Connecticut western news., 1892-01-28

Christian man, put q high tariff on every annoyance and yeXation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases. but in the aggregate it woull be a great rovenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey even ont of a nettle, and if you have the grace of God in your heart you can get sweetness out of that which would otherwise ilTitato and annoy. ....
 , A returned missionary told me that a company of adventurers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by flies that infest that region at car- tain seasons. I have seen the earth strewed with tho carcasses of men slain by insect annoyances. The only way to get prepared for the great troubles of life is to conquer these small troubles. What would you say of soldier who refused to load his gun or to go into a conflict because it was only skirmish, say ing, ''I am not going to expend my ammunition on a slSirmish; wait un til there comes a general engage ment, and then you will see how courageous I am, and what battling I will do2" The general would say tu such man, If you are not fathfu in a skirmish, you would be nothin in a general engagement"
 And I have to tell you, O Chris tian men, if you cannot apply th. principles of Christ's religion on s small scale you will never be able apply them on a large scale. If yo cannot successfully contend again these small sorrows that come dow. single handed, what will you q when the greater disasters of If come down with laundering artil lery rolling over your soull
 Again, we must bring the religion of Christ into our commonest bless ings. When the autumn comes, anG the harvests are in, and the gover nors make proclamation, we assem ble in churches, and we are very thankful But every day ought to be a thanksgiving day. We do not rec ognize the common mercies of life. We have to see blind man led by his dog before we begin to think our selves of what a grand thing it is to have eyesight. We have to see somt one afflicted with St. Vitus' dance before We are ready to thank God for the control of our physical energies. We have to see some wounded man hobbling on his crutch, or with his empty coat sleeve pinned up. before we learn to think what grand thing God did for us when he gave us healthy use of our limbs.
 We are so stupid that nothing bu, the misfortunes of others can rouse us up to cur blessings. As the OK grazes in the pasture up to its eyes in the clover, yet never thinking who makes the clover, and as the bird picks up the worm from the fur row, not knowing that it is God who makes everything, from the ami malcula in the sod to the seraph or the throne, so we go on eating, drinking and enjoying, but never thanking or seldom thanking; or, il thanking at all, with only half q heart.
 DO BRUTEs AND PLANTS PRAISE aoDi
 compared our indifference to the brute; but perhaps I wronged the brute. I do not know but that. among its other instincts, it may have an instinct by which it recog nizes the divine hand that feeds it. do not know but that God is, through it, holding communication with what we cali irrational crea- tion." The COW that stands under the willow by the water course chewing its cud looks very thank. full; and who can tell how much Il bird means by its songl The aroma of the flowers smells like incense, and the mist arising from the river looks like the smoke of a morning sacrifice. Oh, that we were as re. sponsivel
 Yet who thanks Gtd for the water that gushes up in the well, and that foams in the cascades, and that laughs over the rocks, and that patters in the showers, and that claps its hands ir the sea2 Who thanks God for the air, the fountain of life, the bridge oi sunbeams, the path of sound, the great h,,N At.fe, slnFTV AAaf thanks God for this wonderful phys ical organism eco this sweep of the vision-this chime of harmony struck into the ear-this soft tread of { myriad delights over the nervous tissues-this rolling of the crimson tide through artery and vein-this drumming of the heart on our march to immortality? we take all these things as a matter of course.
 But suppose God withdrew these common blessings Your body would become an inquisition of torture, the cloud would refuse rain, every green thing would crumple up and the earth would crack open under youl feet. The air would cease its healthy circulation, pestilence would swool and every house would become a place of skulls. Streams would first swim with vermim and then dry up and thirst and hunger and anguish and despair would lift their scepters
 Oh, compare such life as that with the life you live this morning with your families about you Is i, not time that, with every word of ou lips and with every action of our life we began to acknowledge these every day mercies2 Whether ye eat oi drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all tC the glory of God" Do I address [ man or a woman this morning who has not rendered to God one singl, offering of thanlss9
 I was nraachino one ThanlSsriyinc