Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-26

which David and Job mentioned. Songs
fnll Of faith and tenderness apd prayer
| like those which the Christian mother
| sings over the sick cradle Songs OF
broken heart being healed. Songs
Of the dying flashed upon by opening
portale Of amethyst, Songs like that which
| Paul commended TO the Colossans when
he said. "AdmonIsh one another In psalms
and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
with grace in your hearts TO the Lord F"
| Songs like Moses sang after the tragedy OF
! the Red sea Songs like Deborah and Bnrak
I at the overthrow Of Sisera Songs Ike
Isaiah heard the redeemed stpg as they
| came to Zion Oh, God, teach us that kind
OF song which thou only canst teach and
help us TO sing II on earth and sing II in
heaven It was the highest result Of sweet
sound when under the playing Of Paganini
one auditor exclaimed rcyerently, "Oh.
Godr and another sobbed out, Oh, Christ"
TIE SONGS OF HOPE.
Further | remark In regard to the song
Of birds tat 1t s. trustful and without any
fear Of what may yet come VIII you tell
me how it is possible for that wren, that
sparrow, that chicladee, to sing so sweetly
when they may any time be bounced on by a
hawk and torn wing from wingf There are
cruel hcaks in thichet and in sky ready to
slay the song birds Herods ON the wing.
Modocs Of the sky. Assassins armed with
iron claw. Murderers OF song ioating up
and down the heavens How can the birds
sing amid such perish Besides that, how
IS the bird sure TO get its foodf Mil
lions of birds have been starved Yet 1t
sings in the dawn without any certainty
OF breakfast or dinner or supper. Would
1t not be better to gather its food for the
day before yoculizingi Besides that, the
hunters are abroad. Bang goes gun in
one direction. Dangl goes gnn in an
other direction. The song will attract the
shot and add to the peril. Besides that,
yonder is thundercloud, and there may
be hurricane aud hnil to be let loose, and
what then will become Of you, the poor
warbler Besides that, winter will come,
and it may be smtten down before it gets
to the tropics. Have you never seen the
snow strewn with the birds belated in their
migrntioni Thetitmouse mingles its voice
with the snowstorns as Emerson describes
the little thing he found in tempestuous
January;
Here was this atom In full breath
uuTling dciauce az vast death;
This scrap Of valor just FOR play
Fronts the north wind IN waistcoat gray.
For every bird n thousand pcrils and dis
astprs lowering and sweeping round and
round. Yet there II sings and II is trust
full song. The bird that has ii the hardest
sings the sweetest The lark from the
shape OF her claws may not perch on u tree
In the grass her nest is exposed to every
hoof that passes. One Of the poorest shell
tiers of all the earth is the lark's nest. II
she sing ut all. you will expect her to rem
| der the sndde4t of threnodies. No, no
she sings cNultngly an hour without u
] pause and mounting 5000 feet without los
| Ing a note. Would God we all might learn
/ the lesson. Whatever perils, whatever be-
renvements, whatever trials are yet to
come, sing-sing with all your heart and
| sing with all your lungs. II you wait until
| all the hawks OF trouble have folded their
wings and Ill the hunters OF hate have un-
I loaded their guns ind all the hurricanes Of
\ disaster have spent their fury, you will
never sing at all, David, the pursued OF
! Absalum, and the betrayed Of Ahithophel,
aud the depleted Of "sores that ran In the
night presents us the best songs of tie
Bible John Milton, not able to see his
hand before his face, sings for us the most
famous poem of all literature and some OF
the most cheerful people | have ever met
have been Christian people under physical
or domestic or public torment. The songs
OF Charles Wesley which we now calmly
sing in church were composed by him be
tween mons
THE VOICES OF MANY MOODS
Further III the SKY galleries there mr."
songs adapted TO all MOODS me meado"
lark is mourniul, ana the goldilneh Joy
Gus, and the grosneak prolonged OF note
but the hlretto OF nature Is VoluinihouN
Are you sad you can near from tue bowers
the echo OF your griet Are you glad you
can hear an echo oil your happiness are
you thoughtful, You can he"r That which
will plunge you into deeper profound: Are
You weary, you may eaten a rc'linl hir' 80
the songs OF BIRDS are administrative IN all
circumstances. eNnd we would do wen to
have hymnology for all changes OF condt
tiOn. You may sing your woes into peace
aud rouse your Joys into greater attitudes,
Upon every condition OF body and soul let
us try the power of song The multitudi.
nous uttcrances OF grove and orchard and
garden aud forest suggest most delightful
possibilities.
SONGS or FAMILY LIFE
Further, notice that the song of birds is
a family song. Even those OF the feathcrd
throng which have no song at all make
what utterances they do in sounds of their
own family of birds. The boot of tho owl
the clatter of the mtgpie, the crow Of the