Milford chronicle., 1907-07-19

may have come 10 you and said. "Fa.
ther, let us burn up that old crib Ii Is
b a big. old fashioned, ungainly thing
! 1t Is always in the way No one wants
It around. Besides. not one of the chill
dren would ever take il for a Gift i"
somehow YOU did not like the way
your daughter spoke furaway look
Go into Your eye as Won said
Daughter, nobody may want that
crib but me, and it may be in the way
u some people, but il is never ia my
way. | want to keep it, That was the
trib where all my babies first slept
| That was the place where / most often
/ think Of your dead mother when She
/ was putting her smallest one 20 sleeD
while another baby was Juggling al her
skirts You may do with that crib as
you will after I am gone. but as long
as / live ! shall keep it. Why. daugh
ter. that crib is not made out of plain
wood. 'Tis true it is old fashioned but
II IS made out of old fashioned love
As saw that mother bird IN the
woods lowering over her nest and
heard her talking 10 her mate said.
Il hank God that the world is swepter
and more lovely TO the featherpd deni.
zens of the woods because God has
blessed their lives with the holy lows
Of domestic love Has God not blessed
your life, o Christian. with holy. eter.
nal love?
Always Active.
But there is another fact which I'm.
presses ne about the lives of the spar. :
rows or Of the other birds Of the woods.
and that is their ceaseless activity.
They never seem to be still II you
are walking along the country road v
YOU see them always on the wing If d
'ou try 10 read a book under an over $
hanging bough and you are covered IL
lp by a curtain of leaves so that they II
annot see You they still keep on the IL
move You see them flying hlther and ~
hither. Now they are seeking food: u
oW they are speeding away as if they ="
we're going to visit some friends. They ~
re hyng-yes, nearly always flying. u
'urIng the intense heat of the dav II
ome of them may rest for a little 10
lille in the cool shade of leafv bow w
But for the most part they are on l'l
le wing and moving this way and nj
lat ch
While You watch this ceaSeless ac- III
witty of the bird you may say TO me- so'
God is good and God is kind why ue
res he not make life easier for the Z
Then / would say: 1T is a 10
od God who keeps the little birds on IL
e move 1t would be a cruel God Ho'
no would allow the sparrow to sit Ine
il and do nothing" Surprising [ ny
ould go out today and catch little III
arrow and shut him in golden cage Oh
some women do with their sweet IeN
'oated canaries. Then. supposiug pro
)uld fill the seed cup of that cage ny
tn the most euticing bird food and "H'
the cleareSt, purest water into the ',.i .i
D. Ihen, supposing / should say to 'I'i
Gagged bird: "Now, sparrow. am 'u
ng Ia make your life a life of tov. s''i'
1t shall he life of ease / will 'o!,' ..
e You all the sunlight you want. all Cl'I
food you want and an the drink '""
want. ! shall clean out the cagp ON
east twice day. so no dirt shall be ~
ut You. All that you need to do is vi,
SIT upon a perch, just as you sit 1''''
and tau- snd -. .'''l ,,., %'', land
M be tho rosrItg U,,,,. ".,' So IA,
l. the plumage of that sparrow lue
Id Ice rutfled. Then his head would uul' . l''
p and lie would sickcu and die. -l.l
the sparrow does not find health . '-,,.i
strength and happiness JIM doing S,., Si.I,lI
ing. God blesses his creatures by I''GS T,1,
lg them opportunity for ceascless eIH
ity He never blesses a life by sou'
his b
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