The Forrest City times., 1891-12-04
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
pR. TALMACE BREACHES ON
 THANKSGIVING.
America O6srs the Grandcst Spectacle in All the Worlds History-A Race
 ss Kings that win Reign for . Year.

sermon this morning had a distinctly Thanks giving character. The sppcarance of the mems of fruits and harvest products with which the pulpit and galleries were decorated for the Thanksgiving day services were still in their places. Cotton. rice, wheat, sugar-cane, rye, oats, corn. and fruits and products from the North, South. East and West put before the audience as by an onlect lesson the abundance taken from Psalm ifs: 10, le and f3: Beast and all eattie; creeping things and flying fowl: both young men and naidens. old men and children: let them praise the name of the Lord"
 What scene it was when last Thursday ss the call of the President and Governors, this nation assembled to chant the praised of God But the day was toc short 10 celebrate the Divine goodness Of such year. The sun did not rise over Brooklyn until one minute before clock that morning, and ft set o'clock and thirty five minutes that evening What small spacc Of time In which to mediate upon twelve months of benefacfions. So add to that day nruiss and harvests of the earth sfin giorifying the pulpit and the galleries. ask you to continue the rehearsal of the Divine goodness.
 By sublime egotism man has come to appro- priate this world to himself, when the fact is that our race is in small minority. The in stances of human life, as compared with the in- stances of animal life, are not one to million. We shall enlarge our ideas of Gods goodness and come to . better understanding of the text if, before we come 10 look at the cup of our blessing. we look at the goodness of God to the irrational creation
 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 sif and the grass are most populous with life. you will not hear sound of distress unless. perchance, heartless school-boy has robbed birds nest, or a hunter has broken birds wing. or pasture has been robbed of lamb, and there goes up bleating from the noeks- The whole earth is filled with ana Sd sooes The Ses huns it; the frog croaks it. the squirrel chatters 1t; the quail whistles 1t; the lark carols 1t; the whale sp9uts I; The snail, wasp, the spider, the sheli-fsh. have their homely deiirhts-joy as great to them as our joy is to us. Goat climbing the rocks; anacon- da crawling through the jungle; buffalo plung- ing across the prairie crocodile basking in tropical sun; seal puring on the ice: ostrich strtding 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 squirming through the sed up turned of plowshare, and the ants racing up and down the hillock, are happy by day and happy by night Take up drop of water un- der the microscope. and you find that within it hallelutah of giadness The sounds in nature thnt are repulsive to our ears are often only ut teranccs of ioy-the g-owl, the croak, the these creatures thinks of them ever, and will not let ploughshare turn up moie's nest, or hsherman's hook transfix worm, until by tttru3l UecTSc, ltS tlLDe mas come. trCd 5 0dud feeds all these broods, and shepherds all these focks, and tends all these herds He sweetens the clover-top for the oxen's taste; and pours out crystalline waters, in messed cups of rock, for the hind to drink out of on his way down the crags, and pours nectar into the cup of the honeysuckie to refresh the quet of a hundred fields of buclwheat, and lets the honey bee put his mouth to any cup Of all the banquet and tells the grasshopper to go any where he likes, and gives the iocks of heaven a oh af an ha praf n al The none, halfanimai, half-hower, clinging to the rock in mid-ocean, with its tentacles spread to catch it's food has the owner Of the uni universe to ness of the elephant, but God, for the comfort and convenience of the monster, puts 4o,- 900 distinct muscles fin it's proboscis.
 go down on the barren sea-shore and say, 'No animal can live in this place of desolation, but all through the sands are myrtads of little insects that leap with happy life. Igo down by these loathsome pools of stagnant water, there will be the quietness of death" but, lo see the turtles on the rotten log stunning themselves, life. When the unfedged robins arc hungry, God shows the old robin where she can get food to put into their open mouths. Winter is not allowed to come until the ants have granaried their harvest and the squirrels have filled their cellar with nuts. God shows the hungry ichneumon where 1t may find the ciE chimes there ssS, are animals that God esd so lavishly clothes that they can afford to walk through snow-storms in tho finest sable, and ermine, and chinchilla. and no sooner is one set of furs worn out than God gives them new one. He helps the spider in It's archt- lecture of it's gossamer bridge, and takes care of the color of the-butterfiy's wing, and tinges the cochineai and helps the moth out of the chrysalis. The animal creation also has It's army and navy. The most insignificant has it's means of defense; the wasp its sting; the rep tile Its tooth. the bear its paw. the dog its mu2zie; the elephant it's tusk the fish it's scales; the bird its swift wing; the raindeer its antiers; the roe its fleet foot We are repelled al the thought of sting, and tusk, and hoof, but Gods goodness provides them for the defense of the animals rights.
 Yea, God in the bible announces his care for these orders of creation. He says that he has heaved up Notifications for their defense Psalm civ, IS: The high hills are a refuge for, the wild goats, and the rocks for the comics He watches the birds nest-Psalm civ, IT: "As for the stork, the fr-trees are her house." He sees that the cattle have enough grass-Psalm civ, IA: He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle" He sees to tt that the cows, and sheep and horses have enough to drink-Psalm civ, t01l: "He sendeth the springs into the valleys. which run along tho hills; they give drink to every beast Of the field; the wild asses quench
 Amid the thunders of Sinai God uttered the rights of cattle, and said that they should have Sabbath Thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy cattien He declared with infinite em- phasis that the OK on the threshing- floor should have the privilege of eating some of the grain as he trod it out, and muzzling was forbidden.
 
 food, the despoiler's life depended on the mother going free. God would not let the motherb bird suffer in one day the loss Of her young and her own liberty. And he who regarded in olden time the conduct of man toward the brutes, to- day looks down from heaven and is interested in every minnow that swims the stream, and every rock that cieaves the air, and every herd that bleats, or neighs, or lows in the pasture.
 Why did God make all these, and why make them so happy How account for all this sing ing, and dancing, and frisking amid the ira tional creasiong Why this heaven for the animalcule in dewdropy Why for the condor throne on Chimhorazo; Why the glitter of the phosphorus in the ships wake on the sea, which IS said 10 be only the frolic of millions of fnsectsi Why the perpetual chanting Of so many voices from the irrational creation in earth, and air, and ocean--beasts and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowl, permitted to join in the praise that goes up from seraph and archangeif Only one solution. one explanation, one answer-God is good "The earth Is full of the goodness of the Lord"
 take step higher, and notice the adapta- ton of the world to happiness Of man. The sixth day of creation had arrived The place Of the world was made. but their was no king to live in it. Leyiathan ruled the deep; the eagle the air; the lion the field; but where was the sceptre which should rule all? new style of being was created. Heaven and earth were represented in his nature. His body from the earth beneath; his soul from the heaven above The one reminding him Of his origin. the other speaking Of his destfny-himself the connecting link between the animal creation and angelic intelligence. In him strange commingling of the infinite; dust and glory. The earth for his floor and heaven for his roof; God for his Father: eternity for his lifetime.
 The Christian anatomist. gazing upon the conformation of the human body, exclaims. "Fearfuliy and wonderfully made" No em- broidery so elaborate, no gauge so delicate. no color so exquisite, no mechanism so graceful, no hantiwork so diyire. So quietly and mys- teriously does the human body perform its functions, that it was not until five thousand years after the creation of the race that the circulation Of the blood was discovered; and all though anatomists of all countries and ages have been so long exploring this castle of life, they have only begun to understand it.
 Volumes have been written of the hand. Wondrous instrument With 1t we give friendly recognition, and grasp the sword, and climb the