A CHEERFUL SPIRIT
Dr. Talmage Says Is Causes for Thasks.
giving That Are Seldom Recoguaized
a
Remember the Daily Blessings — Comlorts
of Friendship.
WasHixagtTon, D. C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmags calls attention to causes of
thanksgiving that are celdom recognized,
and shows how to cultivate a cheerful
spirit; test, Psalms xxxiii, 2, "Sing unto
him with a psaltery and an instrument of
ten strings.”
musician as well as poet and con-
gueror and king was Dawid, the author
of my text. He first composed the sacred
rhythm and then played it upon a harp,
striking and plucking the strings with his
fingers and thumbs. The harp is the old-
est of musical instruments. Jubal invent.
ed it, and he was the seventh descendant
from Adam. Its music was suggested by
the twang of the bowstring. Br ro-
fers to the harp in the “Iliad.” It is the
most conseoweted of all instruments. The
flute is more mellow, the bugle more mar-
tial, the cornet more incisive, the trumpet
morg resonant, the organ more mighty, but
the arp has a tenderness and sweetness
belonging to no other instrument that 1
know of. It caters into the richest sym-
bolism of the Holy Scriptures. The cap
tives in their sadness “hung their harps
upon the willows.” In other ages it had
eight strings. David's harp had ten
strings, and when his great soul was afire
with the theme his sympathetic voice, ac-
companied by exquisite vibration of th
cherds, must have been overpowering
With as many things to complain about
as any man ever had David wrote more
anthems than any other man ever wrote
He puts even the frosts and hailstorms
and tempests and creeping things and fly-
ing fowl and the mountains and the hills
and day and night into a chorus. Absa.
lom’s plotting and Ahithophel’s treachery
and hosts of antagonists and sicepless
nights and a running sore could not hush
his pscimody. Indeed, the more his trou-
bles the mightier his sacred poems. The
words “praise” and “song” are so often
repeated in his psalms that one would
think the typesetter’s case contaiming the
letters with which those words are spelied
would be exhausted.
In my text David calls upon the p
to praise the Lord with an instrument of
ten strings, like that which he was accus-
tomed to finger. The simnple fact 1s that
the most of us, if we praise the Lord at
all, play upon one string or two strings or
three strings when we ought to take a harp
fully chorded and with glad fingers sweep
all the strings. Instead of being grateful
for here and there a blessing we hapi
to think of, we ought to rehearse all our
blessings so far as we can recall them and
obey the injunction of my text to
unto Him wilh an imstrument
strings.
Have vou ever thanked God for delight
some food? What vast multitudes are a
hunge-ed from day to day
to take food not toothsome or pleasant to
the taste! What millions are in struggl
for bread! A Confederate soldier we
the front. and family
verge of starvation, but they were ke
by the faith of child of that
who, noticing that some supply wa
come, excla med, “‘Motl i
hears when we scrape the
barrel.”
Have yo
most of yo
not come to all?
nle
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wn
or are ob iged
his
were
bottom of
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do
appreciate fact that
tables are luxuries
Fave 3 realized w
varieties of flavor often touch your tongue
and how the ssecharin and the acid bh
been afforded your palate? What
what nuts, what meats regale you
tite, while many would be glad to get
crusts and rinds elings that
from your table
For the fine flavors and the
viands you have enjoved for a hi
haps yon have never cspresse
word of thanksgiving. That is
ten “trings you ought
thrummed in praise to God, but 3
never vet in vibrat
Have vou thanked
onginally given ¢ y 2
dimmed by age, for tl lass that bs
the page of the book within the com
of the vision? Have vou realized the pri
vation those suffer to whom the day is az
black as the night and who never see the
face of father or mother or wife or child or
friend? Through what painful surgery
many have gone to get one glimpse of the
light! The eve so delicate and beautiful
and useful that one of them is invaluable!
And most of us have two of these won
ders of divine mechanism. The man of
millions of dollars who recently went blind
from atrophy of optic nerve would
been willing to give all his millions and be-
come a day laborer if he could have kept
off the blinduess that gradually crept over
his vision.
