The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-12-04
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The first day of twelfth month, eighteen
hundred ninety-one, has been a perfect day.
The atmosphere clear and bracing, the big,
merry sun warm and inyigorating, and the
smiles from the face of the Great Heart of
heaven of that character that causes US to
repeat most reverently,- II has been a per-
feet day,
Were we each to analyze the causes that
70 to make up our perfect days in life, the
number of blessings we would have to
enumeIate-if we read our titles clearly
would be almost beyond our power of COM
prehension.
Many of us, alas. do not make a study of
this, WI do not enumerate our blessings
often enough to comprehend the extent
of them;we do not realizs how much we
are beloved by the Father of US all SIM
ply because we do not acknowledge His
kindness to us. and tell Him how happy
we are in the receipt of them. Who among
us would like to be called ill-bred or i'll.
hammered toward our friends? or, who of
us would like to be classed as ingrates or
~paupers? Yet were we to receive beauti-
tiful presents from our friends and never
give them as much as an acknowledgment
of thanks it would be very natural for them
to think us impolite; or, if we were con-
stantly supplied witt the necessities of life
from the public treasury and never so
much as lifted u hands or exerted our
strength or faculties in payment thereof
we would be ready to acknowledged we
were honest-that we possessed no graft
tude and were a class of paupers. What
then, must that great Friend, that beautiful
Guard Of the Divine Treasury, think when
those whom he so ~abundantly blesses with
the necessities and comforts of life do not
stop for a ome to lift their souls in
thanksgiving and praise TO Him for these
beautiful days and the fullness thereof. If
we do not in some way acknowledge His
loving kindness how impolite We must seem
to the King who gives us so freely all the
elements and agencies that go toward
health, comfort and plenty and the enjoy
ment thereof.
We are happy in the belief that but few.
very few, possess souls so small but that the
bright rays from heaven do illumine and
penetrate into their understanding more or
less, even though it has been said that it is
hard for Christ to find a door big enough
to get into a stingy mans heart.
We are led to enumerate a few OF the
blessings that are showered upon most of
us in an ordinarily perfect day. The early
morning hours find the subject who is to
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sleep. Then the awakening, and through
the agency OF a clear brain, the quick
thought of duties to be performed, the
privilege of asking for guidance in each
duty and relation throughout the day; the
h~ealthful morning air and exercise, each
helping the other to be enjoyed; the good
appetite for a healthful breakfast. the
pleasant gathering at the breakfast table,
where 1t seems to be an unwritten law to
exclude all unpleasant thoughts and forget
all petty little ~annoyauces, these being re-
placed with little pleasantries and any
item of general interest that may be
brought to mind; the qnick glance at the
bright morning where the DAYS illumi-
nator is ca3ting his beams OF brightness as
advance sentinels to his coming and where
in a remarkably short period he comes in
sight srrayed in a degree of grandeur in
comprehensive, ready to take his daily
course through the blue vault of heav ni
the strength TO speed along rapidly the
morning duties that ''the hour OF meeting
NAV be observed The receipt OF the
morning mail containing daily and weekly
papers, weekly and monthly periodicals,
aud letters of a kindly, encouraging tone
that go toward sweetening life. The
brisk ride into town over a passably good
road, though not of the Telford system,
the comfort of riding after a gentle, quick,
intelligent and we'll built animal which is