Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-10
THEY FLY SOUTHWARK.
DR.. TALMA0E TAKES THE BIRDS
FOR HIS TEXT,
Lessons That Mankind May Learn
From Wherein Birds Of
the Air Have More Sauaclty
Than Man.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Special.-The
fiutter of bright colored leaves which
every wind blows from the trees in the
avenues around the Tabernacle, re-
minded the thousands who entered
its doors that winter was approach
ing. DR.. Talmage, turned the impress
sion to account in his sermon, which
was on the text, jeremiah viii, 7:
"The stork in the Heaven knoweth her
appointed time; and the turtle dove,
and the crane, and the swallow OBJ
serve the time OF their coming; but my
peope know not the Judgment of the
Lord.
When God had set fast beautiful
thought, he ants it in tree. When
he would pu, it af1oat, he fashions it
into q fish. When he would have it
glide the air, he moulds it into a bird.
My text speaks OF four birds OF a BEAU
tiful instinct-the stork, OF such
strong affection that it, is allowed
Familiarity to come, in Holland and
Germany, and build it's nest
over the doorway, the sweet dispo-
sitioned turtle dove, mingling in color
white, and black and brown, and
ashen, and chestnut; the crane, with
voice like the clang of q trumpet; the
swallow, swift as dart shot out OF
the bow OF heaven, falling, mounting,
slimming, sailing-four birds started
by the prophet 25 centuries ago, yet
flying on through the ages, with rous
ing 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 q
GREAT CRY OVERHEAD.
Now, you know it IS no easy thing
for one with ordinary delicacy OF eye
sight to look into deep blue of the
monday heaven; but the prophet
looks up, and tere are focks OF
storks, and turtle doves, and cranes,
and swallows drawn out in long lines
for fight southwark. As is their hab-
it, the cranes had arranged themselves
into two lines making an angle, q
wedge splitting the air with wild veloc-
ity, the Old cranes, with commanding
call bidding them onward; while the
towns, and the cities, and the CONT
nents slid under them. The prophet,
almost blinded from looking into the
dazzling heavens, stoops down and be-
gins to think how much superior the
birds are in sagacity about their safe
ty than men about theirs; and he
puts h band 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 time of their coming; but
my people know not the Judgment of
the Lord"
propose, so far as God may help
me, this morning, carrying out the
idea Of the text, to show that birds of
the cir have
MORE sAGACiTY THAN MEN.
And | begin by particularizing and
saying that they mlngle music with
their work. The most serious under
taking OF q birds life is this annual
travel from the Hudson to the Anna
zon, from the Thames to the Nile
CCll no ClltIU LucJ
there thin, and weary, and plum"ge
rufiled, and yet they 60 singing all the
way; the ground, the. lower line OF the
music, the sky, the upper line of the
music, themselves, the notes scattered
up and down between ! suppose
their song gives elasticity to their
wing, and helps on with the journey,
dwindling q thousand miles into four
hundred. Would God that we were as
wise as they in mingling Christian
song with our every day work! be-
lieve there is such thing as taking
the pitch OF Christian devotion in the
morning, and keeping it all the day.
think we might take some OF the
dullest, heaviest, most disagreeable
work of our life, and set it to the tune
of "Antioch" or mount Pisgah."
1t is q good eign when you hear a
workman whistle. 1t is better sign
when you hear him hum q roundeIay.
It is q still better sign when you hear
him sing the words of Isaac Watts or
Charles Wesley. Ayiolin chorded and
strung, if something accidentally
strike it, makes music, and l suppose
there is such q thing as having our
hearts so attuned by divine grace,
that even the rough collisions OF life
will make a heavenly vibration. do
not believe that the power OF Chris
tan song has yet been fully tried. I
believe that ii you could roll the
"Old Hundred" doxoIogy through
Wall street it would put an end to
ANY FINANCIAL DISTURBANCE!
Isbelieve that the discords, and the
sorrows ard the SINS of the world are
to be swept out by heaven born hal
lelujahs. Some one asked Haydn, the
celebrated musician, why he always
composed such cheerful music.
"Why," he said, 81 can't do other
wise. When think of God my soul
is so full OF Joy that the notes leap and
dance from my PEN" wish we might
all exult melodiously before the Lord.
With God for our Father and Christ
for our Savior, and heaven for our
homo opd oroo1e for f,1turo oonran. !