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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume III/Theodoret/Letters/Letter 154

CLIV. Report of the same to the Senate of Constantinople.

## Footnotes

* ↑ This Report, couched in almost identical terms with the preceding, I omit, although commonly accepted as the composition of Theodoret.
# Oklahoma Arbor and Bird Day, Friday, March Twelfth, 1909/Part Two: Bird Day/A Story

A STORY.
Louise had persuaded her brother to take her out hunting with him. It was a beautiful spring day and they had had a fine time in spite of the fact that the ducks were all gone and snipe and curlew too wary to stay within reach of a gun.
The meadows and marches were full of blackbirds and bobolinks. The rich, joyful chee-e-e-e from the glossy blackbirds poised on the top of a dead weed or slender willow, where they spread their wings so as to show to the best advantage their brilliant patches of red and yellow, mingled with the clearer, sweeter call of Bob-o-link, Bob-o-link from the bright bits of color swaying and fluttering at the very tip of the canebreaks.
"See that bobolink that just lit on that sunflower stalk! Believe I'll see if I can hit him. Too bad to take nothing home," said Hal.
"Oh, but it's too pretty—don't kill it," objected Louise.
"That's always the way with girls," grumbled Hal. "Don't want a fellow to kill anything. Guess I'll leave you at home next time I go hunting."
"Well, if you want to, I s'pose you can," yielded Lou.
The bobolink tossed and swayed and called until it seemed as if its little heart must burst from excesses of joy.
The boy's gun was aimed.
"Too far away. Can't hit it if I try," said he as he lowered the gun.
Still the bird swayed and fluttered its wings and called.
"Seems 'most as if he was daring us to try to shoot him," said Lou.
"I can't hit him from here, anyway," said Hal, carelessly aiming and pulling the trigger.
Through the puff of white smoke the children saw the bird pause a moment in its fluttering, then fly swiftly.
"You didn't hit it," said Lou in a relieved voice.
"'Fraid I did," answered Hal, regretfully, and as he said it, the bird now flying close to the ground dropped into the grass.
The children picked the dead bird up. The shot had left no mark and not a glossy feather was disturbed, only those at the throat still ruffled as if the interrupted notes of its last call might yet be finished.
"What did you do it for?" asked Louise.
"Why did you let me do it?" returned Hal.
"What are you going to do with it?" questioned the girl.
"Don't know," replied her brother.
"Wish we hadn't done it," said Louise.
"Let's go home. I'm tired," said Hal.
Louise discovered that she, too, was tired. The bright sky seemed suddenly to have become clouded over and a raw chilly wind which they had not noticed before was now blowing. Somehow all the birds seemed to have stopped singing and gone away; at least to Hal and Louise there was but one bird left in the meadow and now that was the poor little bobolink in the pocket of Hal's hunting jacket.—Caroline E Stringer, Lincoln, Neb.
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# Oklahoma Arbor and Bird Day, Friday, March Twelfth, 1909/Part Two: Bird Day/Usefulness of Birds

USEFULNESS OF BIRDS.
Birds can be useful to us in many ways. They can carry the seeds of different plants from place to place so as to help start new groves, in which we may find shelter from the cold in winter and the heat in summer. They plant shrubs by the wayside that spring up and later bear good fruit. They also carry the eggs of fishes and small crustaceans among their feathers into new water, and feed upon the countless millions of weed seeds that are scattered over our fields. Some kinds live almost entirely on insects; while others hunt out and destroy such small animals as mice, ground squirrels, and gophers. Still other birds, like some of the useful insects, act as scavengers by helping to remove decaying things that would make us sick if not cleared away.
In addition to these direct benefits which are the gifts of birds, we are further indebted to them for the cheer which their gay music, bright plumage, and pleasant manners bring to us. The birds form a carefully planned army of police, which is engaged in keeping things balanced in nature.
But we can go even further when summing up the benefits that human beings may derive from birds. A great many kinds are excellent food, while others furnish soft feathers for pillows and warm coverlets on beds.—Bessey-Bruner-Swezey.
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# Oklahoma City Star

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Newspaper published in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Volume 29 (1953)
# Oklahoma City v. McMaster

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United States Supreme Court
196 U.S. 529
Oklahoma City v. McMaster
Argued: January 18, 19, 1905. --- Decided: February 20, 1905
Messrs.
Frank Dale, S. A. McGinnis, C. Porter Johnson, and A. G. C. Bierer for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Chester Howe Mr. Justice Peckham delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Oklahoma Arbor and Bird Day, Friday, March Twelfth, 1909/Part One: Arbor Day/Turner Falls, in the Arbuckle Mountains

