The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-07

you can carry a shining face. Cnarles
Kingsley finely said, IF you wish
your neighbors to see what God Is like.
let them see what He can make you
like" May we hear the words of the
Master, Even so let your light shine
before men, that they may see your
good works. and glorify your Father
who is in heaven"
LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK.
By Bishop William A. Quayle.
In everything give thanks; for this
is the will of God in Christ Jesus con-
corning YOU" Thess.. 5:18.
A good man and great said this:
In everything give thanks" Nobody
but a good and great man could have
said it. The sentiment is like Mount
~Lycabettus from whose top all OF
distorted Greece lies under the eyes
without straining an eyeball. All life
lies at the base of a mount of vision
and of praise like this: I'm everything
give thanks" The fact which Is
meant to be lifted into light at this
moment is that there Is a devotional
element in all things whatsoever. We
say grace before meals, except we be
heather. We should say grace before
labors and battle without or within
and reading of books and taking OF
journeys and husking corn or going
to picnics or a stroll through sun
burnt fields for the sheer love of the
crisp grass under foot and the hot
sky overhead. Blessings lie about us
thick as blades of grass along a green
hillside.
If the giving thanks to people. for
all trivial services be the easy test
of the gentleman or the gentlewoman
much more shall the giving thanks
to God for all sorts of benefits be
good manners toward God. How shall
the %ungrateful toward God think them
selves genteel?
On a radiant day in August, when
the windings of a quiet river are lit
goldenly with the tawny green OF
swamp grasses, which answer to all
winds with weary reluctance, and the
swallow dips with grace unphrasable
to the surface of the stream where my
boat floats, and life is very wonderful
and God is very nigh-why is not that
a good place for devotion? Why should
some d~ull-souled sectary with dull pru-
derry of religion think that reading a
page from Scripture is more godly
than reading this illumined page from
the Scripture of the living God who
has writ in sunlight and laughter and
the flight of birds as certainly as He
has written in the Holy Book?
Are we to think it is more pious to
pray on the cold flags of a dark cathe-
dral than on the sunny floor Of Gods
cathedral of the sky. Really, which
is more accepted will not make long
parley in the heart which devoutly
loves God, the God of every lovely and
every living thing, or such as watch
the out-of-door Christ in His goings
through the meadow lands and across
the winding hills or by the sea where
the fisher boats gather at the gray of
every morning, or through the wheat
fields in the ripening grain. Where He
was at home and at prayer we may
safely be at prayer and at home.
Father, thank thee" says the
Christ; and lin everything give
thanks says His brainest follower.
And for one l will take this advice
and will find provision for devotion in
everything, books. folks, church, labor,
song, tears and cares. And for the
least and the largest to the God and
Father Of our Lord Jesus Christ will
make my alteration for the Christ, my
Saviour and my King.