Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-01-14
vo.c.no vii, Has. and the avalanche

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dustry was the mine from which that gold
was dug, and God will keep the deeds OF such
an estate in His bucklsr. Foreclose your
mortgage, spring your snap Judgments, plot
y 18th acutest intrigue against family pro-
erty like that and you cannot DO It per-
manent damage, Better than warrantss
deed and better than fire Insurance. is the
defense which Co.'s own hand will give it.
But here is man today As poor as Job
after he was robbed by satan OF everything
but his bois, yet suddenly tomorrow he is
area man. There is no acco1 atiny for his
sudden af1ia ,nce. He has not yet failed
often enou sIi to beco as wealthy. No one
eretenis to acc punt for his princsly ward
robe or the ehaSci silver, or the full curbsl
stee1s that rear and neiga ike Blcsphaius
IN the grasp of his coachman. Did he come
to "a suiieu inheritances No. Did he make
Z fortune on purchase and sale! No. Every
hody asks where did that partridge hath.
Fac devil SUI idenly threw him up, and ths
devil will su ldeniy let him come down.
That hidden scheme Col saw from the first
sopc.ptioa of the plot. That partridge
swift disaster will shoot it down, and the
higher it flies the harder it falls. The proph-
1t saw. as you and l have often seen, the
awful mistake Of cartridges.
But from the top OF Biole fir tree hear
the shrill cry of tas strorx. JOB, Ezekiel,
jeremiah. speak OF it. David cries out LAS
Tor the stor-, the fir tire. is her house"
This large white Bible bird is supposed,
without alighting sometimes to wing its
way from the region OF the Rims to Africa.
As winter comes all the storks fly to warmer
climes and the last one of their number that
arrives at the spot to which they migrate is
killed by them. What havoc it would make
in our species il those men were kille1 wac
are always behind In oriental cities the
storS is domesticated and walks about on the
street and VII follow its keeper.
In the city Of Eohesus 1 saw long row
Of pillars, on the top of each pillar stork's
nest. But tbs word "stork' ordinarily
shat 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 migrating the
old storks lean their necks on the young
.tork,, and when the old ones give out the
young ones carry them on their bacSs.
Goi forbid that dumb stork shout1 nave
more heart than we. Blessed IS that taoie
at which an old father and mother SIT;
blessed that altar at which an old father
and mother kneel!
What it is to have a mother they know
best who have lost her. q ID only knows
the agony she suffered for US, the times she
wapt over our cradle and the anxious signs
her bosom heayed as we lay upon 1t, the
every one was tired out but God and herself.
Her lifeblood beats in our hearts, and her
image lives in our face. That man is grace-
less as a cannibal who i'll treats bis parents,
and he who begrudges them daily bread AMI
clothes the n but shabbily. may God havepi
thence vita him; cannot. | heard a man
once say, II now have my old mother on
my hands" Ye storks on your way with
food to your aged parents, shame himl
ut yondar in this Ribo sky nlaS u bril-
that is speckled. Tia prophet describing
the church cries out, 'Iine heritage is unto
me as a speckled bird; the birds round
about are against her." So it was then; SO
it is now. Holiness picxel at. Consecra-
ton picked at. Beusvolence picked at.
Usefulness picked at. A specklsd bird IS
peculiar bird; and that arouses the anlp-
athy of all the bsaks o. the forest.
The church of God is peculiar institu-
ton. and that is enou IN to evoke attack OF
of the world, for it is spackiet bird TO be
rjcsed at. Toe inc )nsistencies OF Christians
are a banquet on which muititudes get fat.
They ascribs everything you do to wrong
motives. Put dollar in the poor box and
they will say that you dropped it there only
that YOU might hear 1t ring. Invite them
to Christ an they will call you fanatic.
Let there be contention among Christians,
and they viii say. "Hurrah! The churel is
in decadence .