Turner Falls, in the Arbuckle Mountains.
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# Oklahoma Arbor and Bird Day, Friday, March Twelfth, 1909/Part Two: Bird Day

Quick Growing Trees Alternating with Elms and Hackberries. Planted March, 1907. Background Shows Method of Obscuring Closets.
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Part Two
BIRD DAY
* History of Bird Day
* The Robin and the Flower
* Usefulness of Birds
* Birds as Enemies
* A Story
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# Oklahoma Arbor and Bird Day, Friday, March Twelfth, 1909/Part Two: Bird Day/Birds as Enemies

BIRDS AS ENEMIES.
Everybody knows that birds sometimes do harm as well as good. So we must try to learn just what this harm is and whether or not it is as great as some people would try to make us believe. Quite a number of different birds are continually doing things that we call wrong. If we only knew of these wrong things and nothing of the bad they do, it might go pretty hard with the doers.
Some of the wrong things that birds do are cherry and berry stealing, grain eating, grape puncturing, apple pecking, corn pulling, the carrying of some kinds of bark lice on their feet from one place to another, the spreading of hog colera by crows and turkey buzzards, the robbing of the poultry yard, and lastly the disturbing of our slumbers in the morning by their songs.
Some of these so-called crimes are genuine and are to be regretted. Others are more imaginary than real. A few of them could be prevented in part or altogether, while others might be made less severe if we were inclined to take the trouble to do it. After all that can be said in favor of and against the usefulness of birds in general, there can be no doubt left, in the minds of thinking people at least, as to the value of these creatures. Only ignorant and thoughtless persons will continue to destroy our birds after learning facts like these about them.—Bessey-Bruner-Swezey.
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# Oklahoma Arbor and Bird Day, Friday, March Twelfth, 1909/Part Two: Bird Day/The Robin and the Flower

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THE ROBIN AND THE FLOWER.
A robin once sat in the bright winter's sun, A foolish red robin was he, For he sang a sweet song that spring time had come When the day was as cold as could be.
So gay was his song of the warmth of the hour, So merrily babbled the sound, That it stole through the dream of a dear little flower Who was slumbering under the ground.
The sleeper awakened, soft lifted the sod And harkened the robin's sweet song, Full glad was her heart and thankful to God That winter so quickly had gone.
The robin still sang and the dear little flower Unfolded her petals of pink:— "I'll hold up my chalice," said she, "for a shower That from me my robin may drink."
The singer flew quickly to welcome his love,— His love that was faltering low:— Oh, where was the warmth from the heaven above? Instead of a shower there was snow.
The robin quick covered her o'er with his wing, "Don't leave me, I love you," he cried: And he kissed her so tenderly, poor little thing, But the blossom, his loved one, had died.
Red robin still sits in the bright winter's sun, But a sorrowing robin is he; No longer he sings that the springtime has come When the day is as cold as can be.
—CHAS. A. MYALL.
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# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume IV/Defence of His Flight/Apologia de Fuga/Chapter 15

15. The Lord’s hour and time.
Now as these things are written in the Scriptures, the case is clear, that the saints know that a certain time is measured to every man, but that no one knows the end of that time is plainly intimated by the words of David, ‘Declare unto me the shortness of my days.’ What he did not know, that he desired to be informed of. Accordingly the rich man also, while he thought that he had yet a long time to live, heard the words, ‘Thou fool, this night they are requiring thy soul: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?’ And the Preacher speaks confidently in the Holy Spirit, and says, ‘Man also knoweth not his time.’ Wherefore the Patriarch Isaac said to his son Esau, ‘Behold, I am old, and I know not the day of my death.’ Our Lord therefore, although as God, and the Word of the Father, He both knew the time measured out by Him to all, and was conscious of the time for suffering, which He Himself had appointed also to His own body; yet since He was made man for our sakes, He hid Himself when He was sought after before that time came, as we do; when He was persecuted, He fled; and avoiding the designs of His enemies He passed by, and ‘so went through the midst of them.’ But when He had brought on that time which He Himself had appointed, at which He desired to suffer in the body for all men, He announces it to the Father, saying, ‘Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son.’ And then He no longer hid Himself from those who sought Him, but stood willing to be taken by them; for the Scripture says, He said to them that came unto Him, ‘Whom seek ye?’ and when they answered, ‘Jesus of Nazareth,’ He saith unto them, ‘I am He whom ye seek.’ And this He did even more than once; and so they straightway led Him away to Pilate. He neither suffered Himself to be taken before the time came, nor did He hide Himself when it was come; but gave Himself up to them that conspired against Him, that He might shew to all men that the life and death of man depend upon the divine sentence; and that without our Father which is in heaven, neither a hair of man’s head can become white or black, nor a sparrow ever fall into the snare.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Ps. cii. 23, LXX.
* ↑ Luke xii. 20.
* ↑ Eccles. ix. 12.
* ↑ Gen. xxvii. 2.
* ↑ Luke iv. 30.
* ↑ John xvii. 1.
* ↑ John xviii. 4, 5.
* ↑ Matt. v. 36; x. 29.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume IV/Defence of His Flight/Apologia de Fuga/Chapter 19

