The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1893-01-13

maze the world made the Dible.
Moses. the. greatest lawyer of all tim
and great man for facts, had enoug
sentiment and poetry and musical tast
to welcome the illu1nined wings and L..
voices divinely drilled into the FIRST char
ter Of Genesis. How should Noah, t
old ship carpenter, coo years of are, Gn
out when = the world was fit again f.
human residence after the univers1
freshet? A bird will tell, and notli 4
else can. No man can come down iron
the mountain to invite Noah and hi
family out to terra frma, for the noun
tains were submerged. AS bird fis
heralded the human race into the worlL,
now bird will help the human rae
back to the world that had shipped a 50.
that whelmed everything.
Noah stands on Sunday morning Il
the window of the ark, in his hand
cooling dove, so gentle. so innocent, 81
affectionate, and he said, Nov, my lit
tie dove, fly away over these waters, ex
plore and come back and tell us whether
it is safe to land" After long fight i
returned hungry and weary and wet
and by its looks and manners said t.
Noah and his family, THE world is MOI
fit for you to d.sembark. Noah waited
a week, and next Sunday morning he lei
the dove fly again for second explora
ton. and Sunday evening it came back
with leaf that had the sign of Just hay.
ing been plucked from living fruit tree
and the bird reported the world would
do tolerably well for bird to live in,
but not yet sufficiently recovered for
human residence.
Noah waited another week, and next
Sunday morning he sent out the dove on
the thirdA1Xploration, but it returned
not, for it found the world so attractive
now it did not want to be Gagged again,
and then the emigrants from the ante.
diluvian world landed. 1t was a bird
that told them when to take possession
of the resuscitated planet. So the human
race were saved by birds wing, for. at
tempting to land too soon. they would
have persisted.
THE LESSON OF THE DOVES.
Aye, here comesa whole flock of doves
rock doves, ring doves. stock doves
and they make Isaiah think of great re-
vivals and great awakenings when souls
fly for shelter like flock of pigeons
swooping to the openings of a pigeon
coop, and he cries out, who are these
that fly as doves to their windows?''
David, with Saul after him, and flying
from cavern to cavern. compares himself
to desert partridge. bird which es-
pecially haunts rocky places, and boys
and hunters to this day take after it With
sticks, for the partridge runs rather thai
flies.
David, chased and dubbed and harried
of pursuers, says. II am hunted as par
fridge on the mountains" Speaking of
his forlorn condition, he says, Il am like
a pelican in the wilderness" Describing
his loneliness. he says, Il am a swallow
alone on the housetop." Hezekiah. in
the emaciation of his sickness, compares
himself to a crane, thin and wasted. job
had so much trouble he could not sleep
nights, and he describes his insomnia by
saying, II am companion to owls.
Isaiah compares the desolations of ban
shed Israel to an owl and bittern and
among city's ruins.
jeremiah, describing the cruelty of par
ents toward children. compares them tC
The ostrich who leaves its eggs in the
,and uncared for. crying, The daughter
If my people is become like the ostriches
If the wilderness" Among the provi-
lions piled on Solomon's bountiful table
he Bible speaks of 'fatted fowl" The |
sraelites in the desert got tired of mamma
md they had quails-quails for break
asst, quails for dinner, quails for supper,
md they died of quails. The Bible re-
ers to the migratory habits of the birds
md says, THE stork knoweth her APP
pointed time and the turtle and the crane
md the swallow the time of their going.
,ut my people know not the judgments
If the Lord"
Would the prophet illustrate the fate
# fraud, he points to failure at incuba-
ion and says, LAS partridge stitch ON
ggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
.etteth riches and not by right shall
cave them in the midst of his days and
It his end shall be fool" The par
ridge. the most careless of all birds in
hoice of its place of nest, building it on
he ground and often near a frequented
Dad or in slight depression of ground,
without reference to safety, and soon a
oof or scythe or cart wheel ends all
10 says the prophet, man who gathers
nder him dishonest dollars will hatch
ut of them no peace, no satisfaction, no
appiness. no security.
What vivid similtude! The quickest
yay to amass a fortune is by iniquity.
ut the trouble is about keeping it. Ev-
ry hour of every day some such par
ridge is driven off the nest. Panics are
My futter of cartridges. 1t is too
edious work to become rich in the old
ashioned way, and if man can by one
alsehood make as much as by ten years
hard labor, why not tell it? And if one
ounterfeit check will bring the dollars
S easily as genuine issue, why not
lake it? One years fraud will be equal
D half lifetime's sweat. Why not
We solely by ones wits? A fortune thus
uilt will be firm and everlasting. Will
J? Ha! build your house on volcanoes