The age-herald., 1902-02-09

on the rocks of Miletus. once the mighty prosecutor of Saul, afterward the glori- ous evangelist Paul. for three days not able to take a safe step without guid- ance!
 Two Strings of Gratitude.
 Have you ever given thanks for two | eyes-media between the soul inside and | the world outside, media that no one l but the infinite God could create? The eye, the window of our immortal nature, the gate through which all colors march, the picture gallery of the soul, Without the eye this world Is big dungeon. fear that many of us have never given 1 one hearty expression of gratitude for l treasure of sight, the loss of which is 1 the greatest disaster possible unless 1t be l the loss of the mind. Those wondrous seven muscles that turn the eye up or l down, to right or left or around. No one but God could have created the re- tina. If we have ever appreciated what l God did when he gave us two eyes, 1t was when we saw others with oblterated vision. Alas, that only through the priva- l tion of others we came to a realization l of our own blessingl If you had harp in | hand and swept all the strings of grati- tude. you would have struck this which is one Of the most dulcet of the ten l strings.
  l life in silence because the ear refuses to 1 do its office. They never hear music vo- cal or instrumental. The thunder that 1 rolls its full diapason through the heav- 1 ems does not startle the prolonged silence. l The air that has for us so many melodies has no sweet sound for them. They live , in a quietude that will not be broken until heaven breaks in upon them with it's harmones. The bird voices of the l ha cha of hP children. the sublime chant of the sea, the solo of the cantatrice and the melody of the great worshiping assemblies mean noth- ing to them. Have we devoutly thanked God for these two wonders of our hear ing, with which can now put our selves under the charm of sweet sound and also carry In our memories the infan
 tile song with which our mothers put us to sleep, and the voices of the great prima donnas like Lind and Patti and Nelson, and the sound of instruments like the violin of the Swedish performer, or the cornet of Arbuckle. the mightiest of all instruments, with the hand of Nor gan on the keys and his foot on the pedal or some Sabbath tune like "Coro- nation" in the acclaim of which you could hear the crowns of heavens coming down at the feet of Jesus? Many of have never thanked God for this hearing apparatus of soul That Is one Of the ten strings of gratitude that we ought always to thrum after hearing the voice of a loved one or the last strain of an oratorio or the clang of cathedral tower.
 Further there are many who never rec ognize how much God gives them when he gives them sleep. Insomnia is a ca l lamity wider known in our land than in | any other. By mdlife vast mutitudes | have their nerves overwrought that l slumber has to be coaxed, and many are the victims of choral and morphine Sleeplessness is an American disorder. Il it has not touched you and you can rest for seven or eight hours without waking if for that length of time in every twen- ty-four hours you can be free of all care and worriment and your nerves are return 1 ed and your limbs escape from all fa- tigue, and the rising sun finds you new man, body, mind and soul-you have an advantage that ought to be put in prayer and song and congratulation. The French financier, almost wealthy enough to pur-
 chase a kingdom. but the victim of in- , somnia. wrote, No slumber to be bought
 in any market" He was right. Sleep is a gratuity from him who never sleeps. , Oh, the felcities of slumber! Let all who . have this real benefaction celebrate it. , That is one of the sweetest strings in all , the instrument of ten strings.
 ! | Y , the power of physical locomotion. To be able to go where we wish and all aided-what kindness What multitudes
 have to call in the aid of cane and crutch and inValid's chair, and their whole life . Is indictment! How hard to get about with lack of strong and healthy and sup pie limbs. Congratulated ought you all
 to be if you have the usual physical en-
 dowment and sympathized with ought all
 thGG fn ha xxrhA aff 1ly climb nor enter upon any great activities. That is one of the thousand reasons why
 l hate war with complete hatred. It
 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 be fully qualified.
 Brave men, self sacrificing 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 every century has been cut up and shot to pieces and passed into mutilaton! Am
 erican manhood had hardly recovered
 from the decorations of the war of the revolution when it was called to be carved
 by the swords and stabbed with the bayo-
 nets and blackened with the gunpowder
 of 1872. Hardly recovered was our Am
 erican manhood from that when the war
 with Mexico began its butchery. Hardly
 was American manhood recovered from
 that before the civil war took hold of 1t
 and dug its grave trench through the
 North and its grave trench through the
 South. Hardly was our American man. hood recovered from that when the Span- ish war came, with it's malaria and crowded hospitals. Thank God that now four of the greatest nations are allied in good understanding-the United States England. Germany and Russia-and if they will do the right thing they can forever stop national and international strife, and put an end to wholesale am- putation. There are enough to be, and the human family needs all it's arms and hands and feet to do the work that God calls it to do.
 Furt her celebrate on the instrument of ten strings illumined nights. They | spread their tents over us and some of us hardly go out to look at them. During | the nights other worlds come in sight The author of my text chmed the silver | bells in the tower of the midnight heav- | ems, saying, When I consider the heav- l ems, the work of thy fingers; the moon l and the stars. which thou hast ordained, l what is man that thou art mindful of him?" We thank God for the day; we l ought also to thank him for the night. Worlds worlds in sight of the naked l eye, but more worlds revealed by tele- | scope. At least one night in his lifetime tx.fA