The Dickinson press., 1892-11-12

THEY FLY SOUTHWARK.
DR.. TALAAGE TAKES THE BIRDS
FOR HIS TEXT.
Lessons That Mankind May Learn
From Them--Wherein Birds OF
the Air Have More SaRaclty
Than Man.
BRooKLSS, n. ", special.-The
f1utter 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. DIR. Talmage, turned the impress
sion to account in his sermon, which
was on the text, jeremiah viii, Z:
"The stork in the Heaven knoweth her
appointed time; ana the turtle dove,
and the crane, and the swallow OBJ
serve the time OF their coming; but my
people know not the judgment OF the
Lord.
When God had set fast beautiful
thought, he Wants it in a tree. When
he would put it atloat, 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 ola beau
tiful instinct-the stork, OF such
strong affection that it is allowed
Familiarity to come, in Holland and
Germany, and build its 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 us Il dart shot out OF
the bow of heaven. falling, mounting,
skimming, sailing-four birds started
by the prophet 25 centuries ago, yet
flying on through the ages, with rous.
ing truth under glossy wing and III 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
| 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 there are ilocks OF
storks, and turtle doves, and cranes,
and swallows drawn out i'll long lines
for flight 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 conti-
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 his hand 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 air have
MORE sAGACITY THAN MEN.
And | begin by particularizing and
saying that they mingle music with
their work. The most serious under
taking OF q birds life is this annual
travel from the Hudson to the ANA
zon, from the Thames to the Nile.
Naturalists tell us that they arrive
there thin, and weary, and plumage
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 i'll 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 81 gn when you hear q
workman whistle. 1t is a better sign
when you hear him hum roundelay.
1t is 6 still better sign when you hear
him sing the words OF Isaac Watts or
Charles Wesley. Ayiolin chorded and
strung, ii something accidentally
strike it, makes music, and / suppose
there is such a thing as having our
hearts SO attuned by divine grace
that even the rough collisions OF life
will make heavenly vibration. dc
not believe that the power OF Chris
tian song has yet been fully tried.
believe that ii you could roll tht
"Old Hundred doxoIogy through
Wall street it would put an end to
ANY FINANCIAL DISTURBANCE!
I.believe that the discords, and thu
sorrows and the sins of the world arr
lelujahs. Some one asked Haydn, tn,
CeieOidleu WuSlCiau, why lie AWAY!
composed such cheerful music
"Why," he said, 81 can't do other
wise. When think OF God my sou
is so full of Joy that then leap ant
dance from my pen" wish we nigh
all exult melodiously before the Lord
With God for our Father and Chris
for our Savior, and heaven for ou
home, and angels for future compan
ions, and eternity for a lifetime, W
should strike all the notes of 10y
Going through the wilderness of thi
world let us remember that we are O.
IL e way to the summary cline O
heaven, and from the migratory pop
ulations flying through this autumna
air learn always to keep singing.
The church OF God never will be
triumphant church until it becomes
singing church
go further and remark that tn
birds OF the air are wiser than we, il
the fact that. in their migration, the