Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-09

microscopic. Now seeing something
mile away, and by telescope eyesight,
and then drop ping to its food on the
ground, able to see it close by, and with
microscopic eyesight.
But what senseless passage OF Scrip
| ture that is, until you know the fact,
which says: the sparrow hath found
a house and the swallow arrest for her
self where she 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
Jerusalem? All! you know that swal-
| lows are all the world over very tame.
and in summer time they used to fly
into the windows and doors Of the tenn
pie at Jerusalem, and build nest on
the altar where the priests were offer
ing sacrifices. These swallows brought
leaves and sticks and fashioned nests
on the affairs of the temple, and Matched
the young sparrows n those nests, and
David had seen the young birds picking
their way out of the she'll 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 bursts out In rhap-
sody saying: THE swallow hath found
nest for herself where she may lay
her young, even thine affairs, o Lord Of
hosts,
MY KING AND MY GODm
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 birds wing.
Twenty times does the Bible refer 20 u
birds nest: "Where the birds make
their nest" Gas bird that VANDERBILT
from her nest" Though thou set thy
nest among the stars" "rhe birds Of
the air have their nests" and so on.
Nests in the trees, nests on the rocks,
nests on the affairs. Why does God call
US so frequently to consider the birds
nest? Because 1t is one OF the most
wonderous of all styles of architecture,
and a lesson of Providential care which
is the most important lesson that Christ
in my 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 the brown thraSher's nest In a bush.
Here is the blue jays nest in
the orchard. Here is the gross
beak's nest on tree branch hanging
over the water, so as to be free from at
tack. Chickadee's nest in the stump OF
an old tree. Oh, the goodness of God
In showing the birds how to build their
nest What carpenters, what maSons,
what weavers, what spinners the birds
arel Out Of what small resources they
make what an exquisite home, curved,
pillared, wreathed. Out Of MOSES, out
of sticks, ont of lichens, out Of horse
hair, out of spiders web, out of threads
swept from the door by the housewife,
out of the wool Of the sheep in the pas
ture field. Upholstered by leaves actu-
ally sewed together by its own sharp bill.
Cushioned with feathers from its own
breast. Mortared together with the gum
of treesand the saliva OF its own tiny bill.
Such symmetry, such adaptation, such
convenience, such geometry of structure.
Surely these nests were built by some
pain.
LhE1 OAD MI bOoA nal A--' HOs
Who draughted the plan for the birds
nest? God! And do you not think that
If he plans such house for a chaifinch,
for an oriole, for a bobolink, for spar
row, he will see TO it that you always
have a home? "Ye are of more value
than many sparrows." Whatever else
surrounds you, you can have what the
Bible calls 1.-THE feathers of the AL
mighty" Just think OF a nest like
that, the warmth OF it, the softness of
it, the safety OF 1.-THE feathers of the
Almighty" No famingo publishing the
tropical sunset, ever had such brilliancy
of opinion: no robin redbreaSt ever had
plumage dashed with such crimson,
and purple and orange and gold-"the
feathers of the Almighty" Do you not
feel the touch of them now on forehead
and check, and spirit, and was there ever
such tenderness Of brooding-"the
feathers of the Almighty" So also in
this ORTHODOXY of the Bible God keeps
imDressing US with the anatomy of
birds wing. Over fifty times does the
old Book allUde to the wing, ''Wings of
a dove" "WingS of the morning."
''Wings or the wind" "Sun OF right
eousnesS with healing In his wings"
"Wings Of the Almighty" "All fowl OF
every wing" What does it ali mean?
1t suggests uplifting. 1t tells you of
flight upward. 1t means to remind you
that you, yourself, have wings. David
cried out, ''Oh, that / had wings like
a dove, that l 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 hymn is married, sing: