Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-11-30
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
LET THE PEOPLE PRAISE THE
NAME OF THE LORD.


giving Decorations still in Place.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 29.--Dr. Talmage's
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 gSleries 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
by an object lesson the abundance oi
the national harvest. The doctors
text was taken from Psalm cxlviii, 10, II
and 13. Beasts, and all cattle; creeping
things and flying fowl both young men,
and maidensj old men, and children,
let them praise the name of the Lord. j"
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
a small space of time in 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 hui
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 its disruption am surprised to
find the almost universal happiness OF
the animal creation. On summer day,
when the sir and the grass are most
populous with life, you will not hear a
sound of distress unless, perchance, a
heartless schoolboy has robbed birds
nest, or hunter has broken a birds
wing, or a pasture has been robbed of
a lamb, and there goes up bleating
from the fiocks.
The whole earth Is filed with animal
dclight--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
1t, the whale spouts it, The snail, the
rhinoceros, the grizzly bear, the toad,
the wasp, the spider, the shellish have
their homely delights-joy as great to
them as our Joy is to us Goat climb
ing the rocks, anaconda crawling
through the jungle, buffalo plunging
across the prairie, crocodile basking in
tropical sun, seal putting on the ice,
ostrich striding across the desert are SO
many bundles of Joy; they do not &c
moping or melancholy; they are not
only half supplied; God says they are
filled with good.
The worm squirnling through the sod
upturned of plowshare and the anti
racing up and down the hillock arr
happy by day and happy by night
Take up drop of water under the mi
croscope and you find that within Il
there are millions of creatures thai
swim In hallelujah Of gladness,. Thu
sounds in nature that are repulsive tC
our ears are often only utterances ot
toy-the growl, the croak, the bark
the howl. The good God made thes,
creatures thinks of them ever and will
not let plowshare turn up molet
nest or flsherman's hook transtix 1
worm until, by eternal decree, IT'S tins
has come. Gods hand feeds all thes'
broods, and shepherds all these flocks
and tends all these herds
He sweetens the clover top for th'
ox's taste, and pours out crystalline
waters in mossed cups of rock for thu
hind 10 drink out Of on his way dowi
the crags, and pours nectar into th'
cup OF the honeysuckle to refresh thu
humming bird, and spreads banque
of a hundred fields of buckwheat an'
lets the honey bee put his mouth 70 an.
cup of all the banquet. and tells tn
grasshopper 10 go anywhere he likes
and gives the fiocks Of heaven the choic'
OF all the grain fields. The sea anem
one, half animal, half flower, clinginl
10 the rock IN midooean, with Its ten
taeles spread 10 catch It's food, has tn
owner OF the universe 10 provide for 1t
We are repulsod at the hideousness O
the elephant, but God, for the comfor
and convenience Of the monster, put
forty thousand distinct muscles In Il
proboscis
THERR Is LIFR EVERYWHERE.
l 40 down ON the barren seashor
and say, mo animal can live In thl
place OF desolation," but all through
tbs sands are myrlnds Of little insect
that leap with happy life. ! 60 dow
by the marsh aud say, I'm this daml
place and Ia these loathsolne pools O
sfaenant water there viii be the quiet
ness OF death. but lol | see the turtle
on the rotten log summing themselye
aud hear the boQs Quake with multi