The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 13, 1893, Image 4
POETRY.
F4e.
Looking towards the misty future,
We peer and pry and watch in rain.
For destiny s relentless finger
Will always setrni t?> waJt ai>d linger,
E'er paiming out our joy or pain.
We paint in thought oar own t weet future ?
Bright sigea. sweet music on J he air, ?
A golden wand of k>*e we carry,
Iu path* Of b?s*uty we may tarry
V And life is pureand hopes so fair.
But who, alai>! can e'er declare
a A surety of future deeds?
We're flitiiug dew-drops ? dried up soon
Or dashed away in early bioosn.
And doomed to pensh. in the weeds.
We know not what to-morrow brings;
We wait impatient for the dawn
And try to plan for many years,
Whiie o'er our sight a mist appears
Which ciears on Resurrection Morn.
? Will R. Lohman.
\ Carol Cniveml.
The moVn sets nlusicto the stars,
Stara42hant eycles as they run,
Comet^nj^ep across Heaven's keys
In of thy glory, O sun!
Rot sun, moon and stars shall sing,
As sang they onee before
Ja God's sweet yule-tide morn,
Praises to Him forevermore.
Heaven's diapason shall ring,
As the Son of Glory shall rise;
Melody, anges hands shall bring,
Earth'santhem shajl reach the skies!
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AT THE TABERNACLE.
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WISDOM MAY Bfe LEARNED FROM THE
FOWLSOFTHE AJR.
Dr Talmage Discourses with Beautiful
Eloquence on tha Many Lessons Taught
by the Birds Every Species Native
Palestine Is Mentioned in the
Scriptures.
Brooklyn, Jan. 8. ? Dr TaJmage ,
this morning continued the course of
sermons begun a few Sabbaths ago.
Having pre^hed atxHn fcfce ; ' Astrono
my of the Bible; or, God /fmong the
. Stars,'' and the "Chronology of the
Bibte; or, God Among fce Centuries,"
this morning he discoursed on the
Ornithology of the 3E&e; or, God
Among the Birds." The ) text was
Matthew, vi, 26, "Behold the fowls of
the air!" x
There is silence now4n all ofcr Jan
uary forests, except as the winds
whistle through the bare branches.
^ Our northern woods are deserted eon
cert halls. The organ lofts in the
temple of nature are hymnless. Trees
which were full of carol and chirj>
and chant are now waiting for the
coming back of rich plumes and
.- warbling voices, sdIos, duets, quartets,
cantatas and Te Deums. But the
Bible is full of birds at all 9eaaons,
and prophets and patriarchs and
apostles and Christ himself employ
them for moral aod religious purposes.
My text is an extract from the ser
mon on the mount, and , perhaps it
was at a moment when a dock of
birds flew past that Christ waved his
^gLhand toward them and said, "Behold
the fowls of the airf* And so in this
course of sermons on God everywhere
I preach t$ you this third sermon con
ceruing tfee Ornithology of, the Bible;
or, God Among the Birds.
; GOD'S ME88ENGE28 TS 5ATTJRI.
Most of the other sciences you may
_ study or not study as yoa please. Use
your own judgment, exercise your
own taste. But about this science of
ornithology we have no option. The
- divine command is positive when it j
L says ia my text, M Behold the fowls of |
&L the air!" That is, study their habits. !_
^Examine their colors. Kotice their \
speed. See the hand of God in their |
construction. It is easy for me to |
* obey the command of the text, for I |
was brought up among the race of I
wings and from b >yhood heard their
matins at sunrise and their vespers at
sunset r
Thetr nests have been to me a fas
cination, and my satisfaction is' that I !
never "robbed one of them any more
than I would steal, a child from a era- j
die, for a bird is a child of the sky, j
and its nest is th^ cradle. They are j
almost human, lor they have their
loves and hates, affinities antipathies, j
understand joy and grief, have cocju- j
gal and maternal mstinet, wage wars j
and entertain jealousies, have a lan- j
gnage of.t ;hf.jr own and powers of
association. Thank God for birds j
and skies full of them! It is useless
to expect to Understand the Bible un
less we studjf natural history.
7 Fife hjj&dred and ninety-three;
times dges the Bible allude to the i
^ natural history, and I do not 1
^?^^jgybatit makes so many allu- j
stonsorarlBBlBipefiJ* ..Tie skies and I
the caverns of Palestine are. friendly !
to the winged creatures, and so many I
fly and roost and nesi and hatch in !
that region that inspired writers do
not have far to go to get ornithologi
cal illustration of divine truth. There
are over forty species of birds recog
nized in the Scriptures.
