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DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON
The Nebular Equipage.
“Who maketh the clouds His cheriot.”—Ds,
304: 3
Brures are constructed so as to
Jook down, Those earthly creatures
thut have wings, when they rise from
the earth still look down, and the eagle
wearches for mice in the grass, and the
raven for carcasses in the fleld, Man
alone is made to look up. To induce
him to look up, God makes the sky a
picture-gallery, a Dusseldorf, a Louvre,
a Luxembourg, a Vatican, that eclip.
ses all that German or French or Ital-
ian art ever accomplished. But God
has fatled to attract the attention of
most of us by
THE SCENERY OF THE SKY.
We go nto rapiures over flowers in the
soil, but have little or no appreciation
of the “*morning-glories” that bloom on
the wall of the sky at sunrise, or the
dablias in the clouds at sunset, We
are in ecstasies over a gobelin tapestry
or a ULridal veil of rare fabric, or a
snowbank of exquisite curve, but see
not at all. or see without emotion, the
bridal veils of mist that cover the face
of the Catskills, or the swaying up-
holsiery around the couch of the dying
day. or the snowbanks of vapor piled
up in the heavens,
Mv text bids us lift our chin three of
four inches and open the two telescopes
which under the forehead are put on
swivel easily turned upward, and see
that the clouds are not merely uninter-
esting signs of wet or dry weather, but
that they are embroidered canopies of
shade, that they are the conservatories
of the sky, that they are thrones of
pomp, that they are crystalline bars,
that thicy are paintings in water color,
that they are the angels of the mist,
that they are great cathedrals of light
with troad aisles for angelic feet to
walk through and bow at altars of am-
ber ard alabaster, that they are the
mothers of the dew, that they are lad-
ders for ascending and descending glor-
ies, Cotopaxis of belching flame, Nia-
garas of color, that they are the mas-
terpieces of the Lord God Almightg.
The clouds aro
A FAVORITE BIBLE SIMILE,
and the sacred writers bave made much
use of them,
hung on a cloud in concentric bands
the colours of the spectrum, saying: *'I
do set my bow in the cloud.” As a
mountain is sometimed entirely hidden
by the vapors, so, says God, *‘I have
blotted out as a thick cloud thy trans
gressions.”’ David measures the divine
goodness, and found it so high he apost-
rophized: **Thy faithfulness reacheth
unto the clouds.”” As sometimes there
are thousands of fleeces of vapor scur-
rying across the heavens, so, says Isa-
iah, will be the converts in the millen-
nium *‘as clouds and as doves,” Asin
the wet season no sooner doas the sky
clear thau there comes another obscura-
tion, so, says Solomon, oue ache or ail-
meu: of old folks has no more than
gone another pain comes ‘‘as
clouds return after the rain,”
A column of illumined cloud led the
Israelites across the wilderness, In the
book of Job, Elihu, watching the
clouds, could not understand why they
did not fall, or why they did not all
roll together, the laws of evaporation
and condensation then not being under-
stood, and he cries out: **Dost thou
know the balancing of the clouds?”
When I read my text it suggests to me
that the clouds are the Creator’s equi-
ti
wiiali
wheels, and the tongue of the cloud is
the pole of the celestial vehicle, and the
winds are the harnessed steeds, and
God is the Royal occupant and driver
“who maketh the clouds His chariot,”
“*To understand the Psalmist’s mean-
ing in the text, you must know that
the chariot of old was sometimes of
which were fastened to the axle by
stout pins, and the awful defeat of
serted a linch-pin of wax instead of a
linch-pin of fron. All of the six hun-
dred chariots of Pharaoh
says: “The Lord took off their wheels,”’
Look at the long flash of “olomon’s
fourteen hundred chariots, and the
thirty thousand chariots of the Philis-
tines,
If you have ever visited tie buildings
where a king or queen keeps the
COACHES OF STATE,
as 1 have, you know that Kings and
Sucuis have great varieties of turnout.
