The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-09-08
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your life How dare you take the re-
sponsibility Of saying that there isS Do
you not know that tho whole universe is
not ashamed to take care of oneviolet?
say: "What are you doing down there
in the grass, poor little violet Nobody
knows you are here, Are you not afraid
nights? You will die with thirst. No
body cares for you. You will suffer; you
will perish" mo" says star, "rll
watch ovor it tonight" NO" says the
cloud, "Tll give it drink" mo" says
the sun, ''Ill warm it in my BOSOM"
And then the wind rises and comes
bending down the grain and sounding
its psalm through the forest, and say,
"Whither away, o wind, ON such swift
wing?" and it answers, II am going to
cool the cheek of that violet" And then
l see pulleys at work in the sky, and the
clouds are drawing water, and | say,
"What are you doing there, o cloudsY'
They say, 1--WE are drawing water for,
that violet" And then | look down into
the grass, and I say, "Can it be that God
takes care OF II poor thing like your" and
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Plato had fable which | have now
nearly forgotton. but it ran something
like this: He said spirits of the other
world came back to this world to find
BODY and find n sphere of work. One
spirit came and took the body of a king
and did his work. Another spirit came
and took the body of a poet and did his
work. After awhile ULYSSES came, and
he said: ',Wby. all the fine bodies are
taken. and all the grand work is taken.
There is nothing left for me-" And some
one REPLIED. IN, the best one has been
left for vol." ULYSSES said. whats
that?" And The reply was, 1.-The body
of a common man, doing a common
work and for common reward" A
good fable for the world and Just as
good fable for the church
But, | remark again, we ought to
bring the religion of Jesus Christ into
our ordinary blessings. Every autumn
the president of the United States and
the governors make PROCLAMATION, and
we are called together in our churches
to give thanks to God for his goodness.
But every day ought to be a thanksgiv-
ing day. We take most of the blessings
of life as a matter of course. We have
had ten thousand blessings this morning
for which we have not thanked God.
Before the NIGHT comes we will have a
thousand more blessings you will never
think of mentioning before God.
HOW TO APPRECIATE OUR BLESSINGS.
We must see a blind man led along by
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you get to Boston in safety. Then Won
return home. Not an accident, not an
alarm. No thanks.
In other words, you seem to be more
grateful when so people lose their lives
and you get off than you are grateful to
God when you all get off and you have
no alarm at all. Now, you ought to be
thankful when you escape from accident,
but more thankful when they all escape.
In the one case your gratitude is some
what selfish; in the other it is more like
what it ought to be.
Oh, these common mercies, thes.
common blessings, how little we appre-
ciate them and how soon we forget
them! Like the OK grazing, with the
clover up to its eyes, like the bird pick
ing the worm out of the furrow-never
thinking to thank God, who makes the
grass grow and who gives life to every
living thing from the animalcule in the
sod to the seraph on the throne. Thanks
giving on the 27th of November, in the
autumn of the year, but blessings hour
by hour and day by day and no thanks
at all
comnored orr indifference IN the
brute. but perhans 7 wronged the br,,te
do not know but that among its other
instinctsit NAV have an instinct Inv which
If RECOGNIZES the divine hand that feads
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