The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-12-05
A SHORT SIMPLE SERMON.
On Life's Blessed Sunshine and
its Resplendent Blessings.
Henry Blount In Wilson Mirror.


Henry Biount in Wilson Mirror.
This morning as We reluctantly
left the charms and delights and
comforts Of our mostexcellent board
ing place, and stepped out on Nash
street we noticed that almost every
one was on the sunny side, and tax
ing advantage Of the blessed comfort
of the blessed sunbeams that came
so cheeringly down from Heaven.
The few who walked on the shady
side, shivered and suffered amid the
chilly shadows, while those, who
walked on the sunny side, where
Heavens golden sunbeams fell in all
their comfort giving beauty and ra-
dance, dashed along with bouyancy
an elasticity Of expression and move
ment that told Of that JOY and vigor
born alone in the happy wedlock of
brightestfeelings and perfect health.
And that fact has suggested this
train Of thought. II is best to take
the SUNNI side in all things.
We feel the wisdom of it to-day.
And yet we see some who remain or
the cold bleak side and walk shiyer-
ingly there, while the suffering could
be so easily mitigated BY taking the
other side. II is strange but true
that Of all animated creation man il
the only being who does not always
take the sunny side. He is endowed
with intelligence and reason, which
should make him best promote biz
own proper enioyments; but the In
stinct of the lower creations give
them aphilosophy that mans reason
often denies to himself; and man has
less happiness, with greater oppor.
tunities for its possession, than any
of the Other countless forms and
grades Of life.
The hooting owl and the housing
bat and the savage beast shun the
sunlight and make darkness hideou;
with their weird and discordant Ian.
guage; but there is not a sweet bird
!; Of song, a beautiful flower, q fra
grant shurb, a fruitful tree or plant
| of earth, or warbler of air, or spor.
tive inhabitant Of brook or sea, Of
other thing that responds TO the
kindness VI man, that does not take
the sunny side Of life. Most Of all
1.-THE many woes of men are created
by themselves, and q vast prepond-
erance Of them are provoked by
stunning the sunny side and studi-
ously wading through the shadows
and the sloughs and brambles which
could and should be avoided.
The sturdy oak Of the forests
reaches out TO the sun its stoutest
branches and greenest verdue, and
itssober liehen and scars point 10 the
chilly north. The creeping vine
that clings 10 thetrunk an. branches
throw all its varied beauty TO the
sunny side. All Of natures grandeur,
from the shrinking daisy LOautumn'S
gorgeous panorama Of gilded grove
and mountain, are the pictures Of
life, and the dancing dimples Of our
babIing streams are the pretty play
things OF wrestling light andshadow.
Every rising sun Is greeted with
gratitude by all that makes the
world brighter and better, but man;
and he, the lord Of all. 10 whom all
created thing are made subject, often
passes the song Of thanks from
heavens choristers in listlessDess or
clouded forgetfulness, and the flow.
ers which gratefully perfume the
air whence be draws bis life, and
which scatters a profusion Of beauty
along his pathway. awaken no praise
from him 10 whom all the beauti-
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