Arizona republican., 1892-11-20
THE WARNING TO FLY
DR. TALMAGE POINTS TO THE BIRD MIGRATION AS A LESSON FOR MAN.

Their Times, They Fly in Season, but
 Man Is Less Wise.
 BROOKLYN, Oct. 30.-The fiutter of
 bright colored leaves which every wind
 blows from the trees in the avenues
 around the Tabernacle reminded the
 thousands who entered its doors this
 morning that winter is approaching,
 Dr. Talmage, with his usual tact, turned
 the impression to account in his sermon,
 which was on the text, Jeremiah viii, 2,
 "The stork in the heaven knoweth her
 appointed times, and the turtle, and the
 crane, and the swallow observe the time
 of their coming; but my people know
 not the judgment of the Lord"
 When God would set fast beautiful
 thought, he plants it in tree. When
 he would put it afioat, he fashions it
 into fish. When he would have it
 glide the air, he molds it into bird.
 My text speaks of feur birds of beauti-
 full instinct-the stork, of such strong affection that it is allowed familiarly to come, in Holland and Germany, and
 build its nest over the doorway; the sweet dispositioned turtledove, min gling in color white and black and brown and ashen and chestnut; the crane, with voice like the clang of 8 trumpet; the swallow, swift as dart shot out of the bow of heaven, falling, mounting, skimming, sailing-four birds started by the prophet twenty-five cen turies ago, yet flying on through the ages, with rousing truth under glossy wing, and in the clutch of stout claw. suppose it may have been this very season of the year-autumn-and the prophet out of doors, thinking of the impenitence of the people of his day, hears a great cry overhead.
 Now you know it is no easy thing fol one with ordinary delicacy of eyesight to look into the deep blue of the noon. day heaven; but the prophet looks up, and there are flocks of storks and turtle. doves and cranes and swallows drawn out in long lines for flight southward. As is their habit, the cranes had ar- ranged themselves into two lines mak- ing an angle, wedge splitting the aiy. with wild velocity, the old crane, with commanding call, bidding them onward. while the towns, and the cities, and the continents slid under them. The prophet, almost blinded from looking into the dazzling heavens, stoops down and be gins to think how much superior tn. birds are in sagacity about their safety than men about theirs, and he puts his hand upon the pen and begins to write, "The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the tine of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord"
 THE LORDS MARCHING ORDERS.
 If you were in the field today, in the clump of trees at the corner of the field you would see convention of birds, noisy as the American congress the last night before adjournment, or as the English parliament when some unfor- tunate member proposes more economy in the queens household-a convention of birds all talking at once, moving and passing resolutions on the subject of migration; some proposing to go to- some moving that they go to- day, some moving that they go to Bra gil. some 'to Florida, some to the table lands of Mexico, but all unanimous in the fact that they must go soon, for they have marching orders from the Lord, written on the first white sheet of the frost and in the pictorial of the changing leaves.
 There is not belted kingfsher, or a or fire crested wren, or X blower, or red legged partridge but expects to spend the winter at the south, for the apartments have already been ordered for them in South America or In Africa, and after thousands of miles of flight they will stop in the very tree where they spent last January. Fare well, bright plumage! Until spring weather, away! Fly on, great band of musicians! Strew the conti- nents with music, and whether from northern fields, or Carolina swamps, or Brazilian groves men see your wings or near your voice, may they bethink them ,elves of the solemn words of the text, 'The stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the ,rane, and the swallow observe the time ,f their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord"
 propose, so far as God may help noe, his morning, carrying out the idea Of he text, to show that the birds of the lir have more sagacity than men. And
 begin by particularizing and saying hat they mingle music with their work. The most serious undertaking of birds | fife is this annual travel from the Hud- | on to the Amazon, from the Thames to | he Nile. Naturalists tell us that they Irrive there thin and weary and plum Ige ruffled, and yet they go singing all he way; the ground, the lower line of he music, the sky, the upper line of the music; themselves, the notes scattered ID and down between.
 suppose their song gives elasticity to heir wing and helps on with the jour- ley, dwindling thousand miles into four Iundred. Would to God that we were s wise as they in mingling Christian ong with our everyday workl l believe .. 4 1, Al. Al