The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-12-15
9 OCTOBER THOUGHTS"
Rev. DR. Talmage Draws a Lesson
From the Wisdom of Birds.
With unerring Instinct They Present VAL
liable Lessons to FIan-They Min
gle Music with Their Work
Or in Their Flight.

The following sermon by Rev. L. De Y
Witt Talmage on "October Ihougnus I
was selected as appropriate for pu Dill c
cation this week. 1t is based on the
text:
The storlz in the heaven knoweth her APP
x,a;nted time. and the turtle and the crane
md tire swallow observe the time OF their COM
NO. hut my people know not the Judgment Oh
he Lord.-Jeremiah viii..7
When God would set fast a beantilui
thought, He plants it in tree. When
He would put it afoat, He fashions IL
INTO a fish. When He would have IL
ride the air. He molds it into a bird.
Nv text speaks of four birds of beauti-
ful instinct-the stork, OF such strong
affection that it is allowed famiilarly
20 come, in Holland and Germany, ana
huild it's nest over the doorway; the
sweet-dispositioned turtledove ming
ling in color white, and black, aud
Known. and ashen, and chestnut; the
crane with voice like the clang OF a |
trumpet; the swallow, swift as a DART
shot out of the bow of Heaven, falilng' |
mounting, skimming, sailing-1our
birds started by the Prophet twenty
five centuries ago, yet flying on through
tbe ages. with rousing truth under
glossy wing and in the clutch OF STOUT
claw. / suppose it may have been TINS
very season of the year-autumn-
| the prophet out of doors, thinking OF
the impenitence of the people OF ms
| day, hears great cry overhead.
| Now. YOU know it is no easy thing
for one with ordinary delicacy OF eye
/ sight to look into the deep blue OF
noonday heaven; but the prophet looks
nm and there are fochs of storks, and
| turtle dpves, and cranes and swallows,
| drawn out in long lines for Hight
southwark. As is their habit, the
cranes had arranged themselves in two
/ lines, making an angle, wedge Spit
ting the air with wild velocity, the oio
crane. with commanding call, bidding
them onward while the towns, ana
the cities, and the continents Slid un-
der them. The prophet, almost blinded
from looking into the dazzling heavens
stoops down and begins to think now
much superior the birds are in sagaclty
about their safety than men aoout
theirs: and he puts his hand upon the
pen. and begins to write: THE storK
in the heaven kuoweth her appointed
times: and the turtle and the crane
and the swallow observe the time o.
. their coming: but my people know mol
the Judgment of the Lord
If YOU were in the field to-day, IN TN
I clump of trees at the corner OF TIT
field. YOU would see convention 0
birds, noisy as the American congress
the last night before adjournment, o.
as the English parliament when som
unfortunate member proposes NOR
economy in the queens housenoia-
convention of birds all talking at once
moving and passing resolutions on tn
subject of migration, some proposln
/. IN po Tomorrow. some moving tina
they 90 to-day, but all unanimous !
:. the fact that they must go soon. Tor the
:" have marching orders from the LOT
written on the first white sheet OF tn
:, frost. and in the pictorial of the chan'
=. mo leaves. There is not belted KIM
fisher. or chaffinch, or fre-creste
wren. or a plover, or red-legged pa
- fridge but expects to spend the VIM
=, at the south. for the apartments ha'
already been ordered for them IN Sou
% America. or in Africa; and, after tho
- sands of miles of fight, they Will st'
=. in the very tree where they spent La
70 January. Farewell, bright plumag
r Until spring weather, away! Fly Q
~ great band of heavenly musician
- Strew the continents with music, a
- whether from Ceylon Isle or Caroiini
swamps, or Brazilian groves, men
-, your wings, or hear your voice. J"
D' they vet bethink themselves OF the
amn words of the text: 1.-The stork
my the Heaven knoweth her appoint
oie times. and the turtle and the era
out and the swallow observe the time
their coming; but my people know
oe the Judgment of the Lord
me propose. so far as God may ii
! me in this sermon, carrying out
Ola idea of the text, to show that the bi
me Of the air have more sagacity ii
y, III men. And begin by particuiariz
mar and saying that they mingie mt
no. with their work. The most serl
pus undertaking of birds life is this
ner- nual fight southwark. Natural
liii' tell us that they arrive thin and wei
, dc and plumage ruffied, and yet they
'ent singing all the way; the ground,
lime lower line of the music, the sky,
we upper line of the music, themse
ONE the notes scattered up and d'
,een between. l suppose their song G
nees elasticity to their wing, and help
N with the journey. dwindling 7
de sand miles into four hundred. w
God that we were as wise as the
look mingling Christian song with
min every -day work. | believe tner
got such thing as taking the pitc
! he Christian devotion in the morning,
de keeping it all the day thln
Mary might take some of the dullest, n
little est. most disagrecablc work OF our
pan and set it to the tune of Antioch
= on .sMount Pisgah.
II he 1t is good sign when you ne
rass, man whistle 1t is better sign
to de YOU hear him hum roundelay-
noke 4 still better sign when you hear
, cfar sing the words of Isaac Watt
COW Charles Wesley. A violin chorded
, lay strung. if something acciden
strikes it, makes music. and SUI
z bat .L ;s s,,ch a thing as having