Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-01-19

furnace and not got burned, through the
waters Of the Red sea and not been drowned,
through the Ehipwreck on the breakers Of
Melita and not been foundered. Let ell
earth and hell try to hunt down this spec.
killed. bird, but far above human scom and
internal assault it shall sing over every
mountain top and fly over every nation, and
her triumphant song shall be: The church
Of Godl The pillar and ground of the
truth The gates Of hell shall not prevail
against her"
But we cannot stop here. From tell
cliff, hanging over the sea, lear the eagle
calling unto the tempest and lifting IL,
wing to smite the whirlwird. Moses, Jere
miah, Hosea and Habakkuk ut times in
their writings take their pen from the
eagles wing 1t is bird with terceness in
its eye, its feet armed with claws of iron,
and its head with a dreadful bcak. Two or
three Of them can ell the heavens with
clangor. But generally this monster of the
air is alone and unaccompanied, for the
reason that its habits are 10 predaceous it
requires five or ten miles of aerial or earth
ly dominion all for itself.
The black brown of its back, and the
white OF its lower feathers, and the FIRE Of
its eye, and the long flap Of its wing make
one glimpse OF it as it swings down into the
valley to pick up a rabbit, or a lamb, or a
child and then swings back to its throne on
the rock something never to be forgotten
Scattered about its eyrie OF altitudinous
solitude are the bones of its conquests. But
while the beak and the claws of the eagle
are the terror of all the travellers of the air,
fha V11nfhap a.hpIo 10 bind l.,
to her young.
God compares his treatment Of his people
to the eagles care Of the eaglets. Deuter
onomy xxi, IL, "As an eagle stirreth up
her nest, futtereth over her young, spread
ing abroad her wings, taketh them, bealssh
them on her wings, so the Lord alone cid
lead" The old eagle first shoves the young
one out of the nest in order to make it fly,
and then takes it on her back and flies with
it, and shakes it off in the air, and if it
seems like falling quickly flies under it and
takes it on her wing again. So God does
with us. Disaster, failure in business, dis
appointment, 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 it too easy You never will learn to fly
in that comfortable nest. Like an eagle,
Christ has carried us on his back. AT times
Te have been shaken CT, and when we were
about to fall he came under US again and
brought us out of the gloomy valley to the
sunny mountain. Never an eagle brooded
with such love and care over her young as
Gods wings have been over u.s. Across
what oceans of trouble we have gone in
safety upon the Almighty wingsl From
what mountains of sin we have been carried
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 noun
tains to heavens hills, and as from the
eagles circuit under the sun men on the
ground seem small and insignificant as
lizards on a rock, so all earthly things shall
dwindle into speck, and the raging river
Of death SO far beneath will seem smooth
and CLASSY as Swiss lake.
MOUNTING AS THE EAGLES.
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 al
ludes 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
ardor and enthusiasm for Christ, and as
the body fails the soul will grow in elias
ITCHY till at death it will spring up like
gladdened child into the bosom of God.
Yea, in this ornithological study I see that
Job says, Ellis days fly as an eagle that
hasteth to its prey"
The speed of Il hungry eagle when it saw
its prey score of miles distant was uniIi-
aginable. 1t went like tLunderbolt for
speed and power So fly our days. Sixty
minutes, each worth heaven, since we as.
sembled in this place, have shot like light
ming into eternity. The old earth is rent
and cracked under the swift rush of days
and months and years and ages. "Swift az
an eagle that hasteth to its prey" Behold
the fowls Of the air! Have YOU considered
that they have, as you and have not, tie
power to change their eyes so that one min
ute they may be telescope and the next
microscopici Now seeing something mile
away, and by telescope eyesight, and thea
dropping to its food on the ground, able to
see it close BY, and with microscopic eye
sight.
But what senselcss passage of Scripture
that is until you know the fact, which says,
THE sparrow hath found a house and the
swallow nest for herself, where she muy
lay her young, even thine altars, 0 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
swallows are all the world over very tame,
and in summer time used to fly into the
windows and doors of the temple at Jeru-
salem 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 Latched the young sparrows "a
those nests, and David had seen the young
birds picking their way out Of the shG1.
while the old swallows watched, and no
one in the temple was cruel enough to dis
turb either the old swallows or the young
swallows, and David bursts out in rhap-
sody, saying, 1.-THE swallow hath found
nest for herself, where she may lay her
young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts.
my king and my Godp'
Yes, in this ornithology of the Bible l
find that God is determined to impress
upon us the architecture of birds nest
and the anatomy of birds wing. Twenty
times does the Bible refer to birds nest:
Where the birds make their nest," "As
bird that wandereth from her nest"-
Though thou set the nest among thestars,"
"The 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
nesti Because it Is one of the most wen
drous of all styles of architecture and q
lesson of providential care, which is the
most important lesson that Christ IA nay
text conveys.
Why, Just look at the birds nest and see