Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-12

| every one wis tired out put dOu anu HeI
self. Her lifeblood beats in our heart ant
| her image lives in our face. That man il
gracelcss as d cannibal who III treats his par
ents, and he who begrudges them daily
bread and clothes them but shabbily-may
God have patience with him; | cannot.
heard man once say, II now have my OLD
mother ON my Lands" Ye storks on youl
way with food TO your aged parents, shame
himl
THE ToRMESTED BIRD.
But yonder in this Bible sky flies bird
that is speckled. The prophet describing the
church cries out, mine heritageis unto me
as speckled bird; the birds round about are
against her." So it was then; so it is now.
Holiness picked at. Conservation picked
at. Benevolence picked at. Usefulness
picked at A speckled bird is peculiar
bird. and that arouses the antipathy of all
the beaks of the forest. The church of God
is peculiar institution, and that is enough
TO evoke attack of the world, for it is a
speekled bird TO be picked at. The incon-
sistencies of Christians are banquet ON
which multitudes get fat. They ascribe
everything you do to wrong motives. Put
dollar in the poor box, and they will say
that you dropped it there only that you
might hear it ring. Invite them to Christ.
and they will call You fanatic.
Let there be contention among Chris
tians, and they viii say "Hurrahl The
| church is in decadence Christ intended
that his church should always remain a
speckled bird. Let birds of another feather
| pick at her, but they cannot rob her of a
single plume. Like the albatross, she can
sleep on the bosom Of a tempest. She has
gone through the fires of Nebucbadnezzar'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 seorn and
internal assault it shall sing over every
mountain top and fly over every nation, and
her triumphant song shall be: The church
Of God The pillar and ground Of the
truth. The gates of hell shall not prevail
against her"
But we cannot stop here. From tall
cliff, hanging over the sea, hear the eagle
calling unto the tempest and lifting its
wing 10 smite the whirlwind. Moses, Jere-
miah, Hosea and Habakkuk Mt times in
their writings take their pen from the
eagles wing IL is bird with fierceness in
its eye, its feet armed with claws OF iron,
and its head with dreadful beak Two or
three Of them can I'LL 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 hack and the
white of its lower feathers and the fire of /
its eye, and the long flap Of its wing make |
one glimpse of IL AS it swings down into the 4
valley to pick up rabbit, or lamb, or 4
child and then swings back to its throne ON /
the rock something never TO be forgotten. /
Scattered about its eyrie Of altitudinous 4
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.
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, "As an eagle stirreth up
her nest, iiuttereth over her young, spread
ing abroad her wings. taketh them, beareth
them on her wings, so the Lord alone did
lead" The old eagle first shoves the young
one out OF the nest in order to make IL fly,
and then takes it on her back and flies with
il, and shakes IL off in the air, and II il
seems like falling quickly flies under it and
takes it on her wing again. So God does
with us. Disaster, failure in business, dis
bereavement is only Gods
way of shaking us out of our comfortable
nests In order that we may learn how 10 fly.
You who are complaining that you have
no faith or courage or Christian zeal have
had il too easy. You never win learn to fly
in that comfortable nest. Like an eagle,
Christ has carried US ON his back At times
we have been shaken off, 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 us Across
what oceans of trouble we have gone in
safety upon the Almighty wingsl From
what mountains of sin we have been carried
md at times have been borne up far above
he gunshot Of the world and the arrow of
he DEVIL
When our time on earth is closed, on
hese great wings of God we shall speed
With infinite quickness from earth's noun
aims TO heavens hills. and as from the
agles circuit under the sun men on the
round seem small and insignificant as
izards on u rock. so all earthly things shall
Iwindle into a srccSsaud the raging river
4 death so tar beneath will seem smooth
nd CLASSY as a Swiss lake
MOUNTING IS THE EAGLES
1t was thought IN aacieut times that an
agile could not Only nult its feathers in
Id age but that Eftar an living at great age
would renew its strength aid become
ntirely Young again. 10 this Isaiah al
ldes when he ,-iyt ley chat wait on the
ord shall renew their strength: they shnll
lount up with wiats Uf eagles. Even so
he Christian in Old aac viii renew his
piritual strength. .es..fll be young in
rdor and enthusiasm for Christ, and as
ne body fails the soul win grow ia elias
city till at desth il viii spring up like a
ladden.d child lite the bosom Of God
ca, in this Crniihoiei,i,ssl study see that
oh says Ills days It's ~ an eagle that
asteth to its prey"
The speed Of q hraf-y eagle when il saw
S prey q score Of miles distant was uniui-
ENABLE. 1t went like thunderbolt for
'eed and power. - fly cur days. Sixty
inutes each worth n heaven since ~. rs