The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-01-12

sickness compares himself n q crane thin
and wasted job had so much trouble he
could not sleep nights. and he describes his
insomnia nv saving III am n comoanion 10
owls Isaiah compares the desolations OF
banished Israel 20 an owl and bittern aud
| cormorant among n city's ruins.
jeremiah. describing the cruelty OF pa.
| rents toward children. compares them 70 the
ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the sair uu-
cared for. crying. "The daughter of ny neo.
ple s become like the ostriches of the wilder
ness.n Among the provisions piled on Solo
mons hountiful table he speaks of "fatted
fowl.n The Israelites in the desert 90 tire1
Of mama and thev had quails--quails for
breakfast uuais for dinner. auails FOR sup
per. and they died Of qusis. The Bibls re-
fers tn the migratory habits Of the birds anil
saws. THE stork Knoweth her appointed
time and the turtle and the craue and the
swallow the time of their going, but my pso
plr know not the judgments OF the Lori"
Would the prophet ilustrats the fate OF
fraud, he points 90 a failure at iucubation
and says. AS a partridge sitteth on eggs
and hatcheth them not, 80 he that getteth
riches and not by right shall Leave them in
the midst Of his days and Mt his end shalt be
n fool The partridge. the most careless OF
all birds In choice OF its place OF nest. build.
ING IL on tho ground and often near n fire.
quented road or in n slight depression of
ground, without reference TO safety, and
soon n hooi or "A scythe or q cart wheel ends
all. SO says the prophet, a man who gathers
under him dishonest dollars viii hatch out
of them no peace no satisfaction, no happ.-
noes. no security.
what vivid smilitudel The quickest way
10 amass n fortune l. hv iniquity but the
trouble is about keeping IL. Every hour %
overy day some such partridge Is driven oT
the nest. Panics nre only futter OF
partridres IL is too tedious work to become
rich in the old fashioned way. an1 il "A man
can by ore fgl .eSo1i make as much a. by
ten years of hqrI labor. Why npt tell IL
And IL one counterfeit checs will bring the
dollars as eHs'ly as genuine issue, why not
make IT. One years irau viii o. equal to
half lifati ne. sweat. Why not live
solely y ones Wits 4 fortune thus built
will be firm and everlasting. Will IT.
Ha build your house on u volcanoes crater;
C1 20 sleep on the hDson OF an avalanche.
The volcano will blaze, aud the avalanche
will tEuu Ter.
There are estates which have been coming
together from age 60 age. Many years ago
that estate started in husbands Industry
and wifc's economy. II grew from gen.
GRAFTON 20 generation by GOOD haoits and
high minded enterpriss. Old fashioned in.
dustry was the mine from which tn gold
was dug, ana Col will keep the dec Is Of such
am estate In His buckl-r. Foreclose your
mortgage, spring your snap judgments, plot
With Gcdtes. lutrigui against family proI-
orty Ike shat and YOU cannot do il per-
marcut damage, Better than warrlntee
decd aud better than firt insurance IS the
defense which GpHs own hand will give It,
But here j. a mau to-day as poor as Job
after ha was robbed by s1tau OF everything
but his blils, yet suddenly Tomorrow he is
q rlcI man. There Is no accounting for his
sudden ahlunuce. He he's not yet failed
often enou gh % become wealthy No one
l. 4.
robe, or IN, chased silver or the tull curbsi
stecis that rear aud neigh like BIcephalu'
IN the grasp Of his c)achmau. Did he come
20 a suiian inheritance, No. Did be make
u fortune on purchase aud saley No. Every
body ask where did that partridge hat n.
The devil suddenly threw him up, and the
devil will su ldenly let him come down.
That hi iden scheme God saw from the first
conception OF the plot. That partridge,
swift disaster will shoot IL down, and the
higher il flies the harder it falls The proph-
ct saw, as YOU aud | have often seen, the
awful mistake o, partrifges.
But from the top ot Bible iir tree hear
the shrill cry of the strork. Js., Ezekiel
Tor the sfors' the faass flr trss Is t.sr Housis
This large white Bible bird is suppose l.,
without ulightug sometimes q wing its
way from the reS ION o. the Rliue 10 Africa
A. winter mcsall the storks fly 20 warmer
c.imcs and the last one Of their number that
arrives az III, splt 20 which they migrate is
killed by them. What hav3c 1t would make
in our species II those men were A!llet VINO
are always oehind In oriental cities tie
storR is sdome,ticatel and walks about on the
street and wi follow its keeper.
In the city OF E1hasus / saw a lon r row
of pillars on the too Of each pillar stor,s
nest. But the word "stork' ordinarily
means mercy aud affection, from the fact
that this bird was distinguishes for its great
love for its parents. IL never torsakes thsm,
aud even after they become feeble protect,
and provides for them. In migrating the
old storks lean their necSs on the young
storks and when the old ones give out tue
Young ones carry them ON their blc<s
God forbid that dum1 st1rk should have
more heart than we Blessed is that table
at whch an old father and mother sit,
blessed that altar at which an old father
and mother knec
What il il to have mother they know
best VINO have lost her God only knows
the agony she suffered for Us, the times she
wept over our cradle aud the anxious sigh,
her bosom heaved a, we lay upon II, the
sick nights when she watcle us long after
every one was tired out but God and herself
Her iifeblood boats in our hearts and her
image lives in our face. That man is grace
less as cannbal who III treats his parent,
! aud h who begrulges them daily bread ami
clothes the II but shabbily, may God have pa
tiencs with him. | cannot, | haari n man
once sny, II now have my old mother on
my hands We storSs on your way with
food 30 your aged parents, shame him!
But yonder in this Bible sky tlies bird
that is speckled The prophet describing
the churcn cries out, mine heritage is unto
me as a speckled prl; the birds round
about are against her. SO it was then: 50
IL is now. Holiness picSel at. Consscra.
ton picked at Bensvolsnce picked at .
Usefulness picked at. A specSlsd bird is a
peculiar bird, AMI that arouscs the antip-
athy OF all the baaks OK the forest.
The church of God Is a peculiar in,titI-
tion, aud that is enouy IN to evoxo attacS OF
Of the world, for il is spscklei bird To be
picked at. Tne ia llnsistencies of Christians
are a banquet on which multituieS get fat
They ascrlbe everything You do 20 wrong
motives. Pat dollar in the poor box and
they will say that you dropped it there only
that you might hear It ring. Invite them
to Christ AMI they will call you fanatic.
Let there be contention among Christians,
aud they viii say: "Hurrahl The church is
in decadence
Christ intended that His church should
| always remain spsckle1 bird. Let birds
of another feather PICK at her but they
cannot rob her of a single plume. Like the
albatross, she can sleep on the bosom Of a
tempest. She has gone through the fires OF
u 4 a