Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-12

harmony Of revelation and science, and
to have demonstrated ta4J the GOD who
made the world made the Bible.
Moses, the greatest lawyer of all time
and great man for facts, had enough
sentiment and poetry and musical taste
to welcome the illumined wings and the
voices divinely drilled into thefrst chap
ter of Genesis. How should Noah, the
old ship carpenter, 600 years of age, Ind
out when the world was fit again for
human residence after the universal
freshet? A bird will tell. and nothing
else can. No man can come down from
the mountain to invite Noah and his
family out to terra 6rma, for the noun
tains were submerged. AS bird hrst
heralded the human race into the world
now a bird will help the human race
back to the world that had shipped sea
that whelmed everything.
Noah stands on Sunday morning at
the window of the ark. in his hand
cooing dove. so gentle, so Tnocent, SO
affectionate, and he said, "Nov', my ht-
tie dove, fly away over these waters, eS-
plore and come back and tell us whether
Il is safe to land" After long flight 1t
returned hungry and weary and wet
and by its looks and manners said to
Noah and his family, The world is not
fit for you to disembark." Noah waited
a week, and next Sunday morning he let
the dove fly again for second explora-
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 yet 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.
and then the emigrants from the ante
diluvian world landed. 1t was a bird
that told them when to take possession
of the resuscitated planet. Sothe human
race were saved by a birds wing, for, at
tempting to land too soon, they would
have perished-
TIE LESSON OF TIE DOVES.
Ave, here comes whole flock OF doves
rock doves, ring doves. stock doves
and they make Isaiah think of great re-
vivals and great awakenings when souls
Av for shelter like flock Of pigeons
swooping to the openings OF a pigeon
COOP. and he cries out. "Wao are these
that hy as doves to their windows:
David. with Saul after him, and flying
from cavern to cavern, compares himself
to a desert partridge. bird which es-
pecially haunts rocky places, and boys
and hunters to this day take after 1t with
sticks. for the partridge runs rather than
flies.
David, chased and dubbed and harried
of pursuers, says. Il am hunted as par
fridge on the mountains. Speaking OF
his forlorn condition. he says, Il am like
a pelican in the wilderness. Describing
his loneliness. he says, 81 am swallow
alone on the housetop.' Hezekiah, In
the emaciation of his sickness. compares
himself to crane thin and wasted. Job
had so much trouble he could not sleep
nights, and he describes his insomnia oy
saying, Il am companion to Owls.
Isaiah compares the desolations OF ban
ished Israel to an OIL 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 for. crying. The daughter
of my people is become like the o5tr'cheS
of the wilderness" Among the provl-
sions piled on Solomon's bountiful table
the Bible speaks of ''fatted fowl. The
Israeli:es 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 saws. The stork knoweth her ap-
pointed time and the turtle ard 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. he points to failure atincuoa>
ton and sars. AS a partridge sltteth on
eggs and hatcaeth them not. so he that
getteth riches and not by hight shall
leave them in the midst of his days and
at his end shall be fool The par
fridge, me most careless of all birds in
choice o. It's place of nest, building 1t On
the ground an1 often near {. frequeDted
road or in slight depression Of ground,
without reference to safety, and soon
hoof or a scythe or cart wheel ends all.
So says the prophet, man who gathers
under him dishonest dollars will hatch
out of them NO peace, no satisfaction, no
happiness, no security.
What viyid similitude! The quickest
way to amass fortune is by iniquity.
but the trouble is about keeping it. Ev-
cry hour of every day some scch par
fridge is driven off the nest. Panics are
only futter of partridges. 1t Is too
tedious work to become rich in the old
fashioned way. and if a man can by one
falsehood make as much as by ten years
of hard labor. Why not tell it? And If one
counterfeit check will bring the collars
as easily as genuine issue, why not
make it? One years fraud will be equal
to half hfetime's sweat Why not
live solely by ones wits? A fortune thus
built Will be firm and everlasting VIII
it? Ha. build your house on VOLCANOES
crater; 90 to sleep on the bosom of an
avalanche. The volcano will blaze. and
the avalanche Will thunder.
There are estates which have been COM
ing together from age to age. Many
years ago that estate stared in a hus-
bands industry and wife's economy.
1t grew from generation to generation by
good habits and high minded enterprise.
Old fashioned industry was the mine
from which that gold was dag, and God
will keep the deeds of such an estate in
his buckler. Forclose youZ mortgage.
spring you1 snap judgments, plot with
acutest intrigue against family proper
ty like that and you cannot do it per-
manent damage. Better than warrantee
deed and better than fire insurance is
the defense which Gods own hand viii
give it.
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