Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-09

A..o,,ov Ne Il sIeh man There is ~
accounting fof his suddeh eiIinsncc. we
IAns not yet failed often engiieh 70 be
en,sa wealthy. No one pfe'ctda ~ ae'
coont f,a he ptlncely wsfdfols, 0r The
n,.sst s,ltes. IN the fall eufbed ttecds
shaf feaf hna neigh like llucephalus in
sl,e arasu N hia ccachman. DID he cenns
10 = sudden Inheritance No. Did ne
s,ete fortune on purchase and seller
NJ. Evrryt,,ly aaks whore did that par.
tt;0ve hatch. 1he devil suddenly threw
tim 40. md Tic devil viii suddenly ~
him cone down That hidden scheme
f,od ssw from the first conception OF the
plot. That partridge. swif, disaster viii
sbgut Il down. and The higher u iies the
harder II falls. The prophet saw. ~ yon
aud / have often seen. the awful mistake
of partridges !,
But from the top Of n Bible Or tree
bear the shrill cry. of the stork. JOB,
Ezekiel. Jeremiah. speak of ". DAVID
cries ont. "As for the stork. the fir tree
Il her house" This large white Bibie
bird Is supposed without alighting some.
times 10 wing iis way from the region OF
the Giine ~ Africa. As winter comes
All the storks ~ to warmer cliines and
the last one of their number that arrives
AZ the spot 10 which they migrate u
killed by them. What havoc u would
make Ia our species u those men were
killed who are always behindI In orion.
tai cities the stork In domesticated and
walks about on the street and will follow
its keeper.
In the city Of Ephesus ! saw n long
row Of pillars. on the top OF each pillar
n stork's nest. But the word "stork
ordinarily mcaDs mercy and affection
from the fact that this bird was distin-
guished for its great love for It's parents
II never forsakes them. 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 dumb stork should
have more heart than we. Blessed is
that table at which an old father and
mother sit: blessed that altar at which
m old father and mother kneell
What il IL 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
sighs her bosom heaved as we lay upon
Il. the sick nights when she watched ut
long after every one was tired out but
God and herself. Her hfeblood beats
in our heart. and her image lives in oui
face. That man is graceless as a canni
ba! who i'll treats his parents, and he
who begrudges them daily bread and
clothes them but shabbily, may God
have patience with him; cannot.
heard man once say. II now have my
old mother on my hands, Ye storki
on your way with food to your aged
parents. shame him!
THE PROSECUTED CHURCH.
But yonder in this Bible sky flies
bird that is speckled. The prophet de
scribing the church cries out, Mine
heritage is unto me as u speckled bird
the birds round about are against her.
| So it was then. so 1t is now Holiness
picked at Conservation picked at Be
nevolence picked ut. Usefulness picked
at. : A specked bird is peculiar bird
and that arouses the antipathy of all th'
beaks Of the forest.
The church of God Is peculiar insti
tuition, and that is enough TO evoke at
tack Of the world. for 1t Is a specklet
bird to be picked ut. The inconsistcn
cies OF Christians are a banquet on which
multitudes get fat. They ascribe every
thing you do to wrong motives. Put |
dollar in the poor box and they will say
that you dropped 1t there only that 20,
might hear it ring. Invite them t.
Christ. and they will call you a fanatic
Let there be contention among Chris
tians. and they will say; "Hurrah! Th'
church is in decadence."
| Christ intended that his church SHOULD
] always remain speckled bird. lie
birds Of another feather pick at her. bu
they cannot rob her of single plume
Like the nlbatross. she can sleep ON tn
bosom Of tempest. She has gon
through the fires Of NebuchadnezEar'
furnace and not got burned; through tn
waters Of the Red sea and not beel
drowned; through the shipwreck on tn
breakers Of Melita and not been foun
dered. Let all earth and hell try to hun
down this speckled bird, but far abov
human scorn and Internal assault it shal
sing over every mountain top and Il,
over every nation, and her triumphan
song shall be THE church Of God
The pillar aud ground of the truth
The gates OF he'll shall not prevail agains
her."
But we cannot stop here. From
tall clif hanging over the sea hear IN
eagle calling unto the tempest and hft
ing Its wing to smite the whirlwind
Moses, Jeremiah. Hosea and Habakkul
at times IN their writings take their PEI
from the eagles wing. II is bird wit
herceness in its eye, its feet armed wit
claws Of iron and its head with dread
ful beak. Two or three Of them can I'll
the heavens with olangor, But gener
ally this monster Of the air is alone am
unaccompanied. for the reason that IL
habits are SO predaceous 1t requires flv
or ten miles Of aerial OF earthly domiu
ion all for itself.
The black brown OF its back, and th
white Of its lower feathers, and the tir
OF its eye, and the long Zap Of its win
make one glimpse Of il as il swing
down into the valley 10 nick mn n rabbit