THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



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Sunday in the Woods. 



It is rare to hear of vokmtary contri- 

 butions concerning the trips in field or 

 forest made on Sunday. Yet I think- 

 in fact I know — that thousands of the 

 collectors of our land devote the better 

 part of the best day of the week, during 

 the season, to field work. 



This was so with me in my active 

 season of youthful enthusiasm, and I 

 only wish that I might always be privi- 

 leged to continue in the capacity of a 



Sunday observer in the woods. And I 

 most sincerely pity the man or woman 

 who can protest against my liberal 

 course of thought. 



There are thousands of observers who 

 only find time to enter the portals of 

 their beloved realm on the sabbath; and 

 to these, if they are constituted as I am, 

 a sermon from the trees, birds and 

 flowers touches a far more responsive 

 chord than can be thrilled by the pulpit 

 preaching of 



"aloud asserting c\ogmatist." 



We all have our religious sentiments, 

 and our honest convictions are the out- 

 come of the reasoning powers with 

 which God has endowed us. All true 

 naturalists of are bound to become 

 thoughtful, and will surely come to 

 have convictions concerning religion. 



In this connection I cannot refrain 

 from offering a suggestion to critical, as 

 well as liberal r»^aders. It is this: if 

 you do go into the woods and fields on 

 Sunday, do so reverentially and with 

 the same spirit which you should pos- 

 s ss in entering church for divine ser- 

 vice. Do not desecrate the day. It is 

 better not to make a business of collect- 

 ing, or to be governed by the deplora- 

 ble greed so lamentably common vpilh 

 many young collectors. Spend your 

 time with 3'our note book in your hand, 

 and with your eyes and ears open for 

 observations. Take your pew seat on 

 some fallen tree trunk, and then in the 

 groves — "God's first temples," com- 

 mune with your surroundings. Your 

 notes are as soulful, as thoughtful, as 

 loving as the marginal comments in 

 your bible could be. You are the one 

 who is 



"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 

 But looks through nature up to nature's God." 

 Several years ago the following lines 

 were written on the pleasing subject of 

 'Sunday in the Woods;' and I trust that 

 the readers will not be too critical as to 

 my style. As to the sentiment express- 

 ed, I am satisfied that many will agree 

 with me. 



