The Progress., 1896-11-07

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tK a. blackboard, and
puts upon it figures
| T and diagrams, so
Gn1 that the scholar
W may not only get
" his lesson through
A. ear, but also through the eye, SO
"a takes all the truths Of his Bible,
"A draws them out in diagram on the
.,sural world. Champollion, the IA
AIMS Frenchman, went down into
rvut to study the hieroglyphics on
nauuments and temples. After much
.,bor he deciphered them, and an
,apced to the learned world the re-
mn Of his Investigations. The wis
Ann, goodness, and power Of God are
written In hieroglyphics all over the
mth and all over the heaven. God
,,ant that we may have understanding
nolgh to decipher them! There are
rriptural passages, like my text, which
asel 10 be studied in the very pres
,uce Of the natural world. Habakkuk
avs "Thou makest my feet like kinds
ipet" a passage which means nothing
ave to the man that knows that the
ieet OF the red deer, or hind, are pc
tuliarly constructed, so that they can
walk among slippery rocks without
falling. Knowing that fact, We under
sand that when Habakkuk says,
aThou makest my feet like kinds feet
he sets forth that the Christian can
walk amid the most dangerous and
slippery places without falling, In
lamentations we read that 1.-The
laughter of my people is cruel, like
The 0striches Of the wilderness" a
massage that has no meaning save tC
the man who knows that the ostrich
leaves its egg in the sand to be hatch.
Cd out by the sun, and that the young
ostrich goes forth unattended by any
maternal kindness. Knowing this, thu
passage Is significant-"The daughter
Of my people is cruel, like the ostriche'
Of the wilderness"
Those know but little of the meaning
o. the natural world, who have LOOKED
Il Il through the eyes of others, ant
from book or canvas taken their i'm
PRESTON. There are some faces SO mo
bile thai photographers cannot tax
them; and the face Of nature has sue.
flush, and sparkle, and life, that n
human description can gather then
No one knows the pathos of a bird,
voice unless he has sat at summe
¥lng-tide at the edge Of a wood, an
listened to the cry Of the whip-pool
will.
There Is today more glory In on
branch Of sumach than a painter coui
but on a whole forest of naples. 60
hath struck into the autun al leaf
glance that none see but ii &c VIII
come face to face-the mountain looi
Ing upon the man, and the man loot
ing upon the mountain.
For several autumns have made
tour to the far west, and one autumn
8 about this time, saw that which sha
never forget. | have seen the autun
nal sketches of Cropsey and other ski
iul pencils but that week saw a p
keant two thousand miles long. l.
artists stand back when God stretch
his canvas! A grander spectacle WI
never kindlod before mortal eyes. Aior
BY the rivers, and up and down Il
sides of the great hills, and by tt
banks Of the lakes, there was an ind
scribable mingling Of gold, and orane
and crimson, and saffron. now sobe
inc into drab and maroon, now flamil
into solferino and scarlet. Here al
there the trees looked as II Just the
tins had blossomed into fire. In t
morning light the forests seemed as
they had been TRANSPORTED, and in t
evening hour they looked as If the su
set had burst and dropped upon t
leaves, In more sequestered spo
where the frosts had been hinder
In their work, we saw the first kin
ling OF the flames Of color in a low
sprig: then they rushed up from bran
TO branch, until the glory of the Lo
submerged the forest. Here you wor
And a tree just making up its mi
to change, and there one looked as
wounded at every pore, 1t stood bath
In carnage. Along the banks of La
Huron there were hills over viii
there seemed pouring cataracts Of fl
tossed up and down, and every whit
by the rocks. Through some OF
rayines we saw occasionally fOami
stream, as though it were rushing
( put out the conAagration. II at c
end of the woods Z commanding t
would set up its crimson banner,
whole forest prepared to follow.
Gods urn Of colors were not infini
one swamp that saw along the M;
NEE would have exhausted it forey
1t seemed as II the sea of divine gil
had dashed its surf to the tip top of I
Alleghanies, and then it had co
dripping down to the lowest leaf q
deepest cavern.
Most persons preaching from
49,. 6rd only in II a vein M sadnt