Oh, what a variety of wings in Pal
estine! The dove, the robin, the
|| eagle, the cormorant or plunging bird,
f 1 hurling itself from sky to wave and
fH with long beak clatching its prey; the
Sfctosh, which especially dislikes a
erblhfctbe partridge; the hawk, bold
and rothle9s, hovering head lo wind
ward while watching for prey; the
rwan,at home among the marshes and
?3& fbet so contrasted iv can walk
on the \ leaves -*>? water plants; the
raven, lapwing, malodorous and
Bible dedouaced as inedible,
though it has extraordinary bead
dress: the stork; the ossifrage, that al
' ways had a habit of dropping on a
stone the turtle it bad lifted and so
killing it for food? and one occasion
mistook the bald head of iEschylus,
the Greek poet, for a white stone, and
dropped a turtle upon it, killing the
famous Greek; the cuckoo, with crest
ed head and crimson throat and wings
. snow tipped, but too lazy to build its
own nest, and so having the habit of
depositing its eggs in nets belonging
- to oilier birds; the bfciejay, the grouse,
t& plover, the magpie, the kingfisher,
the pe&ean, which is the caricature of
a& tifejfffeathered creation; the owl* the
the bittern, the harrier, the
gold??e&,
^ulbui, tk
bul, the osprey; the vulture, that
king of scavenger?, with neck covered
>4 with repulsive down instead of attra >
tive feathers; the quarrelsome starling:
the swallow, dying a mile a minute
4 and sometimes ten hours in succession;
' the herdb; the quail,, the peacock, she
06tricn,~the lark, the j-r crow, the iiite,
the bat, the blackbird and many oth- ?
era, with - all colors, all sounds, all
siyies of flight, all habits, all archi
tecture of nests, leaving nothing want
ing in suggestiveness. They were at
the creation placed all around on the
rocks and in the trees and on the
; ground to serenade Adam's arrival.
They took their places on Friday, as
the first man was made on Saturdav.
\V hatever else he had or did not have,
he should have music. The first sound
that struck the human ear was a bird's
voice.
TRUE SCIENCE IS RELIGIOUS.
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Yea, Christian geology ? for you j
know there is a Christian geology as
well as an infidel geology ? Christian j
geology comes in and helps' the Bible
show what we owe to the bird creation. I
Before the human race came into this
j world the world was occupied by rep
! tiles and by all sorts of destructive
I monsters ? millions of creatures, loath
some and hideous. God sent huge
birds to clear the earth of these crea
tu res before Adam and Eve were
created. The remains of these birds
have been found imbedded in the
rocks. The skeleton of one eagle has
been found twenty feet in height and
fifty feet from tip ot" wing
to tip of wing. Many armies
of beaks and claws were neces
sary to clear the earth of creatures
that would have destroyed the human
race with one clip. I like to find
this harmony of revelation and science,
and to have demonstrated that the
God who made the world made the
Bible.
Moses, the greatest lawyer of all
time and a great man for facts, had
enough sentiment and poetry and
musical taste to welcome the illumined
wings and the voices divinely drilled
into " the first ..chapter of Genesis.
How should Noah, the old ship
carpenter, 600 years of age, find
when the world was fit 'again for
human residence after the universal
freshet? A bird will tell, and nothing
else can. No man can come down from
the mountain to 'invite Noah and his
family out to terra firma, for the
mountains were submerged. As a
bird first heralded the human race
into the forld, now a bird will help
the. human* race back to the world
that had shipped a sea that whelmed
everything.
Noah stands on Sunday morning
at the window of the ark, in bis hand
a cooing dove, so gentle, so inapcent,
so affectionate, and he said, "Now,
my little j dove, fly away over these
waters, explore and come back and
tell us- whether it is safe to land."
After a lung flight it returned hungry
and weary and wet, and by iW looks
and manners said to Noah and his
family, "The world is not fit for you
to disembark." Noah waited a week,
and next Sundag morning he let the
dove fly again for a second explora
tion, and Sunday evening it came back
with a leaf that had the sign of just
having been plucked fronj^a living
fruit tree, and the bird reported the
world wou!4< do tolerably well for a
bird to live in^hut not yetsufficiently
recovered for iiu man residence.
