“The one undeviating object of the Son all through was, the glory of the Father: he came to do his will, and he fulfilled it with all the unvarying intensity of the most heavenly affection. What, then, will not be the exuberant joy of his heart, when in his glorious kingdom, he shall see the Father beyond all measure glorified?… The praise and honour and blessing which will be yielded to the Father in that day through him, so that...

Thomas Jefferson Thanksgiving Proclamation 1779 Whereas it becomes us to humbly approach the throne of God with gratitude and praise, and above all that He has defused the glorious light of the gospel, where through the merits of our gracious redeemer we may become the heirs of His eternal glory. Jefferson also asked for prayer that God would go forth with our hosts and crown our arms with victory and that He would grant to His church the...

“As our life is very short, so it is very miserable; and therefore it is well that it is short. God, in pity to mankind, lest his burden should be insupportable and his nature an intolerable load, hath reduced our state of misery to an abbreviature; and the greater our misery is, the less while it is like to last; the sorrows of a man’s spirit being like ponderous weights, which by the greatness of their burden make a swifter...

” Are you afraid that preaching the gospel will not win souls? Are you despondent as to success in Gods way? Is this why you pine for clever oratory? Is this why you must have music, and architecture, and flowers and millinery? After all, is it by might and power, and not by the Spirit of God? It is even so in the opinion of many. Brethren beloved, there are many things which I might allow to other worshippers which I have denied myself...