he keeper tells you: “This 1s the
state carriage, and used only on great
occasions,” “This is the coronation
carriage, and in it the king rode on the
day he took the throne.”” “In this the
queen went to open Parliament.” “This
is the coach in which the Czar and the
Sultan rode on she occasion of their
visit.” All costly and tessellated and
enriched and emblazoned are they, and
when the driver takes the reins of the
ten white horses in his hands, and amid
mounted troops. and bands in full force
sounding the national air, the splendor
starts, and rolls on under arches ene
twined with and amid the
huzza of hundreds ousands of -
tators, the scene is memorable, at
my text puts all such occasions to in-
significance, as it represents the King
of the Universe coming to the door of
His palace, and the gilded vapors of
the heavens rolling up to His feet, and,
He, stepping in and taking the reins of
the grlloping winds in His hand, starts
in tetuaphal ride unller the arches of
sapphire, over atmospheric
highways of opal and chrysolite, the
clouds His chanot.
My hearers, do not think that God
belitties Himself when He takes such
conveyance. Do you know that the
clouds are among the most
WONDROUS AND MAJESTIC THINGS
in the whole universe? Do you know
that they are flying lakes aud rivers and
oceans? God waved His hand over
them and said: “Come up higher!”
and they obeyed the mandate. That
cloud, instead of being, as it seems, a
of a few yards
seven or eight
ntain, from
pot make a fragile or unworthy repre-
sentation of God fu the text, when he
: spoke of the elouds as His chariot. But
{ as I suggested in the case of an earthly
king, He has His morning-cloud char-
jot and Mis evening-cloud chariot —the
cloud chariot in which He rode down
to Sinai to open the law, and the cloud
chariot in which He rode down to
Tabor to honor the gospel, and the
cloud chariot in which He will come to
judgment, When He rides cut in
HIS MORNING CHARIOT
at this season, about 6 o'clock, he puts
golden coronets on the dome of cities,
and silvers the rivers, and out of the
dew makes a diamond ring tor the fing-
ers of every grass blade, and bids good
cheer to invalids who in the night said:
“Would God it were morning!” From
this morning cloud chariot He distri-
butes light—light for the earth aud
light for the heavens, light for the land
and light for the sea, great bars of it,
great wreathes of it, great columns of
it, a world full of itt IIail Him in
worship as every morning Ile drives
out In His chariot of morning cloud,
and cry with David: “My voice shalt
thou bear in the morning, in the morn-
ing will I direct my prayer unto thee
and look up.” I rejoice in these Scrip-
ture ejaculations: “Joy cometh in the
morning.” “My soul waiteth for thee
more than they that watch for the
morning.” “If I take the wing of the
morning.”” **The eyelids of the morn-
ing.” “The morning cometh.” “Who
is she that looketh forth as the morn-
ing,” ‘His going forth is prepared as
the morning.” “As the morning
spread on the mountains.’”’ “That
thou shouldest visit him every morn-
ing.”
throws from His chariot
throws us the morning!
HIS EVENING-CLOUD CHARIOT,
It is made out of the saffron and the
gold and the purple and the orange and
the vermilion and upshot flames of the
sunset, That is the place where the
splendors that have marched through
the day, having ended the procession,
throw down their torches and set the
heavens on [ite
when
of ithe day when the atmosphere
¥ city with its twelve man-
us stones, from foundation
middle
and on up to the coping of amethyst,
At that hour, without any of Elisha's
we
3 of fire, and banners of
fire, and ships of fire, and cities of fire,
seems as if the last
When God makes these
chariot let us all kneel
Another day past, what have we done
with it? Auoother day dead, and this
i8 its gorgeous catafalque., Now is the
time for what David called the *‘even-
ing sacrifice,” or Daniel called the
“*evening oblation.”
Oh! oh! what a chariot made out of
evening cloud! Have you hung over
the taffrail on the
cloudy vehicle roll over the pavements
of a calm summer sea, the wheels drip-
ping with the magnificence? Have
you from the top of Den Lomond or the
Cordilleras or the Berkshire hills seen
the day pillowed for the night, and yet
had no aspiration of praise and homage?
