Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-01-20

the wilderness" Describing his loneliness
he says ~ am q swallow ,ione cN the house
too Hesekish, In .Le emAc.ation OF hi
sickness compares himself to a crane thir
and wasted. job had % much trouble h,
could not sleep nights and he describes hi
insomnia bv saving, "t am q compAnton h
owls" Isaiah compares the desolAtions n
bsn,shed Israel to an owl and bittern and
cormorant among a city's ruins,
Jeremiah, describing the cruelty Of pN
rents toward children, compares them 10 th,
ostrich, who leaves its eggs IN tho sand un,
cared for, crying "rhe daughter Of nv neo
pie II become like the ostriohes ot tho wilder,
ness" Among the provisions piled on Solo.
mons bountiful table he spesks OF fattsl
fowl The fsraeltes In the desert got tire
OF mama and they had quails-quatls for
breakfast quails for dinner, qusils for sup.
per, aud they died OF quails, The Bible re-
fers to the migratory habits Of the birds su I
says "rhe stork knoweth her appointed
time aud tho turtle and the crane aud the
swallow tho time of their going, but my peo
pie know not the judgments OF the Lori,h
Would the prophet illustrate the fate Of
fraud, he points 10 a failure at incubation
and saws, "As a partridge stteth on e,vs
and hatcheth them not 10 he that getteth
riches and not by right shalt leave them In
the midst Of his DAYS and at his end shall be
a fool" The partridge, the most careless OF
| all birds In choice of Its place OF nest, build.
ing II on the ground and often near IRE.
quented road or in slight depression OF
ground without reference 10 safety, aud
soon hoot or scythe or cart wheel ends
! ALL So says tho prophet, n man who gathers
! under him dishonest dollars will hatch out
OF them no peace, no satisfaction, no happi.
neSs, no security.
What vivid similitude. The quickest way
10 amass fortune Is by Iniqulty, but the
trouble Is about keeping II. Every hour OF
every day some such partridge IL driven of
the nest Pnnics are only Hutter OF
cartridges. Il is too tedious work TO become
rich In the old fashioned way, and II man
can by one falsehood make as much aS by
ton years Of hard labor, why not tell ~
And IL one counterfeit check will bring tho
dollars as easily as genuine issue, why not
mako III One years fraud will be equal TO
q half a lifetime's sweat Why not live
solely by ones wits3 A fortune thus built
will be firm and everlasting. win ~
Ha build your house or volcanoes crater;
90 10 sleep on the bosom OF an avalanche.
The volcano will blaze and the avalanche
will thun Ter.
There are estates which have been coming
together from age TO age. Many years ago
that estate started In husbands industry
and wifes economy. II grew from gen.
Grafton 10 generation by good habits AMI
high minded enterprise. Old fashioned in.
dustry was the mine from which that gold
was dug, and God will keep the dee Is OF such
IN estate In His buckler Foreclose your
mortgage, spring your snap Judgments, plot
with acutest intrigue against family pro =
crty like that and you caunot do 1t per.
manent damage, Better than warrantee
deed aud better than fire insurance Is the
defense which Gois own hand will give It,
But hero is man to-day rs poor as Job
after he was robbed by satan OF everything
but his boils, yet suddenly Tomorrow he is
rich man. There Is no accounting for his
sudden af'luence. He has not yet failed
often enough TO become wealthy. No one
pretends TO account for his princsly ward
robe, or the chased silver, or the full curbel
steeds that rear aud neiyh like Bucsphalu'
In the grasp Of his coachman. Did he come
to sudden inheritance No. Did he make
fortune on purchase and salef No. Every
body asks where did that partridge hat h.
The devil suddenly threw him up, and tho
devil will su idenly let him come down.
That hidd m scheme Goi saw from tue first
conception of the plot. That partridge,
swift disaster will shoot II down, and the
higher II flies the harder II falls The proph-
ct saw, as you and have often seen, the
awful mistake of partriiges.
But from the top OF a Bible FIR tree hear
the shrill cry Of the strork. Job, Ezekiel,
Jeremiah. speak of IL. David cries out "As
for the stork the fir tree Is her house"
This large white Bible bird is supposed,
without alightiny sometimes TO wing IL,
way from the region OF the Rhine to Africa
AS winter comes all the storks fly TO warmer
climes and the last one OF their number that
arrives at the spot to which they migrate Is
killed by them. What havoc 1t would mako
In our species IL those men were killed wno
are always behlndl In oriental cities the
stork IL sdomssticated and walks about on the
street and will follow It's keeper.
In the city of Eohesus saw a long row
OF pillars, on the top Of each pillar a stork's
nest But the word "stork' ordinarily
means mercy and affection, from the fact
that this bird was distin yuished for Its great
love for Its parents. II never forsakes them,
and even after they become feeble protects
and provides for them. In migrating tho
old storks lean their necks on tho young
storks, aud when the old onss give out the
Young ones carry them on their backs.
God forbid that dumb stork should have
more heart than we. Blessed Is that tlble
At which an old father and mother sit;
blessed that altar at which an old father
and mother kneel!
What II IL 70 have o mother they know
best who have lost her. r. q I'd 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 IT, the
sick nights when she watchet US long after
every one was tired out but God and herself.
Her lifeblood beats 10 our hearts and her
image lives In our face. That man Is grace.
less as canpibaI who Ill treats bis parent,
and he who oegrudges them daily bread ami
clothes the N but shabbily, may God have pa
thence with him: cannot. l heard q man
once ssy. III now have my old mother on
my hands" Ys storks on your way with
food to your aged parents shame him mI
But yonder In this Bible sky flies bird
that 10 speckled. The prophet describing
the church cries out, "Mine heritage is unto
about are against her. SO 1t was then: so
It Is now. Holiness pickei at Consecra-
tion picked at. Bsnevoence picked at.
Usefulness picked at. A speckled bir Is
peculiar bird; and that arouses the antip.
athy of all the beaks OF the forest.
The church of God Is peculiar instltu-
tion aud that Is enou yh 10 evoke attack OF
Of the world, for 1t is a spsckled bird TO be
picked at The inconsistencies OF Christians
are a banquet on which multitudes get fat.
They ascribe everything you do to wrong
motives. Pat a dollar Ia the poor boz and
they will say that you dropped It there only
that YOU might hear ii ring. Invite them
10 Christ an ! they will call you q fanatic.
Let there be contention among Christians,
and they will say. "Hurrahl The churca Is
In decadence =.
Christ intended that His church should
always remain specklei bird. Let birds
Of another feather pick at h,r, but they
cannot rob her OF single plume. Like the
albatross she can sleep on the bosom OF a
tempest. She has gone through the fires OF
Nebuchadnezzar's furnace and not got
burned; through the waters OF the Red sea
and not been drownei; through the ship.
wreck on the breakers OF Melitia and not
bean foundored. Let all earth aud he'll try to
hunt down this specified bird, but far above
human scorn and Internal assault II shall
sing over every mountain top and fly over
every nation. aud her triu nphaut song shall
be, hrhs church OF God The pillar AMI
ground OF the truth. The gates OF bell shall
not prevail against her,"