Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1893 — Page 11

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY LI, 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

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GOD AMONG THE BIEDS

DR. TALMAGS DRAWS MANY LESSONS FROM THE FOWLS. Surprising Frequency of Allusions to j Birds Id th Scriptare sad Alwin to ! Teaeh an Important Lesion Ornithol- ' S J la Surely av Divine Science. i Bp.ookltn', Jan. 8. Dr. Talmage this morning continued tLe course of grrmons begun a few $al baths ago. Having preached about the "Astronomy of the Bible; or. God Anjon. the Stars," and the "Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries," this morning he discoursed on the "Ornitho!oiry of the Bible; or. God Among the ttirds." The text wm Matthew vi, 2f, "Behold the fowls of the air!" There Is silence no'.v in all our January forests, except athe winds whistle through the bare branches. Our northern woods re deserted concert hall;. The orcmn lofts in the temple of nat are ;ire hynmless. Tree s which were full of carol and chirp and chant nre now waitirt; for the coming back of rich plumes and warbling voices, solos, duets, quartets, cantatas and Te Deums. But the Bible is full of birds at all seasons, and prophets and patriarchs and apostles and evangelists and Christ himself employ them for moral and religious purposes. 3dy text is nn extract from the sermon on the mount, and perhaps it was at a moment when a flock of birds flew p,it that Christ waved his hand toward th-m and saM, "Behold the fowls of the air!" And bo, in this course of sermons on God everywhere, I preach to jmi thin t hir.l sermon concerning the Ornithology of the Bible; or, God Among the Birds. ORNITHOLOGY IS DIVINE. Most of the ither sciences you may study or not study ii you 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 says in my text, "Behold the fowls of t he air!" That is. study their habbll. Kxamine their colors. Notice their speed, tee the hand of God in their construction. It is ei;y fir me to obey the command of the text, for I was brought up among t his ruce of wings and from boyhood heard their matins at Viiiirise and their vespers at sunset. Their nests have been to me a fascination, and nty isatisfaction is that I never robbed one ft tlnm, any more than I won Id steal a child from a cr:i He, for a bird is a child of the sky, aud its nest is the cradle. They are almost human, for they have their love aiui Lutes, affinities and antipathies, understand joy and grief, have conjugal and maternal instinct, wage wars a:-d entertain jealousies, have a language of their own and powers of association. Thank God for bird and skies full of them. It is useless to expect to understand the Bible Unless we study natural history. Five hundred and ninety-three times does the Bible alluoe to the f;;cts of natural history, and I do not wonder that it makes so many allusions ornithological. The skies and the caverns of Palestine are friendly to the winged creatures, and so many fly and roost and ne-t and hatch in that region that inspired writers do not have far to go to get ornithological illustration of divine truth. There are over forty species of birds recognized in the Scriptures. Oh. what a variety of wings in Palestine! The dove, the robin, the eagle, the cormorant, or plunprg bird, hurling itself from sky to wave and with long tieak clutching its prey; the thrush, which especially dislikas a crowd; the partridge; the Jiawk, bo id ar.d ruthless, hovc-riLg head to windward while watching for prey; the" swan, at home among the marshes and with feet so contracted it can walk on the leaves of water plants; the raven, the lajv wing, malodrirous, and in the Bible denounced inedible, though it has extraordinary headdress; the stork, the ossi trage, that always bud a habit cf dropping ou a Ftone the turtle it had lifted and so killing It for food, and on one occasion mistook the bald head of TJchylus. the Greek poet, for a white stone ar.d dropped a turtle upon it, killing the famous Greek; the cuckoo, with crested head and crimson throat and wings snow tipped, but too lazy to build its own nest and so having the Labit of depositing its eggs in nests belonging to ether birds; the blue jay, the grouse, the plover, the magpie, the kingfisher; the pelican, which is the caricature of all the feathered creation; the owl. the grldiinch, the bittern, the harrier, the bulbul, the osprey. the vulture, that king of scavengers, with neck covered with repulsive down instead of attractive feathers, the quarrelsome starling, the swallow, flying a mile a minute and sometimes ten hours In succession; the heron, the quail, the peacock, the ostrich, the lark, the crow, the kite, the bat, the blackbird and many others, with all colors, all sounds, all .styles of flight, all habits, all architecture of nets, leaving nothing wanting in suggestiveness. Th y were at the creation placed all around cn the rocks and in thetreesand on the ground to serenade Adam's