The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-06-19

lesson Of this kind when, with my
Arab guides, some years ago | climbed
the Egyptian pyramid Of Cheops
Each stone Of that pyramid is about
Eve feet high and two feet wide. You
give Your outsretchcd hands to your
dusky guides. They phi and push you
up Your head is dizzy with the awful
abyss you can see beneath, but still
they keep on pulling and pushing you
up. You help them as much as you
can Without your help they could do
nothing but If you did not have their
help you would be doomed Like that
of the English tourist who, few
years ago, tried to climb the pyramid
alone, your body would soon be a man
gled corpse below AS we must Learn
from the text the duty of depending
upon ourselves, so we must also learn
the duty of absolute dependence upon
God.
But there is still another great les
son from the figure of an old parent
eagle stirring up her acst After the
Young birds have ONE been pushed
off the cyrie and learned their own
limitations and also learned to trust
the parent, then they are ready to be
taught by the parent birds by object
lessons. When the eaglet once learns
that if it does not obey the parent
bird it will he punished, then it will
not only willingly, but after awhile
gladly, obey what the mother and
father bird teach it to do, First comes
fear, tLen trust, then the attempt to
initiate and to do as the parent bird
does.
It has never been my privilege to see
an old eagle teaching her young how to
fly, but Sir Humphry Dayy, the great
English chemist, once saw this inter
eSting spectacle. lie gives a full de
scriptiOn of the scene. First the eagles
followed out exactly the picture Of my
text The young birds, with fear and
trembling. chung to the rocks where
they We're Matched, but the old birds
said to themselves. This won't do: this
won't do. These young birds must be
taught TO fly" So the parent birds first
tried to coax the young to leave the
nest Then, when coaXing accomplish
ed nothing, they struck right and left
with their begks. With their powerful
tal0ns they scattered the nest Then
they gave the young a BIG push. and off
the tedgelings went. Then the young
were carried back to the nest by the
broad wings Of the parent bird. The
mother ANA father birds seemed to stop
awhile to have a little talk They
seemed to say: Nov, children, you
must obey me. whether YOU will or no.
And, as you must obey me | want You
to do it willingly. want you to fol
low my every movement. See how |
raise my wings, 50. | beat them in the
air Just so. And now | begin to circle
round and round Come, boys; come,
girls That is right Now, try again.
Are you ready? Here we go up and mp
and up See how easy ii is
Let me describe this object lesson in
almost the same language with which
Sir Humphrey navy described it when
he saw the two old eagles. by their ac-
tons, teaching their young how to fly
above the Crags of Ben Nevis: after
the old birds had coaXed the caelets of
the cyric they made small circles, which
the young caglets tried to initiate
Then the parent birds made larger and
larger circles In a gradually ascending
spiral until the birds. old and young.
were finally lost to view in the great |
heaven Of blue" An, yes the old |
eagles teach the young eagles to fly, |
first, by the sharp blow Of the beak !
and the pushing off the nest; second. |
by the rescue and the bringing back to
the nest third by the object lessons, |
which say: Come, children, do as /
am doing now. Come, lift your wings /.
as my wings flap, and so up and |.
up" God teaches US how to fly by .
pushing us off into the great abyss of |
trouble He rcscues us by the infinite |
power of the atoning cross. He then |
teaches us how to go up and up and up |
by the object lessons of Christs earth, |
Iy life
Christs Life an object Lesson.
Have you and ever stopped to fully /
how Christs earthly life was |
meant to be an object lesson for sinful /
men, rs the tapping wings Of the Old +.