Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-12-04
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
DR. TALMAoE, breaches ON
THANkSOIVING.
America Offers the Grandest Spectacle
In All the Worlds History-.a Race
at Kings that WIN Reign for a Year.

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 object lesson the abundance
OF the national harvest. The Doctors text was
| taken from Psalm l4S; 10, IL and l3: Beast
| and all cattle; creeping things and flying fowl:
both young men and maidens; old men and
shildren: let them praise the name OF the
! Lord"
/ What scene II was when last Thursday at
! the call OF the President and Governors, this
nation assembled to chant the praised OF God.
But the day was too short TO celebrate the
Divine goodEess OF such year. The sun did
not rise over Brooklyn until one minute before
/ o'clock that morning, and IL set o'clock and
thirty-hve minutes that evening. What small
space OF time In which 70 mediate upon twelve
months OF benefactions. So add 10 that day
this Sabbath morning service, and with the
fruits and harvests of the earth still clarifying
the pulpit and the galleries, ask you TO continue
/ the rehearsal of the Divine goodness.
BY a sublime egotism man has come TO nppro-
/ pirate this world 10 himself, when the fact is
that our race is In small minority; The In
stances or human life, as compared with the IN
stances OF animal life, are not one 10 million.
| We shall enlarge our ideas OF Gods goodness
and come 70 better understanding OF the text
! II, before we come 20 look at the cup OF our
| blessing, VIC look at the goodness OF God 70 the
irrational creation.
Although nature is out OF joint, yet even in
its disruption am surprised TO hLd the almost
universal happiness OF the animal creation. On
| o summer day, when the air and the grass are
most populous with life, you win not hear
schoolboy has robbed birds nest, or u hunter
has broken birds wing, or a pasture has been
robbed OF a lamb, and there goes up bleating
animal delight-toy feathered, and scaled,
and horned, and ho~fed The bee
huns Il; the frog croalis it the
lark carols it, the whale spouts It. The snail,
the rhinoceros, the grizzly bear, the toad, the
wasp, the spider. the shell-fsh, have their
homely delights-1oy as great 70 them as our
Joy is TO us. Goa climbing the rocks; anaeon-
da crawling through the Jungle; buffalo plung-
ing across the prairie; crocodile basking in
tropical ssh, seal putting on the Ice; ostrich
striding across the desert, are so many bundles
OF JOY; they do not 60 moping or melancholy
they are not only half supplied; God says they
The worm squirming through the sod up
Nrned OF plowshare, and the ants racing up
and down the hillock, are happy by day and
happy by night Take up a drop OF water un.
der the microscope. and you find that within II
there are millions OF creatures that swim in q
hallelu1ah OF gladness. The sounds in nature
terances OF yoy-the growi. lhe croak, the
bark, the howl The good God made
these creatures, thinks Of them ever, and will
not let plo0ghshare turn up nole's nest, or
hsherman's hook transfiX worm, until by
eternal decree, it's time has come. Gods hand
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 10 drink out OF on his way down
he crags, and pours nectar INTO the cup
Of the hcneysuckle 10 refresh the
hummingbird; and spreads ban
suet OF hundred fields OF buckwheat, and let's
| the honey-bee put his mouth TO any cup OF all
the banquet and tells hegrasshopper 70 go any
where he likes, and gives the tiocks OF heaven
the choice OF all the grain-telds. The sea ane-
none, half-animal, half-hower, clinging TO the
rock In mid-ocean, with its tentacles spread TO
catch its food, has the owner OF the universe TO
| provide for It. We are rcpulsed at the hideous-
ness OF the elephant, but God, for the comfort
! and convenience Of the monster, puts 49,
/ GO distinct muscles In its proboscis.
| i go down on the barren Seashore and say,
| "No animal can live in this place OF desolation,
but all through the sands are myriads OF little
! insects that leap with happy life. go down by
the marsh and say I'm this damp place, andi
! these loathsome pools Of stagnant water, there
will be the Quietness OF death, but, loi see
the turtles on the rotten log summing themselves,
and hear the boys quake with mulntudinous
| life. When the unfiedged robins are hungry,
God shows the old robin where she can get food
70 put into their open mouths. Winter is not
allowed 10 come until the ants have granaried
cellar with nuts God shows the hungry
iohneumcn where It may End the
50 iayishly clothes that they con afford to
walk through snov-storms in the finest sable,
and ermine, and chinchilla, and no sooner is
enc set Of furs worn out than God gives them
q new one. He helps tho spider in its archi-
lecture of its gossamer bridge, and takes care
! Of the color OF the butterhy's wing, and unges
the cochineal, and helps the moth out OF the
chrysalis The animal creation also has its
army and navy. The most Insignificant has It's
means OF defense; the wasp its sting; the rep
na s the ELEPHANT iep its is t R the the SS is
scales; the bird It's swift wing; the raindeer its
| antlers; the roe its feet foot We are repealed
ct 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. 10: "The high hills are a refuge for
the wild goats, and the rocks for the comics
He watches the birds nest--Psalm civ, II: "As
for the stork the fir-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 10 IL that the cows, and sheep,
and horses have enough 10 drink-Psalm CIV,
W:1l: "He sendeth the springs into the valleys.
which run along the hills they give drink 70
every beast OF the field; the Wild asses quench
Amid the thunders of Sinai God uttered the
nights Of cattle, and said that they should have
| q sabbath. Thou shalt not do any work, thou,
ser thy cattle" he declared with infinite EN-.
| phasis that the OK on the threshing floor should
have the privilege OF eating some OF the grain
as he trod II out, and muzzling was forbidden.
II young birds were taken from the nest for
food, the despoiler's life depended on the mother
going free. God would not let the mother bird
| suffer IN one day the loss OF her young and her
ewn liberty. And he who regarded In Older
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 oleaves the air. and every herd
that beats or neiRhs, 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
| 6onal creationf Why this heaven for the
animal0ule in dewdropi. Why for the condor
o throne on Chimborazop Why tbs glitter II
the phosphorus in the ships wake on the sea,
which Is said 70 be only the frolio Of millions OF
insectsf Why the perpetual chanting OF so
many voices from the irrational oreAtion 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
srchsngelf Only one solution, one explanation,
| one answer-God Is good 'Srhe earth Is full Of
! NE goodness OF the Lord"
| take etep 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 L. Leviathan ruled the deep; the eagle tho
air; the Lion the field; but where was the
soeptre whichshould rule alrp A new style OF
| being was created. Heaven and earth were
represented I'm HIS nature His body from the
earth beneath; his soul from this heaven above,
The one reminding him OF his origin, the other
! speaking OF his destiny-himseh the connecting
link between the animal creation and Lngeiic
Intelligence In him a strange Communicating OF
the temporal and the eternal, the finite and
l 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:
"Fearfully and wonderfully made" No en-
\ brOfderv so elabOfntp no Oouza 40 deifcata r,r,