Oh, what a rich God we have that He
can put oun one evening sky pictures
that excel Michael Angelo's “last
ation of the Magi,” and whole galleries
next evening put on the same sky some-
thing that excels all that the Raphaels
and the Titians and the Rembrandts
and the Corregios and the Leonardo da
Vincis ever executed, and then draw
God must
of clouds
How rich
new chariot
to be exhibited!
be to have a
every evening!
jut the Bible tells us that our King
also has
HIS BLACK CHARIOT,
“Clouds and darkness,’’ we are told,
“are round about him.” That chariot
is cloven out of night, and that night is
When He rides forth in that
tend Him. Then let the earth tremble,
Then let nations pray. Again and
again He has ridden forth in that
chariot of black clouds, across England
and France and Italy and Russia and
America, and over all nations. That
which men took for the sound of can-
nonading at Sebastopol, at Sedan, at
Gettysburg, at Tel-el-Kebir, at Bunk-
er Hill, were only the rumblings of the
black chariot of the Almighty. Aye,
it is the chariot of storm-cloud armed
with thunder-bolts, and neither man nor
angel nor devil nor earth nor hell nor
heaven can resist Him. On those
boulevards of blue,
THIS CHARIOT NEVER TURNS
out for anything. Aye, no ons aise
drives there, Under one wheel of that
chariot, Babylon was crushed, and
Baalbeck fell dead, and the Roman
Empire was prostrated, and Atlantis, a
whole continent that ounce connected
Europe with America, sank clear out of
sight, so that the longest anchor of
ocean steamer cannot touch the top of
I's highest mountains, The throne of
the Cemsams was less than a pebble under
the right wheel of this chariot, aud the
Austrian despotism less than a snow-
flake under the left wheel. And over
destroyed worlds on worlds that chariot
bas rolled without a jar or jolt, This
black chariot of war-cloud rolled up to
the northwest of Europe in 1812, and
four hundred thousand men marched
, and only twenty-
five thousand out of the four hundred
ore or has ever since visited Russia,
Aye, the chariot of the Lord is irres-
istible, There is only one thing that
can balt or turn any of His chariots,
ud tliat 48 playel, (AFLs and it
has stopped it, w it aro
the chariot of black under that
wheels would have taken, And our
Lord’s chariot has only two wheels
and that means Instat reversal, and
instant help, and instant deliverance.
While the combined forces of the uni«
verse in battle array could not stop His
black chariot a second, or diverge it an
inch, the driver of that chariot says:
*Call upon me in the day of trouble,
and I will deliver thee.” *‘While they
are yet speaking, 1 will hoar.”’
TWO-WHEELED CHARIOT,
one wheel justice, and the other wheel
mercy.
' A cloud, whether it belongs to the cir-
rhus, the clouds that float the highest;
or belongs to the stratus, the central
ranges; or to the cumulus, the lowest
ranges—seems to move slowly along the
sky if It moves at all. But many of
the clouds go at a speed that a vesti-
bule-limited lightning express train
would seem lethargie, so swift is the
chariot of our God; yea, swifter than
the storm, swifter than the light, Yet
a child ten years old has been known to
reach up, and with the hand of prayer
take the courser of that chariot by the
bit and slow it up, or stop it, or turn it
aside, or turn it back. The boy Samuel
stopped it. Elijah stopped it. IHeze-
kiah stopped it. Daniel stopped It,
Joshua stopped it, Esther stopped It,
Ruth stopped it. Hannah stopped it,
Mary stopped it. My father stopped it,
My mother stopped it. My sister stop
ped it, We have in our Sabbath-
schools children who again and again
and again have stopped it.
Notice that these old-time chariots,
which my text uses tor symbol, had
what we would call a high dash-board
at the front, but were open behind.
