Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-31
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE DRAWS a LESSON
FROM THE MIGRATORY BIRDS.

Warned by Divine Instinct They Stretch
Their Wings Toward tho South, but
regards "a Greater Warning,
BROOKLYN, Oct. 0-The lutter Of bright
from the trees in the avenues around the
Tabernacle reminded the thousands who
entered it's doors this morning that winter
Is approaching DR., 1almage, with his
usual tact, turned the impression to ac-
count in his sermon, which was on the
text, Jeremiah viii, Z, 1.-THE stork in the
heaven knoweth her appointed times, and
the turtle, and tho crane, and the swallow
observe the time of their coming; hut my
people know not the judgment ofthc Lord"
When God would set fast beautiful
thought he plants it in a tree. When he
would put it ahoat he fashions it into a
fish. When he would have it glide the air
he molds it into bird. My text speaks
of four birds of beautiful instinct-the
stork, of such strong affection that 1t is
allowed Familiarity to come, in Holland and
Germany, and build its nest over the door
way; the sweet dispositioned tUrtledove,
mingling in color white and black and
brown and asheu and chestnut; the crane,
with voice like the clang Of trumpet;
the swallow swift us "a dart shot out Of
the bow OF heaven, falling, mounting,
Swimming, sailing-four birds started by
the prophet twenty-five centuries 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 ycar-aUtumn-imd
the prophet out of doors, thinking of the
impenitenco Of the people Of his day, hears
great cry overhead.
THE PROPHETS OBSERVED NATURE.
Now you know it is no easy thing for
one with ordinary deicacy Of Cyesight to
look into the deep blue of the monday
heaven, but the prophet looks up, and
there are focEs of storks and turtledoycs
and cranes and swallows drawn out in
long lines for Eight southwark. As is their
habit the cranes had arranged themselves
into two lines, making an angela wedge
splitting the air with wild Nelocity-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
lHlu WIS hithNlIh8 HttlNtlio, SlbOIh NpNI
and begins to think how much superior
the birds are in sagacty about their safety
than men about theirs, and he puts his
hand upon the pen and begins to write,
1.-THE stork in the heaven knowcth her APP
pointed times, and the turtle, and thee crane,
and the swallow observe the time Of their
coming; but my people know not the iudg-
ment of the Lord"
II you were in the field today, in the
clump of trees ut the corner Of the field
YOU would see n convention Of birds, noisy
as the American congress the last night
before adjournment, or as the English
parliament when some unfortunate mem
her proposes more economy in the Queens
household convention of birds ali talk
ing Mt once. movingnnd Observation-Disclosures
on the subject of migrntion some propos-
ing to 20 tomorrow, some moving that
thew 90 today. some moving that they 90
to Brazil, some to Florida some to the
tablelands of Mexico. but all unanimous
in the fact that they must no 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
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