Arrival. They took their places on Friday, as the fiMman was made on Saturday. Whatever else he had or did not have, he should have music. The first sound that struck the human ear was a bird's voice. THICKS IS A ClIKIsTIAN GEOLOGY. Tea, Christian geology for you know there Is a Christian geology as well as an luf.del geology Christian geology conns in and helps the Bible show w hat we owe to the bird creation. Before the human race came into this world the world was occupied by reptiles and by all styles of destructive monsters millions of creatures loathsome Hid hideous. God sent hue oirds to clear the earth of these creatures before Ad im and live 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 of wing to tip of wing. Many armies of beaks nul claws were necessary to clear the earth of creatures that would hüve destroyed the human race with one lip. 1 like to find this harmony of re elation and science and to have demonstrated that the God whomadd the world made the Bible. Moses, tie . . atevt lawyer of all time and a great man :'or facts, had enough sentiment and poetry and mnsiu.l taste to welcome the iiluuiined i ins and the voices divinely drilled into the first chapter of Genesis How should Noah, the old shin carpenter. OU) rears of ige, find out wh. n the world was lit athi for human residence alter the universal freshet A bird will tell, and tiotlor. else can. No man can come down from the mountain to invite IN'oah aud bis family out to terra fuma. for the mountains were submerged. As a bird lirst heralded the human race into the world, row a bird will help the human race Lack to the world that had shipped a sea thit whelmed ev.-rything. Noah staxids cn Sunday morning at the window of the ark, in his hand a cooing dove, so gentle, so innocent, so affectionate, and he said. "Now, my little dove, fiy away over these waters, explore and come back nd tell " "f her it is safe to land." After long flight it returned hungry and weary and wa, and try its looks and manners said toNoail and his family, "The world Unot fit for you to disembark." Noah waited week, and next Sunday morning he let the dove ßy ag.in for a sftond exploration, ix,d Eunday evening it car-.e back with a h af that had the fign of just having Ik en clucked from i livinr fruit tree, and the bird reported the worl i would do tolerably well for a bird to live in, but not yet suilleiently recovered for human residence. Noah wait d another week, and next Fanday morning he sent .out the dove on the third exploration, but it returned not, for it found the world so attractive now it did not want to 1 caged again, and then the emigrant from the antediluvian world landed. Jt was a bird that told them when

to take possession of the resuscitated planet. So the human race were saved by a bird's wing for, attempting to land too soon, they would have perished. ISAIAH OX THE DOTE 6. Aye, here comes a whole flock of dovesrock doves, ring doves, stock doves and they make Isaiah think of great revival and great awakenings when souls fly for shelter like a flock of pigeons swooping to the openings of a pigeon coop, and cries out, "Who are these that fly as doves to their windows?" David, with Saul after him and flying from cavern to cavern, compares himself to a desert partridge, a bird which especially haunts rocky places, and boys and hunters to this day take after ' it with sticks, for the partridge runs rather than flies. David, chased and clubbed and harried of pursuers, says. "I am hunted as a par triditeon the mountains." Speakingof his forlorn condition, he says, "I am like a pelican of the wilderness." Describing his lonelincH, he says. "I am a swallow alone on a housetop." Hrzekiah, in the emaci ation of his sickness, compares himself to a crane, thin and wasted. 'Job had so much trouble he could not sleep nights, and he describes his insomnia by aying, "I am a companion to owls.'" Isaiah compares the desolations of banished Israel to an owl and bittern and cormorant among a city's ruins. Jeremiah, describing the cruelty of parents toward children, compares them to the ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the sand uucared fcr, cryinir. "The daughter of my people is become like the ostriches of the wildnerness." AmoiiK the provisions piled on Solomon's bountiful table the Bible speaks of "Pitted fowl." The Israelites in the desert Kot tired of manna and they had quails quail , 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 herappointed time, and theturtle, and the crane, aial the swallow the time e f th' ir g"ing, but my people know not the judgments o the Lord." Would the prophet illustrate the fate of the fraud, he points to a failure at incubation and says, "As a partridge sitteth on egRS and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end sbnll be a fool." The partridge, the Ciost careless of all birds in choice of its place cf nest, buildirg it on the ground and often near a frequented road, or in a slight depression of ground, without reference to safety, aud soon a