And the king would stand at the dash-
board and drive with his own hands,
And I'am glad that He, whose chariot
| the clouds are,
DRIVES HIMSELF,
He does not let natural law drive, for
i natural law is deaf. Ile does not
i let fate drive, for fate is merciless,
| But our Father King drives Himself,
{and He puts His loving band on the
| reins of the flving coursers, and He has
a loving ear open to the ery of all who
want to catch His attention, Oh, I
am 50 glad that wy Father drives, and
| never drives too fast, and never drives
| too slow, and never drives off the preci-
pice, and that He controls by a bit that
i mever breaks, the wildest and most rag-
| ing circumstances, I heard
captain who put out with
{| with a large number of passengers from
i Buffalo, on Lake Erie, very
| the season and while there
ice, When they were well
| captain saw, to his horror, that the
{ was closing in on him from
| and he saw no way out from destruc-
tion and death, He called into the
! cabin the passengers, and all the crew
{ that could be spared from their posts,
and told them
| lost unless God interposed, and although
ihe was not a Christian man, he said:
“Let us pray,” and they all knelt
1 ASKING GOD To COME
| for their deliverance. They went back
i to the deck, and the man at the wheel
| shouted: “All right, cap'n, it's blow-
| ing not’ by nor*west, now.” While the
| prayer was going on fn the cabin the
{ wind changed and blew the ice out of
ithe way. The mate asked: “Shall I
{ put on more sail, cap'n?” “Nol” re-
sponded the captain. “Don’t touch
her.” Some one else is managing this
ship.” Oh, men and women, shut in
all sides by icy troubles and misfor-
tunes, in earnest prayer put all your
affairs in the hands of God, You will
come out all right, Some one else is
MANAGING THE sHIp!
It did not merely happen so that when
Leyden was bemeged, and the Duke of
Alva felt sure of his trinmph, suddenly
the wind turned, and the swollen waters
compelled him to stop the siege, and
the city was saved. God that night
drove along the coast of the Nether.
| lands in a black charriot of storm-cloud.
{ It did not merely happen so that Luther
| Tose from the place where he was sitting
just in time to keep from being crushed
was much
tt
out,
the very spot. Had he not escaped
where would bave been the Reforma
tion? It did not merely happen so that
Columbus was saved from drowning by
an oar that was floating on the waters.
Otherwise, who would have unveiled
America? It did not merely happen so
that when George Washington was in
Brooklyn a great fog settled down over
all the place where this church stands,
and over all this end of Long Island,
and that under that fog he and his army
escaped from the clutches of Generals
Howe and Clinton. In a chariot of
mist and cloud that God of American
Independence rode along here,
On that pillow of consolation I put
down my bead to sleep at night, On
that solid foundation I build when I
see this nation in political paroxysm
every four years, not because they care
two cents about whether it 1s high
tariff, or low tariff, or no tariff at all,
but only whether the Democrats or the
Republicans shall have the salaried
offices. Yea, when European nations
are holding their breath, wondering
whether Russia or Germaay will launch
a war that will incarnadine a continent,
I fall back on the
FAITH THAT MY FATHER DRIVES,
Yea, I cast this as an anchor, and
plant this as a column of strength, and
1ift this as a telescope, and bui this as
a fortress, and propose without any
rturbation to launch upon an un
nown future triumphant in the fact
that my Father drives, Yes, He drives
very near, know that many of the
clouds you see in summer are far off,
the bases of some of them five miles
above the earth, Nigh on the highest
peaks of the Andes, travellers have
seen clouds far hi than where they
were standing. Gay Lussac, after he
had risen in a n twenty-three
thousand feet, saw clouds above him,
But there are clouds that touch the
earth and discharge their rain; and,
the clouds out of which God's
is made may sometimes be far
away, often they are close by, and they
our sho and our homes,
and they touch us all over. 1 have
TWO RIDES THAT THE LORD TOOK
in two different chariots of
ES
RES — A ————_e~
God drove down. to the top of a terrible
crag fifteen hundred feet high, now
called Jebel-Musa, then called Mount
Sinai, and he stepped out of His chariot
among the split shelvings of rock. The
mountain shook as with an ague, and
there were ten volleys of thunder, each
of the ten emphasizing a tremendous
“Thou shalt,?”’ or “Thou shalt not,”
Then the Lord resumed His chariot of
cloud ahd drove up the hills of heaven,
They were dark and portentous clouds
that made that chariot at the giving of
the law, But one day He took another
ride, and this time down to Mount
Tabor; the clouds out of which His
chariot was made, bright clouds, roseate
clouds, illumined clouds, and music
rained from all of them, and the music
was a mingling of carol and chant and
triumphal march: “This is My be-
loved Son in whom I am well pleased.”
