Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-01-20

rock ,,oyes- ring doves stock doves-and
they make Isaiah think OF great revivals
and great awakenings wnen Souls ny Ior
shelter like a flock Of pigeons s~ooplng TO
the opening OF q pigeon GOOD, and he cries
out. WHO are these that fly as doves to
their windo70sY' David, with Saul after
him, and flying from cavern to cavern, com
pares himself to a desert partridge, q bird
which especially haunts rocky places. and
boys and hunters to this day take after it
with sticks, for the partridge runs rather
than flies.
David chased and cluobed and harried Of
uursuars. SAYS. II am hunted as a cartridge
on the mountains" Speaking Of his forlorn
condition he saws 81 am like a pelican in
the Wilderness Describing his loneliness,
he SAYS 81 am a swallow alone on the house
top" Hezekiah, in the emaclatlon or his
sickness compares himself TO crane. thin
and wasted Job had so much trouble he
could not sleep nights. and he describes his
insomnia by saying, Il am companion TO
owls" Isaiah compares the desolations OF
banIshed Israel to an owl and bittern and
cormorant among city's ruins.
Jeremiah, describing the cruelty or pa
rents toward children, compares them 10 the
ostrich, who leaves its eggs IN the sana no.
ca.ed for crying, The daughter or my peo-
pie is become like the ostriches OF the wilder
ness" Among the provisions piled on Solo
mons bountiful table he speaks OF 'fatted
fowl" The Israeltes in the desert got tired
of mama and they had quaiis-quais for
breakfast, quails for dinner, quails for sup
per, and they died of quails. The Bible re-
fers to the migratory habits of the birds and
says, ''The stork knoweth her appointed
time and the turtle and the crane and the
swallow the time of their going but my PEG.
pie know not the judgments Of the Lord"
Would the prophet illustrate the fate OF
fraud, he points to a failure at incubation
ana says, AS a partridge slttetn on eggs
and hatcheth them not, so be that getteth
riches and not by right shall leave them in
%bo i'll cf |,f h dor of lie
a fool" The partridge, the most careless Of
all birds in choice of its place of Fest, build
ing it on the ground and often near fire.
quented road or in a slight depression OF
ground, without reference to safety, and
soon hoof or scYthe or & cart wheel ends
all. So says the prophet, man VINO gathers
under him dishonest dollars will match out
of them no peace, no satisfaction, no happl-
ness, no security.
What vivid similitudel The quickest way
to amass fortune is by iniqulty. but the
trouble is about keeping it. Every hour Of
every day some such partridge is driven off
the nest. Panics are only a hutter of
pa- idges. 1t is too tedious work TO become
- . in the old fashioned way, and if a man
IAN by one falsehoOd make much by
ten years of hard labor, why not tell it?
And if one counterfeit check will bring the
dollars as easily genuine issue, why not
make it? One years fraud Will be equal to
a half lifetime's sweat. Why not live
solely by ones wits? A fortune thus built
will be firm and everlasting. viii it?
Ha! build your house on a VOLCANOES crater;
90 to sleep on the bosom Of an avalanche.
The volcano will blaze, aud the avalanche
will thunder.
There are estates which have been coming
together from age to age Many years ago
that estate started in husbands industry
and a wife's economy. 1t grew from gen
GRAFTON to generation by good habits and
high minded enterprise. Old fashioned in
dustry was the mine from which that gold
was dug, and God will keep the deeds of such
an estate in His buckler. FoTeclose your
mortgage, spring your snap judgments, plot
with acutest intrigue against family proc
erty like that and.you cannot do it per-
manent damage, Better than warrantee
deed and better than fire insurance is the
defense which Gods own hand will give it.
But here is man to-day as poor as JOB
after he was robbed by satan Of everything
but his boils, yet suddenly Tomorrow he is
a rich man. There is no accounting for his
sudden affiuance. He has not yet failed
often enough to become wealthy. No one
pretends to account for his princaly ward
robe, or the chased silver or the full curbed
steeQs that rear and neigh like Bucephaus
in the grasp of his coachman. Did he come
to a sudden inheritance? No Did be make
a fortune on purchase and sale? No. Every
body asks where did that partridge hatch.
The devil suddenly threw him up, and the
devil will suddenly let him come down.
That hidden scheme God saw from the first
conception Of the plot. That partridge,
swift disaster will Shoot it down, and the
higher it flies the harder it falls. The proph-
ct saw, as you and I have often seen, the
awful mistake Of partridges
But from the top OF a Bible fir tree hear
the shrill cry of the strork. Job, Ez 2kie,
jeremiah, speak of it. David cries out LAS
for the stork, the tir tree is her house."
This large white Bible bird is supposed,
without alighting sometimes to wing its
way from the region OF the Rhine to Africa.
AS winter comes all the stOrks fly to warmer
chimes and the last one of their number that
arrives at the spot to which they migrate is
killed by them. What havoc it would make
i'll our species it those men were killed WAC
are always behind! In oriental cities the
stork is domesticated aad walks about on the
street and VIII follow its keeper.
In the city Of Ephesus l saw a long row
of pillars, on the top of each pillar stOrEIs
nest. But the word ''Storb' ordinarily
means mercy and affection, from the fact
that this bird was distinguished for its great
love for its parents. 1t never forsakes then.
and even after they become feeble protects
and provides for them. In migrating the
old stOrks lean their necks on the young
storks and when the old ones give out the
young ones carry them on their backs.
God forbid that dumO stork should have |
more heart than we. Blessed is that ia Die
at which an old father and mother sit:
blessed that altar at which an old father
and mother kneel'
What it is to have mother they know
best who have lost her. God only knows |
the agony she suffered for US the times she |
wept over our cradle and the anxious sirhs |
her bosom heaVed as we lay upon it, the |
sick nights when she watched US long after |
every one was tired out but God and herself. |
Her hfeb,ood beats in our hearts, and her |
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