You may have noticed how Christ's sym
pathies were stirred for the blind. Oph.
thalmia has always been prevalent in Pal
estine, the custom of sleeping on the house
tops, exposed to the dew and the flyin
dust of the dry season, inviting this dread-
ful disorder.” A large perrentage of the in-
habitants could not tell the difference be
tween 12 o'clock at noon and 12 o'clock at
Hight. We are told of six of Christ's mir
acles for the cure of these sightlesa ones,
but I suppose they were only specimens of
hundreds of restored visions
What a pitiful spectacle Saul of Tarsus,
mighty man, three days led about in phys
ical as well a= spiritual darkness, he who
afterward made Felix tremble by his elo-
quence and awed the Athenian philoso
hers on Mars Hill and was the only cool
eaded man in the Alezandria corn ship
that went to pieces on the rocks of Mile.
tus, once ‘he mighty persecutor of Saul,
afterward the gloriovs evangelist Paul, for
three days not able to take a safe step
without gnidance!
Have you ever given thanks for two
s--modia between the soul inside and
the world outside, media that no one but
the infinite God conld create? The eve,
the window of our immortal nature, the
gate through which ail colors march, the
picture gallery of the soul! Without the
this world is a big dungeon. 1 fear
t¢ many of us have never given One
rity expression of gratitude for treasure
of sight, the loss of which is the greatest
disaster possible, unless il be the loss of
the mind. Those wondrous seven muscles
that turn the eye up or down, to right or
ft or around. No one bat God could
ve created the retina. If we have ever
appreciated what God did when He gave
us two eyes it war when we saw others
with obliterated vision.
Alaa, that only through Lhe privation of
others we came to a realization of our own
blessing! If you had harp in hand and
t all the strings of gratitude, you
would have strock this, which is one of
the Fuget dulect of the ten strings,
Fur , notice how many pass through
life in silence because the ear refuses
do its office. They never hear mosic, vo
cal or instrumental. e thunder that
rolls its full diapason through the heav.
ens does not startle the prolonged silence.
The air that has §
has no sweet sound for
a quietude that will not be
heaven breaks in wpon them with its har
ies. The bird voices of the springtime,
chatter of the children, the sublime
the solo of the cantatrice
worshiping as:
hat
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and pe
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nave
mothars put us to sleep and the voices of
the great prima donnas like Lind and Patti
and Neilson, and the sound of instruments
like the violin of the Swedish performer,
or the cornet of Arbuckle, or the mightiest
of all instruments, with the hand of Mor-
gan on the keys and his foot on the pedal,
or some Sabbath tune like “Coronation,”
in the acclaim of which you could hear
the crowns of heaven coming down at the
feet of Jesus? Many of us have never
thanked God for this hearing apparatus
of the soul. That is one of the ten strings
of gratitude that we cught always to
thrum after hearing the voice of the loved
one or the last strain of an oratorio or the
clang of a cathedral tower.
Further, there are many who never rec.
ognize how much God gives them when
He rmives them sleep. Insorania is a calam-
ity wider known in our land than in any
other. By midlifc vast multitudes have
their nerves so overwrought that slumber
hes to be coaxed, and many are the vie
tima of chloral and morphine. Sleepless.
ness is an American disorder. If it has
not touched vou and you can rest for seven
or cight hours without waking—if for that
length of time in every twenty-four hours
vou can be free of all care and worriment
and your nerves are retuned and your
limbs escape from all fatigue and the ris-
ing sun finds you a new man, body, mind
and soul—you have an advantage that
ought to be put in prayer end song and
congratulation.
As long as yon collect vast dividends
and have heaith jocund and popularity un-
bounded you will have crowds of seeming
friends, but let bankruntey and invalid
ism and defamation come, and the num-
ber of your friends will be ninety-five per
cent. of. If you have been through some
great crisis and vou have one friend leit,
thank God and celebrate it on the sweet.
est harpstring.
But we must tighten the cords of our
harp and retune it while we celebrate gos-
pel advantages. The highest style of civ-
lization the world has ever seen is Amer-
ican civilization, and it is built out of the
gospel of pardon and good morals. That
gospel rocked our cradle. and it will epi-
taph our grave. Jt soolhes our sorrows,
brightens our hopes, inspires our courage,
forgives our sins and saves our souls It
takes a man who is all wrong and makes
him all right. What that gospel has done
for you and me is a ctory that we can
never fully tell.
VW hat it has done for the world and will
vet do for the nations it will take the thou.
sand years of the millennium to celebrate,
The grandest churches are yet to be built.
The mightiest anthems are yet to be
hoisted. The greatest victories are vet to
be gained. The most beautiful Madonnas
are yet to be painted. The most trium-
phant processions are yet to march
Oh. what a world this will be when it
rotates in its orbit a redeemed
irdled with taneous harvests and
ched by wards whose fruits are
klees and redundant, and the last pain
| have been banished and the last tear
planet,
a
wet
shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all
(lod’s holy mountain! All that and more
will come to pase, for “the mouth of the
Lord hath spoken it.”
