Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-06-18

lion eggs every year. a common queen
ant lays eighty thousand eggs in Il day.
Herbert Spencer declared that ii the
cattle propaGatcd themselves us rapid
ly as the inscctile world the cattle
would die of starvation in "A week.
But. though the human race does not
reproduce itself rs rapidly as the in
sectilc world. or even as the cattle. yet.
If allowed To live on this earth uninter-
rupicdly. IL would soon he impossible
for the growing members of the human
family Ia exist.
New generations come. and room
must he made for them. The infant
comes the youth. the youth passes on
to manhood and on To old age. and the
younger generations tread upon his
heels ut every step. At last he passes
on into eternity. What then: The
apostle says. 1t doth not yet appear
what we shall be- but we know
enough of that life To he full of hope.
To those who through Christ have
made peace with God there is the
promise of continued development.
They that wait on the Lord" says
the prophet. shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with
wings as eagles: they shall run and
not Ice weary. ana they shall walk and
not faint In that heavenly state
there shall he neither hunger. nor pain.
nor WEAKNESS. nor sickness. nor death.
Even the eagle. Ion. lived as IL is,
grows old and dies. but there we shall
live forever. And the love of our
Father in heaven is eternal. The
eagles affections are transferred from
one brood Ia the next but nothing can
separate us from the love of God.
whose heart is large enough for all
his children.
Dread Sin Like % Serpent.
Would you have such Il future to an
ticipatc? Then let that power which
God promises to impart come even now
into your life. The only thing that can
blot out that prospect is sin. Dread sin
as yen would dread the bite of Il ser
pent. Theodore l.. cuyler. the grand
old man of the BROOKLYN pulpit. graph
ically described II scene which ! have
carried in my memory for many years.
A peasant living upon the mountain
side was on his way home In the even
ing hour Tired after hard days
work, he turned To look down the val
ley which as Il panorama stretched
away ut his feet. Suddenly he saw Il
mighty winged eagle begin To lift itself
from distant cliff. Higher AMI high
er il rose gorgeous amid the fires of
the setting sun. Suddenly its move
mcnts became laboretl. IL struggled
and fought i'm midair AMI seemed To he
gasping for breath. First one wing be-
came helpless. then the second wing.
Then the huge bird. like II stone. shot
through the air and fell dead almost ut
the peasants feet. The peasant could
not understand the cause until lie went
to the side of the bird and picked up
the still warm corpse. Then To his
horror there wrigglel from between
his fingers n tiny serpent that had
fastened itself under the birds wing
and sucked the life out of the mon
arch of the air" So sin us venomOus.
clinging serpent. tries To fasten itself
upon us. The mightier winged we are
the more anxious that satanic serpent
Is for our life's blood. But God will to-
day not only save MS. as the mother
eagle does her young. but he does more.
Christ has given us his life in order To
overcome the power of the serpent. He
has died in order that we might live.
In this text of an eagle stirring up the
nest of her Young cannot you feel the
touch of Il saving Christi
would send this gospel message
everywhere The Episcopalian rector
reads the Scriptures on the Sabbath
day, upon lecturn made up of the
outstrcichcd wings of an eagle. Some
writers declare that these eagles wings
symbolic st. Johns inspired vision.
which beheld the heavenly glorics. as
the eagles eye looks into the light of
the dazzling sun. Others assert that
those eagles symbolic the flight of the
gospel message over the world. The
last Interpretation to me is the most
beautiful. May this sermon not only
have i'm il the message of Gods love.
but may il have the speed which every
gospel message should have-the speed
like the lightning. which can bring To
every sinful heart not only salvation.
but emancipation from sin. May God
bless us today as we use the eagles
eyrie for pulpit.
And as on eagles wings We soar
To see the face Of Christ once more
May heaven come down our souls to meet
And glory crown the mercy seat.