Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1891-12-09
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What Every Man rIas to be Thankful
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the Hand Sermon by Rev. T.
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DeWite Tnimnge. ID. ID.
The doctors text was taken from
Psalm 14s; 10. IL and IS: 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 n scene it was when, last Thurs
day. ut the call of the president and
governors. this nation assem- bled 70
chant the praises of Godi But the day
was too short to celebrate the Divine
goodness OF such q year. The sun did
not rise over Brooklyn until one minute
before o'clock that morning. and il
set at 4:35 o'clock that evening. What
| q small space of time in which to med
itate upon twelve months of benefac-
tions! So l add to that day this Sab
bath morning service, and with the
| fruits aud harvest of the earth still
| clarifying the pulpit and the galleries,
ask you to continue the rehearsal of the
Divine goodness
| BY the sublime cgotism man has
come to appropriate this world TO him
self. when the fact is that our race is in
| n small minority. The instances of hui
man life, as compared with the in
stances of animal life. are not one TO
1000. 900. We shall enlarge our ideas
| of Gods goodness and come to n better
understanding of the text il, before we
come to look at the cup of our blessing,
we look at the goodness of God to the
irrational creation.
Although nature is out of Joint, vet
even in its disruption / am surprised to
find the 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 n sound of distress unless, per-
chance. heartless school boy has
robbed n birds nest or hunter
has broken a birds wing,
or pasture has been robbed of a
lamb, and there goes up bleating from
the flocl<s. The whole earth is filed
with animal delight-joy feathercd, and
scaled. and horned, and hoofed. The
bee huns it; the frog croaks it; the
squirrel chatters it; the quail whistles
1t; the lark carols it; the whale spouts
It. The snail, the rhinoceros the griz-
ely bear, the toad, the wasp, the spider,
the shell-fish, have their homely de-
lights-joy as great to them as our Joy
Is to us Goat climbin the rocks; ana
SOh01 Siih ohhB thIOuBh tuo
buffalo plunging across the prairie;
crocodile baslSing in tropical sun; seal
putting on the ice; ostrich striding across
the desert are so many bundles of joy;
they do not go moping or melancholy;
they are not only half supplied; God
says they are filed with good
The worm squirming through the sod
upturned by the plowshare. and the
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are happy by day and happy by night
Take up drop of water under the
microscope and you find that within 1t
there are millions of creatures that
swim in hallelujah of gladness. The
sounds in nature that are repulsive 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 n plowshare turn up mo les
nest or fisherman's hook transfix a
worm, until, by eternal decree, its time
has come. Gods hand feeds .all these
broods, and shepherds all these fiocks,
and tends all these herds. He sweetens
the clover-tops to the oxen's taste; and
pours out crystalline waters in messed
cups of rock for the hind to drink out
of on his way to the crags, aud pours
nectar into the cup of the honeysucle
to refresh the humming- bird, and
spreads n boquet of q hundred fields
of buckwheat and lets the honey
bee put his mouth to any cup of all
the banquet and tells the grasshopper
TO go anywhere he likes, and gives the
fiocks of Heaven the choice of all the
grain fields. The sea anemone, half
animal, half flower. clinging to the
rock in mid-ocean, with its tcntacles
spread TO catch its food, has the Owner
of the universe to provide for it. We are
repulsed at the hideousness of the ele-
plant, but God, for the comfort and
convenience of the monster, puts forty
thousand distinct muscles in its probes
els.
1 go down on the barren sea-shore
and say: mo animal can live in this
place of desolation;" but all through
the sands are myriads of little insects
that leap with happy life. / go down
by the marsh and say: I'm this damp
place and in these loathsome pools Of
stagnant water there will be the quiet
ness of DEATH" but lol see the tur-
ties on the rotten log summing them
selves and hear the frogs quake with
multitudinous life. When the un-
fiedged robbins are hungry God shows
the old robin where she can get food to
put into their open mouths Winter is
not allowed to come until the ants have
granaried their harvest and the SPUR
rels have filed their cellar with nuts
God shows the hungry ichneumon
where IL may find the crocodile's eggs;
and in arctic chimes there are animals
that God so lavishly clothes that they
can afford TO walk through snow
storms in the finest sable and ermine
and chinchilla, and no sooner Is one set
of furs worn out than God gives them
a new one. He helps the spider in its
architecture of its gossamer bridge,
and takes care OF the color of the but.
terhy's wings. and tinges the cochineal,
and helps the moth out of the chrysa-
lis The animal creation also has its
army and navy The most Insignificant
has its means Of defense; the wasp It's
sting, the reptile its tooth. the bear It's
paw, the dog its muzzle. the elephant
its tusk, the fish its scale, the bird its
swift wing, the reindeer its antlers, the
roe its feet foot We are repealed at
the thought of sting and tuslS and hooi,
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