The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-01-19

| dOves-rOCk dives. ring dOVde,, stOcl
doves-and they make Isaiah think O
great revivals and great awakpg.
when souls fly for shelter like flock O
pigeons swoOpiny to the openings OF 6
pigeon coop. and cries out, Who arc
these that fy as doves to their win.
dnws2" David, with S,ul after him and
lying from cavern, to caverns compares
himself to desert PARTRIDGE bird which
especially hunts rocky places. aud bows
and hunters to this day take after it with
sticks, for the partridge runs rather thau
flies.
| David, chased and clubbed and ...r-
rled of nursuers, says: Il an hunted as
partridge on the mOuntalus.' Speak
ing of his forlorn condition, he saws, IF
a like pelican of the wilderness /"
Describing his loneliness, he says, II
am a swallow alone on a housetop.: -
Hezekiah, in the annexation of his sick
ness, cOmpares himself TO a crane, thin
and wasted. job had 80 much trouble
he could not sleep nights, and he de-
scrlbes his insomnia by saying, IL am
a companion to owls" Isaiah compares
the desolations of banished israel to an
owl and bittern and cormorant among a
ClCy runs.
jeremiah, describing the cruelty of
parents toward children. compares them
to the ostrich. who leaves its eggs in the
sand uncared for, crying, 1.-THE daugh
ter Of my people is. become nike the os .
tri"hes of the Wilderness" Among the
provisions piled on Solomon's bountiful
liable the Bible speaks of "fatte i fowl :"
The 1srealites in the desor. got tired of
mama and they had quails- quails for
breakfast, qua'ls for dinner, quals for
supper, and thev died of qualls. The
Bible refers TO the migratory habits of
the birds and says, 1.-THE stork knoweth
her appointed time, and the turtle aud
the crane, and the swallow the time of
their going, but my people know not
the iudg nents Of the Lord"
Would the prophet illustrate the fate
o. the fraud. he points TO Il failure at iu-
cubation and saJs, LAS partridge SIT
eth on eggs and hatcheth them not, 50
he that getteth ri ;hes, and not by right,
shall leave them in the midst of his
days and at his end shall ne a fool"
The partridge, the most careless of all
bsrds IN choice OF its place of nest, build
| ing 1t on the ground aud often near a
| trequented road, or in slight depres-
| sion of ground, without reference to
safety, and sOon hoOf or scyLhe
! or q cart wheel ends all. So SAYS the
prophet a man who gathers under him
dishonest dollarswill uatch out of the
no peace, no satisfaction, no happi-
ness, no security.
| What vivid similltu le! The quick
est way to amass fortune is by luiqui.
ty but the trouble is about keeping it.
| Every hour of every day some such par
fridge is driven Off the nest. Panlcs
are only flu ter OF partridges. 1t is too
tedious work to become rich IN the old
fashioned way, and II u man can by one
taisehood make as much as by ten Yeas
| hard labor, why not tell it? And if one
coun terfeit chec< will bring the dol ars
as aslly as genuine issue, why not
make il? Que years. fraud will be
equal to halt litetlme's sweat. Whv
not live solely by ones wits? a fort une
! thus built will be firm aud everl ,sting.
Will il? IIa! bund your house on a
volcanoes Craier go to sleep on the
bosom OF an avalanche.
The volcano will blaze and the ava
lanche will thunder. There arc estates
which have been coming together from
| age to aye. Many years ago that estate
started in husbands industry aud q
| wite's economy. 1t grew from genera
ton 10 generation by good habits and
| highmuded enterprise. Old dfishioned
| indu try was the mine from Whlch that
| gold was dug and u d will keep ihe
deeds OF such an estate in his buckler
FOreclose your mortgage, spring your
snap judge ments, plot with aculest in
| trigue against. a family property like
that, and you cannot do it a pertinent
| damage. Better than warrentee deed
and batter than fire insurance ls the de-
| fense which GODS own hand will give
| it.
But here is aman today as poor as
Job alter he was robbed by satan of
everything but his boils, yet suddenly
tomorrow he is IA rich man. There is
no accounting for his sudden atfluence.
He has not yet failed often enough to
become wealthy. No one pretends to
account for his princely wardrobe. or
the chased silver, or the full curbed
steedS that rear and neigh like Buceph
aluS in the grasp OF his coachman. Did
he come to a sudden inheritance? No.
Did he make fortune on purchase
and sale? No. Everybody asks, Where
did that partridge hatch? rhe devil
suddenly threw him up and the devil
will suddenly lot him come down. That
hjdden scheme God saw from the frs,
conception of the plot. That partridge.
swift disaster will shoot il down, and
the higher it flies the harder it falls.
The prophet saw, as you and have Of
ten seen, The awful mistake of partrld.
ges.
But from the top of Bible fir tree |
hear the shril .ry of the stork. job,
Ezekiel, Jeremiah, speak OF II. David
cries out, "As for the stork, the fir Tree
is her house" This large white Bible
| 0ird 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
warmer chimes, and the last one of their
number that arrives at the spot to
which they migrate is killed by them
| What havoc /! would make in our
species If those men were killed who
are always behind! In oriental cities
the stOrk is domesticated, and walk
about on the street and will follow its
keeper.
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