Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-12

cradle and the anxious signs her
bosom heaved AS we lay upon il, the
sick nights. when she watched MS long
after everyone was tired out but God
and herself Her life blood beats In
our heart and her image lives in our
face. That man Is grarcless us u can
nibal who ill.treats his parents, and
he who bcgrudges them daily bread
aud clothes them but stability, may
God have patience with him; | cannot.
| heard u man once say, II now have
my old mother on my hands" We
s,orlSs on your way with food to your
aged parents, shame hint.
But yondcr in this Bible sky flies
bird that is specklcd. The prophet de-
seribing the church cries out; "Minc
heritage is unto me as u specified bird,
the birds round about are against her"
So IL was then; so II is now. Holiness
pisked at. Conservation picked ut.
Bcnevolcncc picked at, Usefulness
picked At, A specSlcd bird Is u pecu-
liar bird, and that arouses the am
tipathy of the bealss OF the forest The
Church of God is peculiar instltu-
ton, and that Is enough to evoke at
tack Of the world, for IL is u specified
bird to be picked at The in
constituencies OF Christians are u ban
quet on which multitudes get fnt, They
ascribe everything you do To wrong
motives Put dollar in the poor box
and they will say that he dropped IL
there only that he might hear IL ring
Invite them to Christ aud they will
call YOU fanatic. let there be con-
tcntiou among Christians, and they
will say "liu rah! tho church is III de-
cadence" Christ intended that his
church should always remain specified
bird. Let birds of another feather
pick nj her, but they cannot rob her
of a single plume, Like the nlbatroSs
she can sleep on the bosom of "A tempest,
She has gone through the fires OF
Northumberland furnace and not got
burned, through the waters of tho Red
Sea and not been drowned, through
the shipwrcclS on the breakers OF
Mclitp aud not been foundcred, Let
all earth and hell try to hunt down
this specified bird, but far above
human scorn and Internal assault, IT
shall sing over every mCuntain-top ana
fly over every nation, and her triumph.
ant song shall be, "rhc Church of God
Tho pillar and ground of the truth,
The gates OF he'll shall not prevail
against her
But we cannot stop here. From II
tall cliff hanging over the sea hear
the eagle calling unto the tempest and
lifting Its wing to smitc the whlrl-
| wind Moses, jeremiah, Hosea and
Habakkuls, at times In their writings
take their pen from the eagles wing,
IL is bird with ilcrcencss in its eye,
its feet armed with claws of iron, and
| it's head with dreadful beak. Two
or three OF them can fill the heavens
with clangor. But generally this mon
| ster of the mir Is alone and uuaccom
| panied, for the reason that It's habits
are SO prcdaccous IL requires five or
ten miles Of aerial or earthly dominion
all for itself The blnck-brown of its
back and the white OF It's lower fcath'
ers, and the fire of It's eye, and the
| long Flap of It's wing make one glimpse
| of il MS il swings down into the valley
to pick up u rabbit or lamb or n
child and then awnings back To its
| throne on the rock, something never Ia
be forgotten. Scattered about its cyrie
of altitudinous solitude arc the bones
OF It's conqucsts. But while the bcal'
and the claws OF the eagle are the
|
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 %: H. CAS- nm
eagle stirrcth up her nest, nut
teroth over her young, spreading
abroad her wings, takcth them, bear.
eth them on her wings so tho Lord
| nj old 10 lirG
shoyes the young one out OF the nest
in order To make 1t fly, and then takes
IL on her back and flies with il, and
shakes it OFF in the air, and IL IL seems
like falling, quickly flies under IL and
takes IL on her wing again. So God
does with us. Disaster, failure IN
business, disappointment, bcreave
ment, Is only Gods way of shaking US
out of our comfortable nest in order
that we may learn how to fly. You
who are complaining that you have nc
faith or courage or Christian zeal
| have had IL too easy. You never vii
learn to fly in that comfortable nest.
Like an eagle, Christ has carried us or
his back. At times we have beer
shaken off, and when we were about
to fall, he came under Us again ant
brought us out Of the gloomy valley e
the sunny mountain. Never an eagle
brooded with such love and care ovcI
her young as Gods wings have beer
over us Across what oceans of trotl
bic we have gone in safety upon th'
Almighty wings From what noun
tains Of sin we have been carried an,
at times have been borne up far abov,
the gunshot OF the world and tn
arrow OF the devil. When our time OF
earth Is closed, on these great wings
of God we shall speed with intinit
quickness from carth's mountains 4
heavens hills, and as from the eagle
circuit under the sun, men on tn
ground seem small and insignificant n
lizards on rock, so all earthly thing
shall dwindlc into spcck aud tn,
raging river of death SO far beneath
will seem smooth and CLASSY as Il Swis
lake.
1t was thought in ancient times tina
an eagle could not only moult hi
feathers in old age, but that after III
irving to great age, il would renew it
strength and become entirely youni
again TO this Isaiah alludes, when Ia
says: "Thcy that wait on the Lor'
shall renew their strength. they shall
mount up with wings of eagles" Ever
so the Christian in old age will reney
his spiritual strength. lie shall b
young in ardor and enthusiasm 70
Christ, and as the body fails the SOU
will grow in elasticity, till at death
will spring up like u gladdened chill
into the bosom Of God. Yea, in thi
archaeological study, ] see that Jol
says; Ills days fly as an eagle tina
hastcth to its prey" The speed of
hungry eagle when it saw it,
prey score of miles distant
was unimaginablc. IL went lilS
n thunderbolt for speed and power Sc
fly our days, Sixty minutes, eacl
worth heaven, since we assemble,
in this place, have shot like lightnin,
into eternity. The old earth is rem
and cracked under the swift rush o
DAYS and months and years .anC
ages. swift as an eagle that hastetl
to its prey" Behold the fowls of tn,
air. Have you considered that they
have as you and have not the power
to change their eyes so that one min
ute they may be telescope and the
next microscopic. Now seeing some
thing a mile away, and by telescope
eyesight, and then dropping to its food
on the ground, able to see ii close by
and with microscopic eyesight
But what a scnseless passage o
Scripture that Is, until You know tn,