Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-09

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We owe to the bird cresfaon- Before the
human race came into this world the
world was occupied by reptiles and by I
all sorts Of destructive monsters-ml- !
hons Of creatures, loathsome and hide
Gus. God sent huge birds to clear the I
earth OF these creatures before Adam and (
Eve were created The remains Of these
birds have been found iIabedded IN the
rocks. The skeleton OF one eagle has
been found twenty feet in height and
City feet from TIP Of wing TO tipof wing.
Many armies of eeaks and claws were
necessary 10 clear the earth of creatures
that would hays destroyed the human
race with one clip. | like 10 find this
fsruorsy OF revelation and science. AND
% have demonstrated that the God who
made the world made the Bible.
Moses, the greatest lawyer Of all tims
and a great man for facts, had enough
sentiment and poetry and musical tasts
10 welcome tie illumined wings and the
voices divinely drilled into the first chap
ter OF Genesis. How should Noah, the
old ship carpenter. COO years of age, find
out when the world was fit again foi
human residence after the universal
freshet? A bird viii tell, and nothing
else can. No man can come down from
family out to terra firma. for the noun
tains were submerged. AS bird first
heralded the human race into the world.
now bird viii help the human race
back 10 the world that had shipped sea
that whelmed everything.
Noah stands on Sunday morning at
the window Of the ark, IN his hand Q
cooling dove, so gentle, so innocent. 50
affectionate. and he said, Now. my lit
tie dove. fly away over these waters, ex-
plore and come back and tell us whether
IL is safe TO land" After long fight il
returned hungry and weary and wet,
ard BY its looks and manners said 10
Noah and his family, ''The world is not
tit for you TO disembark." Noah waited
a week, and next Sunday morning he let
the dove fly again for a second explors-
ton, and Sunday evening it came back
with leaf that had the sign Of just hav-
ing been plucked from living fruit tree,
and the bird reported the world would
do tolerably well for bird to live in.
but not vet sufficiently recovered for
human residence.
Noah waited another week, and next
Sunday morning he sent out the dove on
the third exploration, but it returned
not. for it found the world so attractive
now it did not want to be Gagged again.
end then the emigranrs from the ante
diluvian world landed. 1t was q bird
that told them when TO take possession
of tho resuscitated planet. So the human
race were saved by birds wing, for, at
tempting to land too soon. they would
have persisted
Ave, here comes a whole flock Of doves
rock doves, ring doves, stock doves
and they make Isaiah think of great re-
vivals and great awakenings when souls
fly for shelter like flock Of pigeons
sweeping to the openings Of q pigeon
coop, and he cries out, WHO are these
that fly as doves to their windows
David, with Saul after him, and flying
from cavern to cavern, compares himself
to desert partridge, bird which es-
pecially 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, II am hunted as par
fridge on the mountains" Speaking of
his forlorn condition, he says, II am like
pelican in the wilderness" Describing
his loneliness, he says. II am swallow
alone ON the housetop." Hezekiah, in
the emaciation of his sickness, compares
himself to a crane, thin and wasted. job
had SO much trouble he could not sleep
nights, and he describes his insomnia by
saying, II am a companion to owls.
Isaiah compares the desolations of ban
ished Israel to an owl and bittern and
cormorant among a city's ruins.
jeremiah. describing the cruelty of par.
ents toward children, compares them to
tine ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the
sand uncered for, crying. Tho daughter
of my people Is become like the ostriches
of the wilderness" Among the provi-
sions piled on Solomon's bountiful table
the Bible speaks of "fatted fowl" The
Israelites in the desert got tired Of mama
and they had quails-quails for break
fast, quails for dinner, quails for supper
and they died Of quails- The Bible re
fers TO the migratory habits Of the birds
and says. 1.-THE stork kI.oweth her ap
pointed 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"
Would the prophet illustrate the fate
Of fraud. ne points to failure at incuba'
ton and says, AS partridge stitch or
eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
getteth riches and not by right shall
leave them in the midst OF Lis days anC
st his end shall be fool" The par
fridge, the most careless of all birds il
choice of its place of nest, building Ii OF
the ground and often near o freguenteS
road or Ia a slight depression Of ground
without reference TO safety, and soon {
hoof or q scythe or a cart wheel ends all
So says the prophet, n man who gather
under him dishonest dollars will hatcf
out Of them no peace. no satisfaction, nj
happiness, no security.
What vivid siailitudel The quickes
way 20 arnass a fortune Is by iniqnity
but she trouble is aSout keeping ii. Ey
cry hour OF every day some such par
fridge is driven OF the nest. Panics ar
only a fGtter Of partridges. 1t is &c,
TEDIOUS work to become rich In the OLD
fashioned wsv. and IL man can by one
falsahood riahe as much 90 By ten year
Of hard labcr. why not Tell it, And II ont
r counterfeit check win bring the dollar
a. easily as genuine issue, why no