Pagentry Of The Woods
T. DeWitt Talmage
Isaiah, 64: 6: " We all do fade as a leaf."
It is so hard for us to understand religious truth that God constantly reiterates. As the schoolmaster takes a blackboard, and puts upon it figures and dia- grams, so that the scholar may not only get his lesson through the ear, but also through the eye, so God takes all the truths of his Bible, and draws them out in diagram on the natural world. Champollion, the famous Frenchman, went down into Egypt to studv hieroglyphics on monuments and temples. After much labor he deciphered them, and announced to the learned world the result of his investigations. The wisdom, goodness, and power of God are written in hieroglyphics all over the earth and all over the heaven. God grant that we may have understanding enough to decipher them! There are Scriptural pas- sages, like my text, which need to be studied in the very presence of the natural world. Habakkuk says, "Thou makest my feet like hinds' feet," a passage which means nothing save to the man that knows that the feet of the red deer, or hind, are peculiarly con- structed, so that they can walk among slippery rocks without falling. Knowing that fact, we understand that, when Habakkuk says, "Thou makest my feet like hinds' feet," he sets forth that the Christian can walk amid the most dangerous and slippery places without falling.
Those know but little of the meaning of the nat- ural world, who have looked at it through the eyes of others, and from book or canvas taken their impres- sion. There are some faces so mobile that photog- raphers cannot take them; and the face of Nature has such a flush and sparkle and life that no human de- scription can gather them. No one knows the pathos of a bird's voice unless he sometime sat at summer evening-tide at the edge of a wood, and listened to the cry of the whip-poor-will. This accounts for the fact that nearly all the real poets of the world were born in the country.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Isaiah, 64: 6: " We all do fade as a leaf."
It is so hard for us to understand religious truth that God constantly reiterates. As the schoolmaster takes a blackboard, and puts upon it figures and dia- grams, so that the scholar may not only get his lesson through the ear, but also through the eye, so God takes all the truths of his Bible, and draws them out in diagram on the natural world. Champollion, the famous Frenchman, went down into Egypt to studv hieroglyphics on monuments and temples. After much labor he deciphered them, and announced to the learned world the result of his investigations. The wisdom, goodness, and power of God are written in hieroglyphics all over the earth and all over the heaven. God grant that we may have understanding enough to decipher them! There are Scriptural pas- sages, like my text, which need to be studied in the very presence of the natural world. Habakkuk says, "Thou makest my feet like hinds' feet," a passage which means nothing save to the man that knows that the feet of the red deer, or hind, are peculiarly con- structed, so that they can walk among slippery rocks without falling. Knowing that fact, we understand that, when Habakkuk says, "Thou makest my feet like hinds' feet," he sets forth that the Christian can walk amid the most dangerous and slippery places without falling.
Those know but little of the meaning of the nat- ural world, who have looked at it through the eyes of others, and from book or canvas taken their impres- sion. There are some faces so mobile that photog- raphers cannot take them; and the face of Nature has such a flush and sparkle and life that no human de- scription can gather them. No one knows the pathos of a bird's voice unless he sometime sat at summer evening-tide at the edge of a wood, and listened to the cry of the whip-poor-will. This accounts for the fact that nearly all the real poets of the world were born in the country.
There is to ...
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