Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-06-29

Songs of the Various Birds show Forth
the Family Life,
BBooKLYN, juno 25.-Rey. Dr.. Talmago
this morning chose for the subject of his
sermon 1.-THE Song Of Birds This like
many of his sermons, issuited to the season
of the year in which it is preached. 1t is
well fitted to be read under the trees and
has in it the health of outdoor life. Text,
Psalms civ, -, by them shall the fowls of
the heaven have their Eabitation, which
sing among the branches"
There is an important and improving
subject 20 which most people have given
no thought, and concerning which this is
the first pulpit discussiou-namely, "Thc
Song of Birds" If all that has been written
concerning music by human voice or about
music sounded on instrument 10y finger or
breath were put together, volume blythe
side of volume, it would fiji hundred al
coves of the national libraries. But about
the song of birds there is as much silence
as though thousand years ago the last
lark had with his wing swept the door
latch Of heaven, and as though never n
whippoorwill had surg its lullaby to Il
slumbering forest at nightfall. We give a
passing smile to the call of n boboliull or
the chirp Of canary, but about the origin
about the fiber, about the meaning, about
the mirth, about the pathos, about the in
spiration, about the religion in the song of
birds, the most OF us are either ignorant or
indifferent. A caveat l this morning file
in the high court Of heaven against that al
most universal irreligion.
lEAIHLl'I.p tHoli'S.
flrst-l remark 'h"J Whlch VIII surprise
many thaV lne song OF plrus Is regulated
ana systematic song capableol beng writ
ten out IN note ana stan and bar and clet
rs much as anything that w aSher or SclN-
mann OF hahdvl ever put on paper AS VIC
pass the grove where the hocks are holclnI
matln or Nesper service, we areapt to thlnk
that the sounds are eStempollzcu, the rus
ing or lalllhg Tone Is mere accident IL Is
flung up and down by haphazald, the biru
oid hoI know WnaU IL was uolhE' IL ana not
care Wheuner IL was IohH meter pNHIm or
maufgaI' nav ~ mistake! ne m'I~l-
clah never put on lAe muse rack before
MN MehdclSaonh fHJah or bectho-
ven concerto IN u or 0pohrs IS lat
symphony "lln more dehhlte ldea ~ to
what he was DONG IMAM every DAd thar can
sing at all confines himself 10 accurate ana
predetermined rendering,
Inc oratouos' the chants, the carols the
oVertures, the lnterIuues the ballads, the
cantlcIes' that Inns morning We're heard or
Will TINS evening DC heard III the forest have
rolled down through the ages without
variation EFeh the chi pmuhh : song was
orudIHeu cIe"I DaCA III inc clerihiles' Al
the gates OF paradise IL sang IN sounds like
the syIlaples hukl "huK. "huk" just
rs TINS morning IN Il Long island orchard
IL sang huk. Nuh' 'hIhl he
thrush oil jne creation uttered sounds like
thc word 1eAcher! leacher.- Teach
er. as no" cutters sounds axe Teacher"
Teacher. leachcr'' in the summer OF
the year the ycHoWhammer tnlled that
Whch sounded Ike the word ~ III,
u! rs IN GUS summer Ii tlllle I'll. "Il!'
~ Inc NItL! 4'tiu StllON .Ioau lnhefuS
ana pcq1eaths the June sounding IKE IT,, the
words b!tE me- Ply me- PITY me- The
"h!te SpaIro" . "4Secp, t7eep woke our
great-Srandl"lhc FS as 1t Wiil awaken our
gre4t-HlandcAliGrCn. IN" lec-ha-tec-Ea-
tte-k2 o. the bird1 N me lrSt century was
the same ~ ID. 'IUe-l aztec la-tCC-k.t' OF