19. The Saints courageous in their flight, and divinely favoured.
These things both prove that their previous flight was not the effect of cowardice; and testify that their after conduct also was of no ordinary character: and they loudly proclaim that they possessed in a high degree the virtue of fortitude. For neither did they withdraw themselves on account of a slothful timidity, on the contrary, they were at such times under the practice of a severer discipline than at others; nor were they condemned for their flight, or charged with cowardice, by such as are now so fond of criminating others. Nay they were blessed through that declaration of our Lord, ‘Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake.’ Nor yet were these their sufferings without profit to themselves; for having tried them as ‘gold in the furnace,’ as Wisdom has said, God found them worthy of Himself. And then they shone the more ‘like sparks,’ being saved from them that persecuted them, and delivered from the designs of their enemies, and preserved to the end that they might teach the people; so that their flight and escape from the rage of them that sought after them, was according to the dispensation of the Lord. And so they became dear in the sight of God, and had the most glorious testimony to their fortitude.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Matt. v. 10.
* ↑ Wisd. iii. 57.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume IV/Defence of His Flight/Apologia de Fuga/Chapter 18

18. The Saints who fled were no cowards.
Of a truth no one can possibly doubt that they were well furnished with the virtue of fortitude. For the Patriarch Jacob who had before fled from Esau, feared not death when it came, but at that very time blessed the Patriarchs, each according to his deserts. And the great Moses, who previously had hid himself from Pharaoh, and had withdrawn into Midian for fear of him, when he received the commandment, ‘Return into Egypt,’ feared not to do so. And again, when he was bidden to go up into the mountain Abarim and die, he delayed not through cowardice, but even joyfully proceeded thither. And David, who had before fled from Saul, feared not to risk his life in war in defence of his people; but having the choice of death or of flight set before him, when he might have fled and lived, he wisely preferred death. And the great Elijah, who had at a former time hid himself from Jezebel, shewed no cowardice when he was commanded by the Spirit to meet Ahab, and to reprove Ahaziah. And Peter, who had hid himself for fear of the Jews, and the Apostle Paul who was let down in a basket, and fled, when they were told, ‘Ye must bear witness at Rome,’ deferred not the journey; yea, rather, they departed rejoicing; the one as hastening to meet his friends, received his death with exultation; and the other shrunk not from the time when it came, but gloried in it, saying, ‘For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.’

## Footnotes

* ↑ Vid. Ex. iii. 10
* ↑ Deut. xxxii. 49.
* ↑ Vid. Acts xxiii. 11. [The reference to the Roman martyrdom of the two great Apostles should be noted. The tradition is as old as Clem. Rom.; much older than that of the Roman Episcopate of one of them.]
* ↑ Vid. Euseb. Hist. ii. 25.
* ↑ 2 Tim. iv. 6.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume IV/Defence of His Flight/Apologia de Fuga/Chapter 21

21. The Saints fled for our sakes.
The flight of the saints therefore was neither blameable nor unprofitable. If they had not avoided their persecutors, how would it have come to pass that the Lord should spring from the seed of David? Or who would have preached the glad tidings of the word of truth? It was for this that the persecutors sought after the saints, that there might be no one to teach, as the Jews charged the Apostles; but for this cause they endured all things, that the Gospel might be preached. Behold, therefore, in that they were thus engaged in conflict with their enemies, they passed not the time of their flight unprofitably, nor while they were persecuted, did they forget the welfare of others: but as being ministers of the good word, they grudged not to communicate it to all men; so that even while they fled, they preached the Gospel, and gave warning of the wickedness of those who conspired against them, and confirmed the faithful by their exhortations. Thus the blessed Paul, having found it so by experience, declared beforehand, ‘As many as will live godly in Christ, shall suffer persecution.’ And so he straightway prepared them that fled for the trial, saying, ‘Let us run with patience the race that is set before us;’ for although there be continual tribulations, ‘yet tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed.’ And the Prophet Isaiah when such-like affliction was expected, exhorted and cried aloud, ‘Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors; hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.’ And so also the Preacher, who knew the conspiracies against the righteous, and said, ‘If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for He that is higher than the highest regardeth, and there be higher than they: moreover there is the profit of the earth.’ He had his own father David for an example, who had himself experienced the sufferings of persecution, and who supports them that suffer by the words, ‘Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that put your trust in the Lord;’ for them that so endure, not man, but the Lord Himself (he says), ‘shall help them, and deliver them, because they put their trust in Him:’ for I also ‘waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined unto me, and heard my calling; He brought me up also out of the lowest pit, and out of the mire and clay.’ Thus is shewn how profitable to the people and productive of good is the flight of the Saints, howsoever the Arians may think otherwise.

