Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-10-23

beareth them on her wings; so the
Lord alone did lead him, and there
was no strange God with hIm.-Deu-
teronomy 1912.
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Il was a supreme moment in the
history of Israel when Moses. their
law-giver and leader, was about to be
taken from them. Standing at the
base of the mountain, to whose sum-
NIT God had called him and from
which he was to receive view of the
promised land, ere he was gathered
to his fathers, he collected the peo-
pie about him and proceeded to deliv-
er to them his farewell address, words
ever fraught with greatest interest to
the hearer. At the close OF his ad-
dress he breaks forth In rapturous
song, one of the richest and sublimest
climaxes of which Is the one of the
text.
II is supposed that the habits of the
eagle were noticed and studied by
Moses in his life in indian, and that
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people be realized that the one was
entirely apropos to the other. While fol-
lowing her motherly instinct the eagle
had with great care and labor pre-
pared her nest, twining and intertwin-
ing, inlaying and OVERLAPPING, providing
for the comfort and convenience of her
offspring, no vessel ever being more
securely anchored amid the tempest
than her nest against the eddying
storms which swept her mountain
home, yet when her offspring reached
a sufficient size and gathered strength
enough to sally forth and seek their
own food, yet for fear of falling, or of
hunger, inclined to remain, the same
talons and beak that carefully provid-
ed the nest would ruthlessly tear 1t
asunder and make 1t so positively un-
comfortable that they were compelled
to fly or If they still refused she would
destroy the nest altogether-no nest
contained.
Just SO with God in His dealing
with His people, Israel. There was no
resting place He did not provide and
none He did not disturb. History re-
peats itself. The same Is occurring
with us to-day. No sooner are We
comfortably fixed in any respect than
the disturbing hand Of God comes and
tears up the nest and throws us for
our good, upon our own resources,
when, depending upon them, assisted
by Him, We develop a greater hardi-
hood. 1t Is because of this that gov
ernments change, fortunes are wreck
ed. society is disturbed. homes are
despailed, and even churches undergo
the mutations which are everywhere
seen.
But not only does the eagle stir up
her nest and utterly destroy 1t If
need be, to get her f1edgliBgs out of
1t, thus placing them upon their own
resources, but she futters over them
and rises above them, and by the
rapid motions Of her own wings,
teaches them to use theirs. Sir Hum.
phry Davy tells us that he once saw
very interesting sight above one Of
the crags of Ben Nevis as he was 60
ing In pursuit of black game. Two
parent eagles were teaching their
offspring, two young birds, the
maneuvres of flight They at
first made small circles and the
young birds initiated them. They
poised on their wings waiting until
they had made their first fight. and
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ton, always rising toward the sun
and enlarging their circle of flight, so
as to make a gradually ascending
spiral The young ones still and slow
ly followed. apparently flying better
as they mounted, and they continued
this sublime exercise, always rising,
until they became mere specks In
the air and the young ones were lost,
and afterward the parents, to his ach-
ing sight.
How like Gods treatment of Is
rael. He not only stirred up their
nest, but lowered above them in the
pillar of cloud by day and the pillar
of fire by night. ever going before and
leading them on to newer and greater
conquests, where they trusted in Him,
and to ignominious defeat where they
didn't. So God In Christ hovers over
and is ever near US.
Notice Him In childhood, how obedi-
ent; In manhood, how industrious in
poverty and persecution, how patient;
in trials, how submissive; in abuse,
how forgiving; In death how trium-
plant; In His ascension with open
hands bestowing blessings on a world
which gave Him manger for birth
place and q cross for deathbed. He
Is In all respects our leader He
shows us how to 60. and goes before
us. How can We hope to succeed
without Himf
We had oral descriptions at first OF
the heavenly way. And they were
afterward put In writing, the Bible
being given US. But better than this,
which Of itself alone is inadequate.
Christ came Himself and calls to US