Noah waited another week, and
next Suaday morning he sent out the
dove on the third exploration, but it j
returned pt>t, for it found the world I
so attractive now it did not want to be
again, and then the enigrants
from the antediluvian world lauded i
It was a bird that told them wherTto I
wke possession of the resuscitated I
ianet So the human race were saved
y a bird 'a w ing, for, attempting to
^and too soon, they would have
perished.
^ THE LESSON OF THE DOVfS.
Aye, here comes a whole flock of
doves? rock doves, ring doves, stock
doves? sod they make Isaiah think
of great revivals and great awaken- 1
rog? when souls fly for shelter likes
flock of pigeons swooping to the ]
openings <rf a pigeon 4 coop, a?d he i
cries out, "Who are these that flv as
doves to their windows?" David
with Saul after bim, and, flying from'
cavern to cavern, compares "himself to
a desert partridge, a bird, which es
pecially haunts rocky places; snd boys
and hunters to this day take "after it
?i?i sticas , for the partridge, runs
rather then flies.
David, chased and clubbed and
harried of; pursuers, says, "I a,? i
hunted as a partridge ou the m.,uu !
tajna. Speaking of his forlorn cor.rii I
tK>n, he says, "I am jjke a pelican i? j
the wilderness." Describing bis ;
loneliness, he siys, "I am a swallow
aJone on the housetop." Hezeki*h '
in the emaciation of his sickness, coni
parea himself to a eraue> tMl) ??d
wasted. Job had so much trouble he
could^ not sleep nights, and he
aescnoes his insomnia by saying-, *1
am^a oompanion to owls" iki ah
compares the desolations of banished
^sra ei to an owl and bitteru and
cormorant among a city's ruins.
Jeremiah* describing the cruelty of
parents toward children, compares
them to the ostrich, who leaves i? 1
eggs in the sand uncared for, crying,"
The danghter of my people ? beLnfe
like the oatnchea of the wilderness." i
Among the provisians piled on
Solomon s bountiful table the Bible
speak, of "fatted fowl." The Israelites
nthedesert got tired of manna aod
they had quails-quails for breakfast
quails for dinner, quails for supper,
and they died of quails. The Bible
refers to the migratory habits of the
birds and says. "The stork knoweth
her appointed time and the turtle and
the orane a ad the swallow the time of
their going, but my people know not
the judgment* of the Lord." ~
% JrfiLi ?. prophet iiiu8trate
late at fraud, he points to a failure at
inculwtion and says, "As a partridge
atteth on eggs and hatch, th them not
*? ,et ^at getteth riches and not by'
right shad leave them in the midst of
hw days and at his end shall be a fool."
The partridge, the most careless of all
bird* in choice of its place of nest,
ouiJdiug It on the grouud and often
near a frequented road or in a slight
depression of ground, without reference
to safety, and soon a hoof or a scythe
or a cart wheel end* all So says the
prophet, a man who gathers under him
dishonest dolUrs will hatch Tout of
them no peace, no satisfaction, ?0
happiness, no security.
? What vivid similitude! The
quickest way to amass a fortune is bv
iniquity, but tie trouble is about keep
log it Every hour of every day j
some such partridge k driven off the J
1 r .?>]? j
Beet Panics are only aflutter of
partridges. It Is too tedious work to j
become rich iu the old fashioned way, ;
and if a man can by one falsehood j
make as much as by ten years of bard j
labor, why not tell it? And if one
counterfeit check will bring the dol
lars as easilv a is a genuine issue,, why
not make it? Vbe year's fraud^ill
be equal to a half a- lifetime's yfeweat.
Why not live solely by one's wits? A
fortune thus built will be fifm and
everlasting. * ilJ it? Ha! bifild your
house on a volcano's crater; go to sleep
on the bosom if an avalanche. The
volcano will blaze, and the avanche
will thunder.
There are estates which have been
coming together from age to age.
Many years ago that estate started in
a husband's industry and a wife's
economy. It grew from generation to
generation by good habits and high
minded enterprise. Old fashioned
industry was the mine from which that
gold was dug, and God will keep the
deeds of such an estate in his buckler.
Forclose your mortgage, spring your
snap judgments, plot with . acutest
intrigue against a family property
like that and you cannot do it a per-j
manent damage. Better than warrantee
deed and better than fire insurance is
the defense which God's own hand
will give it
THE 8ILLY ONES MT7ST SUFFER.
