Milford chronicle., 1904-06-17

Ia as well as to learn how TO depend upo
u ourselves. We must learn to trus
d ourselves to the Heavenly Father
strength and care. as the eaglet trust
the mother bird. 1t is a lesson of de
! psndence as well as of effort. / had ,
! lesson Of this kind when. with my
Arab guides. some years ago. l climbed
the Egyptian pyramid of Cheops
Each stone Of that pyramid is about
nve feet high and two feet wide. You
give your outstretched hands 10 your
dusky guides. They pull 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 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 mp her nest. After the
young birds have once been pushed
of the eyrie ana 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 easlet once learns
that if it does not obey the parent
bird il viii be 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. then trust, then the attempt to
initiate and to do as the parent bird
does.
II mas never been my privilege 10 see
IN old eagle teaching her young how TO
iy. but Sir Humphrey Davy. the great
English chemist. once SAW this inter
sting spectacle. He gives fun de-
cription of the scene. First. the eagles /
ollowed out exactly the picture OF my I
ext. The young birds. with fear and i
rembiins. clung 10 the rocks where q
hey We're matched. but the old birds
aid 20 themselves: This won't do: this :
'on't do. These young birds must be h
lught 10 fly" So the parent birds first u
'ied 20 coax the Young 10 leave the /,
est Then. when coaXing accomplish n
i nothinS they struck right ana left II
it'll their heakS. With their powerful f,
Hons they scattered the nest. Then .,
.ey gave The young big push. and OFT n
-e hed-einSs went. Then the Young M
ere carried back 10 the nest by the a.
Dad wings Of the parent bird. The 9,
other and father birds seemed to stop q.
while 10 have little talk. They nj
emed TO say; Vow. children. you m
uSt obey me. whether you viii or no. IN
ld. as YOU must obey me want You M
do it willingly. want you 10 fol. 10
w my every movement. See how I m
ise my wings. so. beat them in the ~
: just So. And now / begin TO circle n.
lnd ana round. Come, boys; come. n.
Is. That is right. Now. try again. an
e you ready: Here we 90 up and up ar,
d up. See how easy il is" cli
-et me describe this object lesson i'm ND
most the same language with which Tho
Humphrey Davy described it when is
saw the two old eagles. 10y their ac- dar
MS, teaching their young how 10 fly eal
I'VE the cragS of Ben Nevis After CHI
old birds had coaNed the eagletS off ove
eyrie they madC small circles. which has
young eagletS tried 10 initiate In
an the parent birds made larger and nes
ger circles in a gradually ascending tou
'al until the birds. old and young
re finally lost 10 view in the great eve
ven Of blue All. yes. the old rea,
les teach the young eagles to tiy. dav
/, 10y the sharp blow Of the beak ONT,
the pushing or the nest: second writ
the rescue and the bringing back 10 sym
nest; third. by the object lessons. viii
eh say: Come, children. do as I the
doing now. Come. lift your wings the
my wings Zap. and 20 up and thos
N'NN A'utAAte Us now 10 lN UV guSU
ting MS of into the great abyss of last
BILE. He rescues rs by the infinite beau
er OF the atouing cross He then have
hes Us how to go up and up and up but
he object lessons Of Christs earth. gosp
re- like
hrist's Life an object Lesson. ever!
we you and ! ever stopped To fully but
.der how ChristS earthly life was bless
It 10 be an object lesson for sinful eyre
as the Tapping wings OF the old And Z
5 are meant 10 be visible object - ~ s
ms TO teach the young eagles how And
Z: God did not tell US how 10 be rC
merely in the abstract. but he
us TO be good rs Jesus Christ was
because Christ was born bone Of
bone and flesh Of our flesh and III.
-ed as we suifer and was tempted .,1i-
are tempted. Thus Christ's life -.