The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-04

willing 70 bend down 70 Your case, HAil-e
he is Just as careful about the construe-
tiou OF a spiders eye as he is In the con-
formation Of flaming galaXies
Plato had a fable which ] have now
nearly forgotten. hut 1t ran something
like this he said spirits Of the other
world came back to this world 10 md a
body and find a sphere Of work. One
spirit came and took the body Of king,
and did his work Another spirit came
and took the body Of a poet. and did his
I work. After awhile Ulysses came, and he
said. "Why. all the fine bodies are taken,
and all the grand work is taken. There is
nothing left for me. - And some one re-
piled. '.Ah, the best one has been left for
YOU" Ulysses said, What's that2' And
the reply was, The body Of a common
Z man doing q common work, ana Tor
1 common reward 90 A good fable for the
world, and just as good fable for the
| church.
But I remark again: We ought TO bring
I the religion of Jesus Christ into our ordi-
Z nary blessings Every autumn the Presi-
dent Of the United States and the gov
errors make proclamation, and we are
I called together in our churches 10 give
! thanks TO God for his goodness But every
day ought 10 be thanksgiving day We
I take most of the blessings of life as
/ matter Of course. We have had ten thou
1 sand blessings this morning for which we
( have not thanked God. Before the night
comes, we win have a thousand more
blessings YOU will never think Of mention
I ing before God.
We must see a blind man led along by
his dog before we learn what a grand
4 thing it is to have ones eyesight We
must see a man with St. Nitus' dance be-
! fore we learn what a grand thing IL is to
/ have the use of our physical energies We
/ must sec some soldier crippled, limping
along on his crutch, or his empty coat
! sleeve pinned up. before we learn what
grand thing it is to have the use of all our
physical faculties. mother words, we are
so stupid that nothing but the misfor-
I tunes of others can wake US up to an APP
probation of our common blessings.
We get on board a train and start for
] Boston. and come to Norwalk bridge, and
the draw" is off and crash! goes the
l train. Fifty lives dashed out. We es-
cape. We come home in great excitement
and call our friends around us. and they
! congratulate us; and we all kneel down
and thank God for our escape while
so many persisted. But tomorrow morn
1 ng you get on a train of cars for
Boston. You cross that bridge at Nor
walk You cross all the other bridges
You get to Boston in safety. Then you
| return home. Not an accident, not an
! alarm No thanks In other words, you
seem TO be more grateful when fifty peo-
| pie 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 somewhat selfish; in the
other it is more like what it ought TO be.
On these common mercies, these com
| mon blessings, how little we appreciate
them and how soon we forgot theml Like
/ the OK grazing with the clover up to its
1 eyes, like the bird picking the worm out
of the furrow-neyer thinking to thank
| God, who makes the grass grow and who
gives life 1to every living thing, from
the animaculR in the sod to the seraph
on the throne. Thanksgiving on
the 9th Of November, in the au-
tumn of the year; but blessings, hour by
hour and day by day and no thanks at
all | compared our difference to the
brute; but perhaps ! wronged the brute.
/ do not know but that among its other in
Stlncts, il may have an instinct by which
it recogizes the divine hand that feeds it.
do not know but that God is, through it,
holding communication with what we
call Irrational creation The COW that
stands under the willow by the water
course, chewing its cud, looks very
thankful; and who can tell how much a
bird means by its song2 The aroma of
I Ilit UOWEIS SultllS Ike litGilSt. anu bllt
mist arising from the river looks like the
smoke of morning sacrifice. Oh, that
we were as reSpOnsivel
If you were thirsty and asked me for a
drink, and gave you this glass of water,
your common instinct would reply,
Thank you" And yet, how many
chaices of mercy we get hour by hour
from the hand of the Lord, our Father
and our King, and we do not even think
/ 70 nav stV'haulT Won - More inst n mon
than we are just to God.
Who thinks of thanking God for the
water gushing up in the well, foaming in
the cascade, laughing over the rocks,
pattering in the shower, clapping its
hands in the sea- Who thinks to thank
God for that? Who thinks to thank God
for the air, the fountain of life. the bridge
of sunbeams, the path of sound, the great
fan on a hot summer day. Who thinks
to thank God for this wonderful physi
cal organism, this sweep of vision, this
chime of harmony struck into the ear,
this crimson tide rolling through arteries
, and veins, this drumming of the heart on
the march of immortality!
convict myself. and | convict every
one Of you while l say these things, thai
we are unappreciative of these common
/ mercies of life. And yet if they were
Z Withdrawn, the heavens would withhold
I their rain and the earth would cracB
open under our feet and famine and desc
lation and sickness, and woe would stalk
across the earth, and the whole earti
: would become a place of skulls
o, my friends! let us wake up to an APP
probation of the common mercies of life
, Let every day be a Sabbath every meal &
sacrament, every room a holy of holes
We all have burdens to bear; let us cheer
r fully bear them. We all have battles tC
e fight; let us cOurageously fight them
I If we want to die right, we must liv,
right, You go home and attend to YOU
, little sphere of duties. will go home au(
) attend to my little sphere of duties You
+ cannot do my work ] cannot do YOU
: work Negligence and Incidence will wiz
the hiss Of everlasting scorn, while faith
fitness will gather its garands. and wav,
, its sceptre, aud sit upon its throne Ions
after the world has put on ashes and eter
: nal ages have begun their march
, LAMONT'S ASSISTANT.