So far I have mentioned nine of the ten
strings of the instrument of gratitude. 1
now come to tenth and the last. |
mention it that may be the more
memorable—heavenly anticipation. By the
race of God we are going to move i
much better than this that o
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the
last
lace 80
ing nder that we were for so
pany years so loath to make the transfer
fter we have seen Christ face to face and
iced © our departed kindred there
re some mighty spirits we will want to
meel coon we pas thr
We want to avd will see David.
mightier king in heaven than he ever was
on: earth, and we will talk with him about
alinody and get from him exactly
hie meant when he talked about the instru.
ment of ten strings. We will confront
Moses, who will tell of the law givin
rocking Sinai and of his
vith no one but God present
th
Lae
ugh
what
mysierious Hu
We will sce Joshua, and he will tell us
f the coming down of the walls of
ho at the blast of the ram's horn and cx
plein to us that miracle- how the sun and
moon could stand still without de
of the planetary system
We will sce Ruth and have
field of Poaz., in which the
gleaned for afflicted Naomi. We will see
Vashti and hear from her own lips the
story of her banishment from the Persian
palace by infamous Abasuerus
We will see and talk with
ne will tell us how he saw Belehazzar's
banqueting Fall turned into a slaughter
house, and how the liojs greeted him with
loviag fawn instead of stroke of cruel paw
We will sce znd talk with Solomon, whose
palaces are cone, but whose inspired epi
grams stand out stronger and stronger as
the centuries pass
We will Paul
how Felix trembled before him and the
audience of skeptics on Mars Hill were
confounded by his sermon on the brother.
hood of ma. what he saw at Ephesus and
Philippi and Rome and how
jark was the Mamertiine dungeon and how
sharp the axe that beheaded him on the
road to Ostia. Yea, we will see all the
martyrs, the victima of axe and sword and
fire and billow. What a thrill of excite.
ment for us when we gaze upon the heroes
and heroines who gave their lives for the
tratn
We will see the gospel proclaimers Chry-
sostom and Beurdalous and Whitefield,
and the Wesleys and John Knox. We
wiil see the great Christian poets, Milton
and Dante and Watts and Mra. Hemens
and Frances Havergal. Yea, all the de-
parted Christian men and women of what
ever age or nation,
But there will be one focus toward
which all eyes will be directed. His in-
fancy having slept on pillow of straw: all
the hates of the Herodic Government plan:
ning for Hix assassingtion; in after time
whipped as though He were a criminal;
asleep on the cold mountains because no
one offered Him a lodging; though the
greatest being who ever touched our earth,
derisively called “thin fellow;” His Jast
hours writhing on spikes of infinite tor.
tare; His lacerated form put in sepualeher,
then reanimated and ascended to be the
centre of all heavenly admiration—npon
that greatest martyr snd mightiest hero
of all the centuries we will be permitied to
look. Put that among your heavenly antic
ipations.
Now take down your harp of ten strings
and sweep all the chords, making all of
them tremble with a great gladness. | have
mentioned just ten—delightsome food, eye.
sight, hearing, healthinl sleep, power of
physical locomotion, illumined nights, men.
tal faculties in equipoise, friendships of
life, gospel advantages and heavenly an-
ticipations. Let us make less complaint
and offer more thanks, render less dirge
and more cantats, Take paper and pen
and write down in long columns your bless
ings. | have recited only ten. To express
all the mercies God has bestowed yon
wonld have to nse at least three, and |
think five, numerals, for surely they would
run up into the hundreds and the thou
sands. “Oh, give thanks unto the Lovd,
for He ix good. for His mervey endureth
forever.” Get into the habit of rehearsal
of the brightuesses of ile.
Notice many move [air days there
are than foul, how many more good pe
than bad you meet. Bet vour misfortunes
to musie, as David opened hin “dark say
ings on a harp.” I it has been low tide
heretofore, let the surges of that
are yet to roll in upon you high
water mark. All things will woik fo.
other for your , and heaven is not
ar ahead. ake up all the ten strings.
Blessing and or and glory and power
be unto Him that 2 iteth upon ihe throne
and unto the Lamb forever. Amen!
Jor
her tell of
Daniel, and
see and hear from him
Syracnes znd
(Copyright, 193, L. Klopseh. |
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