Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-01-14


crying: "The daughter Of my people Is
become like the ostriches of the wilder
ness" Among the provisions piled on
Solomon's bountiful table, the Bible
speaks of "fatted fowl" The Israel
ties in the desert got tired OF
mama and they had quails-quails
for breakfast, quails for dinner,
quails for supper, and they died OF
quails. The Bible refers to the migra-
tory habits of the birds, and says:
THE stock knoweth her appointed
time and the turtle and the crane and
the swallow the time of their going,
but my people know not the Judgment
of the Lord" Would the prophet illus
trate the fate of fraud, he points to a
failure Mt incubation and says: las a
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 ut his end shall
be n fool" The partridge, the most
careless of all birds in choice OF its
place of nest, building it on the ground
and often near frequented road, or in
a slight depression of ground, without
reference to safety, and soon a hoof or
a scythe or cart wheel ends all. So
says the prophet, man who gathers
under him dishonest doll ars 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, but the
trouble is about keeping it. Every
hour of every day some such partridge
is driven off the nest Panics are only
a flutter of cartridges.
But from the top of Bible fir tree l
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 alight-
ing sometimes to wing its way from the
region of the Rhine to Africa. AS win
ter comes all the storks fly to warmer
climes, and the last one of their num-
Der that arrives at the spot to which
they migrate is killed by them. What
havoc it would make in our species 1t
those men were killed who were always
behind In oriental cities the stork is
domesticated and walks about on the
street and will follow its keeper. In
the city of Ephesus l saw a long row
of pillars, on the top of each pillar a
storks nest. Rut the word 'stork'
ordinarily means mercy and atfec-
ton, from the fact that this bird was
distinguished for its great love to its
parents. 1t never forsalles them, and
even after they become feeble, protects
and provides for them In migrating,
the old storks lean their necls on the
young storks, and when the old ones
give out the young ones carry them on
their back. God forbid that n 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 best who have lost her.
That man is graceless as cannibal
who ill-treats his parents, and he who
begrudges them daily bread and clothes
them but shabbily, may God have pa
thence with hun; cannot
But yonder in this Bible sky flies a
bird that is specified. The prophet de-
scribing the church cries out: Mine
heritage is unto me like specified bird,
the birds round about are against her. "
So it was then; SO it is now. Holiness
picked at A specified bird is peculiar
bird, and that arouses the antipathy OF
nil the bealss of the forest The church
of God is a peculiar institution, and
that is enough to evoke attack OF the
world, for it is a speckled bird to be
picked at. The Inconsistencies OF
Christians are q banquet on which
multitudes get fat They ascribe every
thing you do to wrong motives Put a
dollar in the poor box, and they will
say that he dropped it there that he
might hear it ring. Invite them to
Christ and they will call you fanatic.
Let there be contention among Chris
tians and they will say, 'Hurrah! the
church is in decadence. Christ in
tended that his church should always
remain specified bird. Let birds OF
another feather pick at her, but they
cannot rob her of n single plume. Let
all earth and all hell try to hunt down
this speclled bird, but far above human
scorn and Internal assault 1t shall ring
over every mountain top and fly over
every nation, and her triumphant song
shall be, The Church of God! The pill
lar and ground of the truth The
gates of hell shall not prevail against
her."
But we cannot stop here. From a
tall cliff hanging over the sea ! hear
the eagle calling unto the tempest and
lifting its wing to smite the whirlwind.
Moses, jeremiah, Hosea and Habakkul'
at times, in their writings, take their
pen from the eagles wing. 1t is bird
with ferceness in its eye, its feet armed
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