The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-01-01
THANKSGIVING.
What Every Man Has to be Thankful
For.
One Hundrod Million Dollars wouidn't
PurcIIase n Machine SO Wonderful as
the Hand-Sermon by Rev. II.
Dewitt Taimage, ID. ID.

The doctors text was taken from
Psalm AS; 10, 12 and 49, BEASTS ant
all cattle; creeping things and flying
fowl; both young men and maidens, ole
men and children; let them praise the
name of the Lord"
What scene it was when, last Thurs
day, at the call of the president and
governors, this nation assembled to
thant the praises OF Cod But the day
was too short 10 celebrate the Divine
foodness of such a year. The sun did
not rise over Brooklyn until one minute
before Z o'clock that morning, and il
set at 4:35 o'clock that evening. What
small space of time in which to med
itate upon twelve months of benefac.
tions! SO / 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 egotism man has
come 10 appropriate this world to him
self, when the fact is that our race is in
a small minority. The Instances of hu.
Uldu liz. SOll pdIOu Will TIC III
stances of animal life, are not one to
100000 We shall enlarge our ideas
of Gods goodness and come to better
understanding Of the text if, 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, yet
even in its disruption I 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 sound of distress unless, per-
chance, heartless school boy has
robbed a birds nest or hunter
has broken birds wing,
or a pasture has been robbed of a
lamb, and there goes up a bleating from
the foclls. The whole earth is filed
with animal delight-joy feathered, and
scaled, and horned, and hoofed. The
bee huns it; the frog croaks it; the
squirrel chatters it; the quail whistles
it; the lark carols it; the whale spouts
it The snail, the rhinoceros, the griz-
Ely bear the toad, the wasp, the spider, |
the shell-fi fish, have their homely de-
lights-joy as great to them as our joy
is to us Goat climbing the rocks; ana
conda climbing through the jungle; |
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 arc filed with good
The worm squirming through the sod
upturned by the plowshare, and the
ants racing up and down the hillock
are happy by day and happy by night
Take up drop of water under the
microscope and you find that within it
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 a plowshare turn up a mole's
nest, or a fisherman's hook transfix
worm, until, by eternal decree, its time
has come. Gods hand feeds 'all these
OTOOuS, anu hAA IhSoS AOSN"S
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, and pours
nectar into the cup of the honeysucle
to refresh the humming- bird, and
spreads a boquet of a 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
flocks 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 probos-
els. ... -.t-t
/ 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
pace and in these loathsome pools OF
stagnant water there will be the quiet
ness of DEATH" but, 10! see the tur-
Ties on the rotten log summing them
selves and hear the frogs quake with
multitudnous life. When the I'M
fedged 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
granaricd their harvast and the snuir-