Christ intended that His church should
always remain speckle bird. Let birds
of another feather piel at her, but they
cannot rob her OF single puma. Like the
aibatross, she can sleep on the bosom OF
tempest. She has gone through the hres OF
Nebucnadnezzlr's furnace and not got
burned: throu III the waters OF the Red sea
and not been drowned; through the snip,
wreck on thu breakers OF Delitia and NOS
been foundered. Let all earth and hell try TO
hunt down this spec slei bird. but far above
human scorn and Internal assault 1t shall
sing over every mountain TOP and ny over
every nation, ald her triu nphant song shati
be. ''rhe church of God The pillar AMI
ground of the truth. The gates OF hell shai'
not prevail against her"
But we cannot stop here. From tall
cliff hanging over the sea hear the cage
calling unto the tempest and lifting Its
wings to smite the whirlwind. Moses, Jera-
miab, Hosea and Habakkuk at times IN Their
writings take their pen from the eagle
wing, 1t is bird with fierceness IN Its eye,
its teet armed with claws of iron ana It's
head with dreadful beak Two or three OF
them can fill the heavens with clangor. but
generally this monster OF the air Is alone
and uuaccompanied, for the reason that Its
habits are 80 predaceous it requires five or
ten miles OF aerial or earthly dominion all
for itself.
The black brown of its back. an the
white OF its lower feathers, and ths fire oil
its eve, and the long flap of its wing make
glimpse of it as it swings down into the va
lev to pick up rabbit, or lamb or child
and then swings back to its throne on the
rock something never to he for gotten. Scat
tered about its eyrie OF aItitudinous solitude
are the bones of its conqussts. But while
the beak and the claws of the eagle are th'
L. e h. -Yf@ h1
mother eagle is most kind and gentle to har
younr. GOD compares His treatment OF His
people to the cagie's care OF the e1glete.
Deuteronomy xxi, II, las an eagle str
reth un her nest huttersth over her young,
spreading abroad her wings, taketa them.
beareth them on her wings, so the Lar
alone did lead"
The old eagle first shoves ths young one
out Of the nest in order to make it nv, ami
then takes it on her back ami flies with it
and shakes it OF in the air, AMI il it seems
like falling quickly flies unier it and taxes
it on her wing again. So God does with US.
Disaster. failure in business, disappoint
ment bereavement is oaly Gods way OF
shaking US out of our CO nfortable nest in
order that we may learn how to fly. You
who are complaining that you have no faith
or courage of Christian asal have had it too
easy. You never will learn to fg in that
comfortable nest.
Like an eagle, Christ has carried US on HIS
back. At times we have bean shaken off,
and when ne were about TO fall He came
under us again and brought us out OF the
gloomy valley to the sunny mountain.
Never an eagle broo led with such love and
care over her young as Cots wings have
been over US. Across what oceans OF trouble
we have gone in safety upon the Almighty
win,S From what mountains OF sin we
have been carried an at times have been
borne up far above the guushot OF the world
and the arrow OF the devil
When our time on earth is closed or these
great wings of Goi we shall speed with In
finite quckness from earths mountains to
heavens hills AMI as from thu eagles cir
cult under the sun men on the ground seem
small ami insignificant as liz ur Ia on a roc<,
so all earthly things shall dwindle into
speck, AMI the raging river OF death so far
beneath will seem smooth ami CLASSY as a
Swiss lake
1t was tn ught In ancient times that an
cage could not only mott its feathers in old
age but that after arriving to great age it
woul renew its strength and become en-
trey young again. TO this Isaiah alludes
when he saws: They that wait on the Lori
shall renew their strength. Tneg shall
mount up with wings OF eagles" Even 50
the Christian in old age will reusw his spirit
ual strength. Hs shall be young in ardor
and enthusiasm tor Christ, and as the bo1y
fails tn. soul will grow in elasticity tlii at
death it will spring up like Giaddene oh'i1
into tue bosom OF Col
Yen. in this archaeological stuiy | see
that jon says, "i9is DAYS hy as an eagle that
haststn to his prey Ths speed OF hungry
eagle when it saw its pray score OF miles
distant was uninsginabls. 1t went like a
thuuderbolt for spsst aut power. SO ny