The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-31
TIME TO WIN SALVATION.
A LESSON FROM THE SOUTHWARK
FLIGET OF TIE BIRDS.

Exhibit More SsEaCity Than Mortals.
They Obey the Command 20 Move
South Without Moments Loss OF
Hesitation That Loses Man
kind Salvation.
BROOKLYN. N. Y, Oct. 3O.-The 1uttsr
OF bright coiored leaves which every wind
blows from the trees 10 the avenues around
the tabernacle, reminded the thousands
who entered its doors this morning thss
winter was approaching. DIR. Talmags.
with bis usual tact, turned the impression to
account in his sermon, which was on the
text, jeremiah VIII, z: The stork in the
heaven Enoweth her appointed times; aud
the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow
observe the time of their coming; but my
people know nos the Judgment OF the
! Lord
When God would set fast a beautiful
I thought, he plants il In tree. When hs
would put it atoat. he fashions lJ into a Dish.
| When he would have il ghde the air hs
molds it into a bird. My text speaks of
| four birds OF beautiful iustin0t-the stork,
Of such strong affection that il Ia allowed
familiarly 90 come, IN Holland and Ger
many and build its nest over the doorway;
the sweet-dispostioned turse-dove, ming
ling in color white and black and brown
and hshen aud chestnut; the crane, with
voice like the csng OF trumpet the swal-
low. swift as a dart shot out Of the bow OK
heaven, falling, mounting skimming. sail-
ing-fUur birds started by the prophet
twenty-five centuries ago, yet flying on
through the ages, with roUsinZ truth under
glossy wing aud IN the clutch OF stout claw
l suppose it may have been this very season
Of the year autumn--and the prophet ou5
OF doors, thinking OF the impsnitenco Of
the people of hts day, hears a great cry
overhead
Now, you know it is no easy thing for one
with ordinary delcacy OF eyesight 70 look
into the deep blue OF the MONDAY heaven;
but the prophet looks up, and there are
tiocks Of storks, and turtle-doyes, and
cranes, and swallows, drawn out in long
| lines for flight southu ard As is their habit,
the cranes had arranged themselves into
| two lines making an angle, wedge split.
| ting the Air with wild velocity, tho old
| crane, with commanding call bidding them
| onward; while the towns, and the cities,
and the continents 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
arc in sRgacity about their safety than men
about theirs; and be puts his hand upon tina
zen and begins to write: "fhe 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 tee Judgment OF the
Lord"
IL you were In the field to~day, in the
olump OF trees at the corner OF the field, you
would see q convention OF birds, noisy as
the American ougreBa the last night before
/ adjournment, or as the English parlament
| whom some unfortunate member proposes
more economy In the queens households
! convention or birds all talking at once,
meVipg and passing resolutions on the sub
| ject OF migration; some proposing TO go TO-
morrow, some moving that they 20 to-day.
sone moving that they 20 to Brazil, SONS
20 Florida, some TO the table lands Of Mexico,
bus ELL unanimous in the fact that they
must so soon, for they have marching or
dsrs from the Lord, written on the first
white sheet OF the frost, aud In the
pictorial OF the changing leaves.
There Is not a belted kinghsher, or q
chafiineh, or a iire-crested wren, or ployer,
or red-legRed partridge but expects to
spend the winter at the south, for the apart
rnents 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 Jan-
uAry. Farewell, bright plumaeel Until
spring weather, away Fly on. great band
| OF heA penly musicians! Strew the conti-
nents with music and whether from north-
ern fields, or Carolinian swAmps, or Bra
| lillian groves men sec your wings, or hear
| your voice, may they bsthink themselves
! OF the solemn words OF the text; The
stork In the heaven knOweth her appointed
! times; aud 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 go far AS God may help me,
this morning. carrying out the idea OF tne
text, 60 show that the birds Of the air have
more sagacity than men. Aud begin by
particularziDg and saying that they mingis
| music with thelr work. The most serious
undertaking Of birds life is this annual
| travel from tho Hudson to the Amazon,
! from the Thames to the Nile Naturalisls
! tell us that they arrive there thin, aud
! weary, and plumsge rutiisd and vet they
| go singing all the way; the ground, the
| lower line Of the music, the sky, the upper
! line of the music, themselves. the notes scat
| tered up and down between. / suppose
| their song gives elasticity to their wing,
and helps on with the journey. dwind-
| ling a thousand miles into four hundred.
| Would God that we were as wise as they
In minREng Christian song with our every
| day work / believe 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 disRgresable work Of our life,
aud set it TO the tune OF "AntioohV or
Mount Pisgah"
| 1t 10 COCO blRu when you near u WOrk-
man whistle. II is a better sign when you
hear him hum roundelay. 1t is a still bet
ter sign when you hear him sing tue words
| of Isaac Waits or Charles Wesley. A violin
ohorded and strung, if something accident
ally strike 10, 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. do noE believe that the power
! of Christian song has yet been fully tried.
| | believe that il you could roll the 'Old
| Hundred doxology through Wall street, it
would put All end TO any financial disturb
auce! I believe that the discords, and the
| sorrows, and the sins OF the world are to be-
swept out by heaven-born halleluiahs.
Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated mu-
| sician, why ne always composed such cheers
full music. "Why, be said. al can't do other
wise. When think Of God my soul ia SO
| full Of Joy that the notes leap and dance
from my pen" ! wish we might all exuib
melodiously before the Lord. With God
| for our father, aud Christ for our savior,
! aud heaven for our home, and Angels for
future companions, and eternity for life
time, we should strike all the notes Of joy.
! Going 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
] thia autunnaI air laarn alVaya M kaar,