Springtime has come, and as we go out into nature, we receive on
every hand evidences of a new life: the flowers and the trees with their
sweet fragrance and fresh, exuberant verdure: the balmy breezes about
you; the rippling brooklet at your feet; the music of the feathered
concert overhead. All bear testimony, in a language without words, yet
none the less forceful, that spring, the happiest season of the year,
has come, and with it new life and new hopes.
But there is one thing we must not overlook in these our observations
of nature, and that is the thankfulness for this new life that goes up
from all these creatures of nature, animate and inanimate, to God, their
Maker. We can read it in the sweet, blushing petals of the flower, the
merry rippling of the brook, the early morning hymn of praise from the
birds in the thicket. Again, when the hungry throat of the little
nestling is filled by the mouthful of food the mother-bird brings, and
the excited chirping at once ceases, and quite satisfaction takes its
place, can we not again see a thanksgiving to Him who clothes the lilies
of the field, and without whose will no sparrow falls to the earth?
Now, dear reader, there is a lesson to draw from this. You may be a
young man or a young woman, and consequently in the springtime of your
life. And as you have enjoyed to the fullest extent, during these balmy
days, the beauties of nature, you have found your own being throbbing
with new life, and you have been thrilled at the thought of that life’s
possibilities. But have you stopped to ask yourself whether or not you,
like all these creatures of nature, have returned thanks to your Maker
for the new life, hopes and possibilities that are yours? says David.
May that be the lesson that springtime brings us! Sermon by Rev. Carl J. Segerhammer.
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