hoof or a scythe or a cart wheel ends all. So says the prophet, a man who gathers under him dishonest dollars will hatch out of them no peace, no satisfaction, no happiness, no security. What a vivid similitude! The quickest w; to amass a fortune is by iniquity, but the trouble is altout keeping it. Every hour of every day some such partridge is driven off the nest Panics are only a flutter of part rid .:-. It is too tedious work to lecome rich i:i the old fashioned way, and if a man can by one falsehood make asmuch ns by ten years of hard l-i!r, why not tell it? And if one o unterfcit check will bring the doi'iars as easily as a genuine issue, why uot m.ke it? One velar's fraud will le equal to half a lifetime's sweat. Why not live solely by one's wits A fortune thus built will be firru ar.d everlasting. Will it? Ha! build your house on a volcano's crater; go to sleep on the bosom of an avalanche. The volcano will blaze and the avalanche will thuuder. There ;ra estates which have b-en coming together from age to age. Many years ago that estate started in a husband' industry aud a wife's economy. It grew from generation to generation by good hal.it-. and hitgh minded enterprise. Old faäbi'r:ed -industry was the mine from which th.it go'd was dug, and God will keep the deeds of such an estate in his buckler. Foreclose yiwir mortgage, spring your snap judgments, plot ith acutest intrigue again.-t a family property like that, and you cannot do it a jvcrrnaner.t damage. Better than warrantee deed and better than lire insurance is the defense which God's owu hand will give it. IHK KVIL WILL COMK TO LIGHT. 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 rieh man. There is no accounting for his eudden affluence. 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 ftne-sp of his coachman. Did he cojie to a sudden inheritance No. Did he make, afortuneou purchase and .sale? No. Every body aks. Whe re did that partridge hatch? The devil suddenly threw him up and the devil will suddenly let him come down. That hidden scheme God saw from the first conception of the plot. That partridge, swift disaster will shoot it down, and the higher it flies the harder it falls. The rrophet saw, as you and I have often seen, the awful mistake of partridge. But from the top of a Bible llr tree I hear the shrill cry f the stork. .lob, K. kiel, Jeremiah, sp: ak of it. David cries out, "As for the tori., the fir tree is her house." This lap 'v''itc Bible bird is supposed without alighting sometimes to wing its way fron the regiou of the Khinc to Africa. As winter comes all the storks fly to warm er climes, and the last one of their number that arrives at the spot to which they mi grate is killed by ttipia. What havoc it would make in our species if those men were killed who are always behind! In orient.d cities the stork is domesticated, and walks alout on the street and will fol low its keeper. In the city of I'phe-us I saw a long row of pillars, on the top of each pillar u stork's nest. But the word "stork" ordinär.!; means mercy and rtTectiou, from the fa.t that this Lrtrd was distinguishes! for k great love for its parents. It never forsakes them, and even alter they become feebie protects and provides for them. In mi grating, the old storks lean their necks on the young st:rks, and when the oh! ones give- out the ; t i:g or.es e-arry them on their back. God forbid that a dumb stork fehould have more heart than we. Bles-ri is that table at which an old father and inot'it r sit; bless'-l that altar at which aa old father and mother kneel. What it is to have a mother they know best who have lot her. Grxl only knows the ?.gouy f-he suffered for us, the times l,e wept over our cradle and the anxious sii;;.s her bosom heaved as we lay upon it. the fie nights wl: n she watcbtsl so loug after every one was tired out but God and herp lf. Her life-blood ber.ts in our heart and Li r image lives in our fate. That man is graceless as a cannibal who ill treats his parents, and he who begrudges tbem daily bread and clothes them but shabbily may God have p-t ieue-e w ith h'm; I cannot. I heard a man once say, "I now have my old mother on my hands." Ye storks on your way with food to your aged parents, shame Lim! TIIK TORMENTED BIRD. But yonder in this Bible sky flies a bird thatissjK-ckled. The prophet describing the church cries out. "Mine heritage is nnto me as a speck led bird, the birds round about are against her." So it was then: so it is now. Holiness picked at. Consecration picked at. Benevolence picked at. Usefulness picket! at. A speckled bird is a pe-culinr bird, and that r.rous-s the antipathy of all the beaks of t he forest. The c hurcof God is a peculiar institution, and that vTenough to evoke attack of the world, for it Is a sreckled bird to be picked at. The inconsistencies of Christians are a banquet on tvhich multitudes get fut. They ascribe everything you do to wrong motives. Put a dollar in the poor box, and they will say that you dropped it there 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." Christ intended that his church should always remain a Deckled WH Let birdof unotber feather

