The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-20

while the beak and the claws OF the
I eagle are the terror of all travellers of
! the air. the mother eagle is most kind
and gentle TO her young God com
pares His treatment OF His people to
| the eagles care of the eaglets. Deuter-
onomy xxi. IL: AS an eagle stirreth
| up her nest, huttereth over her young,
4 spreading abroad her wings, taketh
| them. beareth them on her wings,
so the Lord alone did lead" The
old eagle first shoves the young one out
| of the nest in order to make il fly,
and then takes it on her back and
| flies with it, and shakes it off in the
| air, and if 1t seems like falling. quickly
I flies under it and takes it on her wings
again So God does with us Disaster,
/ failure in business, disappointment, be-
reavement, Is only Gods way of shak-
/ ing US out of our comfortable nest in
order that 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 hy in that comfortable
nest Like an eagle Christ has carried
US on His back. At times we have been
| shaken off, and when we were about to
| fall, He came under us again and
brought us out of the gloomy valley TO
/ the sunny mountain
I 1t was thought in ancient times that
an eagle could not only molt his feath-
ers in old age. but that after arriving
/ 10 great age, it would renew its strength
and become 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 50 the Chris
| tian in old age will renew his spiritual
/ strength. He shall be young in ardor
and enthusiasm for Christ, and as the
| body fails the soul will grow in elartic-
| ity, till at death 1t will spring up like a
/ gladdened child into the bosom Of God.
Yea, in this ornith illogical study, | see
! that lob SAYS: His days fly as an eagle
| that hasteth 10 its prey The speed of
hungry eagle whea it saw its prey
score OF miles distant was unimagiu-
able. It went like Ihunderbolt for
speed and power. 10 fiv our days
Yes. in this ornithologv of the Bible
! find that God il determined to impress
upon US the architecture of a birds
nest and the anatomy of birds wing
Twenty times does the Bible refer To a
birds nest: Where the birds make
their nest As bird that VANDERBILT
from her nest" Though thou set thy
nest among the stars" The birds of
the air have their nests" and so on.
Why does God call US so frequently to
consider the birds nest? Because it is
one of the most wondrous of all styles
OF architecture, and 4 lesson OF p-ovi-
Dental care which is the most impor-
tant lesson that Christ in my text con-
veys
Oh. the goodness of God in showing
the birds how TO build their nest
What carpenters. what masons. what
weavers. what spinuers the birds arel
Out of what small resources they make
what an exquisite home, curved, pill
Jared. wre3thed- Out of MOSES.
out OF sticks, out of lichens.
out of horsehair, out of spiders
web. ont of threads swept from
the door by the housewife out Of the
wool Of the sheep in the pasture field
l pholstered by leaves actually sewed
together bv its own sharp bill Cush-
toned with feathers from its own
breast Mortared together With the
gum Of trees and saliva of its own tiny
bill Such symmetry, such adaptation,
such convenience. such geometry of
structure
Surely these nests were built by some
plan. They did not just happen so.
Who drafted the plan for the birds
nest? God, And do you not think that
II he plans such house for the chat
finch. for an oriOle, for a bobolinll, for
sparrow. he will see 10 it that you al
ways have n home? We are of
more value than many spar
rows Whatever else surrounds
you. you can have what the Bible
calls the feathers of the Almighty"
Do you not feel the touch of them now
on forehead and cheek, and was there
ever such tenderness of brooding-''the
feathers of the Almighty. 80 also in
this ornithology OF the Bible God keeps
impressing Us with the anatomy of a
birds wing. over fifty times does the
old Book allude to the wing. Wings
OF dove" Wings of the
morning" Wings of the wind" Sun
OF righteousness with healing in his
wings" Wings of the Almighty" All
towl OF every wing Wha: does 1t all
mean? 1t suggests uplifting. 1t tells
you of flight upward 1t means to re-
mind you that you, yourself, have wings
David cried out, ''Oh, that had wings
like dove that 1 might fly away and
be at rest" Thank God that you have
better wings than any dove of longest
or swiftest flight Gagged now in bars
of flesh are those wings. but the day
comes when they will be liberated !
Get ready for ascension. Take the +
words OF the old hymn. and to the tune
unto which that tune is married, sing:
Rise, M soul, and stretch thy wing.
Tny better portion trace
Up out of these lowlands into the :
heavens of higher experience and
wider prospect But how shall we rise?
Only as Gods holy spirit gives US
strength. But that is coming now. {
Not as 4 condor from Chimborazo I
peak. swOoping upon the affrighted /
valley. bu: As a dove like that which Z
put its sof: brown wings over the wet
locks of Christ 1t the baptism in the
Jordan Dove Of gentieness, Dove of
peace
Come holT spirit. heavenly dove.
With all ths quickeaiug powers
Come she'd abroad Saviour's love
And that shall kiHdle ours
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