The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-11

rock doves, ring doves, stock doves-and
they make Isaiah think of great revivals
and great awakenings when souls fly for
shelter like flock of pigeons swooping to
the openings of a pigeon coop, and cries
out, who are these that fly as doves to
their windows2" David, with Saul after
him and flying from cavern to cavern,
compares himself 10 a desert partridge, a
bird which especially haunts rocky places,
and boys and hunters to this day take after
it with sticks. for the partridge runs rather
than flies.
David. chased and dubbed and harried
of pursuers, says. Il am hunted par
fridge on the mountains" Speaking of his
fOrlOrn condition, he says, Il am like
pelican OF the wilderness" Describing his
loneliness, he says. Il am swallow alone
on a housetop. Hezekiah, in the ENACT
alton Of his sickness. compares himself to
crane. thin and wasted job had so much
trouble ne could not sleep nights, and he
describes his insomnia by saying II am
companion 10 owls" Isaiah compares the
desolatiOns Of banished Israel to an owl
and bittern and cormorant among city's
ruins.
jeremiah, describing the cruelty of par
ents toward children, compares them to
the ostrich. who leaves its eggs in the sand
uncared fer, crying The daughter of my
people is become like the Ostriches Of the
wilderness" Among the provisions piled
on SolomOns bOuntiful table the Bible
speaks of "fatted fowl" The Israelites in
the desert got tired of mamma and they had
Quails-quails for breakfast, quails for din
ner, quails for supper, and they died of
Quails The Bible refers to the migratory
habits OF the birds and says, THE stOrk
knoweth erappointed time, and the turtle,
and the crane, and the swallow the time Of
their going, but my people know not the
judgments Of the Lord. F"
Would the prophet illustrate the fate of
the fraud, he points to failure at incu-
baton and says, As a partridge stitch on
eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
getteth riches, and not by right, shall 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 it's
place of nest. building it on the ground
and often near frequented road, or in
slight depression Of ground, without refer
ence to safety, aud soon hoof OF a scythe
or cart wheel ends all So says the
prophet, "a man who gathers under him
dishonest dollars will hatch out of them no
peace, no satisfaction. no happiness, no Sc
curity
What vivid similitudel The quickest
w;e- to aclass Il fortune is by iniquity, but
the trouble Is about keepingit. Every hour
of every day some such partridge is driven
off the nest PauicS are only a flutter Of
partridges. 1t is too tedious work to be
come rich in the old fashioned way, and if a
man can by one ialsehood make as much as
by ten years OF hard labor, why not tell it2
And if one counterfeit check will bring the
dollars as easily as genuine issue, why
not make il: One years fraud will be
equal 10 half lifetiIue's sweat. Why not
live solely by ones Wits A fortune thus
built viii be firm and everlasting Will it?
Ha! build your house on n volcanoes crater,
go to sleep on the bosom of an avalanche.
The volcano will blaze and the avalanche
will thunder There are estates which
have been coming together from age to age.
Many years ago that estate started in a
husbands industry and wife's economy.
IL grew from generation 10 generation by
good habits and high minded enterprise.
Old fashioned industry was the mine from
which that gold was dug and God will
keep the deeds of such an estate In his
buckler. tOreclose your mort gage, spring
your snap judgments, plot with acutest in
trigue against a family property like that,
AMI you cannot do it a permanent damage.
Better than yarrantee deed and better than
fire insurance is the defense which Gods
own hand will give it.
THE EVIL WILL COME TO LIGHT
But here is man today as poor as Job
after he was robbed by satan of everything
but his boils, vet suddenly tomorrow he is
a rich man. There is no accounting for his
sudden affluence He has not yet failed
oft ,ITh
pretends 70 account for his princely ward
robe or the chased silver, or the full curbed
steeds that rear and neigh like Bucephalus
in the grasp of his coachman. Did he come
TO sudden inheritsnces No. Did he make
afortune on purchase and salei No. Every
body asks, Where did that partridge hatch.
The devil suddenly threw him up and the
devil will suddenly let him come down
That hidden scheme God saw from the first
conception of the plot. That partridge
swift disaster will shoot il down. and the
higher it flies the harder it falls. The
prophet saw, as you and have often seen,
the awful mistake of partridges.
But from the top of a Bible fir tree hear
the shrill cry of the stork job, Ezekiel,
jeremiah speak Of il. David cries out, AS
for the stori. the fir tree is her house"
This lar,e, white Bible bird is supposed
without alighting sometimes to wing its
way from the region Of the Rhine TO Africa
As winter comes all the stOrks fly to warm
er chimes, and the last one of their number
that arrives at the spot to which they mi
CRATE Is killed by them. What havoc it
would make in our species if those men
were killed who are always behind! In
oriental cities the stork is dOmesticated,
and walks about on the street and Will fol
low its keeper
in the city Of Ephesus saw a long row
of pillars, on the top of each pillar Il stOrk's
nest But the word "stork" ordinarily
means mercy aud affection, from the fact
that this bird was distinguished for ia
great love for its parents. 1t never forsakes
them, and even after they become feeble
projects and provides for them. In nj
grating, the old storks lean their necks on
the young storks, and when the old ones
give out the Young ones carry them on their
back God forbid that dumb stcrk
should have more heart than we. Blessed
IS that table at which an old father and
mother sit: blessed that altar at which an
old father and mother kneel
What it is 10 have mother they know
best who have lost her. God only knows
the agony she suffered for ms, the times she
wept over our cradle and the anxious sicLs
her bosom hesved a. we lay upon IL. the
sex nights when she watched SO long after
every one was tired ont but God and her
self Her lifeblood beats in our heart and
her image lives in our face. That man is
gTaceless as a caunibal who i'll treats his par
ents, and he who begrudCes them daily
bread and clothes them but shsbbily-may
God have patience with HIN: l cannot /
heard man once say, Il now have my old