Democratic messenger., 1893-01-14

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| affeciionatc. and he said. Now. my lit
tie dove. fly away over these waters. ex-
I plore and come back and tell us whether
/ it is safe To land" After a long flight il
returned hungry and weary and wet
and by its looks and manners said tc
! Noah and his family. The world is moi
/ fit for You to d.sembark." Noah waited
a week. and next Sunday morning he lei
the dove fly again for second explora
ton. and Sunday evening it came bach
with leaf that had the sign of just hay
ing been plucked from a living fruit tree
and the bird reported the world would
I do tolerably well for bird to live in
but rot yet sufficiently recovered fol
human aesidence.
Noah waited another week. and next
Sunday morning he sent out the dove on
the third exploration. but it returned
not. for il found the world so attractive
now il did not want To be Gagged again,
and then the emigrants from the ante
/ diluvian world landed. 1t was bird
! that told them when TO take possession
of the resuscitated planet. So the human
race were saved by birds wing. for at
tempting to land too soon. they woult
have perished.
THE LESSON OF THE DOVES.
Aye. herc comcsa whole flock of doves
I rock doves. ring doves. stock doves
and they make Isaiah think of great re-
vivals and great awakenings when souls
fly for shelter like flock of pigeons
swooping to the openings 81 IA pigeon
coop. and he cries out. Who are these
that fly as doves to their windows:
David. with Saul after him. and flying
from cavern to cavern. compares himself
to Il desert partridge. bird which es-
pecially haunts rocky places, and boys
and hunters to this day take after it with
sticks. for the partridge runs rather than
flies
David. chased and clubbed and harried
of pursners. says. Il am hunted as par
fridge on the mountains" Speaking OF
his forlorn condition. he says. Il am like
/ pelican in the wilderness" Describing
his loneliness. he says. Il am a swallow
alone on the housetop." Hezekiah. in
the emaciation of his sickness, compares
himself to Il crane. thin and wasted. job
had so much trouble he could not sleep
nights. and he describes his insomnia by
saying. Il am Il companion to owls. y
Isaiah compares the desolations of ban
ished Israel to an owl and bittern and
cormorant among a city's ruins.
jeremiah. describing the cruelty of par
ents toward children. compares them tc
the ostrich. who leaves its eggs in the
sand urcarcd for. CRYING. Tho daughter
of my people is become like the ostriches
of the wilderness" Among the provi-
sions piled on Solomon's bountiful table
the Bible speaks of ''fatted fowl" The
Israelites in the desert got tired of mamma
and they had quails-quails for break
fast. qu;ils for dinner. quails for supper.
and they died of quails. The Bible re-
fcrs to the migratory habits of the birds
and says. The stork knoweth her ap-
pointed time and the turtle and the crane
and the swallow the time of their going.
but my people know not the judgments
of tho Lord"
| Would the prophet illustrate the fate
of fraud. he points TO failure at incuba-
tion and says. ''As partridge sitteth 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 fool" The par
fridge. 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 slight depression of ground,
without reference to safety. and soon a
hoof or Il scythe or a cart wheel ends all.
So says the prophet. II man who gathers
under him dishonest dollars 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. Ev-
cry hour of every day some such par
fridge is driven off the nest. Panics are
only a ilutter of partridges. Il is too
tedious work to become rich in the old
fashioned way. and if man can by one
falsehood make as much rs by ten years
of hard labor. why not tell it: And if one
counterfeit check will bring the dollars
as easily as genuine issue. why not
make it: One years fraud will be equal
TO half lifetime's sweat. Why not
live solely by ones wits: 4 fortune thus
built will bc firm and everlasting. Will
il: Ha. build your house on a volcanoes
crater: 20 TO sleep on the bosom of an
avalanche. The volcano will blaze. and
the avalanche will thunder.
There are estates which rave been COM
ing together from age TO age. NJ NY
years ago that estate started in hus-
bands industry and Il 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 the deeds of such an estate in
his bucklcr. Forclose your mortgage
spring your snap judgments, plot with
acutest intrigue against Il family proper
ty like that and you cannot do it per
mancnt damage Better than warrantee
deed and better than fire insurance is
the defense which Gods own hand will
give il.
THE SILLY ONES MUST SUFFER.
But here is a man today rs 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 affiuence. He
has not yet failed often enough TO be-
come wealthy. No one prctends IL ac-
count for his princely wardrobe. or the
chased silver. or the full curbcd steeds
that rear and neigh like Bucephalus in
the grasp of his coachman. Did he come
To sudden inheritance: No. Did he
make Il fortune on purchase and sale:
No. Everybody asks where did that par
fridge hatch 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 il flies the
harder it falls. The prophet saw. as you
and have often seen. the awful mistake
of partridgcs.
But from the top Of Il Bible fir tree !