The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-10-27

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Know Not the Judgment OF the Lord .:
Jer. 8:VII.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 21.-Rev. DR.. Tai
mage, who has left India and is nov
on his homeward journey, has selected
as the subject for his sermon to-day
through the press, october Thoughts,
his text being jeremiah S:vii.
When God would set fast a beautiful
thought, he plants it in tree. When
he would put it ahoat he fashions IT
into a fish When he would have IT
glide the air, he moulds it into bird
NV text speaks of four birds OF beantl'
| full instinct-the stOrk, of such strong |
affection that it is allowed Familiarity |
to come in Holland and Germany, and
build It's nest over the doorway. the
sweet.dtspositiohed turtle dove, ming
ling In color white and back. and
brown, and ashen, and chestnut; the
crane, with voice like the clang OF
trumpet the swallows, swift as dart
shot out of the bow of heaven. falling,
mounting, Swimming, sailing-four
birds started by the prophet twenty
five centuries ago, yet tiying.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-~ana
the prophet out-of-doors, thinking OF
. the impenitence of the people OF his
day, hears a great cry overhead
Now, YOU know 1t Is no easy thing
. for one with ordinary delicacy of eye
! stght to look into the deep blue OF
i MONDAY heaven; but the prophet looks
up, and there are focks of storks, and
i turtle doves, and cranes, and swallows
u drawn out in long lines for Hght
southwark. AS is their habit, the
s. cranes had arranged themselves in two
'e lines making an angle, wedge split,
!. ting the air with wild velocity, the old
" crane, with commanding call bidding
them onward; while the towns, and
the cities, and the continents SLID I'M
der them. The prophet, almost blinded
= from looking into the dazzling heav
= ems, stoops down and begins to thlnl
how much superior the birds are II
sagacity about their safety than mer
about theirs; and he puts his hand upol
pl the pen, and begins to write: "Ih
~ storl In the heaven knoweth aer ap
pointed times; and the turtle and TN
Tn crane and the swallow observe TN
#, time of their coming; but my peopl
~ know not the Judgment of the LORD.
mr. II YOU were In the field to-day;
I'd the clump Of trees at the corher OF III
az &c field, you would see d convention
w. birds. noisy as the American congre'
!. the last night before adjournment,
as the English parliament when SON
unfortunate member proposes mo-
economy in the queens household
convention of birds all talking at ono
moving and passing resolutions on II
subject of migration; some proposii
III to 20 tomorrow, some moving tn
I'd they 90 to-day, but all unanimous
~ the fact that they must 60 soon,
- they have marching orders from t
Lord written on the first white she
VI, of frost, and In the pictorial OF
changing leaves. There is not be
~ ed kingfsher, chattnch, or
fire crested wren, or plov
Of red legged partridge
70 expects to spend the winter
IA the south, for the apartme7
have already been ordered for them
= South America or in Africa; and at
thousands of miles of fight, they "
stop in the very tree where they sp'
last January. Farewell, bright plr
N age, Until spring weather, away!
u on, great band of heavenly musicia
= strew the continents with music,
Pat whether from Ceylon isle, or Carolin
swamps, or Brazilian groves men
1850 your wings or hear your voice, Il
rio they vet bethink themselves OF
. q solemn words of the text: 1.-The st
s TItS in the heaven knoweth her appoin
1,os times; and tbs turtle and the or
and the swallow observe the time
d, their coming; but my people know
the Judgment of the Lord"
- propose so far as God may help
OF in this sermon, carrying out the
" of the text, to show that the birds
the air have more sagacity than
NV And l begin by particularizing
lOL saying that they mingle music
,e their work. The most serious un
taking of birds life is this an
fight southwark NaturaliSts tel
,hat they arrive thin and weary,
lumage ruffled, and yet they 60
ing all the way; the ground, the Il
line of the music, the sky, the u
~ line of the music, themselves the
~ scattered up and down betweel
= suppose their song gives elastici'
their wing and helps on with the
new, dwindling thousand miles
four hundred. Would God thai
were us wise as they in mingling
tian song with our every day wor
>k,tc believe there is such thing as ia
so the pitch of Christian devotion il
morning and keeping it all the da
think we might take some OF the
est. heaviest, most disagreeable
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