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limitations, n also learned TO trust
the parent. then they are ready to I've
taught by the parent birds by object
lessons. When tine eaglct ono learns
that if II does not obey the parent
bird it Will be punished. then 1t will
not only willingly, but after awhile
gladly, obey what the mother and
father bird teach It TO do. First colnes
fear, then trust. then the attempt to
initiate and to do as the parent bird
does.
1t has never been my privilege to see
an old eagle teaching her young how to
fly. hut Sir Humphrey Davy, the great
English chemist. once saw this inter
esting spectacle. He gives a full de-
scription OF the scene. First. the eagles
followed ont exactly tho picture Of my
text. The young birds. with fear and
trembling. chung to the rocks whore
they were Matched, but the old birds
said to themselves This won't do; this
won't do. These young birds must be
taught to 6y." So the parent birds first
tried to coax the young to leave tho
nest. Then, when conxing accomplish
ed nothing. they struck right and left
with their beaks. With their powerful
talons they scattered the nest Then
they Cavc the young n big push. and off
the fedEelings went. Then the young
wcrc carried back to the nest by the
broad wings of the parent bird. The
mother and father birds seemed to stop
awhile to have n little talk They
seemed to say: "Now, children. You
must obey me. whether YOU will or no.
And. as you must obey me want you
to do il willingly. ! want You to fol
low my every movement. SEQ how I
raise my wings. so. beat them in the
air Just so. Aud now | begin TO circle
round and round. Come. boys, nme
girls. That is right. Now. Try again.
Are YOU ready Here we 60 up and up
ana up. So" now easy ii is"
Let mo describe this object lesson IN
almost the same language with which
Sir Humphrey Davy described it when
he saw the two old eagles, hy their nc
lions, teaching their young how to ny
above the cragS of Zen Nevis After
the old birds had coaXcd the englets off
the cyric they made small circles. which
the young eaglots 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 Ali, yes. the old
eagles teach the young eagles to fly.
first. by tho sharp blow Of the b"ak
and the pushing off the nest. second.
by the rescue and the bringing back 10
the nest; third, by the Object lessons.
which say: "Come. children. do as /
am doing now Come, lift your WINS
as my wings flap. and 20 up and
up zoe teaches us how 10 fly Ny
pushing us off into the great abyss Of
trouble. He rcscucs MS by the infinite
power of the atOning cross. He then
teaches us how to 20 M and up and up
by the object lessons of Christ's earth
ly life.
Chr.st's Life an object Lesson.
Have YOU and ever stopped TO fully
consider how ChriSt'S earthly life WAS
meant to be an object lesson for sinful
men, as the tapping wings of the old
eagles are meant to he visible object
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but there is still another lesson to
De learned from IN" "!d "a%I" stirring
up hHr nest. She pushes on her young
IN order TO makr room Tor the ext
hatrh "f iiod%"Iln@S. II she dld not do
ms there would b" "ny on" brood
l'atched in the nest. Thus the eagles
offspring would only consist of two or
three or foUr Young hut no sooner
does the Old "agl" finish raising one
family tina sh" prepares to rails" an
other batch Of hedI"lInEs.
Have lou ever considered how soon
this old earth would be ~oyercroWded
and an unfit place in which to live if
God did not push the generations on
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