The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-01-27

what win You do when the greater
disasters of life come down with thun-
dering artillery rolling over your soul?
Again, we must bring the religion OF
Christ into our commonest blessings
When the autumn comes, and the har-
vests are in, and the governors make
proclamation, we assemble in churches
and we are very thankful But every
day ought to be thanksgiving day.
We do not recognize the common
,mercies Of life. We have to see a blind
man led by his dog before we begin to
bethink ourselves of what a grand thing
1t is to have eyesight We have 10 see
some 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 but the mis-
fortunes Of others can rouse us up to
our blessings. AS the OK grazes in the
pasture up to its eyes in clover, We
never thinking who makes the clover,
and as the bird picks up the worm from
the furrow not knowing that it is God
who makes everything from the ami
malcula in the soil to the seraph on the
throne, SO we go on eating, drinking,
and enjoying. but never thinking, or
seldom thanking; or, il thanking at all,
with only half n heart.
/ compared our indifferences to the
brute; but perhaps wronged the brute.
do not know but that, among It's
other instincts, it may have an instinct
by which it recognizes the divine hand
that feeds It. ! do not know, but that
God is, through it, holding communica'
tion with what we call Irrational crea
ton" The COW that stands under the
willow, by the water.course, chewing
its cud, looks very thanltful; and who
can tell how much bird means by its
song? The aroma OF the flowers smells
like incense, and the mist arising from
the river looks like the smoke
of a morning sacrifice o, that
we were as responsive! Yet who
thanks God for the water thai
gushes up in the well, and that
foams in the cascade, and that laugh,
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 q
hot summers day? Who thanks God
for this wonderful physical organism
this sweep of the vision-this chime OF
harmony struck into the ear-this soft
tread OF myriad delights over the nerv.
GUS tissue-this rolling of the Grim.
son through artery and vein-thi'
drumming OF the heart on our march tc
immortality? We take all these things
as matter OF course.
But suppose God should withdraw
these common bles sings! Your body
would become an iniquisition OF tor.
ture, the cloud would refuse rain,
every green thing would crumple up.
and the earth would crack open under
your feet The air would cease It's
healthful circulation, pestilence would
swoop. and every house would become
place of skulls Streams would first
swim with vermin, and then dry up; and
thirst, and hunger, and anguish and de.
spnir would lift their scepters. o,
compare such life ms that with the life
You live this morning with your fam
lilies about you! Is it not time that
with every word OF our lips aud with
every action of our life we began C
acknowledge these everyday mercies:
whether ye eat or drin :; or whatSo.
ever ye do, do all to the glory of Col
Do l address man or a woman thi
morning who has not rendered TO Goo
one single Offering Of thanks?
was preaching one Thanksgiving
day and announced my text: 40, giV-
thanks unto the Lord; for He is good
for His mercy endureth forever dc
not know whether there was any bless.
Ing on the sermon or not; but the text
went straight to young mans heart.
He said TO himself, as | read the text:
20, give thanks unto the Lord: for He
is good-Why. / have never rendered
Him any thanks o, what an migrate !
have been!" Can IL be. my brother,
that you have been led by the good
hand OF God all these dnys-that you
have had clothing aud shelter and
all benefcent surroundings and yet
have never offered your heart TO God?
O, let a sense of the divine goodness
shown you in the everyday blessings
melt your heart, and II you have never
thanksgiving. let this be the day which
shall hear your song What cay b.
one / say TO all OF this audience. TAX"
this practical religion / have recon-.
mended into your every day life. Make
every day Sabbath and every meal ..
sacrament and every room you entel
holy OF HOLES We all have work n
do; let us be willing to do it We al.
have sorrows 10 bear. let us chcerfuly
bear them. I'VE all have battles tn
tight, let us coura geonsly fight them. n
you want to die right you must live
right Negiige nee and Incidence will
win the hiss Of everlasting scorn, while
faithfnlness will gather its garlands
and wave its scepter, aud sit upon is
throne, long after this earth has put on
ashes, and eteRlal ages have begun
their march. You go home to day aud
attend 20 your little sDhsre OF duties |