Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-13

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can by one falsehood make as much as bl
ten years of hard labor, why not tell it
And il one counterfeit check will bring tn,
dollars as easily as genuine issue. why mo-
| make II? One years fraud will be equal K
a half lifetimes sweat Why not live
solely by ones witsS A fortune thus bull
will be firm and everlasting. Win it
! Hal build your house on volcanoes crater
go to sleep on the bosom Of an avalanche,
The volcano will blaze, and the avalanche
will thun Ter.
There are estates which have been coming
together from age to age. Many years ago
that estate started in husbands industry
ana a wife's economy. 1t grew from gen.
.ration to generation by good habits and
aigh minded enterprise. Old fashioned in
iustry was the mine from which that gold
vas dug. and God will keep the deeds OF such
an estate in His buckler. Foreclose your
mortgage, spring your snap judgments, plot
Nth acutest intrigue against family prop
irty like that and you cannot do 1t per-
nanent damage, Better than warrantse
Iced aud better than fire insurance is the
iefense which Gods own hand will give 1t.
But here is man to-day as poor as Job
,fter he was robbed by satan OF everything
,ut his boils, yet suddenly tomorrow he IS
urea man. There is no accounting for his
uiden afluence. He has not yet failed
,lten enough to become wealthy. No one
,retenGs to account for his princaly ward
,obe. or the chased silver, or the full curbsl
deeds that rear and neign like Bucephalus
II the grasp of his coachman. Did he come
GA sudden inheritance No. Did he make
, fortune on purchase and sale? No. Every
,oiy asks where did that partridge hath.
Cae devil suddenly threw him up, and tbs
ievil will su ldenly let him come down.
hat hidden scheme Col saw from the first
conception OF the plot. That partridge,
wifi disaster will shoot it down, and the
higher it flies the harder it falls The proph-
t saw. as you and have often seen, the
.wful mistake OF cartridges.
But from the top Of BiOle fir tree hear
he shrin cry Of the strork. JOB, Ezekiel,
jeremiah. speak of it. David cries out "As
or the stors, the fir tree Is her house."
This large white Bible bird is supposed,
Without alighting sometimes to wing its
raw from the region OF tue Rhine to Africa.
As winter comes all the storks fly to warmer
.limes and the last one Of their number that
arrives at the spot to which they migrate is
Sillei bv them. What havoc it would make
n our species if those men were killed wac
are always behind. In oriental cities the
forS is domeSticated aud walks about on the
Wreet and will follow its keeper,
In the city Of E0hssuS | saw a long row
Il pillars on ths top of each pillar stork's
aest. But the word "stork' ordinarily
means mercy and affection, from the fact
nat this bird was distinguished for its great
owe for its parents. 1t never forsakes them'
md even after they become feeble protects
md proyides for them. In migrating the
I'D storks lean their necks on the young
forks, and when the old ones give out the
gouny ones carry them on their bacSs.
5od forbid that dunno storS should have
more heart than we Blessed is that table
It which an old father and mother sit;
blessed that altar at which an old father
and mother kneel
What it is 10 have a mother they know
hest who have lost her God only knows
.hs agony she suffered for US the times She
went over our cradle and the anxious signs
her bosom heaved as we lay upon 1t, the
iick nights when she WATCHED US long after
svsry one was tired out but God and herself.
Her iifebOod beats in our hearts, and her
Image lives in our face. That man is grace
less as caunibal who III treats his parents,
aud he who begrudges them daily bread and
.othes them but shabbily, may God havepl
ience WITH him; 1 cannot. heard man
2nce say, Il now have my old mother on
ny hands" Ye storks on your way with
.ood 70 your aged parents shame him.
But wonder in this Bible sky flies bird
hat is speckled. The prophet describing
be church cries out, mine heritage is uato
ne as q speckle1 bird; the birds round
,bout are against her. So it was then; so
is now. Holiness picSei at Consecrl-
ion picked at Benevoence picked at.
Usefulness picked at. a spscSlel bird is
peculiar bird; aud that arouses the antip-
THY Of all the baass o the forest.
The church Of God is peculiar instit1-
ION. and that is enou ia to evo6e attacS OF
# the world. for it is a speckle1 bird 10 be
.icSel at Toe inconsistencies Of Christians
IRE a banquet on which multituies get fat.
rhey ascrl0e everything you do TO wrong
motives Put dollar in the poor box and
they viii say chat you dropped it there only
hat you might hear it riny. Invite them
% Christ an they viii call you fanatic.
let there be contention among Christians,
aud they will say. "Hurrabl The church Is
II decadence
Christ intended that His church should
always remain spsckle1 bird. Let birds
II another feather picl at her, but they
cannot rob her Of single plume. Like the
albatrosS she can sleep on toe bosom OF q
tempest. She has gone through the fires OF
burned. through the waters OF the Red sea
and not been drowned, through the ship
wreck on the breakers OF Melitia and not
been foundered. Let all earth and nell try TO
hunt down this sDecSled bird but far above
human scorn and internal assault 1t shalt
sing over every mountain TOP and fly over
every nation, and her triu nphant song shall
be. "The church of God The pillar AMI
ground OF the truth. The gates OF hell shall
not prevail against her"
But we cannot stop here. From tall
cliff hanging over the sea hear the eagle
calling unto tbs tempest and lifting its
wings to smite the whirlwin1. Moses Jere'
miab, Hosea and Habakkuk at times in their
writings take their pen from the eagles
wing 1t is bird with tierceness IN Its eye,
its feet armed with claws OF iron ami Its
head with dreadful beak Two or three OF
them can I'LL the heavens with can 5or. but
generally this monster of the air Is alone
and uuaccompaned, tor the reason that its
habits are so predacsous it requires five or
ten miles OF aerial or earthly dominion all
for Itself.
The black brown OF its bact. AMI the
white Of its lower feathers. and the fire Of
its eye, and the long flap OF its wing make
glimpse Of it as it swings down into the val
lev to pick ~ a rabbit, or a lamb. or child
AMI then swings back 70 its throne on the
rock something never to be FORGOTTEN. Scat
terei about its eyrie OF aititudinous solitude
are the bones OF its conquests. Bat while
the beak and tue claws OF the eagle are the
terror of all the travellers of the air, the
mother eagle is most kind and gentle to her
young. God compares His treatment OF His
people to the eagles care Of the eaglets.
Deuteronomy xxi. II, AS an eagle stir.
reth up her nest, 6uttersth over her young
spreading abroad hrr wings, taketh them,
beareth them on n wings, 50 the Lord
alone did lead"
The old eagle first snoves the young one
out 0f the nest in order to make it hy, and
then takes it on her back and flies with it
and shakes it Off in the air, aud il it seems
like falling quickly flies under it and takes
It on her wing again. SO God does with US.
Disaster, failure in business, disappolnt-
ment, bereavement, is only Gods way OF
shaking US out Of our co ufortlbls nest In
order that we may learl how TO hy. You
who are complaining that you have no faith
or courage Of Christian zeal have had IL too
easy. You never will learn 10 az in that
comfortable nest
Like an eagle. Christ has carried US on His
back At times we have been shaken off,
AMI when 'ge were about to fall He came
under US again and brought us out of the
gloomy valley to the sunny mountain.
Never an eagle brooied with such love and
care over her young as Go is wings have
been over US. Across what oceans OF trouble
we have gone in safety upon the Almighty
wings From what mountains OF sin we
have been carried AMI at times have been
borne 10 far above the gunshot Of the world
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