Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-31
4 WISER THAN WE
Feathery Songsters That Fly to
Their Home in the South.
EY CAROL IN THEIR FLIGHT,
High and Know When to- Escape the
Killing Northern Frosts.
IMAGES LATEST SUNDAY SERMON

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ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.I
BRooKLYN, Oct 30.-Dr. Talmage's text
is morning was Jeremiah 81: ''The
ork in the heaven knoweth her appointed
NE; and the turtle, and the crane, and the
wallow observe the time of their coming;
ut my people knoweth not the judgment
:he Lord
hen God would set fast a beautiful
lght He plants it in q tree. When He
Ilo put it afioat He fashions it into fish.
en- He would have it glide the air He
ulds it into a bird. My text speaks OF
II birds of beautiful instinct-the stork,
such strcng affection that 1t is al
wed Familiarity to come, in Holland
I'd Germany, and build its nest over
le doorway; the sweet-dispositioned
urtle dove, mingling in color white,
ana black, and brown, and ashen, and
chestnuf the crane, with voice like the
clang of a trumpet; the swallow, swift as q
Dart shot out of the bow of heaven, falling,
mounting, sklmIqing, sailing-four birds
started by the prdphet % centuries ago. yet
nylng on through the ages. with rousing
truth under glossy wing and in the
clutch of stout claw
The prophet, almost blinded from looking
INTO the dazzling heavens. stoops down and
begins to think how much superior the birds
are in sagacity about their safety than men
ABOUT theirs. 1 propose, so tar as God may
help me, this morning, carrying out the idea
OF the text, to show that the birds of the air
nave more sagacity than men. And begin
~ particularizIng and saying that they
mlnsie music with their work.
Why Birds and Men Sing.
/ suppose their song gives elasticity to
their wing, and helps on with the journey,
dwindling a thousand miles into four hun
dred. Would God that we were as wise as
they in mingIing Christian song with our
every day work! l believe there is such
thing as taking the pitch of Christian devo-
tion in the morning, ana keeping it all the
day. / think We might take some of the
luiiest, heaviest most disagreed BILE work of
bur life, and set it to the tune of Antioch"
or"Mount Pisgah. 1t is good sign when you
hear q workman whistle. 1t is a better sign
when YOU hear him hum a roundelay- 1t is
still better sign VIXEN you hear him sing
the words of Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley.
do not believe that the power of Chris
Rs sgng mas yet conS 6gen lng fe @ Hun
dred" doxology through Wall street, 1t
would put end to any financial disturb
Rnce! 1 believe that the discords, and the
SORROWS, and the sins of the world are to be
swept out by heaven-Oorn hallelujahs! Go
Ing through the wilderness OF this world,
let us remember that we are on the way to
the summery cline of heaven, and from the
migratory populations flying through this
autumnal air learn always to keep singing.
The Church of God will never be tri-
umphant church until it becomes singing
church.
Flying High and Straight to the Mark
go further, and remark that the birds Of
the air are wiser than we, in the fact that, in
their migration, they fly very high. During
the summer, when they in the fields,
they often come within reach of the gun:
but when they start for the annual flight
southward, they take their places and go
straight as an arrow to the mark. We NY so
low tnat we are within easv range of the
world, the flesh, and the devil. We are
brought down by temptations that ought
not to come within q mile of reaching us.
So poor is the type of piety in the Church
of God now, that men actually caricature
the idea that there is any such thing as q
higher life. Moles never did believe in
eagles. But, my brethren, because We have |
not reached these heights ourselves, shall |
we deride the fact that there are any such
heights?
We go out and we conquer our tempta- |
tions by the grace of God, and lie down. On |
the morrow those temptations rally them
selves and attack us. and by the grace of
God we defeat them again; but staying all |
the time in the Ole encampment we haye the |
same old battle to d ,ht over. Why not whip |
out our temptations and then forward
march. making one raid through the
eneIny's country, stopping not until we |
break ranks after the last victory? DO, my |
brethren, let us have some novelty of COM |
1t, at any rate by changing, by going on,
making advancement, trading of our
ale prayers about sins we ought to have
Git long ago, going on toward higher
tate OF Christian character and routing out
ms that we nave never thought of yet.
The Birds Fly Before the Frosts.
Again, 1 remark that the birds of the air
re wiser than we, because they know when
start. If you should go out now and
iout. ''Stop, suorks and cranes, don't be in
huIry!" they would say, "No, we cannot
top; last night we heard the roaring in the
goods bidding us away, and the shrill flute
the north wind has sounded the retreat"
We say, "Wait until it is a little later in |
The season of mercy. Wait until some of |
these green leaves OF hope are all dried up !
nd have been scattered. Walt until next |
ar" After a while we start, and it is too |
q, and we perish in the way when Gods 4
lth is klndled but little. There are you |
Nv, exceptional cases where birds have !
rted too late. and in the morning you |
Ee found them dead on the snow. And |
re are those who have persisted halfway |
tween the world and Christ. They waited /
til the last sickness. when the mind was |
me, or they were on the express train |
ling 1t 40 miles an hour, and they came to !
re bridge and the draw was up" and they |
ent down.
some of you have felt the pinching frost |
sin. YOu feel it to-day. You are not |
tppy. look into your faces, and know
on are not happy. There are voices within !
our soul that Will not be silenced, telling /
ou that yOu are sinners, and that without !
.he pardon o. God you are undone forever.
What are you going to do my friends, with |
the accumulated tranSgresslons OF this life |
time? VIII you stand still and let the ava /
lanche tumble over you? Oh that You would |
20 away into the warm heart or Gods mercy. |
The southern grove, redolent with magnolia |
aud cactus, never waited Tor Northern flocks |
rs GOD has waited Tor you. !
Left All Alone in fhe Cold
Another frost is bidding you away-it is
the frost of sorrow. Where do you live now? |
''Oh," you say, 81 have moved" Why did |
you move? You say, II don't want as large |
u house now as formerly" Why do you not |
ant as large a house? Yen say, My family !
not so large." Where have they gone to? |
Eternityy Your mind goes back through |
that last sickness and through the almost |
supernatural effort TO save life, and through |
those prayers that seemed unavailing, and |
through that kiss which received no re- |
sponse because the lips were lifeless, and |
hear the bells tolling and hear the hearts |
breaking-while speak, hear them break. |
a heart! Another heart! Alone! alone! |
alone,
You may have noticed that when the |
chaffinch or the stork or the crane starts on |
ijs migration, it calls all those of its kind to
come, too. The tree-tops are full OF chirp |
and whistle and carol and the long roll.call. |
The bird does not start OF alone. 1t gathers |
all of its kind. Oh, that you might be as |
Use in this migration to heaven, and that /
You might gather all your families and your |
friends with you! ] would that Hannah |
might take Samuel by the hand, and ADra- |
ham might take Isaac, and Hagar might |
take lshmael.
children with you. Come thou and all |
tNv house into the ark. Tell your little