pick at her. o:a th-.-y cannot rob her of a Binjcle plume. Like the albatross, lie can sleep on the lonm of a tempest. She has gone tb rough the fires of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace and not got burned, through the waters of the lied sea and not leen drowned, through the shipwreck on the breakers of Melita and not been foundered. Let all earth and hell try to hunt down this speckled bird, but faralwve 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 God! The pillar and ground of the truth. The gates of hell shall not prevail against her ." But we cannot stop here. From a tall clill, hanging over the sea, I hear the eagle calling nnto the tempest and lifting it wing to smite the whirlwind. Moss, Jeremiah, Hosea and Habakknk at times in their writings take their jieu from the eagle's wing. It is a bird with fierceness in its eye, its feet armed with flaws of iron, and its head with a dre-adful b".tk. Two or three of them can fill the heavens with clangor. But generally this monster of the air is alone and unaccompanied, for the reason that its habits are so predaceous it requires five or ten miles of aerial or earth ly dominion all for itself. The black brown of its back, and the white of its lower feathers, and the fire of its eye, aud the long flap of its wing make one glimpse of it as it swings down into the Yalley to pick np a rabbit, or a lamb, or a child and then swings back to its throne on the rock something uever to be forgotten. ScJitteml about its eyrie of altitudinous solitude are the bones of its conquests. But while the !e-ak aud the claws of the eagle are the terror of all the travelers of the air, the mother eagle is most kind and gentle to her young. God compares his treatment of his people to the eagle's care of the eaglets. Deuter onomy xxxii, 11, "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spread ing abroad her wing, taketh them, bei .h them on her wings, so the Lord alone cid lead." 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 anel 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 dvs with us. Disaster, failure in business, disappointment, bereavement, is only God's way of shaking us out of our comfortable neets in order that we may learn how to fly. You who are complaining that you have no faith or courage or Christian zeal have hail it too easy. You never will learn to fly in that comfortable nest. Like an eagle, Christ has carried us on his back. At times w e h;:vc been shaken e fT, and when we were about to fall he came tinder us again and brought ns out of the gloomy valley to the sunny mountain. Never an eagle brooded with such love and care over her young aa God"s Wings have leen over us. Across what oceans of trouble we have gone in 6afety upon the Almighty wings! Frein what mountainsof sin we have leen carried and at times have be-on borne up far ateve the gunshot of the world and the arrow of

the devil! When our time on earth is closeel, on these great wings of God we shall speed with infinite quickness from earth's mountains to heaven's hills, ami as from the . eagle's circuit under the sun men on the grou nil 11 and insignificant as lizards on a rock, sei all earthly things shall dwindle into a speck, and the raging river of death so far beneath will seem smooth and glassy as a Swiss lake. y.t' VTIVG AS THE E AG LKS. It was thought in anrient times that nn eagle could not oidy molt its feathers in oh! ng . but that after arriving at great age it would re-new it? strength and become entirely yemng j;gain. To this Isaiah alludes when he says, "They that wait en the Lord shall renew their sireugib; they sh.tll mount up with wings of eagk's." Kven so the Christian in old age will re-jiew his spiritual strength. Heshnllbe young in ardor ard enthusiasm for Christ, ar.d :.s the body fails the soul will grow in elasticity till at death it will spring up like, a gladdeneel child into the bosom of Goel. Yea. in this ornithological study I see that Job says, "His days fly as an eagle that hasttlh to its prey.'' The speed of a hungry eagle when it saw its prey a s-ore of miles distant was unimaginable. It went like a thunderbolt fer speeel and power. So fly our days. Sixty minutes, each worth a heaven, since we assembled in this place, have shot like lightr ning into eternity. The old earth is rent aud cracked under the swift rush of drs and month? and years and ages. "Swift as an ingle t hat ht'stcth to its prey." Bchoid the fowls of the air! Have vou considered that they have, as you and I have not, the power to change their ej es so that one minute they may be telescopic and the next microscopic? Now se-eing something a miie away, and by telescopic eyesight, and then lropping to its food on the ground, able to bee it close: by, and with microscopic eyesight. But what a senseless passage of Scripture that is until you know the fact, which sajs, "The sparrow hath fouml a house and