Excerpt from Lucretius or Paul: Materialism and Theism Tested by the Nature and the Needs of Man; An Address Delivered in the American Chapel, Berlin, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov; 25th, 1875
The favor with which you have received two Thanksgiving Addresses, seemed to bring me under obligation to accept your invitation for a third, in the hope that this might at least serve for the utterance of such sentiments of gratitude, fellowship, and devotion, as to-day are common to us all. With your hearts quickened by the anticipations of the coming year, you might naturally expect that the grateful memories of a hundred years would find vent to-day in an outburst of patriotic joy. But every thing in its season. That debt of gratitude is so great, so-high, so deep, that I shall not presume to discount it in advance. Let it come with its whole weight to the heart of the whole nation, in the year and the day that Time has marked as one of the most bright and blessed in its calendar.
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