Transfiguration chariot!
“Oh,” say hundreds of you, “I wish
black one that brought the Lord to
Jebel-Musa, at the giving of the law,
and he white one that brought Him
down to Tabor!” Never mind, you will
see something grander than that, and it
will be a mightier mingling of the som-
bre and the radiant, and the pomp of it
will be such that the chariots in which
Trajan and Diocletian and Zenobla
and Cesar and Alexander and all the
conquerors of all the ages rode will be
unworthy of mention; and what stirs
me the most is, that when He comes in
that chariot of cloud and goes back,
He will ask you and me to ride with
Him both ways, How de I know that
THE JUDGMENT CHARIOT
tionl:7:
clouds,”
“Behold He
Oh, He will
cometh
not then
now. He is going to bring along with
In-
the
of
“Behold
thousand
spiration
cometh
saints,’
says:
with ten
escort of char
chariot, but ehariols before Him to clear
chariots on ether side of Him. Per.
jets and patrigrehs of the
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Buwpay, Ocronen 21, 1888,
The Stones of Memorial.
LESSON TEXT.
Josh. 4: 10-24. Memory verses, 20.22
LESSON PLAN.
Toric oF THE QUARTER:
Promises Fulftlled,
GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER:
God's
po : :
There railed not aught of any good thing
which the Lord had spoke n unto the
house of Israel ; all came to puss, —Josh,
21: 15. §
Lesson Toric: Commemorating the |
Entrance. i
1. The Entrance Effected, va, 10.13,
2. Tne Waters Heleased, va, 14-15
8. The Memorial Erected, va, 19-24,
fesson
Outline: °
GoLbeEN TEXT: Then ye shall let |
ove
4:29
Dany Home READINGS:
M.—Josh, 4 : 10-24,
ating the entrance,
-Josh, 4 : 1-9.
erected.
W.—Deut. 28, Remember-
ing the days of old.
T.—Deut, 32 : 20-47,
ing the days of old.
F.—Josh, 24 : 1-25,
review,
N.—Psa.
Warnings,
8S. ~—Psa, 105 ;: 23-45.
memorated.
Commemor- |
T.
Memorial stones |
0% « 7
“it. 4”
Remember- |
Joshua's final |
95 1-11,
Praises
Mercies com-
LESSON ANALYSIS,
I. THE ENTRANCE EFFECTED.
I. The Waiting Priests :
The priests in the midst of
Jordan (10). :
Command the priest
still in Jordan
The priests. . . .stood firm on dry
in Jordan (Josh, 3 : 17).
The place where the priests’
firm (Josh. 4 : 3).
slood
. Yeshall
iN, stand
Josh, 3 : B),
nd the priests. . . . that they «
up Oui
The people hasted and
charioted—Abrabaimn and
sid David and
His first coming.
the central chariot apos
mariyrs, who, in the same or
one
Ez ade lead
SEA 163
foretold
who On
who went up in chariot of fire, now
rear of the céstral chariot
multitudes of later days and of our own
time, who have tried to serve the Lord
—giirselves, 1 hope, among them. *'Be-
companionship, we want to come wilh
myriads of
|
flowers,
Now the
trimpet is given, and
his scarred bands waves the signal, and
into line
for glorious ascent, Drive on! Drive
up! Chanols of cloud abead
of the King, chariots of clouds follow.
ing thegKing. Upward and apast starry
hosts, and through immensities, and
across infinliundes, higher, higher, high-
er, unio the gates, the shining gates,
Lift up your heads, ye
Gates! for Bim who makewn the clouds
His chariot,and who, through uplifting
grace, invites us to mount and ride
with Him!
