The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-12-04
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
LET THE PEOPLE PRAISE THE
NAME OF THE LORD.

DIR. Talmage's Sunday sermon-He Calls
the Attention OF His Hearers to the
Bountiful Harvests OF 1s91-Thanks-
giving Decorations stin In Place.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 29,-Dr. Talmage's
Drmon 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 We're decorated for the
Thanksgiving day service We're 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 of
the national harvest. The doctors
text was taken from Psalm cxlviii, 10, ~
and 10, Beasts, and all cattle; creeping
things and flying fowl; both young men,
and maidens; old men, and children,
let them praise the name of the Lord"
What 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-
tons So add to that day this Sab
bath morning service and with the
clarifying 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 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 asummer day,
when the air and the grass are most
populous with life, you will not hear q
sound of distress unless, perchance, q
heartless schoolboy has robbed birds
nest, or hunter has broken a birds
wing, or pasture has been robbed Of
a lamb, and there goes up bleatine
from the flocks.
The whole earth is filed 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
it, the whale spouts it. The snail, the
rhinoceros, the grizzly bear, the toad,
the wasp, the spider, the shellfish have
their homely delights as great tc
them as our joy is to us. Goat climb
ing the rocks, anaconda crawling
through the jungle, buffalo plungine
across the prairie, crocodile basking in
tropical sun, seal putting on the ice,
ostrich striding across the desert are sc
many bundles of joy; they do not &C
moping or melancholy; they are moi
only half supplied; God says they are
filed with good.
The worm squirming through the soc
upturned of plowshare and the ant
racing up and down the hillock art
happy by day and happy by night
Take up drop of water under the mi
croscope and you find that within i
there are millions of creatures tina
swim in hallelujah of gladness. Th'
sounds in nature that are repulsive t.
our ears are often only utterances o
joy-the growl, the croak, the bark
the howl. The good God made thes
creatures, thinks of them ever and viii
not let a plowshare turn up mole
nest or fisherman's hook transf1x
worm until, by eternal decree, its tim
has come Gods hand feeds all thes
broods, and shepherds all these focks
and tends all these herds.
He sweetens the clover top for tn
ox's taste, and pours out crystallin
waters in messed cups of rock for tn
hind to drink out of on his way dow
the crags, and pours nectar into tn
cup of the honeysuckle to refresh tn
humming bird, and spreads banque
of hundred fields of buckwheat an,
lets the honey bee put his mouth to an
cup of all tie banquet, and tells tn
grasshopper to go anywhere he likes
and gives the flocks of heaven the choic
of all the grain fields. The sea amen
one, half animal, half flower, clingin
to the rock in midocean, with its ter
tacles spread to catch its food, has tn
owner of the universe to provide for II
We are repulsed at the hideousness c
the elephant, but God, for the comfor
and convenience of the monster. put
forty thousand distinct muscles in ii
proboscis.
THERE is LIFE EVERYWHERE.
/ 90 down on the barren seashor
and say, mo animal can live in TIL
place of desolation," but all throug
the sands are myriads of little insect
that leap with happy life. l go dow
by the marsh and say, I'm this dam
place and in these loathsome pools {
stagnant water there will be the quie
ness of DEATH" but 10! see the turtle
on the rotten log summing themselvt
and hear the boys quake with multi
tudinous life. When the unfedge
robins are hungry, God shows the oil
, robin where she can get food to pr
into their open mouths.
Winter is not allowed to come unit
the ants have granaried their harves
and the squirrels have filled their celia
with nuts God shows the hungry ich
neumon where it may find the croco
dies eggs; and in arctic climes Their