But here is a man today, as poor as
Job after he was robbed by satan of
everything but his boils, yet suddenly
tomorrow he is a rich man. There is
no accounting for his sudden afflu
ence. He has not yet failed often
enough to become wealthy. No one
pretends to account for his princely
wardrobe, or the chased silver, or the
full curbed steeds that rear and neigh
like Bucephalus in the grasp of his
coachman. Did he come to a sudden
inheritance? No. Did he make a
fortune on purchase and $ale? No.
Everybody asks where did that par
tridge hatch. The devil suddenly
threw him up, and the devil wili sud
denly let him come down. .That hid
den scheme God saw from the first
conception of the plot. That par>
tridge, swift disaster will shoot it
down, and the higher it flies the har
der it fells. The prophet saw, as you
and I have often seen the awful mis
take of partridges.
But tjrom the top of a Bible fir tree
I hear the shrill 'try of the stork.
Job, Ezekie),. Jeremiah, speak of it.
David cries out, "As for the stork,
the fir tree is her house." This large
white Bible bird is supposed without
alighting sometimes to wing its way
from the region of the Rhine to Africa.
As winter comes all the storks fly to
warmer climes and the last one of
their number that arrives at the spot
to which they migrate is killed by
them. What havoc it *ajild make in
our species if those men were killed
who are always behind! In oriental
cities the stork is domesticated and
walks about on the street and will
follow its keeper
In the city of Ephesua I saw a long
row of pillarsf'on the top of each pil
lar a stork's nest. But. the word j
"stork ordinarily means ^me-roy and
affection, from the fact that this bird
was distinguished for its great love for
its parent*. It never forsakes them,
and even after they become feeb'e pro
tects and provides for them. In
migrating the old storks lean their
necks on the young storks, and when
the old oues give out the young ones
carry them on th#>ir backs. God for
bid that a dumb stork shouhKhave
more heart than we. Blessed is that
table at which an old father and
mother sit; blessed1 that altar at which
an old father and mother kneel ! \
What it is tt> have a mother tfiev
know be<t who have lost her. God
only knows the agony she suffered for
us, the times she wept over our cradle
and the anxious, sighs her bosom
heaved as we lay upon it, the sick
nights when she watched us long after
every one was tired out but God and
herself. Her Jifeblo<>d beats in our
heart, and her image lives in our face.
That man is graceless as a cannibal
who ill treats his parents, and be who
begrudge them daily bread and clothes
them but shabbily, may God have
patience with him; I cau^iit. I heard
a man once say* "I now have my old
old mother on i% hands." Ye storks
on your way with food to your aged
parent shame him!
iHE PERSECUTED CHURCH.
But. yoiidt r in this Bible sky flies a
bird that, is spt-ckled. The prophet
describing, the church jcries out,
"Mim- heritage is unto me as a speck
led bird; the birds r..und about are
against her." So it was then; so it is
now. Holiness picked at. Consecra
tion picked at. Benevolence picked
at. Usefulness picked g. A speckled
bird is a peculiar bird; and that
arouses the autipathieg of all the
beaks of the forest. ? *
The church of God is a peculiar
institution, and that is enough to
evoke attack of the world, for it is a
speckled bird to be picked at. The
inconsistencies of Christians are a
banquet on which multitudes get fat.
They ascribe everything you do to
wrong motives. Put a dolfar: in the
poor box and they will say tfiat you
dropped it ther i only that you might
hear it ring. Invite them to Christ.,
and they will call you a fanatic. Let
there be contention among Christians,
and they will say: 'Hurrah! The
church is in decadence."
j Christ intended that his church
should always reuiaiu a speckled bird.
.Let birds of anoiher feather, pick at
her, but they eannot rob her of a
single plume. Like the albatross, she
can sleep on the bosom of a tempest.
She has >n>ne through the fires of
Nebuchadnezzar's furnace and not
got burned; through the waters of the
Red sea and not beeu drowned;
through the shipwreck on the breakers
of Melita and u<?t been foundered.
Let all earth ?nd hell *rv to hunt
down this speckled bird, but far above
human scorn and infernal assault it
shall sing over every mountain top
and fly over every nation, and her
triumphant song shall be: "The
church of Gi?d! The pillar and
ground of the truth. The gates of
hell shall not prevail against her."
