Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-12-03

Day-Let All the Creatures of the
Earth Praise the Lord.
BROOKLYN, Nov. DIR Talmagc's SER
mon this morning had II distinctly Thanks
giving character. The appearance of the
Tabernacle was in keeping with it. The
specimens Of fruits and harvest products
with which the pulpit and galleries were
decorated for the Thanksgiving day scrv-
ice were still in their places. Cotton, rice,
wheat, sugar cane, rye, oats corn and
fruits, and products from north, SCUM,
east and west put before the audience rs
by an object lesson the abundance OF the
national harvest Tue doctors text was
taken from Psalm cXlviii, 10, II and 49,
Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things and
flying fowl: both young men, and madens;
old men, and children: let them praise the
name of the Lord. D."
What Il scene it was when last Thursday,
at the call of the president and governors,
this nation assembled to chant the praises
of God But the day was too short to cele-
brate the divine goodness of sucn year
The sun did not rise over Brooklyn until
one minute before seven O'Clock that morn
ing and it set four o'clock and thirty five
minutes hat evening. What "A small space
of time in which to mediate upon twelve
ElOnths of benefaCtiOns. So | add to that
day this Sabbath morning service, and
with the fruits and harvests of the earth
still clarifying the pulpit and the galleries,
ask you to continue the rehearsal of the
divine goodness.
By Il sublime egotism man has come to
appropriate this world to himself, when
the fact is that our race is i'll small mi
nOrty. The instances of human life us
com pared with the instances of animal life,
are not one to million. We shall enlarge
our ideas of Gods goodness and come to a
better understanding of the text if, before
we come to look at the cup of our blessing,
we look at the goodness OF God to the IRA
tioual creation.
a LOOK AT THE LOWER ORDERS.
Although nature is out of joint, yet even
in its disruption ! am surprised to find he
almost universal happiness of the animal
creation. On Il summer day, when the air
and the grass are most populous with lite
you will not hear sound of distress I'M
less, perchance, Il heartless schoolboy has
robbed a birds nest, or a hunter has
broken a birds wing, or a pasture has
been robbed OF a lamb and there goes up a
bleating from the locks.
The whole earth is filled with animal de-
light-ioy feathcred and scaled ami horned
and hoofed The bee huns it; the frog
cTuHks it: the squirrel chatters it, the quail
whistles it; the lark carols it; the whale
spo,It. if. The snail. the rhinoceroe. the
prjzyly boar. the toad. the WASP. the .u;,jar.
the .Lcllfi,h have their bomelv dclilhts-
low as treat to them as our ioy !. TO us.
Coat climbing the rocks: anaconda crawl.
iuu tLrou,.h the iunrle. bufraIo nluupiuo
across the prairie; crocodile haskinS in
tropical sun; seal putting on the ice; ostrich
stridiu.s across / he desert are so many
bun1le. of iov. they do not 90 moniu., or
melancholy. thc,. are not only half SIM.
pli.l. GOD saws thav are filled with good
'yhr worm so,lirnijugtbroupit fine sod nm.
turuel Of nlov.share and the mrs rucLino
no and down the billock are hapDy bv duy
and hanpv by niuht Take nm = dron of
water under The micros,one and Won find
that within it there are millions of crea.
lures that swim in IA halleluiah OF clad.
ness. The sounds in nature t!.nt are re.
pulsive TO ourcars are often only utterances
of iov-the growl. the croak. the bark, the
howl. The good God made these creatures
thinks of them ever and will not let a