The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-10-26

OR. TAlMAoE CONSIDERS THE SOUTH
WARD FLIGHT OF THE BIRDS.

and Call on All Their Kind TO Go
with Them. but Men Have Not This
Wisdom.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 2l.-Rev, DIR. Tai.
mage, who has left India and is now on
his homeward journey. has selected as
the subject for his sermon today through
the press October Thoughts, his text
being jeremiah viii, z, 1.-The stork in
the 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 the judg-
ment of the Lord,
When God would set fast beautiful
thought, he plants it in tree. When
he would put it afioat he fashions it
into q fish. When he would have it
| glide the air, he molds it into bird.
| My text speaks of four birds of beauti-
| full instinct--the stork, of such strong
affection that it is allowed Familiarity to
come in Holland and Germany and build
its nest over tho 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; tho
| swallow, swift as dart shot out of the
| bow of heaven, falling, mounting
| Swimming, 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 the
clutch of stout claw. suppose it may
have been this very season of the year
autumn-and the prophet out of doors,
thinking of the impenitence of the peo-
pie Of his day, hears a great cry over
head.
A Sublime Lesson.
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 flocks of storks and turtle
doves and cranes and swallows drawn
out in long lines for flight southwark.
AS is their habit, the cranes had ar
ranged themselves in two lines, making
an angle, a wedge splitting the air with
wild velocity, the old crane with COM
handing call, bidding them onward,
while the towns, and the cities, and the
continents slid under them The
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 men about theirs, and he
puts his hand upon the pen and begins
to write, 1.-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"
If you were in the field today, in the
clump of trees at the corner of the field,
you would see a convention Cd birds,
noisy as the American congress the last
night before adjournment or as the
English parliament when some unfor-
tunate member proposes more economy
in the queens household, a 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 in the
| pictorial of the changing leaves.
| Mansions Ready For Them.
There is not belted kingfsher, or q
chaffinch, or 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 beer
1 ordered for them in South America OF
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 plumage Until sprins
weather, away! Fly on, great band Of
heavenly musicians! Strew the CONT
nents with music, and, whether from
Ceylon isle, or Carolinian swamps, OF
Brazilian groves men see your wings O,
hear your voice, may they yet bethinl
themselves of the solemn words of the
text, "The stork in the heaven knowett
her appointed times, and the turtle, ant
the crane, and the swallow observe the
time of their coming. but my people
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