The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-09-21
blessings you VII never think Of mentioning

! blessings you VII never think OF mentioning
| before God.
| we must see blind man led af7ng by his
| dog before we learn what a grand thing L E
| TO have ones eyesight. We must see man
with st. Vitus's dance before we learn what .
Grand thing it is to have the use OF our piiyS7l
raj energies, We must see some soldier
crippled, limping along on his cruteh or hls
smuty ceatsleeYe pinned up, before we learn
Shat o gland tliirg if is to have the use OF
ali our physical faculties. IN other words,
we are so stupid that nothing bat the misior
tunes Of others can wake us up to an appr9'
citation df our common blessings.
We get on board a trair and start for Bos-
ton and come to Norwaik bridge; and the
draw" is off and crash goes the train.
Fifty lives dashed out We escape We
come home in great excitement and eau our
friends around us, and they congratulate US,
and we all 1nell down and thank Go Tor our
escape while so many persisted. But 10
rrofrCw morning you get on train OF cars
for Boston. You cross that bridge at Nor
walk: YOU cross all the other bridges; you
oct TO Boston in safety. Then you return
home. Not an accident not an alarm. NO
thanks
In other words. you seem to be more crate
fuI when so people lose their lives ana you
get of than you are grateful to Goa Wheh
YOU all get Of aud you have no alarm III AL
Now. you ought to be thankful when you es-
care from accident. but more thankful when
ne, aij sa4ars. In the one case your graft
tude is somewhat s5ifsh in the other II Is
more like what it ought to be-
OH these common mercies, these common
blessings, how little we appreciate them ara
how soon we forget them iAsA tlH
grazing with the clover up to It's eyes. IlAe
the bird picking the worm ont oi the lufroT
never thinkine to thank God. who makes
H.. eel - 4 ,g-1
living thin!; from tho toimaseu.m in the SOD
10 the saraph on the throne. ff1hSsSlTtng
on the 27th OF November in the aus ann OF
the year. but BLESSINGS hoar by hour ana day
by day and no thanks 81 al.
Icompared our Indifference to the ofate,
but perhaps ! wrouged tho brute. do not
know but that an5rs its other instincts It
NAV baYe IN instinct by Whsf it recognizes
the divine hand that feeds it. DO pbS Know
hut that God i through it holding c1Gmu-
nication with what We call ''ifralonai cfea"
ton" The COW that stands under the WI,
low by the water course chewing us euo
looks very thankful ami vino can teli now
much a bird means 81 ita eorz2 The aroma
Of the flowers smell like incense. d~'3 the
mist arising from the river looks like the
smoke OF morning saeritcc. on, that we
We're rs responsive,
RI YOU were thirsty and asked me for n
drink anil gave you this glass OF water. your
common instinct would reply, "fhan6y2u.
And yet. how many 'halicas Of mercy we gel
hour by hour from the hAri 81 the lord. our
Father aud our King. and We d" not even
think to say. "IhanE you. More JF't 10
men than wa are iast to Cod.
Who thinks OF thanking God Tor the water
gushing up in the W-3l, io1ning IN the e2s'
cade. laughing over tne rocks, patterin@ IN
the shower. clapPing its hands in the sea:
Who thinks to thank God lor that? Who
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