tbe swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her jounc. even thine altars, O Loul of hosts, my king and my God." What ha the swallow tu do with the altars of the temple t Je. u v.Ieiii? Ah, you know that swallows arc- all the world ever very tame, and in summer time used to fly into the windows and doors e.f the temple at Jerusalem and be. i Id a nest on the altar where the priests ere. offering sacrifices. These' swallows brought leaves and sticks anei fashioned nests on the alters of the temple and Latches! the young sparrows in those nsti. htA Davi 1 had seen the young birds picking their way out of the she' wti'c tle old swallows watched, end no one in the temple was cruel enough to disturb either the old swallows er the young swallows, und David bursts out in rhapsody, saying, "Th" swallow hath found a Dest for herself, where she may lay her y oune, even thine altars, Ü Lord of hosts, my king and my God:'' Y'es, in this ornithology of the Bible I find that God is determines! to impress Opon us the architecture of a bird's nest and the anatomy f a bird's wing. Twenty times dors the Bible refer to a bird's nest: "Where the birds make their nest," "As a bird that wanderet h from her nest" "Though thou set the nest among the stars," "The birds of the air have their nests," aud bo on. Nests in the trees, nests on the rocks, nests on the altars. Why eloes Goel dl us so frequently to consider the bird's test? Because it is one of the most wondrous of all styles of architecture and a lesson of providential care, which is the most important lesson that Christ in my text conveys. Why, just look at the bird's nest and see what t the prospect that God is going to take tare of you. Here is the bluebird's nest under the eaves of the house. Here is the brown thrasher's ne?.t in h bush. Here is the blue jay's nest in the orchard. Here Is the grosbeak's nest on a tree branch hanging over the water, so as to be free from attack. Chickadee's nest in the stump of an old tree. Oh, the goodness of God in showing the birds how to build their nests! What carpenters, what masons, what weavers, what spinners the birds arel Out of what small resources they make so exquisite a home, curved, pillared, wreathed. Out of mosses, out of sticks, but of lichens, out of horsehair, out of spiders' web, out of threaels swept from the door by the housewife, out of the wool of the sheep in the iwtsture field. Upholstered by leaves actually sewed together by Its owu sharp bill. Cushioned with feathers from its own breast. Mortared together with the gutn of tree's and the saliva of it own tiuy bill. Such symmetry, suc!i adaptation, such convenience, such geometry of structure. TIIK DtVIXK PLAN IX NATL' HE. Surely these nest vere built by some plan. They did not just happen so. Who drafted the plan f ; the bird's nest Gcd!

And do you not think that if he plans such a house for a chaffinch, for an oriole, for a bobolink, for a sparrow, he will see to it that you always have a home? "Ye are of more value than many sparrows." Whatever else surrounds you, you can have w hat the Bible calls "the feathers of the Almighty." Just think of a nest like that, the warmth of It, the softness of it, the safety of it "the feathers of the AI mighty." No flamingo outflashing the tropical sunset ever had such brilliancy of pinion; no robin redbreast ever bad plumage dashed with such crimson and purple and orange and gold "the feathers of the Almighty." Do you uot feel the touch of them now on forehead and cheek and spirit, and was there ever such tenderness of brooding "the feathers of the Almighty?" So also in this ornithology of the Bible God keeps im pressing ns with the anatomy of a bird's wing. Over fifty times does the old Book allude to the wing "Wing of a dove," "Wings of the morning," "Wings of the wdnd," "Sun of righteousness with healing in his wings," "Wings of the Almighty," "All fowl of every wiug." What does it all mean? It huggests uplifting. It tells you of flight upward. It means to remind that you yourself have wings. David cried out, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove that I might fly away and be at rest!" Thank God that you have better wings than aay dove of longest or swiftest flight. Caged now in bars of flesh are those wings, but the day comes when they will be liberated. Get ready for ascension! Take the words of the old hymn and to the tuneunto which that hymn is married sing: Riee, my soul, and stretch thy wing; Thy better portion trace. Up out of these lowlands into the heavens of higher experience and wider prospect. But how shsll we rise? Only aa God's holy spirit gives us strength. But that is coming now. Not as a condor from a Chimborazo peak, swooping upon the affrighted valley, but as a dove like that which put its soft brown wings over the wet locks of Christ st the baptism in the Jordan. Dove of gentleness! Dove of peace! Come, holy spirit, heavenly dove. With all thy quickening; powers: Come shed abroad a Saviour's lovo. And that fhall kindle ours.

