Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-01-12


TO Nonh and his family, THE world is not
IL for you to disembarl.." Noah waited a
week, and nest Sunday morning be let che
dove ly again for secord exploration, and
Sunday evening il cane bacll with n leaf
that As1 the Sien OF just having been
pluckcd from \ living fruit tree, and the
bird reported the wGrld would do tolerably
well for "a bird to live in, but not yet sutli
GENTLY recovered for human residence.
Noah waited another week, and next
Sunday morning he sent out the dove on
the thivd exploration, but it returned not,
for il found The world 80 attractive now it
did not want 20 be Gagged again, and then
the cmicrauts from the antediuvian world
landed. 1t was a bird that told them when
totSSc possession of the resuscitated planet.
So the human race were saved by n birds
wing--for, attempting to lNfd too soon they
would have persisted.
I5AGAH on THE DOVES.
Aye, here comes whole flock OF doves
rock doves. ring doves, stock doves-and
they make Isaiah think of great revivals
and great awakeniugs when souls fly for
shelter like fock of pigeons swooping to
the openings of pigeon coop, and cries
out, "NYho are these that fly as doves to
their windowsW David, with Saul after
him and flying from cavern to cavern,
compares himself to Il desert partridge, a
bird which especially haunta rocky places,
and boys and hunters to this day take after
It with sticks fer the partridge runs rather
! than flies
David. chased ard dubbed and harried
of pulsuers, says, ~ am hunted as Il par
! tld4e on the mountains" Speaking OF his
/ forloru condition, he says, ~ am like a
pelican Of the Wilderness" Describing his
/ loneliness, he says, II am swallow alone
! on u bousetor" Hezekiah, in the einaci-
| alton Of his sickness, compares himself to
| crane thin and wasted. job had so much
trouble he could not sleep nights, and he
| describes his insomnia 10y saying, 81 am
companion to owls" Isaiah compares the
! desolations OF hanished Israel to an owl
! and bittern and cormoranC among n city's
! ruins
jeremiah, describing the cruelty of par
! ents toward children, compares them 20
! the ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the sand
uncarod for crying, "Ihe daughter of my
| people il becoms like the ostrchcs of the
Wilderness" Among the provisions piled
on Solomon's bountiful table the Bible
speaks Of "fattcd fowl" The Israelites in
the desert got tired Of mauna and they had
| quails-Quaiis for breakfast, quails for din
ner, qua.ls for supf;" AND they died Of
quails. The Bible ra.,;a TO the migratory
| habits OF the birds and says, "The stork
| kuoNeth herHppointrd time, and heturtle
| and the crane, and tie sral!oW the time Il
their going, but my people know not the
! judgments of the Icrj"
Would the prophet Illustrate the fate Of
the fraud, he points to II failure at incu-
baton and says, "AS partridge stitch on
eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
! gstteth riches. and not 10y right, shall leave
them in the midst Of his days and at his
end shall be fool The partridge the
most careless Of all birds in choice Of it's
place Of nest, building it on the ground
and often near frequented road, or in a
slight depression OF ground. without refer
encc to safety and soon a hoof or IL scythe
or Il cart wheel ends all. So says the
prophet, "A r!an who gathers under him
| dishonest dollars will hatch out of them no
peace, no satisfaction, 10 happiness, no Sc
| Guilty.
What vivid similitude The quickest
way TO Gmass a fortune is 10y iniquity, but
the trouble is about keeping it. Every hour
Of every day some such partridge is driven
Off the nest Panics are only 4 futter of
cartridges. 1t is toe tedious work to q
come rich inthe old fashioned way, and if a
man car by one falsehood make as much rs
by ten years Of hard labor, wing not tell it?
And if one counterfeit check will bring the
dollars - easily as a genuine issue, Why
not make it? One years fraud will be
equal to half u lifetimos sweat Why not
! live solely by ones wits' a fortune thus
built will be firm and everlasting viii it,
Hal build your house or volcanoes crater;
90 to sleep on the bosom Of an avalanche.
The volcano will blaze and the avalanche
! will thunder. There are estates which
have been coming together from age to age.
Many years ago that estate started in a
husbands industry and wife's economy.
II grew from generation to generation by
good habits and high minded enterprise.
Old fashioned industry was the mine from
which that gold was dug, and God will
keep toe deeds Of such an estate in his
buckler FUreclose your mortgage, spring
your snap Judgments plot with acutost in
triguc against a family property like that,
and you cannot do it permanent damage,
Better than wGrrantee deed and better than
fire insurance is the defense which Gods
own hand will give it.
TllR EVIL WILL COME 70 LIGHT
But here is a man today as poor as Jot
after be WAS robbed by satan OF everything
but his boils, yet suddenly tomorrow he is
rich man. There is no accounting for his
sudden afIluence. He has not yet failed
often enough to become wealthy. No one
prstends to account for his princely ward
robe, or the chased silver, OF the full curbed
steeds that rear and neigh like Bucephalu'
in the grasp OF his coachman. Did he come
to a sudden inheritance, No. Did hemakt
fortune on purchase aud saie' No. Every
body asks, Where did that partridge hatchi
The devil suddenly threw him up and the
devil will suddenly let him come down
That hidden scheme God saw from the first
conception OF the plot, That partridge
swift disaster will shoot it down, and the
higher it flies the harder it falls. The
prophet saw, IA you and have often seen
the awful mistake Of cartridges.
But from the top of a Bible Or tree heai
the shrill cry Of the stork. job Ezekiel
jeremiah speak Of it. David cries out, "A'
for the stork, the fir tree is her house, )
This large white Bible bird is supposed
without alighting sometimes to wing it,
way from the region of the Rhine to Africa
AS winter comes all the storks fly to warm
er chimes, and the last one Of their number
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