The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-04
GIVING THANKS.
DR.. Talmsge Discourses on the
Subject Of Thanksgiving.
Examples Of tbs Goodness. OF the Lora-Au
Creation Guided ny the Great Creator
Whist We should Bs Thank
TAI FoE.


the Sunday after Thanksgiving day,
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage took his text
from Psalms cxlviii, 10. - and 49,
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 "
The preacher said:
What scene It was when last Thurs
day At the call OF the president and
governors, this nation Assem- bled TO
chant the praises Of God But the day
was TOO short 70 celebrate the Divine
goodness OF such year The sun did
not rise over Brooklyn until one min
ute before one o'clock that morning.
and It set at four o'clock and thirty-five
minutes that evening. What q small
space of time in which to mediate up
on twelve months Of benefaetions- So
add to that day this Sabbath morning
service, and ask you to continue the re-
hearsal OF the Divine goodness
By q sublime egOtism man has come
to appropriate this world to himself.
when the fact is that our race is in a
small minority. The instances of hui
man life as compared with the instances
OF animal life. are not one to a million
We shall enlarge our ideas of g as
goodness and come to a better under
standing of the text If, before we come
to look at the cup of our blessing, we
tionsl creation
Although nature IS out of joint, yet
even in its disruption I am surprised to
ind almost universal happiness of the
animal creation. On summer day,
when the air and the grass are most
populous with life. you will not hear
sound Of distress unless, perchauce, a
hsaFtless school boy has robbed a birds
nest or a hunter has broken a birds
wing, or pasture has been robbed of
lamb, and there goes mp a bleating
from the focEs. The whole earth Is
| filed with animal delight-ioy feath-
cred, and scaled, and horned and
hOOfed The bee huns it, the frog
croalrs It, the squirrel chatters it, the
quail whistles it. the lark carols it, the
| whale sPouts it The snail, the rhi-
| nocerOs. the grizzly bear, the toad, the
wasp, the spider, the shell fish, have
/ their hOmely deiights-jOy as great to
them as our joy is to US Goat climb
/ ing the rocks, anaconda crawling
through the jungle, buffalo pIunging
/ across the prairie. crocodile basIking in
/ tropical sun. seal putting on the ice, Os-
/ trich striding across the desert, are so
/ many bundles of joy; they do not go
/ mOping OF melancholy; they are not
only half supplied; God says they are
filed with good
The worm Equirning through the sod
| upturned Of Plowshars, and the ants
racing up and down the hillOcIz, are
/ happy by day and happy by night.
| Take up a drop of water under the
/ microPe, and you find that within it
/ there are millions of creatures that
1 swim in hallelujah of gladness. The
/ sounds in nature that are repuisfve to
| our ears are often only utterances of
! joy-the grOwl, the croal5 the bark,
/ the howl The good God made these
| Nh4vylra 81 thar
not let q plOwshare turn up a mole's
nest, or 3 fisheFman's hook trausfix a
worm. until by eternal decree, its time
has come.
Gods hand feeds all these broods,
and shepherds all these hOcl1s and tends
all these herds. He sweetens the clover
tops for the Oxen's taste and pours out
crystalline waters, in messed cups of
rock, for the hind to drink ont of on
his way down the crags, and pours
nectar into the cups of the honeysuclzIe
to refresh the humming bird; and
/ spreads banquet OF q hundred fields
of buckwheat, and lets the honey bee
F.! put his mouth to any cup of all the
| banquet and tells the grasshopper to
! go anywhere he likes, and gives the
fiOclSs of heaven the choice of all the
/ grain fields The sea Rnemone, half
animal, half flower, cIinging to the
| rocks in midOcesn, with its tentaeies
spread to catch its food, has the owner
of the universe TO provide for it We
| are rePulsed at the hideOusness of the
elephant, but God, for the comfort aud
convenience OF the monster, puts 40, 600
distinct muscles in its probOscis-
I go down on the barren sea shore
and aay; ''No animal can live in this
place OF dssoistion;" but all through
the sands are myriads of little insects
that leap with happy life. go down
by the marsh and say; SIN this damp
place and in these loathsomo pools of
stagnant water there will be the quiet
ness OF desth;' but lot ! see the turtles
on the rotten log summing themselves
and hear the boys quake with multi
tudinous lAs. When the unfiedged
robbins are hungry, God shows the old
Robin where she can get food to put
into the open mouths. Winter is not
allowed to come until the ants have
granaried their harvest and the squir-
rsls have filed their cellar with nuts.
God shows the hungry ichneumOn
where It may hnd the crocOdiIe's eggs;
and in arctic chimes there are animals
that God so iEvishly clothes that they
can afford to walk through snoEystOrms
in the finest sable and ermine aud chin
chilla, and no sooner IS one set of furs
worn out that God gives them a ne "
one He helps the spider in its archi.
lecture of its EOssamer bridge, and
takes care Of the color Of the butterfy's
wings, and tinges the eochineal and
helps the moth out OF the chrysalis.
The animal creation also has its army
and navy. The most insignificant has
its mssns of defense; the wasp its
sting, the reptile its tooth. the bear its
paw, the dog its muzzle. the elephant
its tuslz. the fish its scale. the bird its
swift wing, the reindeer its antlers, the
roe its Aeet foot
We are repelisd at the thought OF
sting. and tuslr. and hoof, but Gods
goodness provides them for the defense
Of the animals rights. Yea, God il
the Bible announces his care for thsss
orders of creation He says that he has
heaVed mp iortidsations for their de
fease-Psaln civ, Is: 1.-THE high hills
are = refuge for the wild goats, and the
rocks for the comics He watches the
birds nsst-Pszin civ. II; ''As for the
ssorlz. the fr trees are her house D
He sees that the cattle have enough
grass-Psalm civ, IA: s'He csuzeth the
grass to grow fer the cattle" He sees
to It that the cows. and sheep. aud
horses havs enough to drinl-Psaim
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