Connecticut western news., 1902-02-06

mind. Those woA-rJrs seven muscIes that turn the eye up or down, to right or left CT around. No one but God could have created the retina. If We have ever appreciated what God diu when he gave us two eyes, 1t was when we saw others with obliterated vision. Alas, that only through the priva tion of others we came to realization of our own blessing. If you had harp in hand and swept all the strings of grat- itude, 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, vocal or instrumental. The thunder that rolls its full diapason through the heavens does not startle the prolonged silence. The air that has for us so many melodies has no sweet sound for them. They live in quietude that will not be broken-nntil heaven breaks in upon them with its harmonies. The bird voices of the springtime, the chatter Of the children, 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 infantile 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, or the mightiest of all in struments, with the hand of Morgan on the keys and his foot on the pedal, or some Sabbath tune like Corona tion," in the acclaim of which you could hear the crowns of heaven com of us have never thanked God for this hearing apparatus of the soul. That Is one of the tea strings of gratitude that we ought always to thrum after hear ing the voice of a loved one or the last strain of an orntorio or the elang of & cathedral tower.
 Further, there are many who never recognize how much God gives them when he gives them sleep. Insomnia is calamity wider known in our land than in any other. By midlife vast multitudes have their nerves so over wrought that slumber has to be coaxed, and many are the victims of chloral and morphine. Sleeplessness is an American disorder. If 1t has not touch ed 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 te free of all care and worriment and your nerves are retuned 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. The French flnancier, almost wealthy enough to purchase kingdom, but the victim of insomnia, wrote. ''No slumber to be bought in any market" He was right. Sleep is a gratuity from him who never sleeps. Oh, the fehcities of slunber! Let all who have this real benefactio1 celebrate 1t. That Is one of the sweetest strings in all the instru- ment of ten strings.
 Further, let us gratefully acknowl- edge the power of physical locomotion. To be able to go where we wish and all unaided-what kindness! What null fffudoo ho ,-o &a col iY, tho ai5 oF oono and crutch and invaltd's chair, and their whcle life is a indictment, How hard to get about with lack of strong and healthy and supple limbs! Con- graduated ought you all to be if you have the usual physical endowment, and sympathized with ought all those to be who can neither walk nor climb nor enter upon any great activities. That Is one of the thousands of reasons why hate war with complete hatred. It takes off with bullet or shell or rur- geou's knife the capacity of men TO achieve their own livelihood or do the work for which they would otherwiue be fully qualified. Brave men, self sacrificing men, for the rest of their life are put on the limits and strangely y 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 mutila- tion! American 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 bayonets and black ened with the gunpowder of 1872. Hardly recovered was our American manhood from th:lt when the war with Mexico began ihI butchery. Hardly was American manhood recovered from that before the civil war took hold of it and dug its grave trench through the north and it's grave trench through the south. Hardly was our American manhood recovered from that when the Spanish war came, with its malaria and crowded hospitals. Thank God that now four ot the great est nations are allied in good under standing-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 amputa- tion- There are enough accidents in time of peace to keep the race mutilat- ed more than 1t ever ought to be, and the human family needs all its arms and hands and feet to do the work that God calls 1t to do.
 Further, celebrate on the instrument of ten strings our illumined nights. They spread their tents over us, and come of us hardly go out to look at them. During the nights other worlds come in sight. The author of my text chimed the silver bells in the tower of the midnight heavens, saying, When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of himT' We thank God fer the day; we ought also