The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-11-06
FATHER CARTER.

immersion, and being strong In his own
conYietions, earnest and decided In cE-
pressing them, he Influenced others. lie
gathered around him IS disciples men OF
higher cultivation than himself His
preaching would nstouish any city con-
. greeatioa, but il was al least stirring In
( It's character. In the woods and under
/ the giant trees and IN the log school
( houses Of California. where he was bro't
/ into contact with minds as rude aud uu-
/ informed as his own, il was that bis emo
/ tional nature met response aud carried
I his audiences with him. A fayofite ser
mon OF his be called his eagle sermon,
and was from a text in Deuteronomy;
as an eagle stirrelh up her nest ,ltntercth
over her young, spreadeth abroad her
wings, takoth them The writer once
heard II, and Its general tenor isindeibly
/ imprinted on his mind, After long
continued preliminary exercise, he be-
gan:
/ My friends, thar is meuny kinds of
eagles They are singular birds--tbat is,
/ they is quare birds. Thar is the grey
eagle, with white bars on his head; thar
| is the bald eagle ditto, who goes about
4 like roarin' lion seekin what ho may
eat up. Thar is the grand old American
eagle, what nops bis wings and flies over
/ all creation; and | hov hcern tell of
doube-hedder, an Austrian, but never
seed one, and don't believe thar is one
/ though that don't signify, fur some OF
you aus might say you hadn't never seen
God, consequently thar wurn't none.
But thar is nevertheless, notwithsland-
ing fur which.
Now onct knowed an eagle--that is,
/ knowed on him-and her too, fur thar
war two on EN-, big rooster eagle, and
hen eagle. ltwar in the biz mountains
Of Caroliny; and thar they pitched their
tents in tall and towering pne-right
in the top-aud it hung over a deep pre-
cipice, whar it war in danger of being
participated down the precipice when the
| loud winds did roar on Caroliuy's shore
But it warnt fur He calleth his sheep
by name aud they foller him, and the
desert blossoms like rose, and the bar
ren are better than them that bareth
children-neyertheless, Notwithstanding
fur which.
Wal, these here e9ales pitched their
tent in this waste, bowling wilderness,
whar they wur as lonely as solitary
snipe in dog days.
Fust, they got whar there wur two
cross-Ims; then they brought big sticks,
and laid .em carefully round and round
until it begun to look sorter like big
balloon careening to the sky, only it was
on tree; then they put in it littler sticks
and hitler and ltter, till bimeby it war
small and compact like. Then they got
all the wool and down aud moss and soft
| things, and put 'em down into the bottom
and on the sides of its insides, and made
! it smooth and warm and comfortable like
like unto the man that filed his barns,
and told his soul to be easy and take
things natered like--and laid their eggs
! thar--but fur the terrible voice that said
Fool, this night thy shout shall be-that
! is, he wur to die that very night, and all
his nice things wouldn't be emmy more
use to him-though they wurn't hurt,
! fur THAR eggs were hatched and all their
young uns came out with nary a single
feather on hem-Ueyertheless notwith-
standing fnr which.
Wal, these eagles and their young uns
/ lived in their fine home aud had on soft
clothing like John the lmmerser wander
| ing in the wilderness, whar they wur in
kings houses-aud the big uns fed 'em,
as parints feed THAR little uns-though
thar's commandment agin stealing,
which the eagles have to do, but It's THAR
natur-though that don't signify, fur
mans natur is 10 steal sumtimes, aud he's
got TO fife agin that natur; fur when
wud do good, evi is present-and a man
uiu't an eagle bird by chance --neyelthe-
/ less, Notwithstanding fur which,
When the eagles growed up aud he'd
/ feathers that is, when they came to the
age Of couutabiIity, which is expected Of
boys aud girls like--though eagles natur
is diflerent--then the old eagles wanted
them to fly abroad aud mount up on
wings OF eagles, aud jjne the song that
floats around the throne. Aud that's
war the text begins; fur that's the way
the Father up youdcr wants US TO do
when we reach the age Of eouHtsbility--
to fly upward-to fly upward and jine the
band in the narrer way, and pass through
the strait gate. But they didn't like to
leave home and lhair kinred and their
parienis, aud seek country Ike unto
the good old Abraham
Whar, oh whar Is the good old Abraham
Whar, oh whar is the good old Abraham
Whar, oh whar H. the good old Abraham?
safe in the promised land,
The old eagle goes of aud flntttrcth
over her young, and that brings us to the
second pint Of oar discourse She fat
tereth she aops her wings, like unto as
yon have seen hawk just Citing ready
to pouuce down upon poor aeld mouse
though II amt ike that neither, for the
hawk futters in wrath, but the cago
auucrs over her Young uns Ia love
Brethren aud sisters, she fuuer. in lavr
just ike when you see your dear litog
oues a treadiug of the downward path,
aud Your heart hufters and hutlcrs be.
cause your are afraid-and she goes aboye
the nest and b0li0rs squawk which
when you boiler you means 70 ieil EN- 20