The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-09

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earth and hell try to hunt down this
speckled bird, but far above human scorn
and internal assault it shall sing over every
mountain top and fly over every nation,
/ and her triumphant song shall be, The
| church OF God! The pillar and ground OF
the truth. The gates Of hell shall not pre-
] vail against her."
But we cannot stop here From a tall
cliff, hanging over the sea. hear the eagle
/ calling unto the tempest and lifting ito wing
to smite the whIrlwind. Moses, jeremiah,
! Hosea and Hsbakkuk. at times in their
writings take their pen from the eagles
! wing II is bird with feTceDsss in its eye,
| its feet armed with claws OF iron, and its
/ head with dreadful beak. Two or thres
/ of them can nil the heavens with clanRor.
! But generally this monster of the air is
| alone and unacco npsnied, for the reason
that its habits are so predacious it requires
| i've or ten miles of aerial earl hly dominion
! all for itself. The black bro an of its back,
and tho white OF its lower feathers, and the
1 fire of its eye, and the long flap Of its wing
make one glimpse Of 1t, as it swings down
into the valley to pick up a rabbit or
lamb or child and then swings back
70 its throne on the rock. some
thing never to be forgotten. Scat
tered about its eyrie of altitudinous solitude
are the bones Of its conquests. But while the
beak and the claws of the eagle are the terror
OF all the travellers OF the air, the mother
| engle is most kind and gentle to her young.
God compares his treatment Of his people to
the eagles care of the eeglets. Deuteronomy
xxi, IL: "As an eagle stirre.h up her nest,
| tiuttereth over her young, spreading abroad
her wings. taketh them, beareth them on her
wings, so the Lord alone did leAdn The old
eagle first shoves the young one out of the
nest in order to make 1t fly, and then takes il
on her hack and flies with 1t, and shakes it of
in the air, and lift seems like falling. quickly
hiQs nu19F IL and IA n her wing AGAIN
| So God does with us. Disaster, failure In
| business, disappointment. bereavement, is
only Gods way Of shaking US out Of our
comfortable nest in order TINT we may learn
how to fly. You who are complaining that
| you have no faith or courage or Christian
zeal, have had it too easy. You never will
| learn TO fly in that comfortable nest. Like
| an eagle, Christ has carried US on his back.
| At times we have been shaken of, and
| when we were about to fall he came under
US again and brought US out of the gloomy
| valley to the sunny mountain. Never an
| eagle brooded with such love and care over
| her young as Gods wings have been over
us. Across what oceans of trouble we have
gone in safety upon the Almighty wings
| From what mountains of sin we have been
| carried, and at times have been borne Up
far above the gunshot of the world and the
arrow Of the devil. When our time on
| earth is closed on these great wings of God
/
earth's mountains TO heavens hills. and as
| from the eagles circuit under the sun men
| on the ground seem small and insignificant
as lizards on a rock, so all earthly things
shall dwindle into a speck and the raging
| river OF death so far beneath will seem
smooth and CLASSY as a Swiss lake.
| lt was thought IN ancient times that an
| eagle could not only moult his feathers in
| old age, but that after arriving to great
| age, it would renew its strength and be-
come entirely young again. To this Isaiah
! alludes, when he says: They that
wait on the Lord shall renew their
| strength, they shall mount UP with wings
of eagles" Even so the Christian in old
age will renew his spiritual strength. He
| shall be young in ardor aud enthusiasm
for Christ, and as the body fails the soul
| will grow in elasticity, TIL at death it
will spring up like a gladdened child into
the bosom Of God. Yea, In this ornitho-
| logical study, see that Job says: His
| days fly as an eagle that hasteth to its
| prey" Tho speed OF hungry eagle when
| 1t saw its prey q score of miles distant was
unimaginable. 1t went like a thunderbot
| for speed and power. So fly our days.
| Sixty minutes, each worth a heaven, since
we assembled in this place, have shot like
| lightning into eternity. The old earth is
rent aud cracked under the swift rush of
| days and months and years and ages.
| swift as an eagle that hasteth 10 Its prey.n
Behold tho fowls OF the air. Have you CON-
sidered that they have, as you and have
not, the power to change their eyes so that
one minute they may be telescopic ana the
next microscopicl Now seeing something a
mile away and by telescope eyesight, and
then dropping to It's food on the ground,
| able to see it close by, and with microscopic
eyesight.
But what seussless passage Of Scripture
that Is, until you know the fact, which
says "The sparrow hath found a house and
| the swallow a nest for herself where abe may
| lay her young, even thine affairs, o Lord
of hosts my King and my God" What has
| the swallow to do with the affairs OF the
temple at Jerusalemi Ahi you know that
| swallows are all the world over very tame,
and in summer time they used 10 fly into
the windows and doors of che temple at
| Jerusalem, and build a nest on the altar
| where the priests were Offering sacrifices.
| These swallows brought leaves and sticks
and fashioned nests on the affairs OF the
! temple. aud hatched the young swallows in
those nests, and David had seen the young
birds picking their way out Of the shell
while the old swallows watched, and no one
| in the temple was cruel enough TO disturb
either the old swallows, or the young
swallows, and David burst our In
rhapsody saying 1.-THE swallow hath
| found a nest for herself where she
may lay her young. even thine affairs, o
| Lord OF hoets, my king and my God'
Yes, in this ornithology Of the Bible
| find that God is determined to impress
upon US the architecture OF a birds nest
and the anatomy of a birds wing. Twenty
| times does the Bible refer TO a birds nest
"Where the birds make their nest" "As
| q bird that VANDERBILT from her nest F"
Though thou set thy nest among the
stars" THE birds Of the air have their
nests, and so on. Nests in the trees, nests
on tue rocks, nests on affairs. Why does
God cell US so frequently 60 consider the
| birds nests Because It is one OF the most
wondrous Of all styles Of architecture, and
a lesson Of providential caro- which is the
most important lesson that Christ in nv
text conveys. why just look at the birds
nest, and see what is the prospect that God
is going TO take care of you. Here is the
blue birds nest under the caves Of the
house. Here is a brown thrasher's nest in
bush. Here is the blue Jaws
nest in the orchard. Here IL the gross
beak's nest on a tree branch hanging over
the water, 80 as 10 be free from attack
Chickadees nest in the stump Of an old tree
| o, the goodness Of God in showing the
birds how to build their nest. What car
penters, what masons. what weavers, what
spinners the birds are Out of what small
resources they make what an exquisite
home, curved. pillared, wreathed. Out OF
moses, out Of sticks, out of lichens, out OF