The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-15
FOWLS OF EVERY WING
That Cluster Under the Royal Ce-
dars of Lebanon.
There All the Dying VIII Find Their Nest
Over Them Are "the Feathers OF the
Almighty"-Sermon by Rev. Il.
Dewitt Talmage, ID. ID.


variety of character. His text was
Ezekiel xvii, 90. "A goodly cedar and
under it shall dwell all fowl of every
wing"
The cedar Of Lebanon is a royal tree.
II stands 5000 feet above the level OF
the sea. A missionary counted the con-
centric circles, and found one tree $500
years old-long-rooted broad branches,
all the year in luxuriant foliage.
The same branches that bent in the
hurricane that David saw sweeping
over Lebanon, rock to-day over the
head of the American traveller. This
monarch of the forest, with its leafy
fingers, plucks the honors of thou
sand years, and sprinkles chem upon
its own uplifted brow. as though some
great hallelujah of Heaven had been
planted upon Lebanon, and it were ris-
ing up with all its long-armed strength
to take hold of the hills whence it
came. oh! what fine place for birds
to nest in. In hot days they come
thither-the eagle, the dove, the swal-
low, the sparrow and the raven. There
is to many of us complete fascination
in the structure and habits of birds
They seem not more of earth than of
Heaven-even vascillating between the
two No wonder that Audubon, with
his gun, tramped through all of the
American forests in search of new spec
linens.
Biologists have spent years in finding
the track of birds claw in the new
red sandstone. There is enough of
Gods architecture in n snipe's bill or
grouse's foot to confound all the uni
versities. Musicians have with clefs
and bars, tried to catch the sound of
the nightingale and robin Among the
first thing that a child notices is swal-
low at the caves, and grandfather goes
out with a handful of crumbs to feed
the snow birds The Bible is full of
archaeological illusions. The birds of
the Bible are not dead and stuffed, like
those of the museum, but living birds,
with fluttering wings and plumage.
"Behold the fowls of the air." says
Christ Though though exalt myself
as the eagle, and though thou set thy
nest among the stars, thence will
bring thee down." eXclaims Obadiah.
"Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the
peacocks?" says job David describes
his desolation by saying: II am like
pelican of the wilderness; | am like an
owl of the desert; watch, and am as a
sparrow alone upon the housetop ""Yea,
the stork in the heaven knoweth her
appointed time; and the turtle, and the
crane, and the swallow observe the
time of their coming; but my people
L. 81 ii NJ IN
so says jeremiah.
Ezekiel in my text intimates that
Christ is the cedar, and the people from
all quarters are the birds that lodge
among the branches. 1T shall be
goodly cedar, and under it shall dwell
the fowl OF every, wing" AS in Eze-
kiel's time. so now-Christ is a goodly
cedar and to him are flying all kinds of
people-young and old, rich and poor;
men high-soaring as the eagle, those
fierce as the raven, and those gentle as
the dove. "All fowls of every wing"
First, the young may come. OF the
1,S02 years that have passed since Christ
came, about 900 have been wasted by
the good in instructed efforts. Until
Robert RaiIes came there was no or
ganized effort for saving the young.
We spend all our strength trying to
bend old trees when little pressure
would have been sufficient for the sap
ping. We let men go down to the
very bottom of sin before we try to lift
them up 1t is great deal easier to
keep n train on the track than to get it
on when it is off. The experienced reins-
man checks the fiery steed at the
first jump. for when he gets in
full swing the swift hoofs, click
ing fire from the pavement and
the bt between his teeth, his
momentum is irresistible. 1t is said
that the young men must be allowed to
SOW their wild oats" l have noticed
that those who SOW their wild oats sell
dom try to raise any other kind of crop.
There are two opposite destinies If
you are going to Heaven you had better
take the straight road, and not try to
go to Boston by way of New Orleans,
What is to be the history OF this multi
tude Of young people around me to-day"
/ will take you by the hand and show
you glorious sunrise. / will not whine
about this thing, nor groan about It;
but come, young men and maidens, .Ie-
sus wants you. His hand is love; His
voice is music; His smile is Heaven Re-
ligion will put no handouts on your
wrists, no hopples on your feet no
brand on your forehead.
l went through the heaviest snow
storm have ever known to see n dying
girl Her cheek on the pillow was as
white as the snow on the easement.
Her large. round eye had not lost any