The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-11

single plume. Like the albatross. she can
sleep on the bosom Of tempest. She has
gone through the fires of Nebuchadnezzar's
furnace and not got burned, through the
waters of the Red sea and not been drowned,
through the shipwreck on the breakers of
Melita and not been foundered Let all
earth and hell try to hunt down this spec
killed. bird, but far above human scorn 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 p"
But we cannot stop here. From tall
cliff. hanging over the sea, hear the eagle
calling unto the tempest and lifting its
wing to smite the whrlwind. Moses, Jere-
mieh, Hosea and Habakkuk at times in
their writings take their pen from the
eagles wing. IL is bird with fierceness in
it's eye, its feet armed with claws of iron,
and its head with dreadful beak. Two or
three of them can fill the heavens with
clangor But generally this monster of the
air is alone and unaccompanied, for the
reason that its habits are so 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
it's eye, and the long flap of its wing make
ono glimpse of it as it swings down into the
valley TO pick mp a rabbit. or a lamb, or
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 it's conquests. 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 people
to the eagles care of the eaglets Deuter-
onomy xxi, IL, las an eagle stirreth up
her nest, fluttereth over her young, spread
ing abroad her wings, taketh them, bea s~h
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
1t, and shakes it off in the air, and If it
seems like falling quickly flies under it and
takes il 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 IL too easy You never will learn to fly
Christ has carried us on his back. AT times
we have been shaken eff, and when we were
about TO fall he came under us again and
brought 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 us. Across
what oceans Of trouble we have gone i'm
safety upon the Almighty wings! 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 ,luickness 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 Il rock, so all earthly things shall
dwindle into a speck. and the raging river
of death SO far beneath will seem smooth
and CLASSY rs "A Swiss lake.
MOUNTING AS THE EAGLES.
1t was thought in ancient times that an
eagle could not only mott 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
mount up with wings of eagles" Even 50
the Christian in old age will renew his
spiritual strength He shall be young in
ardor ard 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 pathological study see that
job says, His days fly as an eagle that
hasteth to it's prey
The speed of n hungry eagle when it saw
its prey a score of miles distant was unim-
aginable II went like a thunderbolt 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 as
an eagle that hgsteth to its prey" Behold
the fowls Of the air Have YOU considered
that they have. as you and have not, tie
power 10 change their eyes so that one mir
ute they mag be telescope and the next
microscopic; Now seeing something mile
away, and by telescope eyesight, and then
dropping TO It's food on the ground, able 10
see il close by. and with microscopic eye
sight
But what "A senseless passage of Scripture
-
The sparrow hath found house and the
swallow nest for herself, where she may
lay her young. even thine affairs, o Lord
of hosts my king and my God. y What has
the swallow 10 do with the affairs of the
temple ut 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 We're offering sacrifices.
These swallows brought leaves and sticks
and fashioned nests on the alt.4rs of the
temple and hatched the young sparrows in
those nests. siid David had seen the young
birds picking their way out of the shel
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 THE swallow hath found
nest for herself, where she may lay her
young, even thine affairs, o Lord of hosts.
my king and my Godr'
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 to birds nest:
where the birds make their nest" ''As
q bird that wandcreth from her nest
Though thou set the nest among the stars"
1.-THE birds Of the air have their nests, and
so on. Nests in the trees, nests on the
rocks. nests the affairs. Why does God
tall us so frequently to consider the birds
nesti Because it is one of the most won
drous of al styles of architecture and a