A Chinese-Prussian.,
A capture made by the Viennese po-
lice has brought to light the extraordin-
ary ancestry of a very curious prisoner,
He 1s a lieutenant in the Prussian army,
charged with swindling on an extensive
scale—-a Prussian subject with a Prus-
sian name, but with a Chinaman for
his father. On the charge sheet his
name is entered as Assing. The name
of his father was A-Seng, and for three
years, from 1817 to 1820, he lived at St,
Helena, acting as valet de chambre to
Napoleon 1. When the Emperor died
A-Seng came to Europe. Frederick
William [11 was then King of Russia
and the Chinaman entered his service,
married in Berlin and was a great
favorite of the King, who became god-
father of his children, He was decor.
ated, and died at Potsdam in 1836, hold-
ing the post of sergeant-valet in the
royal service. One son entered the army
and served init with distinction, He
is the prisoner against whom this course
of swindling is charged. He did not re-
main long in the service, and scon after
his withdrawal a little brocure was pub-
lished, attributed to him under his
name, now Prussianized into Assing.
The treatise attracted a great deal of
attention, It was a violent attack
he
Jericl
The Lo
unt
we were passed over (Jo
Cian pass
111.
in
When ail the people were
ed over ! }
All Israel
Jos)
pass «dl over
passed over on dry gi
Al
ii the
Jon
ian o OS1L,
« Jordan or
land (Josh. 4
py
» die
Jordan, and came unto
24 : 11).
wt
Jericho (Josh,
1
1 in 1
xxl in th
Obedient
midst
y Lr0d;
“The priests,
0
of Jordan.” (1) 4
(2) Caring for the ark: (3
back the waters,
- “The people
vv or, *?
gr
ph
Holding
hasted and passed
1) Through Jordan: (2) On
ound: (3) Into Canaan.
3. “I'he ark of the Lord passed over,”
{1} The symbol of God's presence;
(2 The defense of God's re spe . (3) i
The pledge of God's protection.
II. THE WATERS RELEASED,
:
ars
The priests... .out of the midst of
waters of Jordan shall be cut of
(Josh, 3 : 13).
waters. .. . ow
g:16.\.
He the Red Sea also, an
was dried up (Psa. 106 : 9),
Jordan was driven back (Psa. 114 : 3).
11. The Waters Returning:
The waters of Jordan returned
their place (18),
The sea returned to its strength (Exod.
14 : 24).
waters returned, and covered the
chariots { Exod, 14 : 28).
Thou carriest them away as with a flood
{Psa. $0 : 5).
waters covered
(Psa, 106 : 11).
inl one
up
{ Josh,
rebuked
unto
their adversaries
Jordan. .. . went over all its banks, as |
aforetime (18),
Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the
time of harvest (Josh, 3 : 15).
Jordan. ...had overflown all its banks
1 Chron, 12 : 15).
When the great waters overflow they
shall not reach unto him (Psa, 32 : 6).
The rivers....shail not overflow thee
(Isa. 43 : 2).
1. “On that day the Lord magnified
Joshua.” (1) In whose sight? (2)
By what means? (3) To what ex- |
tent? (4) For what purpose?
2. “They feared him, as they feared
Moses.” (1) The nature of their
fear; (2) The causes of their fear;
{3) The results of their fear.
“The waters of Jordan returned
unto their places,” (1) The natural
conditions of Jordan; (2) The su-
pernatural conditions of Jordan,
IL THE MEMORIAL ERECTED,
I. A Visible Memormalk:
Those twelve stones....did Joshua
set up in Gilgal (20),
Jacob. . . . took the stone and set
up for a pillar (Gen, 28 : 18),
This heap be witness, and the pillar be
witness Gen, 31 : 52).
