The morning news., 1894-10-22
OCTOBER THOUGHTS.
Dr.. Tdlmage Finds in the Season Much
10 Suggest Joy.


Panic-The Lessons Taught by the
Birds of the Air.
Brooklyn. OF. 21.-Rev. Dr Talmage,
who has left India and is now on his
homeward journey. has selected as the
subject for his sermon to-day through
the press. October Thoughts" his text
being jeremiah viii. 2: The stork in the
heaven knoweth her appointed time; 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 a beautiful
thought, he plants it in a tree. When
he would put it afoat he fashions it into
fish. When he would have it glide the
air he molds it into a bird. My text
speaks of four birds of beautiful instinct
the stork, of such strong affection that
it is allowed familiary to come, in Hol-
land and Germany, and build its nest over
the doorway; the sweet dispositioned tur-
tie dove, minglng in color white and
black and brown, and ashen and chestnut;
the crane, with voice like the cIang of a
trumpet; the swallow, swift as a dart
shot out of the bow of heaven, falling,
mounting, skmming, sailing-four birds
started by the prophet twenty-five cen
turies ago, yet flying on through the ages,
with rousing truth under glossy wing and
in the clutch of stout claw / srpDose IT
may have been this very season of the
Jyear-autumn-dnd the prophet out of
doors, thinking of the impenitence of the
people of his day. hears a great cry over
head.
Now. you know it is no easy thing for
one with ordinary deicacy of eyesight
TO look into the deep blue of MONDAY
heaven; but the prophet looks UP. and
there are 1ocks of storks and turtle
doves, and cranes and swallows drawn
out in long lines for flight southwark,
AS Is their habit, the cranes had arranged
themselves in two lines making an angle.
wedge splitting the air with wild We
locity, the old crane, with commanding
call bidding them ownward; 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: THE stork
in the heaven knoweth her appointed
times; and the turtle and the crane and
the swallow observe the time of their com
ment Of the Lord
If you were in the field to-day. in the
clump of trees at the corner of the lield
you would see a convention of birds noisv
as the American congress the last night
DeIore adjournment, or as the English
parliament when some unfortunate mem
DER proposes more economy in the
queen household convention of birds
all talking at once, moving and Dassinp
resolutions on the subject of migration;
some proposing to go tomorrow. some
moving that they go to-day but all unan-
y imous In the fact that they must 90
soon, Tor they have marching orders from,
lhe Lord, written on the first white sheet
OF Inc frost, and in the pictorial Of the
changing leaves. There is not a belted
kinshsher. or chaffinch. or a fire-crested
wren or a plover, or a red-legged par
fridge but expects to spend the winter
AT the south, for the apartments have AL
ready been ordered for them in South
america, or in Africa and after thou-
SANDS or miles of flight, they will ston
IN the very tree where they spent last
January. Farewell, bright plumage! I'm
III spring weather, away Fly on. great
'bahd OF heavenly musicians! Strew the
comments with music, and whether from,
1eylon isle or Carolinian swamps or
t'IdZilIah groves men see your wings. or
near your voice, may they vet bethinlz
themselves OF the solemn words of the
nv oNoAA ~ III lQG heaven knOWnth
HeI appointed times; and the turtle and
lhe crane and the swallow observe tbo
tlne OF thelr coming; but my people
know not the Judgment of the Lord.
propose so far as God may helm me
IN TINS sermon, carrying out the idea of
sue .eAe, 10 snow that the birds of the air
nave more sagacity than men. And 7
oegin by partcularizing and saving tbat
lhey mlnsle music with their worl, Tbo
most serious undertaking of a birds life
is an unusual fight southward. Main
Iallsts tell US that they arrive thin and
weary ana plumage rufTled, and vet tbe,-
20 SINGING all the way; the ground the
lower line of the music, the sky. the nm
Der hne OF the music, themselves the
notes scattered IN and DOM between
suppose their song gives elasticity to their
wing and helps on with the iournet
dwindling thousand miles into four hun-
dred. Would God that we were as wise
as they IN mingling Christian song win
our everyday work, 1 believe there is
Such thing as taking the pitch Of
thrlstlan devotion in the morning. and
keeping 1t all day I think we might take
some OF the dullest, heaviest most disa-
sreeable work of our life, and set II to
the tune of Antioch" or Mount P,s
gah.'
1t is good sign when you hear a work.
man whistle. 1t is a better sign when Won
near him hum roundelay 1t is a stiI
pOtNNA ssh Nltll gOu near MN sing the
words OF Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley
A violin chorded and strung, if something
accidentally strike it, makes music. and /
suppose there is such thing as havinr 2
our hearts so attuned by divine grace.
that even the rough collisions of life viii
make a heavenly vibration / do not he
lieve that the power of Christian song
has get been fully tried. / believe that II
YOU could roll the "Old Hundred" dox-
Slogy through the street, it would put an
end TO any panic l believe that the dis
cords, and the sorrows. and the sins Of the
world are TO be swept out by heaven
born hallelujahs. Some one asked HAYDN.
the celebrated musician, why he ALWAYS
composed such cheerful music why. -
he said, Il can't do otherwise When
think Of God, my soul is so fun OF ioy
that the notes leap and dance from my
PEN | wish we might all exult me.
lodiously before the Lord With God
for our Father, Christ for our Saviour
and heaven for our home, and angels for
future companions, and eternity for a
lifetime we should strike all the notes OF
Joy. Going through the wilderness OF
this world, let us remember that we are
the WgW 1Jrorlarv gIfr,n ,s