The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-01-20

leaves its eggs in the sand uncared for.
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 at incubation and says: AS 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 at his end shall
be a fool The partridge. the most
careless of all birds in choice of its
place of nest. building it on the ground
and often near a frequeuted 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 simiiitude, The quickest way to
amass a fortune is by iniquity. but the
trouble is about keeping it. Every
hour of every day some such partridge
is driven of the nest Panics are only
a fntter OF cartridges. 1t is too tedious
70 become rich in the old-fashioned
way, and II man can by falsehood
make as much as by ten years Of hard
labor, why not tell it, and if one couu-
terteit check will bring the dollars as
easily as genuine issue. why not make
Il? One years fraud will be equal to
half life-time's sweat Why not live
solely by ones wits? A fortune thus
built will be firm aud everlasting
VIII it? Hal build your house on a
volcanoes crater: go to sleep on the
bosom OF an avalanche. The volcano
will blaze aud the avalanche will thun-
der. Better than warrantee deed. and
better than fire insurance is the defense
which Gods own hand will give it
But here is a man. to-day a. poor as
Job, after he was robbed by Satan Of
everything but his boils: vet, suddenly.
tomorrow he is rich man. There is
no accounting for his sudden af1ueuce.
lie has not yet failed often enough to
become wealthy. No one preteHds to
account for his princely wardrobe. or
the chased silver. or the full-curbed
steeds that rear and neigh like Buceph-
alus in the grasp of his coachman- Did
he come 70 a sudden inheritance? No.
Did he make fortune on purchase and
sale? No Everybody asks where did
that partridge hatch? The devil sud
denly threw him up aud the devil will
suddenly let him come down.
But from the top Of a Bible fir tree l
hear the shrill cry of the stork- Job,
Ezekiel, jeremiah speak of i, David
cries out: As for the stork. the Dir
tree Is her house" This large white
Bible bird is supposed without alight-
ing sometimes u wing its way from the
region Of the Rhine to Africa. As win
ter comes all the storks fly to warmer
cimes. aud the last one Of their num-
Der that arrives AZ the spot - which
they N CRATE is killed By thsm. What
havoc it would make il oar species il
those men were killed who were always
behind In oriental cities the stork Is
and walks about OF the
street and will follow its keeper. In
the city Of Ephesus I saw long row
OF pillars. on the top OF each pillar a
stork's nest Rut the word ''stOrk"
ordinarily means mercy aad atfec-
ton. from the fact that this bird was
parents 1t never forsal>es them. and
even after they become feeble. protects
and provides for them. In migrating,
the old storks lean their nee - on TIE
Young storks, aud when the old ones
give out the young ones carry them on
their back God forbid thai dumb
stork should have more heart than we.
Blessed is that table at Which al old
father and mother SIT. Blessed that
altar at which an old father and mother
kneeL What it is 70 hav. a mother
they know best who have lost her.
That man Is graceless As a cannIbal
who ill-treats his parents, and he who
beCruiges them daily bread and clothes
them but shabbily, may God have pa
tience with him; cannot
But yonder in this Bible sky flies a
bird that is speckled. The prophet de-
scribiug the church cries out: Mine
heritage is unto me like a specl1led bird.
the birCs round about are against her"
So il was then: 50 it is now. Holiness
picked at A speckled bird is y peculiar
bird, and that arouses the antipathy of
all the beaks OF the forest The church
of God is a peculiar institution, and
that is enough TO evoke attack OF the
world. for it Is 4 speckled bird TO be
picked at The Inconsistencies of
Christians are a banquet on which
get fat They ascribe every
thing you do to wrong motives Put
dollar in the poor box, and they will
say that he dropped it there that ne
might hear 1t ring Invite them to
Christ and they will call you a fanatic
Let there be contention among Chris
tians anu they VIII say, uurrlh- the
church IS in decadelee. Christ in
tended that his church should always
specified bird. Let birds OF
another feather pick at her. but they
cannot rob her of a single plume. Let
all earth and all hell try TO hunt down
this speckled bird, but ta- above human
scorn and Internal assault It 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