The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-11-10
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE DRAWS ALESSON FROM
THE MIGRATORY BIRDS.

Warned bv Divine Instinct They StretcE
Their Wings Toward the South, but
| Man in the Pride of His Intellect Dis.
regards n Greater Warning.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 30.-The ilutter o
bright colored leaves which every wind
blows from the trees in the avenues
a. ound the Tabernacle reminded the
thousands who entered 1t doors this
morning that winter is approaching
DR.. Taimage, with his usual tact,
turned the impression TO account IN his
sermon, which was ON the text, Jere-
miah viii, 7, "The stork in the heaven
knoWelh 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 1t atloat 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
it is allowed familiarity TO come, in Hol-
land aud Germany, and build its nest
over the doorway; the sweet dlsposi.
toned turtledove, mingling in color
white and black and brown and ashen
and chestnut; the crane, with voice ike
the claGg of q trumpet; the swallow, swift
as dart shot out of the bow of heaven,
falling, mounting, skimming, sailing
four birds started by the prophet twen-
ty-llve centuries ago, yet flying on
through the ages, with rouslng truth
under glossy wing and in the clutch of
stout claw. suppose it may have
been THIS very season Of The ycar-aut-
umn-and the prophet out of doors,
thinking OF the impenltence Of the peo-
pie OF his day, hears great cry over.
head.
Now you know it is no easy thing for
one with ordinary dellcacy of eycsight
to look into the deep blue Of the noon
day heaven, but the prophet looks up,
and there are tlocks of storks and tur-
tledoves and cranes and swallows drawn
out in long lines for flight southwark
AS is their habit. the cranes had arrang-
ed themselves into two lines, making an
angela wedge splitting the air with
wild velocity-the old crane, with COM
mandng call, bidding them onward,
while the towns, and the cities, and the
continents slid under them. The pro-
phet. almost blinded from looking into
the dazzling heavens, stoOps down aud
begins TO think how much superior the
birds are in sagacity about their safety
than men about theirs, and he puts his
hand upon the pen and be gins 10 write,
No
appointed times, and the turtle, and the
| crane, and the swallow observe the
time Of their coming; but my people
KIN wv not the Judgment of the Lord"
If you were in the field today, IN the
clump of trees at the corner OF the field
you would see q convention of birds,
noisy os the American congress Tie last
night before adjournment, or as the
English parliament when some unfor-
tunate member proposes m )re 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 tomor-
row, some moving that they 60 today,
some moving that they go to Brazil,
some to Florida, some TO the tablclands
of Mexico, but all unanimous in the
fact that they must so soon, ior they
have marching orders from the Lord,
written on the first white sheet OF the
frost and in the pictorial of the chang
ing leaves.
There is not bclttd kinglisher, or a
chatlinCh, or a fire CT ested wren, or q
plover, or red legged partridge but ex.
poets to spend the winter at the sou.h,
Tor 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.
| we'll, bright plumage! Until spring
weather, away! Fly on, great band OF
heavenly musicians! Strew the CONT
nents with music, and whether from
northern fields, or Carollnian swamps,
or brazilian groves men see your wings
or hear your voice, may they bethink
themselves OF the solemn words of the
| text, The stork IN The heaven know
eth her appointed times, and the turtle,
aud the crane, and the swallow observe
the time of their coming; but my peo-
pie know noc the judgment of the Lord"
propose, so tar as God may help
hiS, Iiilo ilolulpS, ChII pluS OuI IIlC luCa
| OF the text, to show that the birds of
the air have more sagaclty thau men.
And begin ty parlicularIzins and say.
ing that they mingie music with their
work. The most serious undertaking
Ola BIRDS life is this annual travel from
the Hudson to the Amazon, from the
Thames to the Nile. Naluralists tell
us that they arrive there thin and weary
and plumage rutAed, and yet they 90
singing all the way; the ground, the
lower line of the music; the sky, the up.
per 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 thousands milos
into four hundred. Would to God that
we were as wise as they in mingling
Christian song with our everyday work!
L believe there is such q thing as taking
the pitch of Christian devotion in the
morniug and keeping it all the day.
think we might take sCme of tho dull.
est, heaviest, most dsa9reeable work
OF our lie and set it TO the tune If tAn-
tiOch" or "Mount Pisgah."