Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-12-05
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun
day Sermon.
Subject. "The Lords Mereie..,'

! ana BlhtdeAS, Ola men ana children: let
| them praise the name of the Lord. Psalm
cxlvii., 10, IL aud 49,
What scene it was when last Thursday
at the call of the President and Governors
this nation assembled to chant tde 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 thirtv-fiye minutes that
evening. What small space of time in
which to mediate upon twelve months of
| benefactions. So l ID to that iay this
Sabbath morning service AMI 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 ap-
propriate this world to himself. when the
tact Is that our race Is in small minority
The instances OF human life, as compared
with the instances of animal life are not
one to million. We shall enlarge our IDEAS
| Of Gods goodness and come to a better un-
Outstanding of the text if, before we coma
to look at the cup of our blessing, we look
at the goodness of God to the irrational
Great on.
Although nature is out of joint, vet even
III Its disruption / am surprised to find the
| almost universal happiness of the animal
| creation. On summer day. when the air
and the grass are most popuIous with life,
you Will not hear sound of distress unless
pefchance, heartiess schoolboy has no obe
| birds nest, or hunter has broken a birtt's
wing, or pasture has been robbed OF a
lamb and there goes up a bleating from the
| 6ocks.
The whole earth is filed with animal de-
ight-joy feathered and scaled AMI hornsi
| and hooted. The bee huns it: the frog
croass it; the squirrel chatters it; the quail
whistles 1t; the lark carols it; thu whale
spouts it The snail, the rhinoceros, tue
grizzly bear the toad, the wasp, the spider,
| the shellflsh have their homely delights-ioy
as great to them as our JOY is to us. Goat
climbing the rocks; anaconda crawling
| through the junge nuifalo plunging across
the prairie; crocodile basaing in tropical sun:
seal pulling ON the ice; ostrich stridIuy across
the desert are so many bundles of JOY; they
| do not go moping or melancholy; they are
not only halt supplied; God says they are
! filled with good
Inc worm squrming through the sod up-
turned OF plowshare, and the ants rackirc
up and down the hillock are happy by day
and happy by night. Take up drop OF
water under the microseope and Won and
that within 1t there are millions OF creatures
that swim in a hallelujah of glad
ness. The sounds in nature that are re-
/ pulslVe TO our ears are often only uttarances
| OF Joy-the grow!, the croak, the bark. the
howl The good Col made these creatures.
thinks OF them ever, and will not let piow-
man shooG transfx worm, until, by
eternal decree, its time has come. Gods
hand feeds all these broods, and shep-
herds al! these ficcks, and tends all
| these herds. He sweetens the clover top
Tor the oxs taste, and pours out crvs-
talline waters IN messed cups OF rock
Tor the hind to drink out of on his way down
the crags, and pours nectar into the cup of
tne honeysuckle to refresh the humming
| bird, and spreads a banquet OF hundred
neius OF buckwheat anu lets the honey bee
put ms mouth to any cup of all the banquet
ana ana tells the grasshopper to 20 anywh ne he
| likes, and gives the hocks of heaven the
choice OF all the grain fields. The sea ane-
none half animal, hait flower, clinging to
| the rock in midocean, with its tentac.es
spread to catch its food, has The owner of tie
universe to provide for it. We are repulsed
at the hideousness of the elephant, but God,
Tor the comfort and convenience of the mon.
sCer, puts forty thousand distinct muscles in
his proboscis
L so down on the barren seashore and say
mo animal can live in this place of desola-
tlon;" but all through the sands are myrai Is
OF httle insects that leap with happy life. /
go ooWn by the marsh and say, 'In this
damp place and in these loathsome pools of
stagnant water there will be tae quietness OF
DEATH but, 10 see the turtles on the rotten
log summing themselves and hear the boys
quake with mutitudinous life. When tue
unnedged robins are hungry God snowS the
Ola ROBIN where she can get food to put into
their open mouths
Winter is not allowed to come until the
ants have granarie1 their harvest and ths
squirrels have filed their cellar with nuts,
Iod SHOWS the hungry ichueufnon where it
may lind the cIocodiles eggs; aud i'll arctic
chimes there are animals that Col so Law
lshly clothes that they can afford to walk
through SnowStorms in the finest sable and
nd M l.
set OF furs worn out than God gives them
new one. he helps the spider in It's archi-
lecture OF its gossamer bridge and takes
care of the color of the butter6yS wing,
and tinges the cochineA al helps the
moth out of the chrysalis.
