Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-25

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inberioning your moral qualities. Rats
may sink ship One lucifer match may
send destruction through block of store
houses Catherine de Medicis got her
death from smelling a poisonous rose. Co
lumbus, by stopping aad asking for a piece
of bread and II drink of water at Francis
can convent, WAS led to the discovery of the
New World. And there is an intimate con-
nectian between trifles and immensities,
between nothings aud everythings.
Now, he careful to let none of those an
noyances go through your soul unar-
raigned. Compel them to administer to
your spiritual wealth The scratch of a
sixpenny nail sometimes produces lock-
jaw, and the clip of most infnitesimal
annoyance may damage you forever. Do
not let any annoyance or perpleXity come
across your soul without its making you
better
PUT uIGn TARIFF ON LITTLE FITS OF
TEMPER.
Our national government does not think
it beittling to put a tax on pins and a tax
on buckles and a tax on shoes The indi-
vidual taxes do not amount to much, but
in the aggregate to millions and millions
of dollars And would have you, o
/ Christian man, put u high tariff on every
annoyance and veXation that comes
through your soul. This might not amount
to much in single cases. but in the aggre-
gate it would be Il great revenue of spirit
ual strength and satisfaction,
A bee can suck honey even out Of
nettle and If you have the grace Of God
in your heart you can get sweetness out
OF that which would otherwise irritate and
annoy. A returned missionary told me
Al.
the Ganges were stung TO death by flies
that infest that region at certain seasons
have seen the earth strewed with the
carcasses Of men slain by insect annoy
ances. 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 90 into the conflict because it
was only skirmish, saying; 81 am not
going to expend my ammunition on a
skirmish. Wait until there comes a gem
eral engagement and then you will see
how courageous am and what battling |
will do?"
The general would say to such man
'If you are not faithful in a slirmish, you
would be nothing in general engage
ment." And have to tell you, o Chris
tian men, If you cannot apply the princi-
pies of Chrst's religion on small scale,
you will never be able to apply them on a
large scale If you cannot successfully
contend against these small sorrows that
come down single handed, what will you
do when the greater disasters of life come
down with laundering artillery, rolling
over your soul?
FOR EVERY GOOD THING GIVE THANKS.
Again, we must bring the religion of
Christ into our cOmmonest blessings.
When the autumn comes and the harvests
are in, and the governors make proclama-
ton, we assemble in churches and we are
very thankful. But every day ought to
be Thanksgiving day, We do not recog-
nize the common mercies of life. We have
to see blind man led by his dog before
we begin to bethink ourselves OF what IA
grand thing it is to have eyesight We
have to see some one afflicted with st.
Vitus' dance before we are ready to thank
God for the control of our physical ener
gies. We have to see some wounded man
hobbing 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 but the
misfortunes of others can rouse us up to
ture up TO itg eyes in clover, yet never
thinking who makes the clover, and as the
the bird picks up the worm from the fur
row not knowing that it is God who makes
everything, from the animalcula in the
sod TO the seraph on the throne, so we go
on eating, drinking and enjoying, but mover
thanking or seldom thanking; or, ii thank |
ing Mt all, with only half a heart,
compared our Indifference to the BRUTE
but perhaps | wronged the brute. / 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, hold |
ing communication with what we call 'ir-
rational creation" The COW that stands !
under the willow by the water course !
chewing its cud looks very thankful, and !
who can tell how much u bird means by its |
song?
The aroma Of the flowers smells like in
cense, and the mist arising from the river
looks like the smoke of amorning sacrifice. |
Oh, that we were us respOnsiye Yet who /
thanks God for the water that gushes up
in the well, and that foams in the cascade, |
and that laughs over the rocks, and that |
patters in the showers, and that claps its |
hands in the sea? Who thanks God for the |
air, the fountain of life, the bridge of sun |
beams, the path Of sound, the great fan on |
a hot summers day? Who thanks God for |
this wonderful physical organism-this |
sweep Of the vision, this chime of harmony |
struck into the eur, this soft tread of |
myriad delights over the nervous tissue, |
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 rs matter Of course, |
But suppose God should withdraw these |
common blessingsl Your body would be-
come an iuluisition of torture, the cloud |
would refuse rain, every green thing would |
rrumple up, and the earth would crack |
open under your feet The air would cease /
It's heathCul circulation pestilence would |
swoop mud every house would become a |
place Of skulls, Streams would first swim |
with yermin 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 |
youl Is 1t not time that, with every word |
Of our lips and with every action of our /
life, we began to acknowledge these every /
day mercies2 whether ye eat or drink, or |
whatsoever We do, do all to the glory of |
God" DO | address a man or n woman |
this morning who has not rendered to God |
one single Offering of thanksP
THE SIN or iNGRArTUDE
was preaching one Thanksgiving day |
and announced my text, "Oh, give thanks |
unto the Lord, for he is good for his !
mercy ondureth forever" do not know /
whether there was any blessing on the ser
mon or not, but the text went straight to