Hut we cannot stop here. From a
tall cliff hangi ng over the sea I hear
the aagle calling unto the tempest aad
lifting its wing to smite the whirl
wind. Moses, Jeremiah, Hosea and
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: \?- r&?:! ?. - i" \
Habakkuk at times in their writings
take their pen from the. eagle's wing.
It is a bird with fierceness in its eye,
its feet armed with cla*8 of iron *nd
its head with a dreadful beak. Two
or three of them cau fill the heavens
with clangor. But generally this
monster of the air is alone and un
accompanied, for the reason ^hat its
habits are so predaceous it Requires
five or ten miles of aerial or earthly
dominion all for itself.
The black brown of its back, and
the white of its lower feathers, and
the fire ot*ite eye, and the long flap of
its wing miree one glimpse of it as it
swings down into the valley to pick
up a rabbit, or lamb, or a child and
then swings back to its throne on the
rock something never to be forgotten.
Scattered about its eyrie of altitudin
ous solitude are the bones of its con
quests. But while the beak and the .
claws of the eagle are the terror ^f all
the travelers of the air, the mother
eagle inmost kind and gentle to her
young. God compares his treatmeat
of his people to the eagle's care of the
eaglets. Deuteronomy xxxii, 11,
"As an eagle stirreth up hijr nest, flutr
tereth over her young, spreading
abroad her wings, taketk. them,
beareth them on ; her wings, so the
Lord alone did lead."
^ WISDOM OF THE EAGLE.
The old eagle first shoves the young
one out of the nest in order to make it
fly, and then takes it on her back and
flies with it and shakes it off in the air,
and if it seems like falling quickly
flies under it and takes it on her wing
again. So God does with us. - Disas
ter, failure in business, disappoint
ment, bereavement, is only God's way
of shaking us out of our comfortable
nest in order that we may learn how
to -fly. You who are complaining
that you have no faith or courage of
Christian zeal have had it u>o easy.
You never will learu to fly in that
comfortable nest
Like an eagle, Christ has carried
us on his back. At times we have been
shaken off, and when we were about
to fall he came under us again and
. brought us out of the gloomy valley
to the sunny mountain. Never an
eagle brooded with such love and care
over her young as Go#8 wings have
been over us. Across what oceans of
trouble we have goue in safety upon
the Almighty wings! From what
mountain of siu we have been carried
and at times have been borne up far
above the gunshot of the world and
the arrow of the devil!
When our time on earth is closed
on these great wiugs of God we shall
speed with infinite quickness from
earth's mountains to heaven's hills,
and as from-'the eagle's circuit under
the sun men on the ground seem small
and insignificant as lizards on a rock,
so earthly things shall dwitftNe into a
speck, and the raging river of death
so far beneath will seem smooth and
glassy as a Swiss lake.
It was thought in ancient times
that an eagle coulji-not only molt its
feathers in o kH?ge, but that after ar
riving to great age it tfrould renew its
strength and become eniirely young
agaiu. To this Isaiah alludes when
he says: w They that wait on the Lord
shall renew their strength. They sha&j
mount up with wings of eagles^
Even so the Christian in old age will
renew his spiritual strength. _ He
shall be young in ardor and enthu
siasm for Christ, and a$ the body fails
Che soul will grow in elasticity till at
death it will spring up like a glad
dened child into the bosom of God.
Yea, in this ornithological study 1
see that Job says, "His days fly as an
eagle that hasteth to its prey." The
speed of a hungry eagle when it saw
its prey a score of miles distant was
unimaginable. It weWjike a thun
derbolt for speed and' pjtfer. So fly
I our days. 8ixty minutes, each worth
a heaven, since we assembled in this
; place have shot like lightning into
eternity. The old earth is rent and
cracked under the swift rush of days
and mouths and years and ages.
| "Swift as an eagle that ihasteth to its
[ prey." Behold the fowls of the air!
! Have you considered that they have,
| as you and I have not, the power to
i- change their eyes so that, one minute
they may be telescopic aud the next
microscopic, now seeing something a
mile away and by telescopic eyesight,
and tben dropping to its food ou the
j ground, able to see it close by aud
i with microscopic eyesight?
{ THE SWALLOWS AT THE TEMPLE.
