Word: praiser
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Henry Van Dyke at the first vesper service yesterday, spoke on the two different kinds of thanksgiving as typified by the Pharisee in the parable and by Saint Paul. The first is an enumeration of the virtues that the praiser finds in himself coupled with thanks to God that they are so beautiful. The second kind of praise, that which Paul uses, expresses humility in every word. It thanks God, of course, for the benefits He has sent, but sees in them gifts which are all the more loving for being so little deserved. The first kind of thanksgiving...