Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-01

to your spiritual wealth. Do not 1e,
any annoyance or perplexity come
across your soul without it's making
you better
Our national government did not
think it belittling to put a tax on pins
and tax on buckles and tax on
shoes. The individual taxes do not
amount to much, but in the aggregate
to millions and millions of dollars. And
l would have you, o Christian man,
put a high tariff on every annoyance
and vexation that comes through your
SOUL This might not amount to much
in single cases, but in the aggregate it
would be great revenue of spiritual
strength and satisfaction. And 1 have
to tell you, o Christian men, if you
cannot apply the principles of Christ's
religion on small scale you will never
be able to apply them on large scale.
If you cannot contend successfully
against these small SORROWS that come
down single handed, what will you do
when the greater disasters of life come
down with laundering 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
proclamatiOnS we assemble in churches
and we are very thankful. But every
day ought to be a thanksgiving day.
We do not recognize the common mer-
cies of life. We are so stupid that
nothing but the misfortune of others
can rouse us up to our blessings. As
the OK grazes in the pasture up to its
eye in clover, yet never thinking who
makes the clover, and as the bird picks
knowing that it is God who makes
everything, from the animalcule in the
sod to the seraph on the throne, so we
go on eating, drinking and enjoying.
but never thanking, or seldom thank
ing, or, if thanking at all, with only
half a heart.
1 compared our indifference to the
brute, but perhaps 1 wronged the
| brute. / do not know but that, among
| it's other instincts, it may have an in
| stinct by which it recognizes the divine
| hand that feeds it. / do not know but
| that God is, through it, holding COM
munication with what we call IRA
tional creation The COW that stands
under the willow by the watercourse.
| chewing its cud, looks very thankful,
| and who can tell how much a 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. oh.
that we were as responsive. Yet who
thanks. God for the air, the fountain
| of life the ridge of sunbeams, the
| path of sound, the great fan on hot
| summers day? Who thanks God for
this wonderful physical organism, this
sweep of the vision, this chime of har-
| mony struck into the ear, this soft
| tread of a myriad delights over the
nervous tissue, this rolling of the Grim
son tide through artery and vein, this
drumming of the heart on our march
to Immortality? We take all these
things as matter of course.
But suppose God should withdraw
these common blessings, Your body
would become an inquisition 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 its
healthful circulation, pestilence would
swoop, and every house would become
place of skulls. Streams would frs
swim with vermin and then dry up
and thirst and hunger and anguish ant
despair would lift their scepters. Oh
compare such life as that with the
I ilIC yOu lfO Will yOuI ldnul1cS.
it not time that, with every word o
: our lips and with every action of oul
life we began to acknowledge thes,
everyday mercies?
, 1 was preaching one Thanksgivin,
day and announced my text, s"Oh
! give thanks unto the Lord, for he i
| good, for his mercy endureth forever.
1 do not know whether there was an,
blessing on the sermon or not but tn
text went straight to a young man
. heart He said to himself as 1 rea,
the text: '-Oh, give thanks unto tn
: Lord, for he is good"-Why, L hav
. never rendered him any thanks. oh
what an migrate 1 have beeni' Can
be, my brother. that you have been fe
9 by the good hand of God all thes
| days, that you have had clothing an
@ shelter and all the beneficent surround
r ings and yet have never offered you
o heart to God? Oh. let sense of tn
!, | divine goodness shown you in every
: | day blessings melt your heart and
n you have never before uttered ON
earnest note of thanksgiving let thi
! be the day which shall hear your song
: What / say to one 1 say to ALL Max
o every day Sabbath and every mea
: a sacrament and every room you ente
. | a holy of hoIies We all have work t
r do: let us be willing to do it We a.
, have sorrows to bear; let us cheer
fully hear them We all have ba tiles r