But what a senseless passage of
Scripture that is, uutil you know the
fact, which says, "The sparrow hath
found a house and the swallow a nest
for herself, where she may lay her
I youngs even thine altars, 0 Lord of
! hosts, niy king and my God?" What
has the swallow to d > with the altars
1 of the . templ^^it Jerusalem? Ah,
you know that swallows are all the
world over very tame, and in summer
time they used to fly into the windows
and doors of the temple at Jerusalem
I and build a nest on the altar where
the priests were offering sacrifices.
These swallows brought leaves and
| sticks and fashioned nests on the/
altars of the temple aud hatched the
young sparrows in those nests, and
David had seen the young birds pick
ing their way out of the shell while
the old swallows watched, and no one
j in the temple was cruel enough to dis
; turb either the old swallows or the
young swallows, and David burst out
; in rhapsody, --saving, "'The swallow
i hath found a nest for herself, where
she may lay her young, even thine
, altars, 0 Lord of hoets, my king and
' my God!" . ' j
Y es, in this ornithology of the Bible
I find that God is determined to im
press npon us the architecture of a
bird '8 wing. Twenty titles does the
Bible refer to a. bird's nest ? "Where
the birds make their nest," "As a bird
j that wandereth from h&r nest."
| ?" 1 hough thou set thy joest among the
i stars," "1 he birds of the air have
j their nest," and so on. Kests in the
i trees, nests on the rocks, nests on the
altars
\\ hy do*s G??d call us so frequently
to consider the bird's nesi? Because
it is one of the most wondrous of all
styles of architecture, aud a lessou of
providential care which is the n)o*t
important jes&on which Christ in my
*text conveys. Why, just look ^t the
l bird's nest, and see what is the-'pros
pect that God is going to ta??e care of
you. Here i bluebird's nest un
v
der the eaves of the house. Here is
the brown thrasher's nest in a bosh.
T5 l* blutW'p nest in the
orchard. Here is the grosbeak's nest
on a tree branch hanging over the
pS',?0" tobe free *">01 attack.
Chickadees nest in the stump of an
old tree.- Oh, the goodness of. God
in showing the birds how to build
their nest!
What carpenters, what masons,
what weavers, what spinners the birds
are. Oat of what small resources they
make so exquisite a home, curved
pillared, wreathed. Out of mosses
out of sticks, out of lichens, out of
horsehair, out of spiders' web, out of
threads swept from the door by the
housewife out ot the wool of
the sheep from the pasture field. Up
holstered by leaves actually eeVed to
gether by its own sharp bilJL Cushioned
with feathers from its own breast.
Mortared together with the gum of
trees and the saliva of its own tiny
bill. Such symmetry, such adapta
? 3ES WE SHALL FLY. j
1 Sure|yitt?? nests were built by some !
P."' They did not happen just so.
n!?? the plan for the birds
tL t ^ do y00 not ^ink
,f. h? P^ns such a house for a
chaffinch, fpr an oriole, for a bobo
luik, for a sparrow, he will see to it
that you always have a home? "Ye
are of more value than many spar
rows Whatever else surrounds you,
".?h?<?I1,KaVe 7huat the Bib'? caU?
the feathers of the Almighty." JU8t
think of a nest like that, the warmth
of it, the softness of it, the safety of
it? -"the feathers of the Almighty."
, 0 ^amingo outflaahing the tropi
cal sunset ever had such brilliancy of
pinion; no robin redbreast ever had
plumage dashed with such crimson
and purple and orange gold? "the
feathers of the Almighty." Do yOU
not feel the touch of them now on
forehead and cheek and spirit, and
was there ever such tenderness of
brooding "the feathem of the Al
mighty?' So also in this ornithology
? ^ ^P8 ?Pr6?ing us
with the anatomy of a bird's wing.
Over fifty times does \be old Book
do? - of ??
??Je' of the morning,"
Wings of the wind," "Sun of right,
eousness with healing in his wings,"
" ID8? of the Almighty/' "All fowl
of every wing." What does it all
uiean. It suggests uplifting It telJs
you of flight upward. It means to
remind you that you yourneJf have
wings. David cried out, "Oh, that I
had wings like a dove, that I might
fly away and be at rest!" - Thank
that you have better wings than
any dove of longest or swiftest flight.
Laged now in bars of flesh are those
??mes wlien tl?ey
will be liberated. Get ready for as
cension. Take the words of the old
hymn, and to the tune unto which
tnat hymn is married sing:
Rise my soul and stretch thy wine;
Thy belter portion trace.
