The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-04-22

does not 60 TO Troy or to Springfield to do
battling, but he goes there for swords and
muskets. | look upon the church of Christ
and the Sabbath day as only the place and
time where and when we are TO get armed
for Christian conflict. but the battlefield is
on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday.
Now, be careful to let none of those an
noyances go through your soul uuarraimed.
Compel them 10 administer your spiritual
wealth. The scratch Of a sixpenny nail
sometimes produces lockjaw, and the emp
of most in6nitesimal annoyance may
damage You forever. Do not let any an
noyance or perplexity como across your
soul without its making you hetter.
Our National Government did not think
It behttljng TO put tax on pins and a tax
on buckles and a tax on shoes. The indi-
vidual taxes do not amount 20 much. but
in the aggregate 10 millions and millions OF
dollars And / would have you. O Chris.
tan man, put high tariff on every annoy
ancc and vexation that comes through vour
soul. This might not amount 20 much in
single cases, but in the aggregate IL would
be great revenue OF spiritual strength and
satisfaction. n bee can suck honey even
out of nettle, and If YOU have the grace
OF God IN your heart you can get sweetness
out of that which would otherwise irri.
tate and annoy. The only way to get prc.
pared for the great troubles OF life is TO
conquer these small troubles
And have to tell you, o Christian men
u you cannot apply the principles of
Christ 5 religion on small scale you will
never be able TO apply them on a large
scale. II 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
owe your soul?
Again, we must bring the religion Of
~ IN
the autumn comes and the harvests are in
and the governors make proc,amations we
assemble in churches and we are very
thankful. But every day ought TO be a
thanksgiving day. We do not recognize
the common mercies of life. We have to
sec blind man led by his dog before we
begin 10 bethink ourselves of what a grand
thlng 1t IS TO have undimmed eyesight.
we have to see some wounded man hob
ping on his crutch or with his empty coat
sleeve pinned M before we learn to tr.rI,
what a grand thing God did for us when He
gave us healthy use OF our limbs We are
so stupid that nothing but the misfortunes
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 up
the worm from the furrow. not KNOWING
tnat 1t 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 sci.
dom th9nIing' or, If thanking at all, with
only half q heart.
] compared our Indifference TO the brute.
but pc ,haps | wronged the brute / do not
know but that, among its other instincts.
IL may have an instinct by which IL recog-
n'zes the divine hand that feeds it. | do
not know but that God is, through it.
!noiuinS communication with what we call
irrational creation" The COW that stands
under the willow by the watercourse chew
ing ITS cud looks very thankful and who
can tell how much a bird means bv its
song! The aroma of the flowers smells like
incense. and the mist arising from the river
looks hike the smoke of a morning sacrifice.
Uh' that we were as responsive! Yet who
thanks God for the water that pusbes mn
IN the well, and that foams in the cascade
and that laughs over the rocks, and that
patters IN the showers. and that claps its
hands in the sea? Who thanks God for
the air, the fountain of life. the bridge Of
sunbeams, the path of sound the Great fan
on hot summers day? Who thanks God
Tor tins wonderful physical organism. this
sweep OF the vision, this chime of harmony
struck INTO the ear, this soft tread of a
myriad delights over the nervous Tissue
this rolling of the crimson tide through ar,
terry and vein, this drumming of the heart
on our march to Immortality? We take all
these things as a matter of course
But suppose God should withdraw these
N"iHlioh dressings! our body would be-
come an lnqulsition of torture the cloud
would refuse rain, every green thinq would
crumplc up, and the earth would crack
open under your feet The air would cease
ITS healtnful circulation pestilence would
swoop, and every house would become a
pace OF skulls. Streams would first swim
with vermin and then dry up, and thirst
and hunger and anguish and despair would
lit their sceptres. Oh, compare such n life
as that with the life you live with your
iamiles! is 1T not time that with every
action OF your life we began to acknowi-
eoge these everyday mercies? Whether
we cat or drink or whatsoever We do. do all
to the glory of God" Do 1 address a man
lor a woman who has not rendered to God
one single offering of thanks?
/ was preaching one THANKSGIVING Dav
and announced my teXt-"Oh, give thanks
cY endureth forever" ? do not Know
whether there was amp blessing on tho SER
mon or not, but the text went straight to
young mans heart He said to himself
as read the text: "'Oh. give thanks unto
the Lord, for He is good Why. 1 have
an migrate I have bcenl" Can it be. INV
brother, that YOU have been fed by the
good hand of God all these days, that Won
have had clothing and shelter and all the
pever offered your heart to God? Oh let
'Denehclent surroundings, and yet have
IN everyday blessings melt your heart and
M you have never before uttered one ear
nest note of Thanksgiving let this be the
day which shall hear YOU singl What I
say TO one / say to ALL Take this prac.
teal religion l have recommended into
your everyday life. Make every dav n
sabbath and every meal a sacrament and
every room YOU enter holy of holes we
all have work TO do; let us be willing TO do
II. We all have sorrows to bear: let us
cheertuuy bear them. We all have battles
to night; let us couraSeously fight them. If
you want to die right, YOU must live RIGHT
Negligeass and incidence will win the biss
OF everlasting scorn, while faithfulncss will
gather its garlands and wave it's sceptre
and sit upon its throne long after tbis
earth has put on ashes and eternal ages
have begun their march You go home to.
day and attend 90 your little sphere of DIN.
ties / viii go home and attend to INV M.
Tie sphere of duties Every one in his own
place. So our every step i'm life shall he a
triumphal march, and the humblest foot
stool on which we are called to sit will be
a conqueror's throne
Copyright 1909. L. Klopsch.l 49,
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