Milford chronicle., 1891-12-04
MERCIES OF THE LORD.
SERMON lN THE REV. 7. DE WITT
TALm@ SUNDAY. NOV 90.

le SERMON y THE REV. T. DE WI.
TA-"Sal% SUNDAY, Nov 90.
God Has Been Good to the People ID
ing the Year Closed by Thanksrivl
= Day-Let All the Creatures of I
Earth Praise the Lord.
RRooKLYE, Nov. 20.-Dr. Talmape,s 6
Z mon this morning had a distinctly Tbanl
: giving character The appearance of /
Tabernacle was in keeping with il. Il
specimens Of fruits and harvest produr
with which the pulpit and galleries we
= decorated for the Thanksgiving dav ser
% Ice were still in their places. Cotton. rio
: wheat, sugar cane, rye, oats, corn al
: fruits, and products from north. sout
east and west put before the audience
by an object lesson the abundance of n
: national harvest The Doctors text ~,
taken from Psalm cxlvin, 10, 70 and l.
e Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things an
flying fowl: both young men. and maiden
: old men, and children: let them praise In
{ name of the Lord "
: What a scene it was when last Tbursds,
at the call Of the president and poverpor.
this nation assembled TO chant the nrsise
! Of God But the day was too short to eeIe
brate the divine goodness Of such n vear
The sun did not rise over BROOKLYN unit
one minute before seven O'Clock that morn
ing, and it set four O'Clock and tbirtv-fi
minutes that evening. What "A small sDoc,
, OF time In which to mediate upon twely,
months of benefactiOns So add to thai
day this Sabbath morning service. and
with the fruits and harvests of the enrtb
still glorifying the pulpit and the galleries
ask you to continue the rehearsal of the
divine goodness
by sublime egOtism man has come IN
appropriate this world to himself. when
the fact Is that our race is in a small mi
nority. The instances Of human life No
I compared with the instances of animal life
are not one to million. We shall enlarge
our Ideas OF Gods goodness aud come to a
better understanding Of the texs il. before
we come to look at the cup of our blessing.
we look at the goodness of God to the ira
tional creation.
A LOOK AT THE LOWER ORDERS
Although nature is out of Joint. vet even
in its disruption am surprised to find the
almost universal happiness of the animal
creation. On summer day, when the mir
and the grass are most populuus with life
you will not hear a sound Of distress nm
less, perchance, heartless schoolbov has
robbed a birds nest, or hunter has
broken birds wing, or a pasture has
been robbed OF lamb and there goes IN a
bleating from the flocks.
The whole earth is filled with animal de-
light-1oy feathered and scaled and horned (
and hoofed. The bee huns It; the froa
croaks 1t; the squirrel chatters il; theQuaiI
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
Joy as great to them as our joy Is to us
Goat clir'bing the rocks; anaconda crawl
ing chfousI the jungle, buffalo pluncipg
q 49, ~ prairie; crocodile basLinas IN .
tropical suu$eal nsfIing or tice: ostrich
striding across the ISser so mar
bundles Of joy; they do not 1opipg %,
they are not only haif sun
piled; God says they are filed with good.
The worm squirming through the sod nm
5urned Of plowshare, and the ants rackinc-
Up and down the hillock are happy by day
md happy by night. Take up a drop OF
water under the microscope and You find
nat within it there are millions of crea-
ures that Swim in a hallelujah of glad
less. The sounds in nature that are re-
ulsive to our ears arc often only utterances
I joy-the grOwl, the croak, the bark. the !
OWi. The good God made these creatures.
links Of them eyer, and will not let a $
lowshare turn up moles nest, or fisher
lan's hook transiix worm, until, by :
Iernal decree, its time has come. Gods 2
and feeds all these broods, and shep- :
erds all these flOcks, and tends all y
lese herds. lie sweetens the clover top u
II the ox's taste, and pours out crys- u
'lline waters in mossed CUPS of rock Z"
n the hind to drink out of on his wav e.
own the crags, and pours nectar into the u
Up Of the honeysuckle to refresh the hum b
Ing blsd, and spreads q banquet Of hun
ed fields of buckwheat, aud lets tlp
)ney bee put his mouth to any cup of all r
e banquet, aud tells the grasshopper TO le
anywhere he likes, and gives the docks tl
heaven the choice of all the grain fields. W
le sea anemone, half animal, half flower. IN
nglng 20 the rock in midocean, with its al
ntacles spread to catch its food has the ~
'ner Of the universe to provide for It, so
e are repulsed at the hideousness of the III
phant, but God, for the comfort and
lyepience Of the monster, puts forty m
ousand DISTINCT muscles in his prOboscis. eV
GOD CARES FOR ALL HIS CREATURES. lnl
90 down on the barren seashOre and lln
7, mo animal eHn live in this place of tri
,OlatiOn;" but all through the sands are th'
'riads of little insects that leap with ag
ppy life. ] so down by the marsh and soi
; In this damp place and in these or
thsome pools Of stagnalt water there ORG
! be the quietness Of death;N but, loi o.
the turtles on the rotten log summing thi
mselyes and hear the bogs quake with pas
ltitudip0us life When the unhedged Po'
ins are hungry God shows the old robin the
ere she can get food to put into their tho
n mouths. thr
Winter is not allowed to come until the ant
S have granHried their harvest and the tioi
irrels have filed their cellar with nuts. In Z
shows the hungry ichneumon where to
nay find the crOcodile's eggs; and in and
.ic climes there are animals that God be
ayishly clothes that they eau afford to and
k through snowstOrms in the finest u
e and ermine and chinchilla, and 10 aioi
Ter Is one set Of furs worn ont than the
gives them new one. He helps the ness
er in its architecture of its gossanler sigh
ge, and takes cure Of the color Of the the
lerhy's wing, and tinges the cochlneal, spld
helps the moth out of the chrysals Ehei
le animal creation also has its army lift,
navy Inc most insignificant has is q WI
rs Of defense-the wasp its sting, the spec
lie its tooth, the bear los paw, the dog are
luzzle the elephant its tusk, the lsh com
sale, the bird its swift wing, the rein geni
its antlers, the roe its fleet foot We wres
epelled at the thought of sting and A,
and hoof, but Gods goodness pro that
them for the defense Of the animals him
- The
a. God IN the Bible announces his care race
iese orders Of creation, he says that com
AS heaved mp fortiications for their pioa,
lse-Psalm civ, IS, THE high hills l. m,
refuge for the wild goats; and the Man
for the comics" He watches the ynnc
8 nest-Psalm ely, IL, 'As for the fire.
+, the fir trees are her house," He sees iiCor
the cattle have enough grass-l9salm cave
4, 'He causeth the grass to grow for the
attle." He sees TO it that the cows Nv. a
heep and horses have enough to drink stear
I'm civ, 10. II; Gle sendeth the springs in, n