Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-02-08
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we saw others with obiterated vision.
Alas. that only through the privation
of others We came to 4 realization of
our own blessing! If You had harp in
hand and swept all the strings Of graft
tude, you would have struck this, which
is one Of the most dulcet OF the ten
strings.
Further, notice how many pass through
life in silence because the ear refuses TO
do its office. They never hear music, vo-
cal or Instrumental The thunder that
rolls its full diapason through the heav-
ems does not startle the prolonged 81;
lence The air that has for MS so many
melodies has no sweet sound for them.
! They live in quietude that will not be
broken until heaven breaks in upon them
with its harmouics. The bird voices of
the springtime, the chatter Of the chill
dren, the sublime chant OF the sea. the
| solo of the cantatrice and the melody
of the great worshiping assemblies mean
/ nothing TO them. Have we devoutly
| thanked God for these two wonders Of
our hearing, with which we can now put
ourselves under the charm of sweet sound
and also carry in our memories the N
| fantilc song with which our mothers put
us TO sleep, and the voices of the great
| prma donnas like Lind and Patti and
| Nelson, and the sound of Instruments
( like the violin OF the Swedish performer,
or the cornet of Arbuckle, or the might
! lest of all Instruments. with the hand of
| Morgan on the keys and his foot on he
! pedal, or some Sabbath tune ike "Coro-
nation" in the acclaim of which you
could hear the crowns Of heaven coming
Ia. Of q
| have never thanked God for this hearing
| apparatus Of the soul. That is one of
| the ten strings of gratitude that we ought
always to thrum after hearing the voice
of a loved one ar the last strain Of an
oratorio or the Chang of 4 cathedral tow
! er.
| Further there are many who never rec
ognize how much God gives them when
he gives them sleep. Insomnia is ca
lamity wider known i'll our land than IN
any other. BY midifc vast multitudes
have their nerves so ovcrwrought that
slumber has TO be coaxed. and many are
the victims OF choral and morphine.
SleeplesSness is an American disorder. II
it has not touched YOU and you can rest
for seven or eight hours without waking
if for that length OF time in every
! twenty -four hours you can be free Of all
| care and wcrrimcnt and your nerves are
returned and your limbs escape from all
| fatigue and the rising sun finds you a
new man, body. mind and soul-you have
an advantage that ought to be put in
prayer and song and congratulation
Sleep is a gratuity from him who never
sleeps Oh the felicites of snmber!
Let all who have this real benefaction
celebrate it. That is one Of the sweet
est strings ia all the instrument Of zen
strings
Further, let us gratefully acknowledge
the power of physical locomotion 70 be
able to go where We wish and all unaid-
ed-what a kndnessi What multitudes
| have to call in the aid Of cane and crutch
aud inva!id's chair and their whole life
| is Il Underwent, How hard 10 get about
with lack OF strong and healthy and sup
| pie limbs, Congratulated ought you all
to be IL yon have the usual physical en-
! dowmcnt, and Sympathized with ought
all those TO be who can neither walk nor
climb nor enter upon any great activi-
| ties. That is one of the thousands OF
reasons why hate war with a complete
hatred. Ii takes off with bullet or shell
or surgeons knife the capacity Of men to
achieve their own livelihood or do the
work for which they would otherwise
De fully qualified. Brave men. self-sac.
rifcing men, for the rest OF their life are
put on the limits and strangely suffer in
stormy weather from limbs amputated.
Give Thanks for Sound Limbs.
! How much OF the human family in cv-
! cry century has been cut up and shot
to pieces and passed into mutilation!
| American manhood had hardly recovered
| from the decorations Of the war Of the
Revolution when il was called TO be cary
ed by the swords aud stabbed with the
/ bayonets and blackcncd with the gun
| powder Of 1872. Hardly recovered was
unr American manhood from that when
he war with Mexico began its butcherv.
Hardly was American manhood recover
ed from that before the Civil War took
hold Of it and dug its grave trench
through the North and its grave trench
through the South. Hardly was our
American manhood recovered from that
when the Spanish war came. with ifs
malaria and crowded hospitals. Thank
God that now four Of the greatest ma
tions are allied in good understanding
the United States. England, Germany
and Russa~-and If they viii de- the right
thing they can forever stop national and
international strife and put an end 10
wholesale amputaton. There are enough
accidents in time OF peace to keep the
race mutilatcd more than II ever oughr
to be, and the human family needs all
it's arms ana hands and feet to do the
work that God calls ii TO do.
Further, celebrate on the instrument Of
ten strings our ilumined nights They
spread their tents over MS, and some OF
US hardly 90 out 10 look az them. Oar.
ing the nights other worlds come IN
sight. The author Of my text chmcd the
silver bells in the tower " the midnight
heavens, saying, When | consider he
heavens, the work OF thy fingers: the
moon and the stars, which thou hast or
dained, what is man that thou art mind
full Of him" We thank God for the day;
We ought also to thank him for the night.
Worlds on worlds in sight Of the naked
eye, but more worlds revealed by teIe-
scope. At least one night in his lifetime
every man ouuhf ia 90 into aotroro,,,t..,I