CONE AWAY. There are stones on iho turf where bat lately we i a-sne 1 Bridle loo-c, velvet hoofed from the road to the sod. Where the day's solemn work earned a canter at la-t. And the Grange's trim yews gave a welcoming nod. Nothing left ti'one the old merry s m per today! The lank herbage stiffened by cobbles and cbalks; The (.; ratine i to let, and it sleeps in decay. With the jews all awry in the brier strewn walks: Trailing ?hruV, milled bed- in unlimited woe; TLe I.T3V expanse- blotted aial f:okcd by the leaves: The on J y thing moving ti jackdaw or so. And the afternoon pun beaniitiK faint on the eaves. There the little face came at the window to look When Jim's busy shoes sounded clattering near. Little face, pretty head that the brown ringlets shook. Till the old house was closed with the mellowing year. Not any bright smile from the gloomy alode. Nor mi sweet f;ice that the hojje will descry. Great blii.ds staring white on the flint crested road. And Jim sidles past with'a lear in his eye. -Clifford Kitehiu in Temple Har. repairing a Cable. The rah'.es of a suspension bridge are subject eel to great strains, and are therefore liiinly nr.chored at each shore end to heavy masses of masonry, gene rally by means of long bars of irou or steel having holes at each end Ly which they are bolted or pinned together. In examining the anchorage of one end of the smaller suspenskm bridge nt Niagara one of the'se bars was found tobe broken. and the problem of replacing it was quite liflicult, since the wires attached to it had to have the same tension when it was in place as they hr.d when the old bar was intact. The new bar was form eel of a piece f steel CO feet long, 6 inches wide and thres?quarters of an inch thick, with a hole in om i ad and provided at the other with a band Indled to it. This h.nd was designed to pass around im iron bar in the abutment and resist the p'ill of the wires. When the band had 1 cn placed about this pin iu the masonry and bolted to its bar the latter was carefully heated by a wooden fire in a tremgh below it u-itil it had expanded sufficiently to allow tie end of the wire cable tobe ctmneetesl wit'u it. As it cooled down it contracted more and more until at thü normal te'uipera,!ure: the wires attached to it were M rained to th same amount ns the others, and in t!;is way a elillicult problem v. as easily and cheaply solved. St. Louis GloleDcmocrat. Kipling as an Itidluu Journalist. In The Idler Mr. Rudyard Kipling gives some amusing particulars of his early jour nalisticc.pe:n't:ces. Mr. Kipling, as every boely knows, began his literary career in a Lutubh' way em the staff of an Inelian paper, lie tedls how at this period he was painfully shocked nt the discovery that a subeditor was paid to subedit and not hired to write verses. Later on, however, he became an editor and had a subeditor who was "saturated w ith Llia," aud wrote very pretty essays in the manner of Charles Iamb, whtu he ought to have been subediting. Then it was that Mr. Kjpling understootl what his editor must Lave sulTered ou his account Now, however, Mr. Kipling's verse was in demand at Last in one quarter. Kukn-Din, the foreman "ef our fide," approved of them, we arei told, immensely. He was a Moslem of culture. He would say, "Your potery very gotnl, sir; just coming proper length txlay. You giving more soon? Oue-third column just proper. AlAiiys can taüe em third page." The pot-t was in very gooel company for. as he says, "There is always an undei current of song a little bitter for the most part running through the Indian papers." Heal (Ii of His irlef. "Yes, 1 dabbled in futures once," said the man in the mackintosh reflect ivtdy. "Wheat?" inquired the man who had his feet on the table. "No. And it wasn't rern or oats or barley or mess pork or potatoes or chips or whetstones. It was broom corn. I thought the-re was money in brexiui com." 'Tut much money in it?" asked the man tn the shaggy ulster. "More money thau judgment," sighed the man in the mackintosh gloomily. "How much did you lose?" "I lost $5o.(HiO I had hoped to make out of the deal." "Was that ull?" "All? No. I lost ? 18.000 I bad borrowed from friends" "Have they got it yet?" "And that wasn't all!" groaned the man in the mackintosh, unheeding the interruption aud wiping his eye furtively with the corner of his handkerchief; "I bint f7.5 of my own money!" Cbicügo Tribune. Crushed Hopes. "And whatimswer do you make to my appeal?" he asked as he knelt at her feet. "James, 1 will le frank with you," she murmured. "Oh, speak," he implored, "and relieve me from this agony of suspense," "Then let me tell you it cannot be." "Why so Oh, why not?" "Because, .femes. I elo not feel able to support a l.;.!.iunl " Te.ti.s Sittings.

