Connecticut western news., 1894-10-25
AUTUMNAL LESSONS.

AUTUMNAL LESSONS. pR. rALMAcE CONSIDERS THE SOUTH. {. WARD Fll0AT OF THE BIRDS.
 They Know When to start-They Fly High 1 end. Call oa All Their Kind to Ga 1 Win Them. but Men Have Not Thia BROOKLYN, Oot 21.-Rev. Dr. Tal. mage. who has left India and Is now o,, his homeward journey, has selected as the subject for his sermon today through the press "October Thoughts, " his text being Jeremiah viii, I, ''The stork in tho heaven knoweth her appointed time, and the turtle, and the crane. and the ewAllow observe the time of their oom- ing. but my people know not the judg- ment of tho Lord"
 When God would set fast . beautiful thought he plants 10 in trea When ho would put 1t anoat, he fashions it into . fish. When he would have 1t glide tho air, he molds it into bird. My text speaks of four birds of beauti- ful instinot-the stork, of such strong affection that 1t is allowed familiarly to come in Holland and Germany and build its nest over the 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; the swallow, swift as dart shot out of the bow of heaven, falling, mounting. skimming, 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. I suppose it may autumn-and the prophet out of doors, thinking of the impenitence of the peo- pie of his day, hears a great cry over head. F
 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 fooks 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, making m angle. Q wedge splitting the air with wild velocity, the old crane, with com tmanding oall.. bidding them onward, whilethe 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 to0write, "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 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, 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 chaffinoh, or a fire crested wren. or Q blower, or 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 flight they will stop in the very tree where they spent last January. Fare we'll, bright plumage! Until spring weather, awsyi Fly on, great band of heatAnly i'm usicians. Strew the sconti- nents with music, and, whether from ueylpn isle, or Garolinian swamps, or 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, 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 sagacity than men. And begin by particularizing and saying that they mingle music with their work. Tho most serious undertaking of bird s life is this annual flight southward. Naturalists tell us that they arrive thin and weary and plumage ruffled, and yet they go 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. I suppose their song gives elasticity to their wing and helps on with the jour ney, dwindling 1000 miles into, 400. Would God that we were as wise as they in mingling Christian song with our ev- .eryday workl believe there is such a thing as taking the pitch of Christian devotion in the morning and keeping it all the day. think we might take some U eno uuaoce, noaSloSt, moSs uISdSIeo- able work of our life and set it to the tune of Antioch" or Mount Pisgah. "
 Song and Praise.
 It Is good sign when you hear Q workman whistle. It is a better sign when you hear him hum, a roundelay. It is . still better sign when you hear him sing the words of Isaac Watts or Charles W0aley A violin ohorded and strung, if something accidentally strikes 1t. makes music. and suppose there is such a.thing as having our hearts so at- tuned by divine grace that even the rough collisions of life will make a heavenly vibration. I do not believe that the power of Christian song has yet been fully tried. I believe. that if you could roll the "Old Hundred'' doxoloUy