The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-10-31

bread.
Thine, though it never knew the sum-
mer heat;
Forget not quite, my sweet.
OcTossR THOUGHTS.
DR.. Ta,msse Finds Lesson in the MI
grant Bids:
BROOKLYN, Oct. 2I.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who has left India and is now on
his homework journey, has selected as
the subject for bis sermon today
through the press October Thoughts.
his text being jeremiah, viii, Z, The
stork in the heaven knoTeth her ap-
pointed times, and the turtle, and the
crane, and the swallow observe the
time of their coming, but my people
know not the judgment Of the Lord"
When God would set fast beautiful
thought, he plants it IN Tree. When
he would put 1t afoat, be fashions It n
to fish. When he would have it glide
the air, be moulds it into bird. My
text speaks Of four birds Of beautiful
instinct-the stork, Of such strong al
fect1on that it is allowed Familiarity to
come III Holland and Germany and
build it's nest over the doorway; the
sweet dispositioned turtledove, ming
ling in color white and black and
brown sn6 ashen and chestnut; the
crane, with voice like the claDg Of q
trumpet; the swallow, swift as dart
shot out of the bow OF heaven, falling,
mounting, skimmiDg, sailiDg-four
birds started by the prophet 25 certu-
ries ago, yet 1ying on through the ages
with rousing truth under glossy wing
and IN the clutch Of stout claw. l
suppose it may have been this very
season of the year-autumn.-a and the
prophet out Of doors, thinking OF tie
impenitence of the people Of his day,
hears great cry overhead.
Now, you know it is no easy thing for
one with ordinary Gelicacy OF eyesihgt
to look into the deep blue Of aoonday
heaven, but the prophet looks up, and
there are hocks Of storks and turtle
doves and cranes and swallows drawn
out in long lines for flight southward.
AS is their habit, the cranes had ar
ranged themselves in two lines, max
ing an angle, a wedge, splitting the air
with wild velocity, the old crane, with
commanding cali, bidding them onward
while the towns, and the cities, end the
continents slid under them. The proph-
ct, al9estt blinded from looking into
dazzling heavens, stoops down and be-
gins to thins how much superior the
birds are in sagacity about their sa ety
chan men about theirs, and he puts his
hand upon the pen and begins to write,
"The stork in the heaven knoHeth her
appointed times, and the turtle, and
the crsue, and the swallow observe the
time Of their coming. but my people
know not the judgment of the Lord
Ifyou were in the field today, n the
clump Of trees at the corner of the field
you would see convention OF b1rds,
noisy as the American congress the
last night before adjournment or as the
British parliament when some unfor-
tunate member proposes more economy
in the queens household-s 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 80 to-.
day, but all unanimous in the fact
that they must go soon, for they have
marching orders from the Lord written
on the first white sheet of the frost and
and il the pictorial Of the changing
leaves.
There is not g belted king6sher, or
chsfncb, or fire crested wren, or a
plover, or a 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 fight they will stop1n the very tree
where they spent last January. Fare
well, bright plumage. Until spring
weather, away! Fly on, great band OF
heavenly musicians! Strew the CONT
nent with music, and whether from
Ceylon isle or Carolinian swamps or
Brazilian groves men see your wings or
hear your voice may they yet bethlnk
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
time of their coming, but my people
know not the judgment of the Lord" ;"
! propose, so far as God may help me,
In this sermon, carrying out the idea Of
the text, to show that the birds Of the
air have more sagaclty than men. And
I begin by partlcularizlng and saying
that they mingle music with their
work: The most serious undertaking
Of a birds life is this annual flight
southwark. Naturslists tell US that
they arrive thin and weary and plum
age ruf1ed, and yet they 60 singing all
the way-the ground the lower line of
the music, the sky the upper line of the
music, themselves the notes scattered
up and down between. l suppose the
song gives elasticity to their wing and
helps on with the journey, dwindiing
1000 miles into 400. Would God that
we were as wise as they in nlingling
Christian song with our everyday work.
/ believe there is such thing as taking
the pitch Of Christian devotion in the
morning and keeping it all the cay. |
think We might take some Of the 6ui-
lest, heaviest, most 6isagreeable work
Of our life and setit to the tune CT An
tioch" or Mount Pisgah.''
Il is a good sign when you hear
workman whistle. It is better sign
when you hear him hum roundeiay.
It is still a better sign when you hear
him sing the words Of Isaac Watts CT
Charles Wesley. A violin cGoTded and
strung, if something accidentally
strike it, makes music, and l suppose
there is such thing as having Our
hearts so attuned by divine grace that
even the rough collisions Of life will
make a heavenly vibration. do not
believe that the power of Christian
song has yet been fully tried. believe
that If you could roll the "O!d Hun
dred" doxology through. the street it
would put an end to any pgcic. Be.
lleye that the 6iscords. and the soTrows,
and the sins Of the world are to be
swept out by heaven horn halIelujahs.
Some one asked Haydn, the celebrated
musician, why ne always composed
such cheerful music. Why" he said.
81 can't do otherwise. When I think
of God, my soul is SO full Of Joy that