The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-27

desert partridge. . bird which especially
haunts rocky places, and boys and hunt
ers to this day take after It with sticks,
for the partridge runs rather than fies.
David, chased and clubbed and harried
Of pursuers says, II am hunted IS par
fridge on TIE mountains" Speaking of
his forIorR condition, he SAYS II am
like pelican of the wilderness" De-
scribinR his loneliness. he says, Il am q
swallow alone on housetop." Heze-
kiah. in the emaciation of bis sickness,
compares himself to . crane, thin and
wasted. Job had SO much trouble he
could not sleep nights, and he describes
his insomnia by saying, Il am . COM
panion to owls" Isaiah compares the
desolation of banished Israel to an owl
and bitterh and cormorant among city's
ruins.
Jeremiah, describing the cruelty of
parents toward children, compares them
to the ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the
sand uncared for. crying 1.-THE daughter
Of my people is becoming like the
ostriches of the wilderness" Among the
provisions piled on SOlomon's bountiful
table the Bible speaks Of ''fatted fowl. :"
The Israelites 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 migratory habits of
the birds and says, 1.-The stork knoweth
her appointed time, and the turtle, and
the crane, and the swallow the time of
their going, but my people know not the
judgments Of the Lord"
Would the prophet illustrate the fate
OF the fraud. he points to failure At
incubation and says, LAS q 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 fool. F."
The partridge, the most careless OF all
birds in choice OF its place of nest, build
ing it on the ground and often near q
frequented road, or in q slight depression
of ground, without reference to safety,
and soon a hoof or a scythe or q cart
wheel ends all. So saws the prophet, q
man who gathers under him dishonest
dollars will hatch out of them no peace,
no satisfaction, no happiness, no Sc
curity.
What a vivid similitude! The quick.
est way to amass q fortune is by iniquity,
but the trouble is about keeping it
Every hour of the day some such part
ridge is driven off the nest. Panics are
only q flutter of cartridges. 1t is too
tedious work to become rich in the old
fashioned way. and if man can by one
falsehood make as much as by ten years
of hard labor. why not tell it? And if
one counterfeit check will bring the dol
lars as easily as genuine issue, why not
make it? One years fraud will be equal
to half q Hfetime's sweat Why not live
solely by ones wits? A fortune thus
built will be firm and everlasting. Will
It? Ha! build your house on volcanoes
crater; 90 to sleep on the bosom of an
avalanche.
The volcano will blaze and the ava
lanche will thunder. There are estates
which have been coming together from
age to age. Many years ago that estate
started in q husbands industry and a
wife's economy. 1t grew from genera
tion 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 buckler.
Foreclose your mortgage. spring your
snap judgments, plot with acutest in
trigue against a family property like
that, and you cannot do it a permanent
damage. Better than warrantee deed
and better than fire insurance is the de-
Tense which Gods own hand will give it
But here is a man to-day as poor as
Job after he was robbed by Satan Of
everything but his boils, yet suddenly to-
morrow he is a rich man. There is no
accounting for his sudden affluence. He
has not yet failed often enough to be-
come wealthy. No one pretends to &C.
count for his princely wardrobe, or the
chased silver, or the full curbed steeds
that rear and neigh like Bucephalus in
the grasp of his coachman. Did he come
TO sudden Inheritance? No. Did he
make a fortune on purchase and sale"
No. Everybody asks, where did that
partridge hatch? The devil suddenly
threw him up and the devil will suddenly
let him 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, as you and
have often seen, the awful mistake OF
DuG yOuucI III Wis bIOlc Shy uIcS d UlIu
that is speckled. The prophet describing
the church cries out, milne heritage is
unto me as a speckled bird; the birds
round about are against her." So it was
then; so it is now. Holiness picked at.
picked at Benevolence
picked at Usefulness picked at. A
speckled bird is peculiar bird. and that
arouses the antipathy Of all the beaks |
Of the forest The church of God is a |
peculiar institu ton, and that is enough |
to evoke attack OF the world, for it is a |
speckled bird to be picked at. The in
of Christians are banquet !
On which mnltitudes get fat. They as
cribe everything you do to wrong mo-
tives. Put dollar in the poor box, and |
they will say that you dropped it there
only that you might hear it ring. Invite |
them to Christ and they will call you a |
fanatic.
Let there be contention among Chris
tians, and they will say: "Hurrah! The |!
church is in decadence. Christ intended |
that His church should always remain . !
speckled bird. Let birds of another |
feather pick at her. but they cannot rob |
her of single plume. Like the alba
ross. she can sleep on the bosom of .
tempest She has gone through the
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