The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-03-19
CAN COME
"Birds Of Every Feather" viii Make
Up the Heavenly King
dom,
There Will Be White, and Black and
Red, in Fact Every Cline and
Race Will Be Represented.

Brooklyn, N. Y. Especial. -Thec con-
gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
sang with fervor the hymn beginning:
Ny ,aith looks up to thee
Dr.: Talmage's subject was the refuge
offered by the Christian religion to
people OF all ages and every variety OF
character. His text was: Ezekiel, XVII,
20; "a goodly cedar and under it shall
dwell all fowl of every wing"
The cedar of Lebanon is a royal
tree. 1t stands 5000 feet above the
level OF the sea. A missionary count
ed the concentric circles, and found
M tree $500 years old-longrooted,
broad branches, all year in luxuriant
foliage. The same branches that bent
in a hurricane that David saw sweep
ing over Lebanon, rock to-day oyer
the head efthe American traveller. This
monarch of the forest, with it's leafy
fingers, plucks the honors of a thou.
sand years, and sprinkles them upon
it's own uplifted brow, as though
some great hallaluiah of heaven had
been planted upon Lebanon, and it
were raising up with all of it's long
armed strength to take hold of the
hills whence it came. Oh! what a fine
place for birds to nest in! In hot days
they Gomez hither-the eagle, the dove,
the swallow, the sparrow, and the
raven. There is, to many of U.S., a
complete f%acination in the structure
and habits OF birds. They seem
NOT MORE OF EARTH THAN HEAVEN.
ever vaccillatins between the two.
No wonder that Audubon. with his
gun, tramped through all the Amer
lean forests in search OF new speci-
mems. Biologists have spent years in
finding the track OF a birds claw in
the red sandstone. There is enough
OF Gods architecture in q smipe's bill
or a grouse's foot to confound all the
universities. Musicians have, with
cleft and bars, tried to catch the
sound OF the nightingale and robin.
Amongthe first things that achild no.
tices is a swallow at the caves; and
grandfather goes out with handful of
crumbsto feed the snow-birds. The
Bible is full OF pathological illusions.
The birds OF the Bible are not dead
stuffed, like those of the museum, but
living birds, with futtering wings and
plumage. Behold the fowls of the
air." SAYS Christ. Though thou x
alt thyself us the eagle, and though thou
set thy nest among the stars, thence
will bringthee down." exclaims Oba-
diah. "Gavest thou the goodly wings
to the peacock?" says Job. David
describes his desolation by saying, II
am like a pelican of the wilderness; l
am like an owl OF the desert; | watch,
and am as the sparrow alone upon
the housetop." YEA, the stork in the
heaven knoweth her appointed time;
and the turtle, and the crane and the
swallow observed the time of their
coming; but my people know not the
Judgment OF the Lord'--so says Jere-
miah.s
Ezekiel in my text intimates that
Christ is the cedar, and the people
from all quarters are the birds that
lodge among the branches. ut shall
be a goodly cedar, and under it shall
dwell all fowl of every wing" As in
Ezekiel's time, SO now
CHRIST is AGooDLY CEDAR,
and to him are flying all kinds of
people-young and old, rich and poor;
men high-soaring as the'eagle, those
"a the dove. "All fowl Of every
wing"
First, the young may come. OF the
1891 years that have passed since
Christ came, about 1,6OO have been
wasted by the good in, misdirected ef-
*orts. Until Robert Raikes came,
there was no organized effort for
saving the young. We spend all our
strength trying to bend old trees,
when a little pressure would have
been sufficient for the sapling. We
let men go down to the very bottom
of sin before We try to lift them up. It
is a great deal easier to keep a train
IN the track than TO get it on when it
) off. The experienced reinsman
.hecks the fiery steed at the first
Jump, for when he gets in
ull swing, the swift hoofs
clicking fire from the pavement,
and the bit between his teeth, his mo-
mentum is irresistible. 1t is said that
the young must be allowed to SOW
their "wild oats" / lave noticed
that those who SOW their wild oats
seldom try TO raise any other kind OF
crop. There are two opposite destin-
les, If you are going to heaven you
had better take the straightroad, and
not try togo to Boston by the way OF
New Orleans. What is to be the his
tory of this multitude of young peo-
ole around me to-day? I will take
YOU by the hand and show you aglor-
ions sunrise. | will not whine about
this thing, nor groan about it;
but come, young men and maid
ems, Jesus wants you. His hand is
love; his voice is music; His smile is
heaven. Religion will put no hand
cuffs OH your wrist, no hobbies on
your feet,
NO BRAND ON YOUR FOREHEAD.
Again: II remark that the old may
come. You say: Suppose q man
has to 90 on crutches; suppose he 10
blind, suppose he is deaf; supposethat
nine-tenths of his life has been vast
ed" Then / answer, Come with
crutches; come, old men, blind and
deaf. come to Jesus. If you would
sweep your hand around before your
blind ewes, the first thing you would
touch would be the Cross. 1t is hard
for an aged man or woman to have