Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-10-27

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AUTUMNAL LESSONS.
pR.TALMAGE CONSIDERS THE SOUTH
WARD FLIGHT OF THE BIRDS.
They Know Whom to start-They Ely High
] and Call on All Their Kind to Go
With Them, but Men Have Not This
Wisdom.
BeooKLyN, Oct. a1.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who has left India and is now on
his homeward journey, has selected as
the subject for his sermon. today through
tbespress October Thoughts, " his text
being jeremiah viii. z, 1.-The storlr in
Tie heaven knoweth her appointed time,
and the turtle, and the crane, and the
swallow observe the time Of their COM
ing, but my people know not tho judg
ment of tho Lord. -
When God would set fast beautiful
thought, he plants it in tree. When
he would put it afloat, he fashions it
into a fish. When he would have it
glide the air, he molds it into bird.
Ny text speaks Of four birds of 'beauti-
fpssT4pstinct-the stork, of such strong
T affection that it is allowed Familiarity to
come in Holland and Germany and build
its nest over the doorway; the sweet
dispositioned turtledove, mingling in
color white and black and brown and
ashen and chestnut; the crane, with
voice like the clang of trumpet; the
swallow, swift IFS dart shot out Of the
bow Of heaven, falling, mounting,
skimming sailing-four birds started
by the prophet 25 centuries ago, yet fly
ing on through the ages, with rousing
truth under glossy wing and in tho
clntch-of stout claw. l suppose it may
have been this very season of the year
autulnn-and the prophet out of doors,
thinking of tho impenitenco of the peo-
pie of his day. hears great Cry over
head.
a oublllle I-eSSOn.
Now, you know it is no easy thing
for one with ordinary delicacy of eye
sight to look into the deep blue of noon
day heaven, but the prophet looks up,
and there are focks of storks and turtle
doves and cranes and swallows drawn
out in long lines for fight southwark.
AS is their habit, tho cranes had ar
ranged. themselves in two lines, making
an angle, wedge splitting the air with
wild velocity, the old crane, with COM
manding call, bidding them onward,
while tho towns, and the cities, and the
continents slid under them. Tho
prophet, almost blinded from looking
into the dazzling heavens, stoops down
and begins to think how much superior
the birds are in sagacity about their
safety than me- about theirs, and no
puts his hand upon the pen and begins
to write, "The stork in the heaven
knoweth her appointed times, and the
turtle, and tho crane, and the swallow
obssfve the time of their coming, but
my people know not the Judgment Of
the Lord
If you were in the field today in the
clump d, trees at the corner of the field,
you "ouiq adjournment or as the
n lr...:.S Us parliament when some unfor-
tunate member proposes more economy
in the queens household, convention
of birds all talking at once, moving and
passing resolutions on the subject of
migration, some proposing to go to-
morrow, some moving that they go to-
day, but all unanimous in the fact that
they must go soon, for they have march
ing orders from the Lord written on the
first white sheet of the frost and i'll tho
pictorial of the changing leaves.
Mansions Ready For Them.
There is not beltod kingfisher, or a
chaffinch, or O fire crested wren, or q
plover, or red legged partridge but ex'
poets to spend the winter at the south,
for the apartments have already been
ordered for them in South America or
in Africa, and after thousands of miles
of flight they will stop in the very tree
where they spent last January. Fare
we'll, bright plumagel Until spring
weather, away! Fly on, great band Of
heavenly musicians Strew the CONT
nents with music, and, whether from
Ceylon isle, Or Carolinian swamps, or
Brazilian groves men see your wings or
hear your voice, may they yet bethink
themselves of the solemn words of the
text, "The stork in the heaven knoweth
her appointed times, and the turtle, and
the crane, and the swallow observe the
tine of their coming, but my people
know not the Judgment of the Lord. "
Jpropose so far rs God may help me
in his sermon carryin7 out the idea Of
the text to show that tn birds of the
air havo moro sagacity than men. And
jegin by particularizing and saying
thit they mingle music with their work.
III most serious undertaking of birds
lie is this annual flight southwark.
Nituralists tell us that they arrive thin
aid weary and plumage ruffied, and yet
tley go singing all the way, the ground
tic lower line of the music, the sky tho
upper line of the music, themselves the
n,tes scattered up and down between.
SUPPOSE their song gives elasticity to
TIL ir wing and helps on with the jour
nd, dwindling 1000 miles into 400
Would God that we were as wise as they
in mingling Christian song with our ev-
erday work believe there is such a
ting as taking the pitch of Christian
degotion in the morning and keeping it
Of the day. think we might take some
the dullest, heaviest, most disagree
bile work of our life and set it to the
une of Antioch" or Mount Pisgah. "
| Song and Praise.
1t is q good sign when you hear
workman whistle. 1t is better sign
when you hear him hum q roundelay.
t is still better sign when you hear
lin sing the words of Isaac Watts or
Charles Wesley. a violin chorded and
trung, if something accidentally strikes
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