Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-13

and ages. swift as an eagle that haststh
TO his prey" Behold the fowls of the air !
Have you considered that they have. as you
and have NOT, the power TO change their
ewes so that one minute they may be tele-
scopic AMI the next micros,oplc, now seeing
something a mile away AMI by telescope
eyesight, an then dropping to its food on
the ground, able 70 see it close by AMI with
microscopic eyesight!
But what a senseless passage OF Scripture
that is until you know the fact which says,
''The sparrow hata found house aud the
swallow a nest for herself, where she may
Law her young, even thine affairs, o Lord OF
Hosts, my King and my Col" What has the
swallow TO do with the affairs OF the temple
at Jerusalems Al, you know that swallows
are all the worl over very tame, and IN
summer tims they ussl to fly into the win
dows ami doors Of the temple at Jerusalem
ami build nsst on the altar wnere the
priests were Offering sacrifices.
These swallows brought leaves and sticks
and fashioned nests on the affairs or the tenn
pie and Matched the young sparrows In those
nests. and David had seen the young birds
picxiny their way out Of the she'll while the
old swallows watchel, and no one in the
temple was cruel enough TO disturb either
the old swallows or the young swallows, AMI
David burst out in rhapsody saying, ms
swallow hath found nest for herself, where
she may lay her young, even Time aitars'
0 Lord Of Hosts, my King and my GodF
What carpenters, what masons. Wnat
weavers, what spinners the 0iris are! OuI
%, what small resources they make 50 ex-
ou site home, curved, pillared, wreathed-
0Gt OF moses, out of sticss out OF hchens,
ont OF horsshair out OF spiders web, out OF
threads swept from the door by the house
wife. out of the wool OF the sheep fro II the
pasture field. Upholstered By leaves actually
sewed together by its own sharp bill. Cush-
Toned with feathers from its own breast.
Mortared together with tle gum oil trees
and the saliva OF its own tiny Ill. Such
symmetry, such adaptation, suca convent
ence. such geometry OF structure.
Surely these nests were built by soma
plan. They did not happen just so. Who
drafted the plan for the birrs nest? God!
And do you not think that if He plans such
a house for a chalfinch, for an oriole, for a
bo5o.ink, for a sparrow, He will see to 1t
that you always have home? aye are OF
mora value than many sparrows." WAT
ever else surrounds you, you can have what
the Bible calls "ths feathers OF the Al
mighty" just think of nest ike that, the
warmth of it, the softness Of it, the safety
of 1.-THE feathers Of the Almighty"
No haminyo outhashing the tropical sun
set ever ma Suc1 DfIlllaucy VI piuiOui no
robin reibreast ever hal plumage dashed
with SUCH crimson AMI purple AMI orange
aud gold-''the feathers OF the Almighty"
Do YOU not feel the touch OF them now on
forehead and cheek and spirit, AMI was there
ever such tenderness of brooding the
feathers Of the Almlgnty?' 50 also in this
ornithology of the Bible Col keeps i'm
pressing Us with the auatony OF birIs
wing.
Over fifty timss does tao old Book allu 10
to the wing-"Wiugs OF a dove Wings
of the morning" "W.nys of the wind
"Sun of righteousness with healing in hts
wingsn wings OF thu Almighty" "Ali
fowl OF every wing" What does it ali
meany II suggests uplifting. IL tells you
OF fight upward. 1t means to remind you
that YOU yourself have wings. David Grief
out. "Oh, that had wings ike dove, that
| might fly away aud bs at rest" Thank
God that you have better wings than any
dove Of longest or switte5t fligat. Cage
now ia bars Of flesh are those wings, but shs
day comes when tney will oe liberated Get
ready Tor ascension. TaSs the worls OF ths
ola hymn, and to the tuos un - wa'cn that
hymn IS married sing:
RISE my soul and stretch ;hJ wing
Thy Det.er portion trace.
In out of these lowlands into the heavens
of higher experience AMI wider prospect.
But how shall we rises Oniy as COTS holy
shirt gives us strength. But that Is coming
now. Not as a condor from a Chlm0oraz)
noab. s7goopluz upon the aifrightei valley,
tut at a dove like that wnica put It's SOFT
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