Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-01-09

Moses, the greatest lawyer CT all time
and a great man for facts, had enough
sentiment and poetry and musical taste
to welcome the illumined wings and the
voices divinely drilled into tie first chap
ter of Genesis. How silo1.li Noah. the
old ship carpenter, GEO years of age, find
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 frma, for the noun
tains were submerged. AS bird first
heralded the human race into the world,
now 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 a
cooling dove, so gentle, so innocent, so
afTectionate, and he said, ''Now, my lit
tie dove, fly away over these waters, ex-
plore and come back and tell us whether
it is safe to land" After long flight it
returned hungry and weary and wet.
and by its looks and manners said to
Noah and his family, 1.-The world is not
fit for you to disembark." Noah waited
a week, and next Sunday morning he let
the dove fly again for a second eXplora
ton. and Sunday evening it came back
with a leaf that had the sign Of just hav-
ing been plucked from a living fruit tree,
and the bird reported the world would
do tolerably well for u 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. It was a bird
that told them when to take possession
Of tic resuscitated planet. So the human
race were saved by birds wing, for, at
ternpting to land too soon. they would
have persisted.
THE LESSON OF THE DOVES.
Aye, here comes q whole flock of doves
rock doves, ring doves. stock doves
and they make Isaiah think Of great re-
vivals and great awaAenings when souls
fly for shelter like flock Of pigeons
swoopiIlg to the openings of 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. a bird which es-
peciaIly 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 as a par
fridge on the mountains Speaking of
his forlorn condition, he says. Il am like
pelican in the Wilderness" Describing
his loneliness. he says, Il am a swallow
alone on the housetop." Hezekiah, in
the enaciation 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 by
saying, Il am 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
the ostrich. who leaves its eggs in the
sand uncared for, crying, THE daughter
of my people is become like the OstricheS
Of the wilderness" Among the provi-
siong piled on Solomon's bountiful table
the Bible speaks of ''fatted fowl" TIE
Israelites in the desert got tired of mamma
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. THE stork knoweth 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. he points to q failure atincuba-
ton and says, las 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 fool" The par
fridge, 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 d slight depression of ground,
without reference to safety, and soon a
hoof or a scythe Or a 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 security.
What vivid similitude! The quickest
way to amass fortune is by iniquity,
hut the trouble is about keeping it. Ev-
cry hour Of every day some such par
fridge is driven off the nest. Panics are
only futter Of cartridges. It 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 dollars
as easily as a genuine issue, why not
make it? One years fraud will be equal
to a half ifetime's sweat. Why not
live solely by ones wits? A fortune thus
bui1t will bo firm and everlasting Will