verses inclusive-is
an ascription of praise to Jehovah, for his
uhexampled goodness to the Jewish peo
pie. A prominent manifestation of such
goodness is set forth in the declaration
Immediately preceding our text: "He
showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes
and his judgments unto Israel" The
terms word Statutes and Judgments
here mentioned, are synonym, or nearly
CO and iDHinotiva Of thot rnUalatinp
of the divine will which had been COM
municated TO Abraham and his descend
ants, and which was embodied in their sa-
cred writings. This revelation, the
Psalmist proceeds to state, is peculiar to
the Jewish tribes-it has been made ex-
clusively to them. "He hath not dealt so
with any nation, and as for his judgments
they have not known them" That is, all
other nations-for this is necessarily i'm
piled by the pronoun 'they'-are wholly
ignorant of the judgments or laws which
God has revealed to us, the people of his
signal love and mercy.
Having thus presented the fair and OBJ
vious Interpretation of the passage when
takeu in connection with its context, l
shall employ it merely by way of accom-
modation, as basis for illustrating the
IolIo"ng proposlton: VIZ,
In GoD's DEALINGS WITH Us AS A MA
TIoN THERE Is ABUNDANT CAUSE FOR
THAEKFULNEss AND GRATITUDE.
And | shall endeavor TO substantiate it
by two-fold consideration:
l. By appealing 60 the fact, that, as a
people, aOe have meVer experienced axy heavy
Judgments: And,
III. By shoaOing that God has blessed as
ADORE all nations aoiM positive favorS and
advantages.
In contemplating the first branch of our
subject, premise the obvious but neces-
sary remark, that in all ages of the world,
extraordinary calamities have befallen
mankind in their rela;iopal condition of
commonwealths or bodies polite. Con-
quest, captivity, pestilence, famine--each
and all, i'll countless instances, have swept
resistlessly along the pathway Of our race,
running the fairest prospects and accom-
plishing the irreparable destruction of
kingdoms and states, whose very names
were once a cause of terror. but, whose
names are now remembered only by him
who is conversant with the chronicles OF
the past Nor can it have escaped the no
tice Of the patient and truth-seeking stu
dent of history, that these fearful disasters
occurred at periods when such nations
were wholly corrupt. and UNANIMOUSLY dis
tinguished by the practice ofevery species
of vice. ,.... r.......0
From remote antiquity heather commu-
mites have shudderingly recognized in
these inflictions, the capricious and win.
dictive demonstrations of ii Baal, Jupiter
Vishnu, or Thor; but he who is guided
IN his researches by the teachings of in.
spiration, with absolute certainty regards
them as the needed exhibitions of divine
justice--judg gments sent by an Omniscient
and Holy God, as the appropriate expires
sions of his adherence of national SINS
Upon this point there is no lack of unm-
peachable testimony. The destruction oil
the antediluvian world, of Sodom and Go
morrah, the drowning of the Egyptian
hosts, the determination of the Cananiti ii
tribes, and the final and complete disper-
sion of the Jews, furnish conclusive evil
dence, that the Almighty in each of these
instances executed previously announced
determination TO vindicate his authority by
the most sigual retributions. And these
proofs rapidly accumulate, when we recur
TO the eoverthrow of vain glorious Nineveh,
OF wealthy Babylon, of imperious Tyre,
and of world-subduing Rome-an over
throw, in every case, predicted centuries
before it ansptred--examples like those
already desis mated, clearly attesting the
settled purpose of Supreme Ruler to ex-
act the heaviest penalties from all people
and nations that persist in disavowing al
legiaace to Him. The uttered threats OF
Deity amply corroborate the deductions
drawn from his actual dealings With com
munties. The wicked shall be turned
into hell, and all the ndt,ons that forget
God Bat if they will not obey, will
utterly pluck up and destroy that ~ation,
saith the Lord
These remarks prepare US for the con
sideration of an important fact, ard thatis