Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-25
Eloquent and Uplifting Address Delivered
At Union Service BY Dr.. M,
Lefkovits
PROSE POETRY PROCLAIMED FROM PULPIT
Scholarly Sermon at st. Pauls BY The Rector
Musical Services Appropriate to The Day

gratuitous satire. TO speak OF being
grateful for such iife?"
To my humble thinking. friends,
life Is worth living. despite adversity
and misfortuna. There Is an abun.
dance OF reasons in every mans OK,
istence. why he should fes, profoundly
grateful for the precious boon, Of life.
A few OF these reasons shall, with
your kind Indulgence, set forth In the /
following:
Firstly. my friends. we ought TO
feel grateful to God for having given
us the five senses TO DO able to see.
to hear. to feel. to taste. to smell.
They are the agencies through which
We come In contact with the phenome-
nal manifestations of the outer woriN.
We can see. and wonderful things
we can see. We can see the spacious
armament ON high. the darkly. deep
ly, beautifully blue sky We can see
Its glorious lamp. the radiant SUM-
see him rs he salutes tne morn and
begins his golden progress IN the east,
+, and see him as he stands, at mid
night. bloodred on the mountains OF
the north. We can see those heaven.
~ images OF love, the forget-menots
of the angels.--the sparkling stars.
And we can SEQ the chaste. palid-
faced, silverfooted queen. the moon.
Turning our eyes downwards. we
can see the splendid earth. with its
broad. swelling streams, its valleys
luxuriant with corn and vine, Its hills
rich with blossomed trees, its woods
crowded with mysteries and miracles.
and its mountains great and lofty,
their submits kissing high heaven.
All this We can see, and we should
feel sincerely thankful for It,
And we can hear We can hear the
murmuring Of the brook and the roar
ing Of tho torrent; the whispers Of
j the leaves and the crnsning OF the
thunder! the aplashing Of the rain and
the raging Of the tornado. We can
hear the whistling Of the bird, tho
/ singing of the nightingale. the music
of the spheres.and the sublime compU-
sitions Of Mendelssohn or Deetho-
ven. Aye, We can hear the Innocent
hahbling Of the babe and the wise
counsel OF the aged, and We can hear
the earnest protestations of friend
ahip and the sweet accent or love-.
| All this we can hear. and grateful. In.
deed, should We show ourselves for
50 precious gift
And we can feel, We can feel tho
thrill of the great heart OF nature. We
can feel the ectasy. OF spr.ng, the Sc
fenlty uf summer, the melancholy or
autumn, the silence or winter. We
can feel the rapture Of the bud as It
unfolds into the radiant flower, and
the sadness Of the leaf as II withers
into nothingness We can feel the
bliss OF the babe In It's mothers arms,
and we can feel the hopeYu,ness OF the
aged In the near embrace OF death.
We can feel sympathelicaliy with the
enslaved, and joyously with tho free.
We can feel sorry for the wcaN and
unfortunate. and JOY for the strong
and victorious -All this wo are able
i to feel, l,--and should We not praise Goa
for Il?
And we can smell the fragrance Of
the flower. the ingratiating aroma Of
lthe daisy and violet. she hold odor Of
the rose. the intoxicating scent Of the
iasmine.-And we can taste luscious
fruit, and experience an exquisite
thrill OF delight. We can taste the
many and various delicacies which
God has created for the delectasion Of
his children.
However. then, hollow-eyed pessi.
mism may feel about Il. We who be-
lieve In the essential goodness Of life,
We have reason to rejoice In this won,
, derful world of sky and earth river
and sea--valley and wood hill
and mountain. tree and row.
er. and al growing and beautiful
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