Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-01-20

care over her young rs GoTs wings nave
been over us. Across what oceans of trouble
we have gone in safety upon the Almighty
winzs From wnat mountains OF sin we
have been carried and at times have been
borne up far above tia gunshot of the world
and the arrow OF the devil
When our time on earth is closed on these
great wings Of God we shall speed with In
finite quickness from earth's mountains to
heavens hills, and as from the eagles cir
cult under the sun men on the ground seom
small and insignificant as lizards on rock,
so all earthly things shall dwindle into
speck, and the raging river OF death so far
beneath will seem smooth and CLASSY as
Swiss lake.
Il was thought In ancient times that an
eagle could not only mott its feathers in old
age, but that after arriving to great ageit
wouli renew its strength and become en-
tirey young again. To this Isaiah aludes
when he says: "They that wait on the Lord
shall renew their strength. They shall
mount 10 with wings of eagles" Even so
the Christian in old age will renew bis spirit
ual strength. he shall be young in arior
and enthusiasm for Christ, and as the body
fails the soul will grow in elasticity till at
death it will spring up like gladdened child
into the bosom of Col.
Yea, i'll this archaeological study | see
that JOB says, "dis DAYS hy as an eagle that
hasteth to his prey.n The speed Of hungry
eazie wheu it saw its pray a score OK miles
distant was unimaginabe. 1t went IKE
thuuderbolt for spes1 AMI power. so ny
our days. Sixty minutes, each worth
heaven, since we assem- bled in this place
have shot like lightning into eternity. Inc
old earth is rent and cracked under the
swift rush of days and months and years
c,,I ro,,cf0o1 70 ofa fA wal
come the illuminated wings AMI the voices
divinely drilled into the first chapter OF
Genises. How should Noah, the old ship
carpenter, 600 years OF age, find out wnen
the world was fit again for human residence
after the universal freShets A bird viii
tell. and nothing else can. No man can
come down from the mountain 10 lnvite
Noah and his family cut to terra frma, LOT
the mountains we're submerged. AS a Dird
first heralded the human race INTO tne
world. now bird will help the human race
back to the world that had shipped sea
that whelmed everything.
Noah stands on Sunday morning at the
window of the arr, in his nand cooins
dove so GENTLE SO innocent so affec:ionate,
and he said: Now, my little dove, ny away
over these waters, explore and come DacK
and tell us whether it is safe to land" After
a long fight it returned hungry AMI weary
and wet. and by its LOOKS and manners SAID
to Noah and his family: THE worl1 IS not
fit for YOU to disembark." Noah waited
week. and next Sunday morning no let tne
cove fly again for second exploration, ana
Sun .ay evening it came back with lear
that mad the sign of just having been
p!uckei from a living fruit tree. and Inc
bird reported the world would do tolerably
well for bird to live in, but not yet SUM-
GENTLY recovered for human residence.
Noah waited another week, and next sun
day morning he sent out the dove on tns
third exploration, but IL returned not. Tor IL
fonnd the world so attractive now 1t did not
want TO be caoei again, and then the
emjcrants from the antediluvian world
landed. 1t was bird that told them when
11fa out of tho wool OF the sueso IRON tne
nast1re field. Upholstered by leaves acCuaiiy
sawed torether by its owl SHARP oiii' Ou'u'
toned vita feathers from Its own breast
Mortared together vita tas gum OF Tree
and the saliva OF its own tiny bill. euci
symmetry, such adaptation, suca con'ehi
ence. such geometry OF structure:
Surely these nests were puiit ny son son
plan. they did not happen JUST SO; TX
drafted tae plan for the b,rVs nesCf ood
And do you not think that IL ne plans t S~O,
a house for a chaf1nch, for an oriole, ior
bobolfnk. for a sparrow, He will see 10
that YOU always have homer "Is are o
mora value than many sparrows." " nat
ever else surrounds you, you can have VIVA
the Bible calls "the feathers of thu AZ
miobrvn Inst thSpk OF, nest ike that tn
wa1mth Of IL the sSttness If it, tho safetl
of 1.-THE feathers Of the i!mighty.",
No hamingo outfiashius~' - tropica SUD
sst over nad sucn DrilhancJ. ~ 2inion; M
robin redbreast ever hal pluurase, dasns'
with such crimson an purple am orang
and gold-s'the feathers OF ths AinalgnOy..
DO YOU not feel the touca OF toem nov o.
forehead aud cheek ana spirit, anu was D t,es
ever such tenderness OF Drooa,ng; IN
fa,thars of tbs AlmlgatyY 80 also Id tnl
leI;tSt Of this Bible Col keeps i'm
nressinp us with the anatomy OF piri
wing. -, poo,, aim 4
To the wng-"Wings OF a dove" wing
" the morning" 7'Wlnys OF the vino,
% "sn Sn Of righteousness with healing in n
~ u "Winos of the Almighty" "A
s ~m ~ every wing" What docs It
80 II SUGGESTS uplifting. 1t tells 20
lneau inward. 1t means to remind 20
tnat yon Yourself have wings. DaVia erie
o,,t SOI. that | had wings ike dove, tna
7 might fy away and BE- at rest! Inali
Col that you have better wings 'na ~ on al
dove of longest or swittesS nignO' Oase
now In bars of flesh are those wings, one q y
d do~ comes 20 o when tney will be liberated. r.
ready for ascension. Take the wor3s OF .t 81
old HYMN, aud to the tune unto wnicn 'n'
HYMN is married sing:
RISE, my soul and stretch thy wing
Thy peter portion trace.
Up out of these lowlands into the neavel
~ bIoher experience and wider prospec
Rut now shall we riser Oaly as GoPs no.
s Sdr gives US strength But that is HomiI
now. Not as a condor from a Oninp oi,a
n nest swooplng upon the affrightet vale
p put at a dove IKE that waica put its sc
brown wings over the wet LOCKS OF Cnris s.,
She baptism in tae Jordon. Dove Oh sen'i
nessl Dove Of peace!
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