Arizona republican., 1921-10-04

might easily be avoided"
 I want to speak of some of the common pleasures of life which God, our loving Father, has placed in our grasp. and which I venture to say most of us possess, and which will bring us happiness and content if we only fully realize them. The rich est and most prosperous man in the world cannot have for his own, any possessions which can give greater pleasure than these simple ones, which most of them at least belong to the great majority of men and women now living in this fortunate and free land of ours.
 There is first the simple, and you smay call it the not very elevating enjoyment of Food, by which our life is sustained. Cardinal Newman has said somewhere in one of his sermons that "the means of sus- taining our life might have been in- different or painful, but they are means of pleasure, and we should therefore praise and bless God for the gift of life. The enjoyment of Food does not depend upon it's rich ness and variety. The man toiling all day long at his hard manual labor gets an enjoyment from the daily bread which he eats, no matter how coarse it is, that the lf-indulgent and idle man can never know" How ihoughtlessly and carelessly we en- joy this rich bounty of God. I do no suppose that there are many. if there be a single person in this congregation this morning, who has ever been hungry and have had no way or means of satisfying their ap- petite sooner or later, and yet how many will sit down to their com i fortable dinner today with their food unblessed and no thought in their
 heart of Gods goodness in providing | their daily bread for them. On the
 contrary, they may make it bitter and unpalat able by finding fault with I the manner in which 1t has been
 cooked.
 l Then there Is Gods goodness shown l to us in the blessing of Sleep No
 matter how hard we have to work with hand or brain, there comes to us every night the rich refreshment of sleep. No matter how heavy and dreadful are the troubles and trials of our life, yet God, in His tender which we can forget them for a 1 large portion of each day. The compensation of life comes in the fact that the hard worker finds in sleep, as in food, the pleasures which Iothers cannot have.
 Then let us think of the enjoy ment that comes through Sight and Sound-these are common and ordi- nary pleasures. but what would be our loss and pain if we were de- l prived Of them. The sound of chill
 dren.s voices and of those whom we love-. The music which in this age ic1 rT1f <r a G< r1 Gods children. The wise. helpful and eloquent words that are spokeH
 in lecture halls and on stage and
 platform, and which are freely oper to so many.
 l Then consider the beauties
 of the world that are uis-
 closed to us through the vision O
 our eyes. Gods wonderful woriS ol
 nature, the starry heavens above srt open to us all and the wonderful
 beauty of the sunset, which seems t.
 bring nearer than anything else thu
 heavenly Jerusalem and the realiz.
 ing sense of the home beyond, ant
 Gods love and care we can all enjoy
 How carelessly we walk along
 Inmindful of the beauty of the flow
 CTS which fill the earth with theil fragrance and beauty. Architectur'
 discolses her charms to us in beau
 tiful churches and stately buildings
 which like the parks of a great city are freely open to all. If those wf1 : are city bred sometimes pity the fat
 of those who, apart from the oppor ltunities and privileges of town lift pass their monotonous life in countr. places. let them still remember God rich law of compensation. and env } them the opening of the spring whel the young trees begin to bud an the spring flowers come, and tn : earth takes on a new beauty, or whe 3 the richness of autumnal tints an t the harvest come, where lake an 5 forest and hillside are seen. an 5 brook and river roll along thei : rhythmic course, or noble and ma 7 jestic mountain peaks. or the eterns g waters of the ever changing spark g ling ocean, or even the vast an l boundless desert, which is the pos