Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-10-22
AUTUMNAL LESSONS.
Or. TALMAGE CONSIDERS THE SOUTH.
WARD FLIGHT OF THE BIRDS

4"'S Nno" when to start-They Fly High
and Can On All Their Kind In 90
with Them, but a!en Have Not Tb,.
Wisdom.
BROOKLYN, OF 2L-Rev. Dr. Tai.
'gc, WAC hls left India and is now ON
IS meme wand journey, has selected rs
il5 subject for his sermon today througb
The press October Thoughts, " his text
heing Jofca-iah viii, 2, "The stork in
tue heaven lnoweth her appointed time
ana the turtle, and the crane. and the
t%allow observe the time of their COM
ing, but my people know not the judg.
mallt of the Lord
When God would set fast beautiful
thought, he plants it IN tree. When
he would put it afoat, lie fashions it
into fish. When be would have il
glide the air, no molds it into bird.
My text speaks of four birds of beauti.
full instinct-the stork, of such strong
affection that it is allowed familiarlv TO
come i'll Holland and Germany and build
its nest over the doorway; the sweet
dispositioned turtledove, lninrlinr in
color white and black and brown and
ashon and chestnut; the crane, With
voice like the clang of a trumpet; the
swallow, swift as dart shot out of the
bow of heaven, falling mounting,
skimming, sailing-four birds started
by the prophet % centuries ago, yet fly.
ing 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-and the prophet out of DOORS
thinking of the impenitence of the peo-
pie of his day, hears a great cry over
head.
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 fight 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
manding 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 convention of 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 a
chaffinch, or a 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 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 musiciansl Strew the conti-
nents with music, and, whether from
Ceylon isle, or Carolinian swamps, OF
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, ana
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 20 show that the birds Of the
air have more sagacity than men. And
/ begin by partioularizing and saying
that they mingle music with their work
The most serious undertaking Of q bird 3
life is this annual flight southward'
Naturalists tell as that they arrive thin
and weary and plumage rutded, ana yet
they go singing all the way, the ground
tho lower line Of the music, the sky the
upper line Of the music, themselves the
notes scattered up and down between J
suppose their song gives elasticity %
their wing and helps on with The Jour
ney, dwindling 900 miles into 400
Would God that we were a. Wise As lhey
IN mingling Christian song Win our eV
eryday work believe there y such
thing as taking the pitch u chlls'lai
devotion Ia the morning ana Keeping J
all tho day ! think We might take som.
Of the duilest, heaviest, most disagree
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