Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-01-14

the last one Of Iileir number that arrives
at the spot to which they migrate Is
killed by them. What havoc it would
make in our species if those men were
killed who are always behindl In orien-
tai cities the stork is dcnesticated and
/ walks about on the street and will follow
Its keeper.
In the city of Ephesus saw long
row Of pillars. on the top of each pillar
q storks nest But the word "stork"
ordinarily means mercy and affection.
from tho fast that this bird was distin-
guis:lcd for its great love for its parents.
1t never forsakes. them. and even after
they become feeble protects and provides
for them. In migrating the old stcrks
lean their necks on tbs young storks,
ard when tue old oces give out the
young ones carry them Oh their backs.
God forbid that dumb stork should
have mora heart than we. Blessed is
that table ut which an cid father an0
mother sit: blessed that altar at which
an old father ind mother kneel!
What it Is to have Il mother they know
best who have lost her. God only knows
tho agony sho suffered for Us. the times
she wept over oi:r cradle and the anxious
sigllS her bosom heaved as we lay upon
II. the sick nights when she watched US
long after every one was tire;l out but
Cool ami herself. Her lifoblood beats
in our lic:irt, and n;.r image lives IL or
face. That ip.n il grAceloss as canri-
bal who iii treats his parents, and he
who be.rnst.as them daily bread and
clothes tl.cln hut shsbhily. may God
have Patience with him: cannot. J.
hear, Il mar: once Say. Il now have my
old mother OF my hands" Ye storks
OH your way with food to your aged
parents. shame him.
TIiH pMl:sEcuTsD CHURCH.
But yondcr in thia Bible sky flies a
bird that is spccklnd. Tho prophet de-
scrihing the church cries out. Mine
heritage is INTO ME a. specified bird;
the bir;;s round iibout are against her. :"
so it was then: 80 il is Tow. Holiness
picked Ut. Conservation licked at. Be-
neyolcnce picked at Usefulness picked
ut. Z specklcti bird is peculiar bird:
and that arouscs the sutipathy CT all the
bcabs Of rlle forest.
The church Of God is n peculiar ins.i-
t,Itiou. AMI tl:st is enough to evoke at
tack OF THO world. for It is a speckled
bird TO be picked Mt. The inconsistent
cics OF Cbrisfiaasaro a banquet on which
mnItitudcs get fat They ascr!be every
thing you DO 10 wrong motives. Put q
dollar il: tho poor hcz md they Will cay
that yoi. drol.i.cl it there only that you
might hea- it ring. Invite them to
Christ. ard they will call You u fanatic.
LIE: there be contention among Chris
tiams. and thcy will ssy: "Hurrah! The
church il in dccadence.
Christ intended that His church should
always remain Il speclslcd bird. Lot
birds of anuthc: feather pick at her. but
they carrot rob her Of single plume.
Like the ;llbatross. she car sleep on the
bosom Of q tempest. She has gene
through tho fires Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
furnace and not got burned: through the
waters OF the Red sea and not been
drowned; through tie shipwreck on the
breakers Of Afclita and rot been foun-
Isdered. ct.allcarth md. hell try to hunt
|saolyn peckledSl,ird ,:lbalt .sfarsa beEe
huIlan scorn and Internal assault it shall
sing over every mountain top and fl
over every nation. and her triumphant
song shall he: The church of Godl
The pillar and ground of the truth.
The gates Of hell shall not prevail against
her
But We cannot stop hero. From q
tall cliff hanging over the sen hear tho
eagle calling unto the tempest and lift
ing its wing TO snite the whi-lwind.
Moses. jeremiah. Hosea and Uabal1kuk
at times in their writings take their pen
from the eagles wing. It is 4 bird with
fercencss in is eye its feet armed with
claws of iron and It's head with dread
FIJI teuk. Two or three Of them can FIJI
the heavens with clangor. But gencr-
ally this monster Of the air is alone and
unaccomlianied. for the reason that its
habits nre SO Trctlaceous it requires FIVE
or ten miles o. aerial or earthly domin-
ion Ill Tor itself.
i The black brown Of its back. and the
white OF irs lower feathers. ard the fire
of it's eye. and the long flap of its wing
make one GLIMPSE Of it AS 1t ewings
down into the valley to pick up q rabbit.
Or lamb. OF e child and then swings
back to lis throne OH the rock some
thing never 20 be forgotten. Scattered
about its cyrie of altitudinous solitude
ere the bones OF lis conquests. But
while the bcak and the claws of the
eagle arc the terror of al the travellers
of the rir. the mother eagle is most kind
and gentle to her young. God compares
his treatment Of lis people to.the eagles
care of the caglcts. Deuteronomy xxi.
II. "As nh caSle stirreth up her nest,
Guttercth over her young, spreading
abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth
thera On her wings, SO the Lord alone
did led"
| WISDOM OF TIL EAGLE.
The CID eagle first shoves the young
che out of the nest in order to make it
fly, and then takes it on he- back and
flies with it and shakes it off in the mir.
and Il it aeezas Ike filling quietly flies
under II and takes 1t GA her wing again.
So God Goes with us. Dieesser, failure
in business, disappointment, bcreave-
ncnt. is only Gods way OF shaking us
out Of our comfortable nest In order
that we msy learn how to fly. You who
arc complaining that you have no faith
OF courage Of Christian zeal have had it
too easy. You never will learn to fly
in that comfortable nest.
Like sn eagle. Christ has carried us
on his back. AT times we have been
shaken OF. and when we wore about to
fall he cn1nc undcr rs aSuin and brought