Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-30
MERClES OF THE LORD.
SERMON BY THE rev r. De WITT
TALMAGE, SUNDAY, NOV 80.

BROOKLYN, Nov 90 DR. Talmage's SER
mon this morning had distinctly Thanks
giving character The appearance Of the
Tabernacle was in keeping with it. The
specimens Of fruits and harvest products
with which the pulpit and galleries were
decorated for the Thanksgiving day serv
ice were still in their places. Cotton, rice
wheat, sugar cane, rye, oats, corn and
fruits, and products from north, south,
east and west put before the audience as
by an object lesson the abundance of the
national harvest. The doctors text was
taken from Psalm cxlviii, TO- ~ and 10,
"Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things and
flying fowl; both young men, and maIdens;
old men, and children: let them praise the
name of the Lord"
What "a scene it was when last Thursday,
at the call ofthe president and governors,
this nation assembled to chant the praises
OF God. But the day was too short to cele-
brate the divine goodness Of such year.
The sun did not rise over Brooklyn until
one minute before seven O'Clock that morn
ing and it set four o'clock and thirty-dve
minutes that evening. What u small space
of time in which to mediate upon twelve
months Of benefactions. So add TO that
day this Sabbath morning service, and
with the fruits and harvests of the earth
still clarifying the pulpit and the galleries,
ask you to continue the rehearsal Of the
divine goodness,
BY a sublime egotism man has come TO
appropriate this world TO himself, when
the fact is that our race is in small mi
nority. The instances of human life, as
compared with the instances of animal life,
are not one to million. We shall enlarge
our ideas of Gods goodness and come to IA
better understanding of the text IT, before
we come to look ut the cup OF our blessing,
we look at the goodness of God to the IRA
tional creation.
A LOOK AT THE LOWER ORDERS
Although nature is out Of joint, yet even
in its disruption am surprised TO find the
almost universal happiness of the animal
creation. On a summer day, when the air
and the grass are most populous with life,
you will not hear IA sound Of distress un
less, perchance, heartless schoolboy has
robbed a birds nest or a hunter has
broken birds wing, or a pasture has
been robbed OF Il lamb and there goes up q
bleatng from the nocks.
The whole earth is filed with animal de
light-joy feathered and scaled and horned
and hoofed The bee huns it; the frog
croaks it; the squirrel chatters it; thequail
whistles it; the lark carols it; the whale
spouts it. The snail, the rhinOceros, the
grizzly bear, the toad, the wasp, the spider,
the shellhsh have their homely delights
Joy as great TO them as our JOY Is to us.
Goat climbing the rocks; anaconda crawl.
ing through the jungle; buffalo plunging
across the prairie; crocodile basking in
tropical sun; seal pulling on the ice; ostrich
stridng across the desert are so many
bundles of joy; they do not 20 moping or
melancholy; they are not only half sup
piled; God says they are filled with good
The worm squirting through the sod up
turned of plowshare, and the ants rackin9
up and down the hilloc.l are happy by day
and happy by night. Take up drop OF
water under the microscope and you lnd
that within it there are millions of crea
lures that swim in halleuiah of glad
ness The sounds in nature that are re
pulsive to our ears are often only utteranceS
of joy--the growl the croak, the bark, the
howl The good God made these creatures
thinks of them ever, and will not let
plowshare turn up lnole's nest, or fisher
mans hook transnX worm, until, by
eternal decree its time has come, Gods
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