A covering of the altar: to be a wemor-
ial (Num, 16 : 39, 40).
These stones s hall be for a memorial
ove dor ever (Josh, 4 : 7),
IL A Natural Inguiry:
Your children shall ask,.... What
mean these stones? (21).
Your children shall say, .... What mean
yo by this service? (Exod. 12: 20).
Thy son asketh thee,....saying, What
is this? (Exod, 13: 14.)
Ask thy father, and ho will shew thee
{Dent, 82: 7 :
Your children ask,.... What mean ye
by these stones? (Josh, 4 : 6),
IL A Satisfeotory Reply:
aL same over this Jordan on dry
(22).
For the Lord your God dried up the
waters (Josh, 4 : 28),
3
it
That they may fear the Lord your God
for ever { Josh, 4 : 24).
When all the kings. ... heard,
hearts melted (Josh. 5: 1).
1. “What man these stones?” (1)
The stones belield; (2) An inguiry
raised: (35) A history recalled,
, “larael came over this Jordan on
dry land.” {1} A marvelous fact;
(2; A divine interposition; {3 A
trinmphal journey,
“The hand of the Lord, .
mighty.”? (1) Evidences of its
might: (2) Measures of its might:
(3) Achievements of its might,
a ————————
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At differs has been 3
ed as a divinity by nations in the
at other times has been employes
divinity as the scourge of idolat:
mankind; the island of Cyrene was
garded as a cursed and blighted spot,
because for many centuries frogs would
not abide there, but when imported
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swith other shores-—-they could no
more be reconciled than could the hares
who, as Aristotle says, when brought
10
toward
Aristophanes wrote a play about frogs
and so did the older poet, Homer, Plin
treats at length of the frog, and in
“‘Banqueter’s Athenmnos’’ is pleased to
recount wondrous tales thereof. When
St. Patrick blessed memory!) ex-
pelled reptiles from Erin he wisely ex-
cepted the frog, who, even at that early
time, was highly respected, both for the
pleasing excellence of his vocal powers
and for the exceeding succulence of his
flesh, and we all know that from the
beauty of its song the frog is not unfre-
called nowadays the Irish
The old English poets
beld the frog in high esteem. Chaucer
*
v
{of
“Ye frogge yi did laye In ye mersche
syngyng full swote alles night et daye,””
and subsequently he speaks of *‘ye
“The learned Dr. Thorpe
tells in his **Northern Mythology’ that
nat the frog is still reverenced by cer-
power, and
most accur=ve of elymologists, surmises
rived from tlie name of the Norse god-
dess Frigga. being the past, perfect or
preterit of that name, regularly conjug-
ated, In 1862 Dick Yates was visiting
Colonel Phocion Howard, of Darataria
frog farm, and Howard asked him if he
had ever tasted frogs’ legs,
“Yes, twice,” smd Dick. “latea
pair at Belleville last summer.”
“And where else?”
“Nowhere else?”
“But you said you had tasted them
twice,”
“And so 1 have; once as they went
down and the second time as they came
up.”
The Bite ofa Bluefish,
Did you ever hook a bluefish? Well,
it's about the same thing as getting hold
of the biggest kind of a pickerel in fresh
water, You go out in a sailboat, you
understand, and you want a pair of
heavy gloves on. The trolling line goes
whizzing out toa distance of Afty or
seventy-live feet, and the boat tacks
back and for:h while you troll. You
can’t mistake the bite of a biuefish or a
whale. Ie bites barder than a whale,
He doesn’t wait to wonder and meditate
and figure up on probable profit or loss,
but he grabs bait and book like a fish
determined to carry the boat off and
turn its crew over to the sharks,
There is an unwritten law which pre-
vents anyone from extending help, You
must fish or cut bu, gait hin in or loso
him. When the first bluefish struck my
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