Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-01-19

landed. 1t was bird that told them when
otake Possession CT the re,usgisated planet
20 the human rare wers saved by bird's
wing-for, attempting TO land too soon, they
would have perishsd
ISAIAH on TIE DOVES
Aye, here comes whole Eock OF doves
rock doves, ring doves stock doves-and
they make Isaiah think Of great revivals
and great awskerings when souls fly for
shelter like flock Of pigeons swooping to
the openings Of q pigeon coop, and cries
out, "Who are these that fiy as doves to
their wirdows;" David, with Saul after
him and flying from cavern TO cavern,
compares himself TO desert partridge, a
bird which especially hsunts rocky places,
and boys and hunters to this day take after
it with sticks, for the partridge runs rather
than flies.
David, chased and clubbed and harried
of pursuers, says, Il am hunted as par.
fridge on the mountains" Speaking of his
forlorn condition, he says, 81 am like q
pelican of the Wilderness" Describing his
loneliness, he says, II am swallow alone
on bousetop." Hezekiah, in the emnci-
alton 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
companion to owls.". Isaiah compares the
desolations Of banished Israel to an owl
and bittern and cornaorant among u 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, 1.-The daughter of my
people is become like the ostriches Of the
Wilderness" Among the provisions piled
on Solomon's 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 her appointed 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
the fraud, he points to a failure at incu-
baton and says, "As partridge sitteth 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 a frequented road, or in a
slight depression of ground, without refer
ence to safety, and soon q hoof or q scythe
or a cart wheel ends all So says the
prophet, u man who gathers under him
dishonest dollars will hatch out OF them no
oatiCfnrEspt, banpipnCc
curity.
What vivid simihtudel The quickest
way to amass Il fortune is by iniquity, but
the trouble is about keepingi it. Every hour
of every day some such partridge is driven
off the nest. Panics are only futter Of
partridges. 1t is too tedious work to be
come 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 it2
And if one counterfeit check will bring the
dollars as easily as genuine issue, why
not make it? One years fraud will be
equal to half lifetime's sweat Why not
live solely by ones wits! A fortune thus
built will be firm and everlasting. Will it2
Hal build your house on 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 s industry and wife's economy.
It grew from generation to 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. Foreclose your mortgage, spring
your snap judgments, plot with acutest in
trigue against family property like that,
and you cannot do it permanent damage.
Better than warrantee 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 q man today as poor as Job
after he was robbed by satan of everything
but his boils, yet suddenly tomorrow he is
a rich man. There is no accounting for his
sudden aff1uence. He has not yet failed
often enough to become wealthy. No one
pretends to 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 inheritances No. Did he make
a AOA Oh pel4ShdoS dLl4 ohkC1 4NO. Lively
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 it 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 it. David cries out, "As
for the stork, the fir tree is her house"
This large 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 climes, and the last one of their number
that arrives ut 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 behindl 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 stork's
nest. But the word 'stork" ordinarily
means mercy and affection, from the fact
that this bird was distinguished for its
great love for its parents. 1t never forsakes
them, and even after they become feeble
protects and provides for them. In mi
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 a dumb stork
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 to have mother they know
Sest who have lost her. God only knows
the agony she suffered for us, the times she
wept over our cradle aud the anxious sighs
her bosom heaved as we lay upon it, the
sick nights when she watched so long after
every one was tired out but God and hsr-