The animal creation a.so have its army
and navy. The most Insignificant has its
means of defense, the wasp its sting, the
reptile its tooth, the bear It's paw, tine dog
its muzzie, the elephant its tusks the fisa
Its scale, the bird its swift wing, the reu-
deer its antlers, the roe its feet foot We
are repel!ed at the thou Iht OF sting and
/ tusk and hoof, but Gofs goodness nrC-
vides them for the defense of the animals
RIGHTS
Yea, God in the Bible announces His cara
| for these orders of creation. He SAYS that
He has heaved up Notifications for their
defense-Psalm civ, IS, The high hills as
refuge for the wild goats; and the ROCKS
/ neSt-Psalm civ, II, las for the stork the
fir trees are her house" He sees that the
cattle have enough grass--PsaIm CIV, IA,
ne causeth the grass to grow for tho
cattle" lie sees to it that the cows and
sheep and horses have enough to drink
| Psalm civ, III. IL: "ne sendeuh the springs
INTO the valleys, wh,cl run among tle
hlllsi they give drink to every be 3st OF the
helt The wild asses quench their thirst
Amid the thunder5 OF Sinai God uttered
the rights of cattle ami said that they s1oult
have sabbath. Thou shalt not do any
work. thou nor thy Cattle He declared
with infinite emphasis that the OK on the
thrashing floor snoIid have the privilege OF
! eatlnS some of the grain as he troll it ont
and muzz ing was FORBIDDEN. II young
birds were taken from the nest for fool, the
despollerS life depended on the mother
| gong free. Cod would not let the mother
bird suffer in one day the loss of her young
and her owa liberty Aud He waoregartet
In oden time tue Goa iuc5 of man toward
the brutes to-day looks down from heaven
ant Is interested ip every minaow that
swIms the stream, AMI every roo6 that
cieaves the air, and every herd that beats
ornelghs or lows in the pasture.
Why did God make all these, and why
make them 50 happy? How account for all
this singing and dancing and frisking amid
the irrational creationg Why this heaven for
the animalcule in dewdrop? Why for the
condor throne on Chimborazo2 Why the
glitter of the phosphorus IN tn ships wake
on the sea, which Is said to be only the frolic
OF millions of insects? Why tho perpetual
chanting of so many voices from the ira
tional creation in earth and air aud ocean
beasts and all cattle, creeping things AMI fly
ing fowl, permittei to join in the praise that
goes up from seraph and archangels Only
one solution, ons explanation, one answer
God is good. The earth is full of the COOL
ness of the Lord"
take a step higher, aul notice the adap-
tation of the world to the comfort AMI hap
plneSs OF man. Tbs sixth day o. creation
had arrived. The palace of the world was
made, but there was no king to live in it.
Leviathan ruled the deep; the eagle the air:
the lion the field; but where was the scepter
which should rule all? A new style of being
was created Heaven and earth were re-
pTesente in his nature. His body fro n the
earth beneath: his soul from ths heaven
above. The one reminding him OF his origin,
the other speaking of his destiny-himsslf
the connecting link between the animal crea.
tion and angelic inteili Eence. In him a
strange commingling of the temporal an
eternal, the finite ami the infinite, dust AMI
glory. The earth for his floor and heaven
for his roo; God for his Father: eternity
for his lifetime.
The Christian anatomst, gazing upon the
| confirmation of the human BODY, exclaims
"Fearfully and wonderfully made" No
embroidery so elaborate, no gauzs 50 deli
cate, no color so exquisite, no mec lsns so
graceful, no han1iword so divine So quietly
and mysteriously does the human body per-
form its functions that it was not until five
thousand years after the creation of the race
that the circulation of the blood was dscov-
cred: and though anatotuists of all countries