Up out of these lowlands into the
heavens of higher experience and
wider prospect. But how shall we
rise. Only as God's holy spirit gives
us strength. But that is coming now.
JNot as a condor from a Chimborazo
peak, swooping upou the affrighted
valley, but as a dove like that which
put its soft brown wings over the wet
tocks of Christ at the baptism in the
Jordan. Dove of gentleness! Dove
of peace!
Come, holy spirit, heavenly dote,
With all thy quickening powers;
tome shed abroad a Saviour's love
And that shall kindle ours.
Mad Dog; Scare*.
* ^ 1
Scarcely /a day passes in New York
and vicinity, or in fact in any of onr
large towns, bnt that some dramatic in
cident is chronicled in the daily- press
with a "mad" dog as the heavy villain
in the cast. Though in many of these
cases, we might say in nearly all of
them, the dog is no more mad than its
persecutors, still as so many injuries
arise from these scares the matter should
seriously command the attention of oar
city authorities. It has been shown that
the existing regulations and mode of
doing away with the curs of the street
are well nigh useless. The situation
calls for larger safeguards to protect
the public. We would remind those
who should know better that human
beings treated as many dogs are treated
would generally lose their mental bal
ance and be liable to become dangerous.
Torturing muzzles, constant chaining,
neglect in feeding, thirst and many '
other acts of carelessness on the part of
owners all contribute to put the dog in
an unnatural condition.
If the dog is a denizen of the street
its pecultar actions attract an exeited
crowd, and the dog, driven to extremi
ties, loses all control of its passions, and
finding every man's hand against it
uses the only weapon nature has given it
to defend itself with.
The carelessness and ignorance of how
much there is in common between the
nature of man and brute is largely re
sponsible for the increase of tHese seem
ingly rabid dogs. It is the neglected,
half starved and persecuted dog who is
in special danger of becoming wild.
In all this great city it is a matter of
comment that there are 60 few drinking
'i_ jughs for horses, and it is a most ex
ceptional case when a trough is low
. enough to allow any but the largest dog
to drink from it. There is a wide scope
for philanthropy in this respect? Forest
and Stream.
Josh Had a ChilL
When the cholera came to San Fran
cisco in- 1851, Josh Havens, a well
known citizen of those days, suffered a
bad attack of cholera scare. He pur
chased the first day a large bottle of
"cholera preventive," recommended to
him some one, and put it in his coat
tail poSfcet, bnt while seated in the office
of a friend, discussing the plague, Ha
vens suddenly arose, turned pale and
rushed for the office of Dr. Hastings, a
well known physician of that time.
"Doctor," said he, "i& local chill a sign
of cljplera*' "Where is your local
chill?" .inquired the medico. Josh indi
cated the neighborhood of his pistol
pocket. The doctor placed him on a
surgical table and made an examina
tion, but the "local chill" was found to
be 'due to the cholera medicine, on
which the terrified Havens had incau
tiously sat. ? San Francisco Argonaut.
Church Muff*.
People who can have a number of
muffs count novelty in the shape of
1 "church" muffs among their possessions.
These are made with a big pocket into
which a sizable prayer book or Bible
may.be slipped, and which on occasion
may^be used as a back cushion in an un
. comfortable pew.? New York Times.
I
ODDS AND ENDS.
Homer was the son of a farmer.
Brand? was first made in France in
13ID.
The health resort is a good stand f<ir
the undertaker.
Ten per cent, of tlife population of In
dia are widows.
Men nsed to be considered old wben
they passed fifty.
Marry yonr son when yon please, your
daughter when you can.
Roomy hearts have more genuine hos
pitality than roomy houses.
The first pair of spectacles were aide
by Spina, an Italian, in 1299.
Find the collar that suits yoa ancllheu
buy a dozen or two of that kind.
J
Cork and bamboo penholders will be
found a relief to persistent writers.
Clams and oysters on the half shell
are now served^n ice plates molded for
the purpose. .
Any girl can make an engagement,
but it takes an expert to know how and
when to break it.
i Tb* Bible contains 3,5S6,489 letters,
| 773,692 words, 81,173 verses, 1,189 chap
ters and 66 books.
A newspaper in Paris is reported to be
experimenting with type of glass with
gratifying results.
^ The total ^ifts to Yale during the past
year have beetT$600,000, while Harvard
received $500,000.
The Eskimos manufacture fishnets
from strips of seal hide and from thin
slices of whalebone.
