Excerpt from Thankfulness: And Other Essays

"Ten thousand thousand precious gifts

My daily thanks employ;

Nor is the least a cheerful heart,

That tastes those gifts with joy."

A Thankful Christian is a happy man, and brings peculiar glory to God. Thankfulness is something better than mere cheerfulness. It is a pleasant sight to see a merry, gleesome child, or a placid, contented man; but pleasant as it is to see, it scarcely needs a soul to make a creature cheerful. You may see cheerful sights by cottage-fires and on village-greens, on the harvest-field and amid the vintage-heaps; but you may see the exact equivalent as often as you look on a bright summer's day at a flock of sheep, or a dancing minnow-pool, or a cloud of insects swinging mazily to and fro in a field of balmy air.

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