The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-12-09
Il NERCIES OF THE LORD.
sERMON BT THs rev. T. CE WITT
rA-MAsE, SUNDAY, NOV. 20.

lag tae Year Closed bv Thsns.giviaE
Day-Let All the Creatures OF the Earth
Spraiso the Lord.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 29.-Dr. Talmage's
sermon this morning had a distinctly
Thanksgiving character. The appear
ance Of the Tabernacle was in keeping
with it. The Doctors text was taken
from Psalm cxlviii, 10, y and l3,
Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things
and flying fowl; beth young men, and
maldens; old men, and children; let
them praise the name of the Lord"
What scene it was when last Thurs
day, at the call o. the president and
governors, this na.ion assembled to
chant the praises CT God. But the day
was too short to celebrate the divine
goodness Of such year. The sun did
rot rise over Brooklyn anttl one minute
before seven O'Clock that morning, and
it set four O'Clock and thirty-hve minu-
tes that evening. What small space
Of time IN which 70 mediate upon twelve
menths of tenetactioas. 500 add 10
that day this Sabbath morning service,
and with the fruits and harYests Of the
earth still slorifying the pulpit and the
galleries, ask you 20 continue The re-
hearsal Of the divine goodness.
BY sublime egostsm man has come
TO appropriate this world to himself.
when the fact is that our race is in a
small minority. The instances Of hu-
man life. as compare with the instances
OF animal lie, are aot one to a million.
We shall enlarge our IDEAS OF Gods
goodness AMI cone 10 a better under
stardi. z Of the tex. Il, before We come
TO look at the cup If our blessing, we
look at the goodness Of God to the IRA
tlonal creation.
Although nature IS out OF JOINT, yet
even n It's disruption I an surprised to
tno the almost universal happiness OF
the animal creation. On summer day,
when the air anG the grass are most
Gopuleus with life, you will no. hear a
soRnd OF distress unless, perchance, a
heartless schoolboy has robbed birds
nest, or hunter has broken birds
wing, or pasture has been robbed Of a
lamb and there goes up bleatirg from
the tiocks.
The whole earth is filed with animal
cehsht-joy teathered and scaled and
horned snd hooted. The bee huns 1t;
the frog croaks it; the squirrel chc...-rs
It; the quail whistles it; the lark carols
1t; the whale spouts it, The snail, the
rhnoceros, the grizzly bear, the toad,
the wssp, the spider, the shellfish have
their homely del:shts-joy ss great to
taero as our JOY is to Us. Goat climb
Ing the rocks; anaconda crawling through
the jungle; buffalo plunsicg across The
prairie; crocodile basking II tropical
sun; seal putting OF the ice; ostrich
str.dins across the desert are so many
bundles of jov; they do not go moping
or melancholy; they are net only half
supplied; Goo says they are filed with
good.
The worm squirming through the sod
upturned Of plowshare, and the ants
racking up and down the hillock are
happy by Gay and happy By night. Take
up drop OF water under the microscope
and yoa ind that within it there are mil
lions OF creatures that swim in hallelu-
jah of sladpess. The sounds in nature
that are repu1siye to our ears are often
only utterances of joy-the srowl, the
croak, the bark, the howl. The good
God made these creatures, thinks OF
them ever, and will not let plowshare
turn up mole's nest, or ssherman's
hook trans6x worm, until, by eternal
decree. its time has come. Gods hand
feed all these broods, and shepherds all
these hocks, aad tends all these herds.
He sweetens the clover top for the ox's
taste and pours out crystalline waters
ID messed cups of rock for the hind t)
drink out Of on his way down the crags,
and pours nectar into the cup Of the
honeysuckle to refresh the huGmlng
bird, and spreads banquet of hun
dred fields OF buckWhsat, and lets the
honey bee put bis mouth to any cup OF
all the banquet, and tells the grasshop-
per to go Anywhere he likes, and gives
the focks of heaven the choice OF sll the
grain fields. The sea anemone, half an
imal, half flower, cilrsing to the rock IN
uidocean, with its tentacles spread to
catch Its food, has the owner Of the uni
verse to provide forit. We are repulsed
at the hideousness OF the elephant, bat
God, for the comfort and convenience
Of the monster, puts forty thousand dis
tinct muscles in his l,roboscis.
60 down on the aar1en seashore and
say, mo animal caa live in this place
OF desolatieI;;" but all through the sands
are myriads Of little insects that leap
with happy lie. GO down by the marsh
and say, In this camp place and in
these loathsome pools Of stagcant wa
ter there Will be the qu!etness OF tieath;"
but, 10! I see the turtles on the rotten
log summing themselves and hear the
boss quake with multitudinoUs life.
When the undedged robbins are hungry
God shows Ae Ole Robin where she
can get tCoo to put into their oien
mouths.
The animal creation also has it's army
and navy. The most Insignificant has
its means OF defense-the Waspits sting,
the reptile its tooth, the bear Its paw,
the dog It's muzzle, the elephant,ts tusk,
the Ash it's scale, the bird It's swift wing.
the reindeer iss antler., the roe It's fleet
foot. We are repelled st the thought
OF sting and tusk asd hoof, but Gods
goodness provides them TX the defence
OF the animals rights.
Yea, Gcd in tAe Bible announces his
care ior these orders Of creation. he
says that he has hesyed up fortihcations
tor their deieRse-Psalm civ, IS, The
high hills are retsge for the wilG goats;
and the rocks tor the COMES" He
watches the brd's nest-tsalm CIV, l.,
As ior the stofk, the fr trees are tier
house." He sees that the cattle have
enough 2rass-Psslla civ, Il. He caus-
eth the grass to grow Tor the cattle. y
lie sees TO it that the cows aud sheep