The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-27


to be forgotten. Scattered about its
eyre Of aititudinous solitude are the
bones Of its conQuesta But while the
beak and the claws Of the eagle are the
terror Of all the travellers Of the air, the
mother eagle is most kind and gentle to
her young.
God compares his treatment of his peo-
pie to the eagles care Of the eaglets
Deuteronomy xxi, IL, '.As an eagle
stirreth up her nest. futtereth over her
young, 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 1t fly, and then
takes 1t on her back and flies with it,
and shakes 1t of in the air. and if it seems
like falling flies under it and takes it on
her wing again. So God does with US.
Disaster, failure in business. disappoint-
ment. bereavement, is only Gods way of
shaking us out of our comfortable nests
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 IL 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 mount
ain. 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
tot ~ ct,
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 we shall speed
with infinite quickness from 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 rock, so allearthly things
shall dwindle into speck, and the rag.
ing river of death so far beneath will
seem smooth and CLASSY as Swiss lake.
1t was thought in ancient times that
an eagle could not only molt its feathers
in old age, but that after arriving at
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 so the Christian
in old age will renew his spiritual
strength. He shall be young in ardcr
and enthusiasm for Christ, and as the
body fails the soul will grow in elasticity
till at death It will spring up like glad
dened child into the bosom of God. Yea.
in this pathological study 1 see that
Job says, "His DAYS fly as an eagle that
hasteneth to its prey"
The speed Of hungry eagle when it
saw its prey q score Of miles distant was
1t went like q thunder
bolt for speed and power. So fly our
days. Sixty minutes, each worth a
heaven, since we assembled in this place,
ha We shot like lightning into eternity.
The old earth is rent and cracked under
the swift rush of days and months and
years and ages. swift as the eagle
that hasteth to its prey" Behold the
fowls Of the air! Have you considered
that they have, as you and have not,
the power to change their eyes so that
one minute they may be telescope and
the next microscopic? Now seeing some
thing mile away, and by telescope
eyesight. and then dropping 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, 1.-The sparrow hath found a
house and the swallow nest for herself.
where she may lay her young. even Thine
affairs, Lord of hosts, my King and my
God" What has the swallow to do with
the temple atJerusalem? All, you know
that swallows are all the world over very
tame, and in summer time used to fly
at Jeruselam and build 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 and Matched the young
sparrows in those nests, and David had
seen the young birds picking their way
but of the shell while the old swallows
and no one in the temple was
cruel enough to disturb either the old
swallows or the young swallows, and
David burst out in rhapsody. saying,
THE swallow hath found q nest for her
self. where she may lay her young, even
Thine affairs, 0 Lord of hosts my King
md my God!'
Yes, in this ornitholOgy Of the Bible
ind that God is determined to impress
lpon US the architecture Of a birds's
,est and the anatomy of birds wing.
twenty times does the Bible refer to a
birds nest: "Where the birds make
heir nest" 'As bird that VANDERBILT
rom her nest"-''Though thou set the
lest among the stars" 1.-THE birds of the
Iir have t1eir nests" and SO on. Nests
n the trees, nests on the rocks, nests on
he affairs. Why does God call US so fire.
luently to consider the birds nest? Be-
'ause it is one of the most wOndrous Of
III styles of architecture and lesson OF
care. which is the most impor-
ant lesson that Christ in my text CONVEYS.
Why, just look at the birds nest and
zee what is the prospect that God is go
ng to take care Of you. Here is the
,luebird's nest under the caves OF the
louse. Here is the brown thrasher's
lest In a bush. Here is the bInejay's
est in the orchard. Here Is the gros-
'eak's nest on q tree branch hanging
ver the water. so as to be free from at |
ack. Chickadee's nest In the stump of |
N old tree. Oh, the goodness OF God in |
howing the birds how to build their |
ests!
Surely these nests were built by some |
Ian. They did not just happen so. Who
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