The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-20
AI0,,G THE BIRDS.
d.. Te.n7ce Discoursss on the Or
anthology CT the Bible.
lessons Taught by the Fowls OF the Air
The f'arfriiSa and the Fate Of Fraud
The >peckled Ei,d-The Eagle
and the Almighty.

in 4 late d iscourse took for his subject
the ''OrnitholOgv Of the Bible; or, God
Among the Birds" The text was Mat
thew. VI %: Behold the fowls of the
air lie said:
There is silence now in all our Janu-
airy forests. except as the wind whistles
through the bare branches Our north
-eru woods are deserted concert halls
The organ lofts in the temple Of nature
are hyrnuless Trees which We're full
of carol and chirp and chant are now
waiting for the coming back of rich
plumes and wa-bling voices, solos,
duets quartets, caatatas and TIE
Deums. But the Bible Is full Of
birds at all seasons. and prophets and
patriarchs and apostles aud evaugel-
lists and Christ himself employ them
for moral and religious purposes Ny
text Is an extract from the Sermon on
the Mount. aud perhaps it was at a
moment when flock OF birds few past
that Christ waved his hand toward
them. and said: Behold the fowls of
the air" And 81, in this course Of SER
mons On God Everywhere l preach
20 you this third sermon concerning
the 0r8jtholOgv of the Bible. or God
Among the Birds"
Most OF the other sciences you may
study o. not study as you please. Use
Your own Judgment. exercise your own
taste. Bus aoOut this science of or
anthology We have 10 option The
divine command Is positive when it SAYS
in my text. Behold the fowls Of the
air. That Is, study their habits. Ex-
anime their colorS. Notice their speed
See the hand q God IN their c0nstruc-
ton They are almost human, for they
have their loves and hates. afinities and
antiPathies. understand JOY and grief,
have coujuEal and maternal instinct,
wage wars and entertain jealousies,
have language OF their own and pow
crs q association.
II Is useless - expect 70 understand
the Bible unless we study natural his
tory. Five hundred and ninety-three
times does the Bible alluie TO the facts
Of natural history, and do not wonder
that i makes 80 many illusions ornI-
theological The skies auGthe caverus of
Palestine are friendly - the winged
creatures ard 50 many Hv and roost
and nest and hatch IN that region that
inspired writers do not have fa- to go
to get o-n-tholoEical illustration of di-
vine truth. There are over forty species
of birds recognized il the Scriptures.
They We're 1T the creation placed all
around or the rocks and in the trees
and on the ground to sereuade Adams
arrival They took their places on
Friday Is the first man was made on
saturday. Whatever else he had Or did
not haze h. should have music. The
first sound that struck the human ear
was "a birds voice.
Yca. Christian geology iior YOU know
there Is Q Christian geology Is we'll as
an iIiLe. geology. Christian geology
comes in and he p the Bible show what
we owe . thc bird creation. Before
the human race came into this world.
the world was occupied by reptiles and
by al kinds of destructive monsters,
millions Of creatures loathSome and
hiJelus cod Int huge birds 70 clear
the c5,veh Of taese creatures before
Adam aud Eve were created. The re
mains ot these birds nave been found
.nbcdled IN the rocks. The skeleton
Of one eagle has been found twenty feet
in hci-h, ana 6tty feet from tip of wing
to tip of wing
Moses, the great lawyer OF all time
and I great man for facts. had enough
sentiment and poetry and musical
taste 10 welcome the illumined wings
and the voices divinely drilled into the
first CHAPTER Of Genesis. How should
Noah. The old shin carpenter. 600 years
Of ago. ind out when the world was ST
again COR human residence after the
universal freshet? y bird VIII tell and
nothing else can No man can come
down from the mountain 10 invite Noah
and his family ont to terra frma, for
the mountains were submerged. As
bird first heraided the human race into
the world, now . bird will help the hu-
man rack back 20 the world that had
shipped 4 sea that whelmed everything.
Noah stands on Sunday morning at the
window of the ark, in his hand a cooling
dove, % gentle, 81 innocent. SO aHec-
tionate, and he said: Now, nv little
dove. dv away over these waters. ex-
plore. and come back and tell Us
whether It 5 safe TO land" After
long fight it returned hungry and
wear and wet, and by its looks and
manners SAID to Noah and his family:
The world : not n for you to disem-
bark Noah waited a week. and next
SUNDAY morning he let the dove hy
again for a second exploration, and
H. l., =
leaf that had the sign Of Just having
been plueked from living fruit tree.
and the bird reported the world would
do tolerably well for bird to live in,
but not yet sufficiently recovered for
human residence. Noah waited anoth-
er week. and next Sunday morning he
sent out the dove OF the third expIora-
ton. but i returned not, for it found
the world 50 attractive now It did not
want to De Gagged again, and then the
emiCrants from the antediluvian world
landed II was a bird that told them
when 20 take possession of the resusci-
tated planet So the human race were
saved BIZ birds wing: for attempting
10 land too soon, they would have per-
ished
Aye. Lere come a whole flock OF doves
-roek-dOves, ring-doves, stock-doves-
and they make Isaiah think of great re
vivals and great awakenings when
souls 1y for shelter ike a flock of
pigeons swooping to the openings of
pigeon coop, and he cries out: who
are these that fly as doves TO their win
dows?- David. with Saul after him,
and flying from cavern to cavern. COM
pares himself 20 q desert partridge, q
bird which especially haunts rocky
places and boys ard hunters 70 this day