The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-02-24


found imbedded In the rocks The sl<el-
~ feet In height and fifty feet FROM tip
of wing To- tip of wing, Many armies
OF bcalSs and claws were necessary to
clear the earth OF creatures that would
have destroyed the human race with
one clip like to find this harmony
of revelation and science. and tc
have demonstrated that the God whc
made the world made the Bible.
Moses, tho greatest lawyer of all time
and great man for facts, had enough
sentiment and poetry and musical taste
To welcome the illuminated wings and
the voices divincly drilled into the first
chapter OF Genesis How should Noah,
the old ship carpenter, 600 years OF age,
find out when the world was fit again
for human residence after the universal
frcshct? a bird will tell, and nothing
else can.
No man can come down from the
mountain to invite Noah aud his family
out To terra iirma, for the mountains
were submerged, As bird first her
aided the human race into the world.
INV ~ hiiN VIII ltllf Nut nuUiNn
back tn the world that had shipped n
sea that whclmcd everything Noah
stands on Sunday morning Mt the win
dow OF the ark, in his hand cooling
dove, So gentle, SO innocent, So affection
ate, ana he said: Now. my little dove.
fly away over these waters, explore and
como back and tell ms whether il is safe
to land" After long flight il returned
hungry and weary and wet, and 10y its
looks and manners said To Noah and his
family: "Thc world is not tit for YOU To
discmbark." Nouh waited week. and
next sunday morning he let the dove fly
again for second exploration, and
Sunday evening il came back with IA
leaf that had the sign of just having
been pluckcd from u living fruit tree,
and the bird reported the world would
do tolcrnbly we'll for II bird To live in,
but not yet sufficiently recovered for
human residence. Noah waited an
other week, and next SUNDAY morning
he Scnteu the dove on the third cN-
ploration, and IL returned not, for IL
found the world so attractive now il
did not want to be Gagged again. and
then the emigrants from the auti-dilu-
Wan world landed, II was bird that
told them when To take possession of
the rcsuscitatcd planet SO the human
race was saved by birds wing; for at
tempting to land too soon. they would
have persisted.
Aye, here comes whole flock of
doycs-rock doves, ring doves, stock
they make Isaiah think of
great rcvivals and great awalicnings
whom souls fly for shelter like u flock
OF pigeons swooping to the openings of
II pigeon coop, and he cries out: who
arc these that fly as doves To their win.
dows?" David, with Saul after him,
and flying from cavern To cavern, com-
pnrcs himself To n desert partridge, n
bird which especially haunts rocky
places, and boys and hunters To this day
take after il with sticks, for the par
fridge runs rather than flies David,
chased and dubbed and harricd of pur-
sucrs, says; IL am hunted rs u partridge
on the mountains" Speaking of his
forloru condition, he says; II am like
n pelican of the wilderness" De-
scribing his loneliness, he says: ~ am
n swallow alone on n housctop." llcl-
cliiah, in the cmacinti ton Of his sickness,
compares himself To crane. thin
and wasted job had so much trouble
he could not sleep nights, and he de-
scribed his insomnia by saying; II am
n companion To- owls" Isaiah COM
parcs the desolation of banishcd Israel
to an owl and bittern and cormorant
among city's ruins Jeremiah, de-
scribiug the cruelty Of parents toward
compares them 10 the ostrich,
who leaves its eggs in the sand uncarcd
for, crying; The daughter Of my peo-
Pile is becoming like the ostrichcs OF the
wilderness" Among the provisions
piled ON Solomon's bountiful table the
Bible speaks of "fattcd fowl" The
lsraclitcs in the desert got tired ~ man
ma and they had quails-quails for
breakfast, quails for dinner quails for
supper, and they died Of quails,
The Bible refers To the migratory
habits OF the birds, and says "rhc
stork knowcth her appointed time and
the turtle and the crane and the swat
low tho time of their going, but my
people know not the judgments OF the
Lord" Would the prophet illustrate
the fate of fraud, he points To failure
mt incubation. and says; "As partridge
sitteth on eggs and hatchoth 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 partridge, the most careless of all
birds in choice of It's place of nest
building IL on the ground and often
near frcqucntcd road, or in n slight |
depression OF ground. without reference
To safety, and soon hoof or a scythe
mr. n cart. wheel ends all.