The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-01-11

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No. Everybody asks where did that
partridge hatch? The devil suddenly
threw him up and the devil will sud
denly let him come down. That hidden
scheme God saw from the first concep-
tion of the plot That partridge, swift
disaster will shoot it down, and the
higher it flies the harder it falls Inc
prophet saw, as you and ! have often
seen, the awful mistake OF partridges
But from the top of Bible fir tree
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 alighting
sometimes to wing its way from the re-
gion of the Rhine to Africa. AS winter
comes all the storlSs fly to warmer
climes, and the last one of their mum
Der that arrives at the spot to which
they migrate is killed by them. VIVA,
havoc it would make in our species II
those men were killed who are 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 saw long row o.
pillars, on the top Of each pillar
storks nest. But the word "stork' or
dinarily means mercy and affection
from the fact that this bird was dis
tinguished for It's great love t
its parents. 1t never forsakes them,
and even after they become feeble,
protects and provides for them
In migrating, the old storks lean
their necks on the young storlks, and
when the old ones give out the young
ones carry them on their backs Goo
forbid that dumb stork should have
more heart than we. Blessed Is thai
table at which an old father and mother
sit Blessed that altar at which an old
father and mother kneel. What 1t is
to have mother they know best who
have lost her. God only knows the
agony she suffered for us, the times she
wept over our cradle and the anxious
sighs her bosom heaved as we lay upon
1t, the sick nights when she watched
us long after everyone was tired ou,
but God and herself. Her life blood
! beats in our heart and her image lives
in our face. That man is graceless as
cannibal who i'll treats his parents,
and he who begrudges them daily bread
and clothes them but shabbily, may
God have patience with them; cannot
heard a man once say: 81 now have
my old o.her on my hands," Ye storlSs
on your way with food to your aged
parents, shame himl
But yonder in this Bible sky flies
bird thst is speckled The prophet de
scribing the church cries out: mine
heritage is unto me as speclxled bird
the birds round about are against her.
So 1t was then; so it is now. Holmes
picked at. Conservation picked at
Benevolence picked at Usefulness
picked at. A specSled bird is peculia
bird, and that arouses the antipathy o
all the bealxs Of the forest. The churcl
Of God is peculiar institution, an
that is enough to evoke attack OF tn
| world, for it is speclSled bird to >
picked at. The inconsistencies of Chrii
tians are banquet on which multi
5 tudes get fat. They ascribe everythin
! you do to wrong motives. Pr
3 dollar in the poor box, and the
: will say he dropped it there onl
> that he might hear it ring. Ii
9 vite them to Christ and they wi
4 call you fanatic Let there be col
y tention among Christians, and they wi
4 say "Hurrah! the church Is In dec
r. dence." Christ intended that His churC
r should always remain q specified bir
g Let birds OF another feather pick at he
4 but they cannot rob her of a sing
= plume Like the alabatross, she CT
q sleep on the bosom of a tempest. 81
% has gone through the fires OF Neb
u chadnezzar's furnace and not g
10 burned; through the waters Of the n
70 Sea and not been drowned; through q
d shipwreck ON the breakers Of Nell
m and not been foundered Let all ear
n and hell try TO hunt down this speckl
II Bird, but far above human scorn al
ID internal assault II shall sing over eve
I. mountain top and fly over every natio
in and her triumphant song shall be- IT
m Church Of God The pillar and groul
ID of the truth. The gates of hell shi
a not prevail against her"
n But we cannot stop hers. From
ls tall cliff, hanging over the sea, | he
10 the eagle calling unto the tempest a
70 lifting its wing TO smite the whirlwir
4, Moses, jeremiah, Hosea and Haba
- luk, at times in their writings Ia
y, their pen from tho eagles wing. II
:, n bird with fierceness in its eye, Its Il
4, armed with claws OF iron, and its he
-. with dreadful beak. Two or three
20 them can fill the heavens with clang
% But generally this monster Of the ali
IA. alone and unaccompanied, for the r
no son that It's habits areso predaceoui
90 requires five or ten miles Of aerial
% earthly dominion all for itself. ]
ho black brown OF its back, and the wh
hv of It's lower feathers, and the fire of
No eye, and the long Zap OF, its wing ms
bv one glimpse of IL as it swings down \
no the valley TO pick up rabbit, O
,g lamb, or a child, and then swings b.
ii 10 It's throne on the rock, someth
MN never TO be forgotten. Scattered alb
~ It's eyrie Of altitudinous solitude are
.re bones OF its conquests. But while
to. beak and the claws Of the eagle are
ars terror Of all the travellers Of the air,
d,s mother eagle Is most kind and gentl'
ev her young. God compares his. tr'
nod ment Of his people TO the eagles car
ld. the eaglets. Deuteronomy xxi,
om 'As an eagle stirreth up her nest, (
I'M tereth ovet her young, spreading abr
Ills her wings, taketh them, bearI y Il