3. We, therefore, further infer from the foregoing subject, the duty of gratitude that we enjoy the light and advantages of a divine Revelation. This light is rich and glorious: those advantages are many and precious. How affecting is the idea of the perishing state of man!--How is _the gold become dim and the most fine gold changed!_--Who but must weep over the situation of the heathen, that are without hope and without God in the world:--who are in darkness:--who are worshipping dumb Idols: who are bowing down to stocks and stones:--who have Gods many and lords many: who believe in polytheism, and have changed the truth of God into a lie:--who pay honours divine to the sun, moon and stars.--They do not know that there is but one God--or how to serve him, or that he can, and will pardon them. To them all is darkness and mystery. No ray of revealed light reaches them, and they have no rational view of moral and divine things.----Who made us to differ? Who ordered our birth and education in a land of Gospel light and liberty--a land of civil and religious freedom, while such an handful only of the human race either know or enjoy the rights of man?--We know or may know, duly using our reason and the light of the Gospel, the way of truth. We know that there is but one God, one Mediator, one salvation, one way to life eternal.--Happy are ye in knowing the Gospel of the grace of God--in having the holy scriptures in a language which you understand! Happy are ye in having the privilege of public worship!--_He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statues and his judgments unto Israel: he hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments they have not known them. Praise ye the Lord.--At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee O father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hath revealed them unto babes._--Why art thou, O America, so highly exalted--so eminently distinguished by all the light and privileges of the Gospel, and civil freedom!--How unnatural, how barbarous any of thy citizens, if they despise these:--if they exert any power to take from thee, thy glory--thy beauty--thy praise, the Gospel of the grace of God: or to oppose or corrupt it; or if they refuse to be thankful for it!--O for a note of praise sublime to ascend from every American tongue and fervour of gratitude to go up from every American heart to the throne of the Universe--that we have all the LIGHT, PRIVILEGES, and ORDINANCES of the christian religion:--delightful, pleasing, divine Religion, pure and undefiled!--May all our hearts welcome thee to our choice--and, then, we are happy. Thou art the glory of any land, the guide of the youth, the support of age, the solace of all thy friends!----_Happy is that people whose God is the Lord!_