The Dickinson press., 1892-03-19
ANYONE CAN COME
.Dirds Of Every Feather" Will Make
Up tho Heavenly King
dom.
There Will Be White, and Black and
Red, in Fact Every Cline and
Race Will Be Represented.

Brooklyn, N. Y. Especial. THE con-
Rregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle
sang with fervor the hymn beginning:
My faith looks up to thee
Thou Lamb of Calvary.
Dr.. Talmage's subject vas the refuge
offered by the Christian religion to
people OF all ages and every variety OF
character. Histext was: Ezekiel, XVII,
20; "a goodly cedar and it shall
dwell all fowl of every wing"
The cedar of Lebanon is a royal
tree. 1t stands 5000 feet above the
level Of the sea. A missionary count
cd the concentric circles, and found
one tree $500 years old-longrooted,
broad branches, all year in luxuriant
foliage. The same branches that bent
in a hurricane that David saw sweep
ing over Lebanon, rock to-day over
thehead ofthe American traveller. This
monarch Of the forest, with it's leafy
fingers, plucks the honors OF q thou
sand years, and sprinkles them upon
its own uplifted brow, as though
some great hallaluiah OF heaven had
been planted upon Lebanon, and it
were raising up with all OF its long
armed strength to take hold OF the
hills whence it came. Oh! what a fine
place for birds to nest in! In hot days
they come thither-the eagle, thedove,
the swallow, the sparrow, and the
raven. There is, to many OF us, a
complete facination in the structure
and habits OF birds. They seem
NOT MORE OF EARTH THAN HEAVEN.
ever vaccillating between the two.
No wonder that Audubon. with his
gun, tramped through all the Amer
lean forests in search OF new speci,
mems. Biologists have spent years in
finding the track OF a birds claw in
the red sandstone. There is enough
OF Gods architecture in a snipe's bill
or q grouse's foot to confound all the
universities. Musicians have, witt
cleft and bars, tried to catch the
sound OF the nightingale and robin
Amongthe first things that achild no
tices is a swallow at the caves; anC
grandfather goes out with handfulo
crumbs to feed the snow-birds. The
Bible is full OF ornitholoeical illusions
The birds Of the Bible are not deat
stuffed. like those of the museum, bu,
living birds, with tluttering wings ant
plumage. "Behold the fowls OF tn,
air." says Christ. Though thou ex
alt thyself as the eagle, andthough tho,
set thy nest among the stars, theme
will | bringthee down." exclaims Oba
diah. "Gavest thou the goodly wing
to the peacock" says Job. Davi,
describes his desolation by saying, :"
am like a pelican of the wilderness;
am like an owl Of the desert; ! watch
and am as the sparrow alone upol
the housetop." "Yea, the stork in tn
heaven knowcth her appointed time
and the turtle, and the crane, and tn,
swallow observed the time OF thei
coming; but my people know not tn,
Judgment of the Lord"-So saws Jere
miah.
Ezekiel in my text intimates tina
Christ is the cedar, and the peopl
from all quarters are the birds tina
lodge among the branches. at shall
be q goodly cedar, and under it shall
dwell all fowl of every wing" AS il
Ezekiel's time, so now
CHRIST is AGOODLY CEDAR,
and to him are flying all kinds O
people-young and old, rich and poor
men h%igh-soaring as h eleagle, thos
fierce as the raven, and those gentl
as the dove. "All fowl OF ever,
wing"
First, the young may come. OF til
1891 years that have passed sine
Christ came, about 1,6OO have bee
wasted by the good in. INSTRUCTED Ell
forts. Until Robert Raikes came
there was no organized effort TO
saving the young. We spend all GU
strength trying to bend old trees
when a little lpressure would hav
been sufficient for the sapling. w
let men go down to the very bolton
of sin before WI try to lift them up. |
is a great deal easier to keep a trail
on the track than to get it on when j
is of. The experienced reinsmuI
checks the fiery steed at the frs
jump, for when he gets i
full swing, the swift hoof
clicking fire from the pavement
and the bit between his teeth, his me
mentum is irresistible. 1t is said tina
the young must be allowed to so,
their "wild oats" l have notice
that those who SOW their wild oat
seldom try TO raise any other kind c
crop. There are two opposite destir
les. II you are going to heaven 20
had better take the straightroad, an
not try togo to Boston by the way {
New Orleans. What is to be the hi.
tory of this multitude of young pee
pie around me to-day? / will TAX
you by the hand and show you aglol
ious sunrise. l will not whine abou
this thing, nor groan about j
but come, young men and mait
ems, Jesus wants you. His hand
love; his voice is music; His smile
heaven. Religion will put no han,
cuffs on your wrist, no hobbies o
your feet,
NO BRAND ON YOUR FOREHEAD.
Again: ~ remark that the old ma
come. You say: Suppose a ma
has to 60 on clutches; suppose he
blind, suppose he is deaf; supposed tina
nine-tenths of his life has been was1
cd" Then l answer, Come wit
crutches; come, old men, blind an
deaf, come to Jesus. Ii you woul
sweep your hand around before you
blind eyes, the first thing you woul
touch would be the Cross. 1t is har
for an aged man or woman to hav
grown old without religion. Thei
taste is gone. The peach and the crap
have lost their flavor. They say tina
somehow fruit does not taste as i
used to. Their hearing gets defective
and they miss a great deal that i
said in their presence. Their friend
have all gone and everybody seems Sc
strange. The world seems to go ava,
from them, and they are left all alone
They begin to feel in the way wheI
you come into the room where the,
are; and thew move their chat