The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-11-06
AUTUMN REFLECTIONS.
Rev. Or. Talmage Discusses Unon
the Fading Leaves.
MAI, Like the Forest Leaves, Fades Ava
But He Comes Again Into a Liz
Eternal as Nature Renews
Her Verdurc.

cred BY Rev. 4. Dewitt Talmape h
fore his Washington congregatio,
being based on the text:
We do fade as Leaf Isaiah Xiv. A "a
It is SO hard for us to understand =
ligious truth that God constantly ;,
iterates. As the schoolmaster takes
blackboard, and puts upon 1t figure
and diagrams, SO that the scholar ma
mot only get his lesson thu ough til
sear, but also through the eve. SO Go
takes all the truths Of His Bible. an
draws them out In diagram on the ma,
lural world. Champollion, the famou
Frenchman, went down into Egypt /,
study hieroglyphics on monument
and temples. After much labor he de
ociphered them, and announced to IN
learned world the result of his invest;
cations. The wisdom, goodness an,
power Of God are swritten in hero
.glyphics all over the earth and all owe,
the heaven. God grant that we ma,
rhave understanding enough to de
cipher thclnl There are scriptura
passages, like my text, which need te
be studied in the very presence OF
the natural world. Habakkuk saws
-'Thou makest my feet like kinds
Il feet" passage which means nothing
;save to the man that knows that the
4 feet OF the red deer, or hind, are pc
sculiarly constructed, so that they can
walk among slippery rocks without
falling. knowing that fact, we un-
derstand that, when Habakkuk saws.
"Thou makest my feet like kinds
feet" he sets forth that the Christian
scan walk amid the most dangerous
and slippery places without falling.
An Lamentations we read that 1.-THE
|sdaughter Of my people is cruel, like
1.-THE ostriches Of the wilderness" q
passage that has no meaning save to
the man who knows that the ostrich
leaves its eggs in the sand to be
matched out by the sun, and that the
Eyoung ostrich goes forth unattended
by any maternal kindness. Knowing
E1his, the passage is sIgnificant-"The
daughter Of my people is cruel, like
4 the ostriches Of the wilderness"
Those know but little of the mean
ling OF the natural world who have
looked at it through the eyes Of 9TH
|sers, and from book or canvas taken
their impression. There are some
|Aaces SO mobile that photographers can |
mot take them; and the face Of nature
HAS such flush, and sparkle, and life.
that no human description can gather
Them. No one knows the pathos' Of
|blrds voice unless he has sat at sum-
|ner evening-tide at the edge of a wood
ana listened to the cry of the whip
|poor-will.
There is to-day more glory in one
|0ranch of sumach than painter
could put on q whole forest of naples.
POD hath struck into the autumnal
|ataf glance that none see but those
who come face to face--the mountain
cooking upon the man, and the man
|sooking upon the mountain.
For several autumns have made a
your to the far west, and one autumn,
SPOUT this time. saw that which
snail never forget have seen the
autumnal sketches of Cropsey and 9TH
~ skillful pencils. but that week Isaw :
y pageant 1000 miles long. Let artists
Ptand back when God stretches His
Eanvas A grander spectacle was
feyer kindled before mortal eyes,
aiong BY the rivers, and up and down I
NE sides of the great hills, and by the {
sanks of the lakes, there was an in
Eescribable mingllng of gold, and
Eange, and crimson, and saffron, 1
FoW SOLDERING into drab and maroon, !
Eow flaming into solferino and scarlet. G
ere and there the trees looked as if !
ny their tips had biossomed into fire. ]
q the morning light the forests a
Femed as If they had been transfig- I
Eea, and in the evening hour they e
Poked as If the sunset had burst and q
Popped upon the leaves. In more Sc Il
Hestered spots, where the frosts had d
zen hindered in their work, we saw Il
N hrst kindling of the flames of n
Plor in a lowly sprig; then they 50
Hsned up from branch to branch. d
|n1il the glory of the Lord sub !
Urged the forest. Here you would W
~ a tree just making up its mind to sc
pange, and there one looked as if,
FUNDED at every pore, it stood bathed al
carnage. Along the banks of Lake ca
Iaron there were hills over which W
ere seemed pouring cataracts of fire, tt
seq up and down and every whittier st
4 the rocks. Through some of the er
vines we saw occasionally foaming La
reeam as though it were rushing to put
y the confagration. If at one end GO
me woods commanding tree would st
\ up its crimson banner, the whole OF
rsst prepared to follow. If Gods 10
q OF colors were not infinite, one nc
Emp that I saw along the Maumee W
suia have exhausted it forever. 1t on
|s'Ded as If the sea Of Divine glory
q dashed its surf to the linton of ST