Connecticut western news., 1891-12-03
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
LET THE PEOPLE PRAISE THE
 NAME OF THE LORD.

Dr. Talmage's Sunday Sermon-He Calls
 the Attention of His Hearers to the
 Bountiful Harvests of 1s01-Thanks-
 giving Decorations Still in Place.
 BROOKLYN, Nov 29.-Dr. Tahnages sermon this morning had distinctly Thanksgiving character The appear ance 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 service were still in their places. Cotton, rice, wheat, sugar cane, rye, oats, corn and fruits, and products from north, south, east and west, put before the audience as P by an object lesson the abundance of the national harvest. The doctors text was takenfrom Psalm cxlviii, 10, 12 and 13, Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things and flying fowl: both young men, and naidens; old men, and children, let them praise the name of the Lord" :"
 What a scene it was when last Thurs day, at the call of the president and governors, this nation assembled to chant the praises of God. But the day was too short to celebrate the divine goodness of such year. The sun did not rise over Brooklyn until one minute before seven o'clock that morning, and it set four o'clock and thirty five minutes that evening. What small space of time ill which to med itate upon twelve months of benefac- tions! So add to that day this Sab bath morning service, and with the fruits and harvests of the earth still glorifying the pulpit and the galleries ask you to continue the rehearsal of the divine goodness.
 By sublime egotism man has come to appropriate this world to himself, when the fact is that our race is in a small minority. The instances of hu man life as compared with the in stances of animal life are not one to a 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 bless ing, we look at the goodness of God to the irrational creation.
 HAPPINESS OF THE ANIMALS. Although nature is out of joint, yet even in it's disruption am surprised to find the almost universal happiness of the animal creation. On summer day when the air and the grass are most populous with life. you will not hear a sound of distress unless, perchance, a heartless schoolboy has robbed a bird 8 nest, or hunter has broken bird s wing, or a pasture has been robbed of lamb, and there goes up a bleating from the tiocks.
 The whole earth is filled with animal delight-joy feathered and scaled and horned and hoofed. The bee huns it., the frog croaks it, the squirrel chatters it, the quail whistles it. the lark carols l it, the whale spouts it. The snail, the ,hinoceros, the grizzly bear, the toad, I the wasp, the spider, the shellfish have their homely delights-joy as great to 1 them as our joy is to us. Goat climb 1 ing the rocks. anaconda crawling through the jungle, buffalo plunging across the prairie. crocodile basking in tropical sun, seal putfing on the ice, | ostrich striding across the desert are SO many bundles of joy; they do not go moping or melancholy; they are not only half supplied; God says they are filled with good.
 The worm squirning through the sod upturned of plowshare and the ants racing up and down the hillock are happy by dly and happy by night. Take up drop of water under the mi croscope and you find that within it there are millions of creatures that swim in hallelujah of gladness. The sounds in nature that are repulsive tc our ears are often only utterances o1 joy-the growl, the croak, the bark. the howl. The good God made these creatures, thinks of them ever and will not let a plowshare turn up a mole's nest or fisherman's hook transfix a worm until, by eternal decree, it's time has come. Gods hand feeds all these broods, and shepherds all these flocks, and tends all these herds.
 He sweetens the clover top for the ox's taste, and pours out crystalline waters in messed cups of rock for the hind to drink out of on his way dowE the crags, and pours nectar into the cup of the honeysuckle to refresh the humming bird, and spreads a banque1 of hundred fields of buckwheat an6 lets the honey bee put his mouth to an. cup of all the banquet. and tells the grasshoppe5 to go anywhere he likes and gives the tlocks of heaven the choice of all the grain fields The sea anem one, half animal, half flower clingine to the rock in midocean. with it's ten tacles spread to catch it's food, has the owner of the universe to provide for it We are repulsed at the hideousness O. the elephant, but God, for the co1nfor and convenience of the monster, puts forty thousand distinct muscles in it! proboscis.
 THERE IS LIFE EVERYWHERE.
 go down on the barren seashort and say. No animal can live in thi place of desolation," but all throngf the sands are myriads of little insect that leap with happy life. I go dowr by the marsh and say, ''tn this daml place and in tiiese loathsolne pools O stagnant water there will be the quiet ness of death, but To! see the turtle on the rotten log summing themselye and hear the boGs quake with multi tudinous life When the untledget
 robins are hungry, God shows the ol'
 robin where she can get food to pu
 into their open mouths.
 Winter is not allowed to come unti the ants have granaried their harves and the squirrels have filled their celia
 with nuts God shows the hungry ich