The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-04-03
THE DEAD LIONS.
.1rR SIDE OF THE PICTURE.
rolmaee Describes Some Useless
Members of Society.

y IN Ion. n-Eccles. tx. 4.
a j.. pible Is the strangest, the loveliest, the
DS,iest the weirdest, the best OF books.
.;,ten bv Moses the lawyer, Joshua the
W. NV. samuel the Judge, Ezra the builder,
PIX !, ~ ,oet David the shepherd, Daniel the
~ ~ ,,,inister. Amos the herdsman, Mat
W .n ,be custom house officer, Luke the doc
p,nl the scholar. John the exile; and
! complete harmony from the middle
- The Bible, which is the eighth verse
n n. ono hundred and seventeenth Psalm,
~ s-,vs 10 the upper and lower lids, and
:, The shortest passage, which Is the thlr-
ss,,L verse of the eleventh chapter OF
~ =, the longest verse, which Is the ninth
lol ~ The eighth chapter of Esther, and
81 a, imperfection in all the 113, ,693
y y - ,,bich IL is composed OF. II not only
W. ~ oyer the past, but over the future;
go ferrybOat, "a in second Samuel;
~ telegraphic wire, as In Job; and a rail-
y plli,s,in. as In Nahum; and introduces US
/. .t,undrvman by the name OF Tabul Cain.
~ shipbuilder by the name OF Noah, and
= s.rhi,ect by the name OF Aholiab, aud
2 g. how many stables Solomon had 10 take
=, - his horses, and how much he paid for
~, borses. But few things in this versatile
book interest me 80 much
!. 4. a15thegms, those short, terse, senten.
y c.,-rammatic sayings, OF which my
cne. "a living dog is better than
II ion .-,u,... 49,, a..
~ r,elunpss Houmust know that the
h r,s,iioned in the text is not one OF our
Ls..,car or European or Scottish dogs that,
y, mind is synonym for the beautiful,
4 Ev-.,Ief,,l. the nfrectionate tho sagacious
-i,.a.r,,. The st. Bernard dog isa hero,
- ,.uu doubt il, ask the SHOWS of the
r. a.. Of which he picked the exhausted
p The shepherd dog is n poem, and
E., doubt il. ask tho Highlands Of Scot
. Tho Arctic dog is the rescue OF ex-
p, ami II YOU doubt IL, ask DIR. knnes
E..,i,iop The watch dog is "A living pro-
p and n YOU doubt il, ask ten thou
r. ,upsteads over whose safety he
p ....night. But Solomon, the author
n myt.-;. li,ed in Jerusalem, and the dog
|, ,,'sl., OF IN the text was dog III Jerusa-
RI. D.,omber | passed days and nights
k,b1 "A stones throw or where Soi2mon
r.. t1is text and from whnt | saw OF tho
-, ot Jerusalem by day, and heard OF
~ by night 7 can understand the slight
Annexation my text puts upon the dog oil
f'e..re Il is lean and snarly and disgust
T. a., the human race by filling the nights
In r'arior. Al up and down the Bible, the
| I. n. which was written in Palestine or
r.. or contiguous lands, tho dog is used in
y:.,sn9tuous comparison. Hazacl said: us
v .sryaut a dog, that he should do TINS
Ia In ,,,f abncgltion the Syro-Phcni-
.n woman said Even the dogs eat OF the
srlrb, Naich fall from the Masters table. '
f,g, avs. in Philippians: beware of dogs;
ni s.. JOAN, speaking OF heaven, says;
kWtl1ut are dogs
Ca the other hand, the lion is healthy,
k-opr end loud voiced, and Mt its roar the
rest, echo and the mountains tremblc. IL
usryr,ous tor strength, and when its hide
removed the muscular compactness Is
re,hinr wonderful and the knife of the
sector bounds back from the tendons. BY
clearing off of the forests OF Palestine
d the use Of firearms, of which the lion Is
ticlarly afraid, they have disappeared
om places where once they ranged, but
ey were very bold in olden times. They
Hacked an army Of Xerxes while marching
rouch Mac edonia. They were so numerous
h ore thousand lions were slain in forty
aN in the amphiteaUre OF Rome. The
rbary lion, the Cape lion, the Senegal lion,
ASsTrian lion, make up most absorbing
ieyclting chapter in natural history. A.
tg Of the Bible was written in regions
n haunted. this creature appears in almost
parts OF the Bible as a similc.
David understood its habits of night
Tng and day slumbering, as is seen
ban his description: The young lions roar
tT their prey and seek their meat from
y. The sun ariSeth. they gather them
yes together, and lay them down in their
s' And again he cries out, MY soul is
BONG Ions Moses knew them and said,
I4al is couched like a lion" Sampson
fw them for he took honey from the car
Of a slain lion. Solomon knew them and
T. THE Kings wrath is rs the roar of a
and again, THE slothful man says,
fre is lion in tho way" Isaiah knew
~, and says, in the millennium, "lhe
shall eat straw like an OK Ezekio
w them, and says, The third was rs the
Of lion Paul knew them, and says,
was delivered out OF the mouth of the
Peter knew them, and says, "The
as roaring lion walketh about" st.
u knew them, and says of Christ, "Be-
the Lion Of the tribe OF JUDAH
ow. what does my text mean when II
alylng dog and dead lion side by side.
saws the former is better than the latter
means that small faculties actively used
OIL more value than great faculties un-
Ppyel. How often you see it, Some
with limited capacity vastly useful
ta1es that which God has given him and
Ny mental endowment is not large
me world would not rate me high for
Intelligence, and my vocabulary is
IeI and my education was defective,
here goes what | have for God and
suon' and the making of the world
ahd happy" He puts in n
mere and word there, encourages
n' hearted man, gives n Scripture
lse IN consolation to some bereft
ah; picks up child fallen in tho street
lelphlm brush of the dust and puts u
peA' piece IN his hand, telling him not "a
- Ihat the boy is singing before he gets
'Ae corner; waiting on everybody
41' letter 20 carry or message u
'' comes into a rail train. or stage
or depot or shop, with smiling face
y everybody 10 thinking; IF that
au' "lth what appears small equip
~ ne be happy, why cannot |, pos
Jar more than he has, be equally
One day of that kind of doing
my not amount 10 much, but forty
" lhat--no one but God Himself car
Iate Us lmmensity.
e are tens OF thousands of such people.
'Is'e OF acquaintance il small. The
AnoWn over at the store. He is clerl;
.her or drayman. and he is known
muse VINO sit near him clear back in
." under the galleries, and at the
e@"e "here he comes in knocking the
Vih i MS shoes, and threshing his arm,
lh body to revive circulation, on
aluary morning. But il he should
'aIl'oW there would not be hundred
"uo would know about it. He will
~ hls name in the newspapers but
tlAt VIII lbs the announcement OF
w, some one will pay for the in
,.I, 80 much line for tho two lines.
J.t come up gloriously ON the other
@ ahg uoi who has watched him all
m." WI give him higher seat and a
'Susloh ,-h and grander eternity than