Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-07-01

or anthem. The feethered songsters
learned all their music direct from God.
He gave them tho art in 81 nest OF straw
OF moss or sticks and taught them how
to lift that song into the higher heavens
and sprinkle the earth with Its dulcet en-
chant1nents. God fashioned, God tuned,
God launched, God lifted musiol And
there LIS kind Of music that the Lord
only CON impart to you. my nearer.
There have been deprayed, reprobate
and blasphemous souls which could sing
It'll great aulitoriums were in rap.urea.
There have been soioists and bassos and
baritones and sopranos whose brilliancy
in concert halls has not been more IA
nous than their debauoheries. But
there Is kind Of song which, like the
song of birds. Is divinely fashioned.
Songs of pardon. Songs Of divine COM
fort. Songs of worship. Songs in the
night, like those which David and JOB
mentioned. Songs full Of faith and ten.
derness and prayer, Ike. those which the
Christian mother sings over the sick era
die. Songs Of broken heart being
I healed. Songs Of the dying Mashed upon
by opening portals of amethyst.
! Songs like that which Paul COM
mended to tho Colossians when be said,
"Admonish one another In psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing, with
grace in your hearts, to the Lord. Songs
like Moses sang after the tragedy Of the
Red sea, songs like Deborah and Barak
sang ut the overthrow Of Sisera, songs
like Isaiah heard the redeemed sing as
he came to Zion. Oh, God, teach us
! that kind of song which thou only canst
teach and help us to. sing 1t on earth
and sing 1t In heaven 1t was tho high
est result OF sweet sound when under
the playing Of Paganini one auditor ex-
1 claimed reverently, "Oh, Godr#and an
other sobbed out, :"Oh, Christi
! Further, remark In regard to the
song OF birds TINT it Is trustful and
without any fear Of what may yet come.
Will you tell me how it Is possible for
that wren, that sparrow, that chickadee,
to sing so swcetly-when they may any
time be pounced GA by hawk and torn
wing from wing7 There are cruel beaks
. in thickes and In sky ready to STAY the
song birds. Herods OH the wing. Mo-
docs of the sky. Assassins armed with
iron claw. Murderers Of song floating
up and down the heavens. How can the
birds sing amid such perils! Besides that.
how is the bird sure to getits food? Mil
lions OF birds have been starved. Yet it
sings In the dawn without any certainty
! Of breakfast or dinner or supper. Would
it not be better TO gather Its food fof the
day before vocalizingi
Besides that. tho hunters are abroad.
Bangl goes gun in one direction. Bangl
goes q gun in another direction. The
song will attract the shot and add to the
peril. Besides that. yonder is thun-
| dercloud, and there may be hurricane
and hail to be let loose, and what then
will become of you, the poor warbler2
Besides that, winter will. come. and It
may be smitten down before 1t gets to
the tropics. Have you never seen the
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their migration? The titmouss mingles
hts voice witt; the snowstor1ns as Elmer
:son;d DESCRIBES the tie thing. he found Hin
temp strous January :sstssSs
- ;Here was this atom IN full breath,
\ Hurting defiance at vast death;
Tbia scrap OF !valor, just for play,
Fronts the north wind IN waistcoat gray.
SONGS OF HOPE AND TRUST.
For every bird o thousand perils and
disasters lowering and sweeping round
and round. Yet there it sings, and it is
q trustful song. The bird that has it the
hardest sings the sweetest. The lark
from the shape of her claws may not
perch on tree. In the grass her nest is
exposed to every hoof that passes. One
Of the poorest shelters of all the earth is
the larks nest If she sings at all, you
will expect her to render the saddest Of
threnodies. No, no. She sings exultingly
an hour without pause and mounting
5000 feet without losing note. Would
God we all might learn the lesson.
Whatever perils, whatever bereavements,
Whatever trials are yet to GOMEZ sing,
sing with all your heart and sing with
all your lungs.
If you wait until all the hawks of
trouble have folded their wings and all
the hunters Of hate have unloaded their
guns and all the hurricanes Of disaster
have spent their fury, you will never sing
at all. David, the pursued Of Absalom
and the betrayed Of Ahithophel and the
depleted of "sores that ran in the night"
presents us the best songs Of the Bible.
John Milton, not able to see his hand be-
fore his face, sings for as the most IA
nous poem of all literature, and some Of
the most cheerful people I have ever met
have been Christian people under phys
ical or domestic or public torment. The
songs of Charles Wesley, which we now
calmly sing in church, were composed
by him between mobs.
Further, In the sky galleries there are
songs adapted to all moods. The mead
ow lark is mournful. and the goldfnch
Joyous, and the grosbeak prolonged OF
note. But the libretto Of nature is vo-.
luminous. are you sau! lou cau nedt
from the bowers the echo Of your grief.
Are you gladl You can hear an echo of
your happiness. Are you thoughtful?
You can hsar that which will plunge you
into deeper profound. Are you weary?
You may catch restful air. So the
songs Of birds are administrative In all
circumstances. And we would do well
to have hymnology for all changes OF
condition. You may sing your woes into
peace and rouse your joys into greater
attitudes. Upon every condition OF body
and soul, let US try the power OF song.
The multitudinous utteYances OF grove
and orchard and garden and forest sng-
,gest most delightful possibilities.
Further, I notice that the song OF
birds Is family song. Even those OF