ABSTRACT
Resignation is a defence against the disheartening and overwhelming influence of public calamities. It renders supportable a view of the ruins of human glory, by awakening the sentiments of immortality. It inspires a pleasing serenity, and wraps us in reverential silence, when we discover the impious villain in the tenure of a long life. The daughter of resignation is inspired with more noble sentiments; she looks with tenderness on her offspring, and cheerfully conveys them to Christ, and to the guidance of that being who protects the slumber of the cradle, and the strength of age, and equally notices the death of the sparrow and the ruin of a kingdom. Resignation is indispensably necessary to the acquisition of useful truth. The possession of divine truth, and a hearty attachment to its unalterable excellence, reinstamp us with the image of glory, and give us a participation in pleasures, that are sublime and lasting.
