News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-12


through the fires of NebuchadnezzaT'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 foun-
dered Let all earth and hell try to hunt
down this speckled 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 God!
| The pillar and ground Of the truth.
| The gates of hell shall not prevail against
! her"
But we cannot stop here. From a
! tall cliff hanging over the sea hear the
eagle calling unto the tempest and lift
| ing its wing TO smite the whirlwind.
Moses, jeremiah. Hosea and Habakkuk
at times in their writings take their pen
from the eagles wing. 1t is a bird with
! ferceness in its eye, its feet armed with
claws of iron and its head with a dread
| full beak. Two CT three of them can fill
the heavens with clangOr But gener-
ally this monster of the air is alone and
unaccompanied, for the reason that its
habits are so predaceous it requires five
OF ten miles of aerial or earthly domin-
| ion all for itself.
The black brown of its back, and the
white of its low feathers, and the fire
of its eye, and tle long flap of its wing
make one glimi Sc of it as it swings
down into the V; LEY to pick up rabbit,
or lamb, or child and then swings
back to its throne on the rock some
thing never to Q forgotten. Scattered
about its eyre C altitudinOus solitude
are the bones e its conquests. But
while the beak and the claws of the
eagle are the terror of ali the travellers
of the air, the mother eagle is most kind
and gentle to her young. God compares
his treatment OF lis people to the eagles
care of the eagles. Deuteronomy xxi,
II, GAS an Gag, stirreth up her nest,
| futtereth over her young, spreading
abroad her win. s.. taketh them, beareth
them on her Wigs, so the Lord alone
| did lead"
WISDOM OF THE EAGLE.
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
ander it and takes it on her wing again.
So God does with us. Disaster, failure
in business, disappointment, bereave-
ment, is only Gods way of shaking us
out of our comfortable nest in order
that we may learn how to fly. You who
are complaining that you Lave no faith
or courage of Christian zeal have had it
too easy. You never will learn to fly
in that comfortable nest.
Like an eagle, Christ has carried rs
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 sun
ny mountain. Never an eagle brOOded
| with such love and care over her young
rs Gods wings have been over us.
Across what oceans of trouble we have
zone in safety upon the Almighty W ....
| From what mountains of sin we hr-C
been carried and at times have been
borne up far above the gunshO5 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 earths
mountains 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 rag
ing river of death so far beneath will
seem smooth and CLASSY as Swiss lake.
TWAS thought in ancient times that an
eagle could not only molt its feathers in
old age, but that after arriving to great
age it would renew its strength and be-
come entirely young again. To this
| Isaiah alludes 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
i'll old ago 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 elasticity
till at death it will spring up like glad
dened child into the bosom of God.
Yea, in this pathological study l see
that Job says, His days fly as an eagle
that hasteth to its prey" The speed Of
a hungry eagle when it saw its prey
score of miles distant was unimaginable.
1t went like thunderbolt for speed and
power. So fly our days. Sixty minutes,
| each worth a heaven, since we assembled
in this place have shot like lightning 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 hasteth to its prey" Be
hold the fowls Of the air! Have you con-
sidered that they have, as you and
have not, the power TO change their eyes
so that one minute they may be tele-
scopic and the next microscopic, now
seeing something Il mile away and by
telescope eyesight, and then dropping to
| its food on the ground, able to see it
close by and with microscopic eyesight?
THE SWALLOWS AT THE TEMPLE.
But what a senseless passage of Scrip
| ture that is, until you know the fact,
which says, The sparrow hath found a
| house and the swallow nest for herself,
where she may lay her young, even thine
affairs, o Lord Of hosts, my king and my
Godr' 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 they used to fly into the windows
and doors Of the temple at Jerusalem
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 Matched the young spar
rows in those nests, and David had seen
the young birds picking their way out
of the shell while the old swallows
watched, and no one in the temple was
cruel enough to disturb either the old
swallows or the young swallows, and
David burst out in rhapsody, saying,
The swallow hath found a nest for
herself, where she may lay her young,
even thine affairs, o Lord of hosts, my
king and my God!"
Yes, in this ornithology Of the Bible
find that God is determined to impress
upon us the architecture of birds nest
and the anatomy of a birds wing
| Twenty times does the Bible refer to
birds nest-"Where the birds max their
nest" CAS- bird that wandereth from
her nest" Though thou set thy nest
among the stars" The birds of the air
have their nest" 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 nest? Because it is
one of the most wondrous of all styles
of architecture, and lesson of provi
Dental care which is the most important
lesson which Christ in my text conyevs.
| Why. lust look at the birds nest. and SEQ