The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-02-24

wind. Moses, Jeremiah, Hosea ana
Habalshul. NJ times IN their writings
take their pen from tho eagles wing.
10 IA q bird with hercencss In ia eye. ita
feet armed with claws OF iron, and Its
head with dreadful beak Two or
three OF them can ali tho heRvcnse with
clangor. hut generally this monster
of the mir Il alone and unaccompanied.
for the rcson that It's habits are so pre-
daceous II requires five or ten miles Of
aerial or earthly dominion all for itself
The black. brown of It's back. and the
white OF it, lower feathers, and tho firo
of it's eye, and the leng flap OF Its wing
make one glimpse of II rs Il swings
down In tho valley 20 pick up rabbit
or n lamb. or u child, and then swings
back To- its throne ON the rock, some
thing never 20 be forgotten.
Scattered about its eyre OF altitudin-
GUS solitude are the bones of It's con-
quests But while the bcak and the
claws OF the eagle are the terror OF all
the travellers of the air. the mother
eagle Is most kind and gentle TO her
young. God compares his treatment OF
his people to the eagles care OF the
eagletS. Deuteronomy NNNii., II; AS
mn eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth
over her young, spreading abroad her
wings, takcth them, beneath them on
her wings so the Lord alone did lead"
The old eagle first shovcs the young one
out Of the nest in order TO make IL tlv,
and then takes Il on her back and flies
with il, and shakes IL of in the air, aud
10 ae al. fall s.,,talrl,s
der it and takes II on her wing again
so God does with us Disaster, fail
urc In business, disappointment, be.
rcavement, is only Gods way OF shals-
ing us out of our comfortable nest In
order that we may learn how To fly. Iou
who are complaining that you have no
faith or courage or Christian zeal have
had IL too easy. You never will learn
To fly in that comfortable nest Like
an eagle. Christ has carried us ON His
back. At times we have been shaken
of, and when we were about 10 fall lie
camc under us again and brought ms
out OF the gloomy valley To the sunny
mountain. Never an eagle brooded
with such love and care over her young
as Gods wings have been over us
Across what oceans of trouble we have
gone In safety upon the Almighty
wings From what mountains of sin
we have been carried and at times have
been borne up far above the gunshot of
the world and the arrow OF the devil.
When our time on earth Is closed, ON
these great wings of God. we shall
speed with infinite quickness from
camille gui, t.,I Ian y. hin.
ms from the eagles circuit under the
sun, men on the ground seem small and
insight iicant rs lizards on n rock, SO all
earthly things shall dwindle into
speclS. and tho ranging river of death
so far beneath will seem smooth and
CLASSY as n Swiss lake.
II was thought in ancient times that
an eagle could not only moult It's own
feathers In old age, but that, after ar
irving at great age, IL would renew It's
strength and become entirely young
again.
To this Isaiah alludes when he says:
"They that wait on the Lord shall re-
now their strength, they shall mount
up with wings of eagles" Even so the |
Christian In old age will renew his |
spiritual strength. He shall be young |
in ardor and enthusiasm for Christ, |
and rs the body fails tho soul will |
grow in elasticity, till at death IL will |
spring up like gladdcned child into
the bosom of God, Yea, In this orni |
theological study, see that job says |
Ellis days fly as an eagle that hastcth |
to its prey" The speed OF IA hungry en-.
gle when II saw It's prey score OF miles
distant was unimaginablc, II went
like thunderbolt for speed and power.
SO ily our days Sixty minutes, each
worth n heaven, since we assembled In
this place, have shot like lightning into
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