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LESSON III, FIRST QUARTER. INTERNATIONAL SERIES, JAN. 15. Text of the truun, Hag. II. 1-9 Memory Verse, 8, 9 Golden Teit. Pa. csxvil. 1 Commentary by the KfT D. M. Stearns. The prophecies of Haggni and Zechariati should be read iu connection with the his torical liooks of F.zra and Nehemiah, for these prophets were specially conimis sioneel to encourage the people to rebuild the temple and the city. After the foun dation of the temple was laid, as we learned in last lesson, enemies hindered the work, and it censed until the second year of Darius, where our present lesson begins (Kz. iv, -,S). 1. "In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Ixrd by Hagcai the prophet." Haggai, like every true prophet, was simply the Ixrd's messenger with the Lord's mesage (verse 13) 2. "Thus (.peaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying. This people say. The time is not come the time that the lord's house ehould be built." This phrase "speaketh or saith the Lord of Hosts" is found thirteen tirr5 in this short prophecy and "saith the Lord" is found seven tims, while the name "Lord" in capitals (which is always Jehovah) is found altogether in the thirty-eight verses of this prophecy at least thirty-four times. So we are not to see Haggai, whose name is mentioned but nine times (and that is an unusual number for so short a prophecy), but only Jehovah, and Haggai as His spokesman. Notice that the Lord observes what people say, and also what they think (Kzek. xi, 5 xxxiii, 30; Jer. xi, 18, U. 3. "Then came the Word of the lxrd by Haggai the prophet, saying," The words of the people were wrong words; they indicated a lack of sympathy with God in His purposes. The House of the Ixrd now being built is the church, which U His body (Heb. Iii, r3; I Pet. ii, 5; I Cor. iii, 9. Eph. ii. lSr-22), and there is as much tuelif ference to it on the part of the Ixml's people as there was to the temple in the days of Haggai. The Word of" the Lord was sent to correct the pee rle and bring thera into sympathy with God and His purposes. See Isa. viii, J0, U. V. margin. 4. "Is it time for you. O ye. to dwell in your ceile.! houses, and this house lie waste?" The y were neglecting the temple, the house of Jehovah, und attending to their ow n house. The church is a spiritual building to le gathered out of all nations and presented to Christ as His Bride in order that He may return with her to establish His Kingdom on earth and fill the earth with His glory; but the Loni might well say to the various denominations, which make up the visible chur li: "Is it time for you to be so occupied with your ow n little company instead of working earnestly to complete my Itody?" "I it time for you to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars upon church wildings instead of sending the Gospel to the heathen?" 5. "Now therefore, thus saith the Iord of hosts. Consider your ways." Because of the neglected condition of His house He would have them stop and consider. He would have them lctk at things from His standpoint like Jeremiah when he said "Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by? Behold md see if there be any sorrow like unto my serrov which is done unto me, wherewith the liord hath afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger" (Lam. 1,1"). When we think of Jesus waiting ant! longing for t lie com pdet ion of His church, that He may come again for the conversion of His people Isntel ami of the world, may we uot hear Hi.n saying. "Is it nothing to you?" "Consider your ways," and see that as the he;. veils are bight r than tLe earth, so are my was than jour ways (Isa. lv, '. 