## Footnotes

* ↑ 2 Tim. iii. 12.
* ↑ Heb. xii. 1.
* ↑ Rom. v. 4.
* ↑ Is. xxvi. 20.
* ↑ Eccles. v. 8, 9. LXX.
* ↑ Ps. xxxi. 24.
* ↑ Ps. xxxvii. 40; xl. 1.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume IV/Defence of His Flight/Apologia de Fuga/Chapter 16

6. The Lord’s example followed by the Saints.
Our Lord therefore, as I said before, thus offered Himself for all; and the Saints having received this example from their Saviour (for all of them before His coming, nay always, were under His teaching), in their conflicts with their persecutors acted lawfully in flying, and hiding themselves when they were sought after. And being ignorant, as men, of the end of the time which Providence had appointed unto them, they were unwilling at once to deliver themselves up into the power of those who conspired against them. But knowing on the other hand what is written, that ‘the portions’ of man ‘are in God’s hand,’ and that ‘the Lord killeth,’ and the Lord ‘maketh alive,’ they the rather endured unto the end, ‘wandering about,’ as the Apostle has said, ‘in sheepskins, and goatskins, being destitute, tormented, wandering in deserts,’ and hiding themselves ‘in dens and caves of the earth;’ until either the appointed time of death arrived, or God who had appointed their time spake unto them, and stayed the designs of their enemies, or else delivered up the persecuted to their persecutors, according as it seemed to Him to be good. This we may well learn respecting all men from David: for when Joab instigated him to slay Saul, he said, ‘As the Lord liveth, the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and be delivered to the enemies; the Lord forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lord’s anointed.’

## Footnotes

* ↑ Ps. xxxi. 15.
* ↑ 1 Sam. ii. 6.
* ↑ Heb. xi. 37, 38.
* ↑ 1 Sam. xxvi. 10, 11.
# Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume IV/Defence of His Flight/Apologia de Fuga/Chapter 17

17. A time to flee and a time to stay.
And if ever in their flight they came unto those that sought after them, they did not do so without reason: but when the Spirit spoke unto them, then as righteous men they went and met their enemies; by which they also shewed their obedience and zeal towards God. Such was the conduct of Elijah, when, being commanded by the Spirit, he shewed himself unto Ahab; and of Micaiah the prophet when he came to the same Ahab; and of the prophet who cried against the altar in Samaria, and rebuked Rehoboam; and of Paul when he appealed unto Cæsar. It was not certainly through cowardice that they fled: God forbid. The flight to which they submitted was rather a conflict and war against death. For with wise caution they guarded against these two things; either that they should offer themselves up without reason (for this would have been to kill themselves, and to become guilty of death, and to transgress the saying of the Lord, ‘What God hath joined let not man put asunder’), or that they should willingly subject themselves to the reproach of negligence, as if they were unmoved by the tribulations which they met with in their flight, and which brought with them sufferings greater and more terrible than death. For he that dies, ceases to suffer; but he that flies, while he expects daily the assaults of his enemies, esteems death lighter. They therefore whose course was consummated in their flight did not perish dishonourably, but attained as well as others the glory of martyrdom. Therefore it is that Job was accounted a man of mighty fortitude, because he endured to live under so many and such severe sufferings, of which he would have had no sense, had he come to his end. Wherefore the blessed Fathers thus regulated their conduct also; they shewed no cowardice in fleeing from the persecutor, but rather manifested their fortitude of soul in shutting themselves up in close and dark places, and living a hard life. Yet did they not desire to avoid the time of death when it arrived; for their concern was neither to shrink from it when it came, nor to forestall the sentence determined by Providence, nor to resist His dispensation, for which they knew themselves to be preserved; lest by acting hastily, they should become to themselves the cause of terror: for thus it is written, ‘He that is hasty, with his lips, shall bring terror upon himself.’

## Footnotes

* ↑ 1 Kings xxi. 18.
* ↑ i.e. Jeroboam, 1 Kings xiii. 2.
* ↑ Matt. xix. 6.
* ↑ Prov. xiii. 3, LXX.