A copy Qf the first edition of the "Vic
ar of W4kefield" was sold a short time
ago for nearly $480.
For a burn take sweet oil and lime
water (equal parts), mix and keep the
burn well covered with it.
An edition of Shakespeare in words
of one syllable is under contemplation
for use in primary schools.
A Persian potentate '.owns a pearl of
12% carats which is quite transparent.
It is to be had for the .sum of $200,000.
One man in Wicomico county, Md.,
on the eastern shore, shipped this season
nearly 22,000 quarts of huckleberries in
a single week, and a near neighbor of
his shipped nearly as many. Smart
berry pickers earn two dollars a day
picking huckleberries.
0f- How to Make a Breeze.
JFhe citizen who from necessity or
otherwise clings to his city haunts in
the height of summer is coming to
realize that a great consolation has
dropped into his life in the shape of the
? electric fan. The most enterprising
Baibers are hastening to increase the
comfort of their customers -by installing
thfese fans in their saloonk,- $nd they
find their business stimulated td' an un
precedented extent. The proprietors of
restaurants are also falling into line,
and the man about town is not slow to
show his preference for a resort where
he can fulfill the wants of the inner man
in perfect comfort, though the ther
mometer may *be climbing to record,
breaking heights.
A new restaurant that not many weeks
ago was opened in a part of Broadway
thickly studded with such establish
ments is already doing a phenomenal
business, while its neighbors are desert
ed. Its success is simply owing to the
fact that throughout its length a gentle,
even motion of the air is maintained by
electric fans. One has to look more than
once to discover the source of the grate
ful breeze. The fans give an almost im
perceptible sound and are fitted to an
entirely new attachment. Instead of
the usual permanent fixture a globe of
metal is suspended by three chains from
the roof near one of the walls, and in
side this globe is the motor that works
the fan. Three fans suffice to k**ep
theNvhole restaurant delightfully cool.
When the small cost of such an arrange
ment is considered, it is surprising that
thtf electric fan should not be um v%r sally
adopted by those who cater to the Lia
ger>?nd thir3t of the piolu.
One "bf ' the best down tew a
rants in Kaw Yori, w'jich \z iintnary
weather is Crowded through-jut theyear,
I is comparatively deserted on hot dayj
because of its imperfect ventilation. A
party ofits steady frequenters who re
cently diverted their custom for the
nonce to cooler quarters were discussing
over the midday lunch the que?tion of
electric fans as an investment. Th?v
calculated that if their favorite reso:t
were fitted with these handy breeze com
pelled, the expense of the installation
would be covered by custom thus re
tained within one week. The latest ap
plication of this godsend to the city man
is to bedrooms. By its use the most
stuffy room is made endurable without
subjecting the sleeper to a dangerous
draft.? New York Letter.
Snakes Robbing a Chicken Roost.
Superintendent Elliott, of the North
Cedar Hill cemetery, Frankford, has for
many nights past noted that his chick
ens were mysteriously disappearing.
They were choice fowls, raised at great
expense, the envy of neighbors the
country around.
There is a pond a short distance from
i ^ superintendent's house, and near the
side of this house are the chicken coops.
Mr. Elliott resolved to remain up all
night and keep watch over his property.
The evening wore slowly away with
out any developments, but toward 2
o'clock in the morning his attention was
attracted by a rustling in the grass near
the coops, and on hurrying quietly there
was surprised to find that three 4- foot
water snakes had entered the coops
and seized upon as many of his choicest
fowls. The snakes had coiled around
the necks of the chickens, strangling
them, and were endeavoring to reach
the edge of the pond with their victims.
The superintendent succeeded in killing
all of the snakes.
The water snakes were the largest of
their kind ever seen there. It is a well
known fact to those acquainted with
the habits of water snakes that they are
as fond of chicken as the traditional
country preacher.? Philadelphia Times.
An Old Lady'? Way.
A happy and vigorous old lady in New
Hampshire gives these rules for the se
cret of the success of eighty years' living
on this planet, which brings to much
car? and worry to many of hw sisters:
"I never allow myself to fret over things
I cattBdthelp. I take a nap, aad some
tim?^two, every day of my life. I
never take my washing, ironing or bak
ing to bed witfr-ine, and 1 try to oil all
th$ various wheels of a busy life with
an implicit belief that there are a brain
: and a hear| to this great uniYirse, and
I that I can trust them both."
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