Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-07-07

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them the art in q nest of straw or moss
sticks, and them how to lift that
song into the higher heavens and sprin.
kle the earth with its dulcet enchant-
ments. God-fashioncd, GOd-tuned. Cod
launched. GOi-lifted music! And there
liz a kind Of music that the Lord only
ean impart to you, my nearer. There
have been dep 'avel. %reproIMte and
blasphemous souls which could sing till
great auditOriums We're in rnpturcs.
There have been sOlOists und bassOs,
lnd bal1tones and sopranos whose bril-.
liancy In concert halls has not been
more famous than their debaucherles.
But there is u king of song, which.
like the song Of birds, is divinely
fashioned. Songs Of pardon. Songs Of
divine comfort. Songs Of worship.
Songs in the night" like those which
David and Job mentioned. Songs full
of faith and tenderness and prayer,
like those which the christian mother
sings over the sick cradle. Songs of
a broken heart being healed. Songs of
the dying flashed upon by opening pOr-
tails of amethyst. Songs like that
which Paul commended to the Colo
slams. when he said. "Admonish one an
other In psalms and hymns and spiri-
tual songs. singing, with grace in your
hearts. to the Lord" Songs like Moses
san after the tragedy of the Red Sea.
Songs like Deborah and Barak sans
at the overthrow of Sisera. Songs like
isaiah heard the redeemed sing as they
came to Zion. oh, God. teach us that
Kind of song which thou only canst
teach. and help us to sing it on earth
and sing 1t in heaven. 1t was the high
est result of sweet sound when under
the playing Of raganini one auditor
exclaimed 'reverently, "Oh God!" and
another sobbed out, "Oh CHRISTI
Further. l remark in regard to the
song of birds, that 1t is tlustful, end
without any fear of what may yet
come. Will you tell me how it is posi-
DIG for that wren, that sparrow, that
chtckadee, TO sing SO sweetly when
they may any time be pounced on by
a hawk and torn wing from wing.
There are cruel beaks in thicket and
sky ready to Stay the song birds. Her
DDS on the wing. Modocs OF the sky.
Assassins armed with iron claws. Mu2-
derers Of song floating up and down the
heavens. How can the birds sing amid
such perils? Beside that, how is the
bird sure to get its fooay Millions Of
birds have been starved. Yet it sings
in the dawn without any certainty of
breakfast or dinner or supper. Would
1t not be better to gather it's food for
the day before vocalizing! Besides that
the hunters are abroad. Bang. goes a
gun in one direction. Bang! goes Il
gun in another direction. The song
will attract the shot and add to the
peril. Beside that, yOnder is II thunder
cloud and there may be hurricane and
hail to be let loose. and What til IN
will become of you, the poor warbler?
Besides that. winter will come. and it
may he smitten down before it gets to
the tropics. Have you never seen tle
snow strewn with the birds belated
in their migration? The titmouse min
giles its voice with the snow storms as
Emerson describes the little thing he
found III tcmpcstuous january:
Here was this atom in full breath
Hurting defiance at vast death:
This scrap of yalor just for play
FiLnts the north wind In waistcoat
gray.
For every bird, a thousand perils and
disasters lowering and sweeping round
and round. Yet. there it sings. and
1T is IL truthful song. The bird that has
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lark from the shape of her claws may
not perch on IL tree. In the grass her
nest is exposed TO every hoof that
passes. One of the poorest shelters
of all the earth is the lark's nest. If
she sings Mt all. you will expect her
to render the saddest of threnodi,s.
No. n She sings eXultingly an hour
without II pause and mounting 5000
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we all might learn the lesson. What
v @ perils. whatever be%reavenuents,
whatever trials are vet to como sing,
all your lungs. If you wait until all
wings and all the hunters of hate have
canes of disaster have spent their fury.
pursued of Absolum. and the betrayed
sores that ran in the night presents
lis the best songs of the Bible. John
Milton. not able to see his hand before
poem of all literature. and yet some of
the most cheerful people / have cver
met have been Christian people under
ply SlStlis Va uotiiSStANs VI puDlS tOl.
ment. The songs OF Charles Wesley,
| which we now calmly sing in church,
We're composed by him between .nobs.
1 preach this sermon just before many
| Of you will ga out to pass days or
weeks in the country. Be careful how
you treat the birds. Remember they
are Gods favorites. and if you offend
them you offend him. He is so fond
of their voices that there are forests
where for IL hundred miles no human
foot has ever trOd and no human ear.
has ever listened. Those interminable
forests are concert halls with only one
%auditor-the Lord God Almighty. He
builded those auditoriums of leaves and
sky and supports all that infinite min
strelsy for himself alone. Be careful
how you treat his favorite choir. In
Deuteronomy, he warns the people:
IF u birds nest chance to be before
thee in the way in any tree or on the
ground, whether they be young ones
or eggs, thou shalt not take the dam
with the young, that 1t may be well
with thee, and that thou mayest pro-
long thy days." So you see your own
longevity is related to your treatmant