6. "Ye teivf sown much, and bring iu little; ye eat, !ut ye have not enough.'" Count the sevenfold elisappointment in this. -,rd tiie ninth verse, and compare Isa. lv, '2, "Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ami your lalwr for that which satisfi -th not?" Men labor in vain and spend their strength for nanght (Isa. xii. -4) when th"yareout of harmony with G'od. but when God is working in us. though it may sometimes n'ctu that our labor is in vain, it is never really so. fiis word may not accomplish what we pjrase, but it will accomplish what He pleases (Isa. lv, II, and onr w ork is not in vain iu the Lord (I Cor. xv, T.s). Wages in a bag with holes make us think of the treasures on earth which the Saviour contrasttel with t lit.- treasure in he;:vtn (Luke xii, XI) 7. "Thus sttitli the Kord of Hosts, Consider jcurwajs." The Holy Spirit never repeats needlessly. The fi ft h verse was in connee-tion with the' desolation and neglect of the Lord's Louse, but this is in connection with their owu desolation or fruitless toil. In this aud the next verse, with Verses 4 and of the next chapter, there is an interesting seveidold command (Cem sider. Co up. Bring wood. Build the house. Be strong Work. Fear not) each part of which we may well take to our selves in reference to our part in completing the church. There will le nothing but failure i:i our lives as long as we neglect the Ixrd's work, and even though one should amass the wealth of Babylon, in one hour it shall come to naught (Rev xviii, 17) 8. "Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house1, and I will take pleasure in it. and I will be glorified, sailh the Lord." We have nothing i. do with difficulties, either real or apparent. Iiis ours to obey; results are w ith (Joel. His pleasure and His glory are everything. Even Christ pleased not Himself, and one of His last joyful testimonies was, "I have glorified thee on the earth" (Bom. xv, 3. John xvii, 4). Let us take as our daily mottoes, "For Thy Pleasure," "For Jesus' Sake," "Glorify God " Uev. iv, 11, II Cor iv, 11; I Cor. vi. V, aud live to buiid the house. 9. "Why? saith the Lend of Hosts. Because of mine house thot is waste, and ye run every man into his own house." If wo seek first the kingdom of Goel and his righteoiisuens we have the promise that all else will be added (Math, vi, S3); whereas if we seek firht our owu interests there is the probability that whatever we may accumulate, God w ill blow it away or suddenly take us away from it. This seems a strange plce to close tLe lesson. I trust teachers will go on to consider the threefold assurance of i, 13; ii, 4, 5, 8, concerning I' presence. His Spirit and His wealth. Note also the thrice "Be strong" of chapter ii, 4. anil compare Josh, i, 0-9; II C bron. xxxii, 7, S, xv, 7; but be warned by II Chron. xxvi, 13, 17. Fail not to note the great shaking of chapter ii, C, 7, and compare Heb. xii, "V'i'J; x, S5-37. Ere that great shaking comes the church will be gathered in out of the storm, and the elect remnant eif Israel will also be safely hidden (1's. 1,1-6; Isa. xxvi, 19-21; Luke xxi, 3ti; Kev. iii, 10). Then will all thrones against Christ be destroyed and lie shall reiiu forever. Waste Neit. In every hou-eheld there should be rendered lsef fat. This, wiih butter, makes excellent pie crust. The use of lard and ot her fats should be aveiiäed, as it eften leaves all unpleasant after tate. Into nn iron pan put the small bits of fat trimmed from a piece of beef, and let it simmer feair or live hours en the back of the range. Strain it and set it in the refrigerator. To make three pics of ordinary size take a cupful of this fat or half a cup, and half a cup of butter and a saltspoonful of salt: rub to a cream with a wikxU-h spoon. Add fourenpsof Hour and mix thoroughly with the hands; jxair a cupful of ice water into a hole iu the center of th:. Mix quickly with a spoon. F.xchange

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