News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-12
tempting to land too soon, they woul
have persisted.
THE LESSON OF THE DOVES.

! vivals and great awakenings when souls
| fly for shelter like flock of pigeons
swooping to the openings of pigeon
| eoop, 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 desert partridge, a 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 dubbed and harried
of pursuers, says, Il am hunted as par
| fridge on the mountains" Speaking OF
| his forlorn condition, he says, 81 am like
| a 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 a crane, thin and wasted. Job
had so much trouble he could not sleep
nights, and he describes his insomnia by
saving, 81 am Il companion to owls"
Isaiah compares the desolations of ban
ished Israel to an owl and bittern and
cormorant among city's ruins.
jeremiah, describing the cruelty of par
ents toward children, compares them to
the ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the
sand uncared for, crying, 'The 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
G., I
and they died of quails. The Bible re-
fers to the migratory habits of the birds
and says, 1.-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 the Lord"
Would the prophet illustrate the fate
of fraud, he points to failure at incuba-
ton and says, Gas 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 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
hoof or a scythe or cart wheel ends all.
So says the prophet, a man who gathers
under him dishonest dollars will hatch
out of them no peace, no satisfaction, no
| happiness, no security.
What vivid simiitude! The quickest
way to amass a 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 futter of cartridges. 1t is too
| tedious work to become rich III 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 dollars
as easily as a genuine issue, why not
make it? One years fraud will be equal
| to IA half a lifetines sweat. Why not
live solely by ones wits? A fortune thus
built will be firm and everlasting. Will
it? Ha! build your house on a volcanoes
! crater; go to sleep on the bosom of an
avalanche. The volcano will blaze, and
the avalanche will thunder.
! There are estates which have been COM
ing together from age to age. Many
| years ago that estate started in a hus-
bands industry and a wife's economy.
| 1t 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 buckler. Forclose your mortgage.
spring your snap judgments, plot with
i1,f1-
ty like that and you cannot do it per
manent damage. Better than WARRANTED
deed and better than fire insurance is
the defense which Gods own hand will
give it.
THE SILLY ONES MUST SUFFER.
But here is a man today as poor as
job after he was robbed by satan Of
everything bat his boils, yet suddenly
tomorrow he is a rich man. There is no
accounting for his sudden afiuence. He
has not yet failed often enough to be-
come wealthy. No one pretends to ac-
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 a sudden inheritance? No. Did he
make 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 it flies the
harder it falls. The prophet saw, as you
and | have often seen, the awful mistake
of cartridges.
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 some
times to wing its way from the region Of
all the storks fly to warmer climes and
the last one of their number that arrives
at the spot to which they migrate is
killed by them. What havoc it would
make in our species if those men were
killed who are always behind! In orien-
tai cities the stork is domesticated and
walks about on the street and will follow
it's keeper.
In the city of Ephesus | saw n long
row of pillars, on the top of each pillar
stork's nest. But the word "stork'
ordinarily means mercy and affection,
from the fact that this bird was distin-
guished for it's great love for 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 storks,
and when the old ones give out the
young ones carry them ON their backs.
God forbid that dumb stork should
have more heart than we. Blessed is
that table at which an old father and
mother sit; blessed that altar at which
an old father and mother kneel!
What it is to have a 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
signs her bosom heaved as we lay upon
| it, the sick nights when she watched us
! long after every one was tired out but
| God and herself. Her hfeblood beats
in our heart, and her image lives in ON
face. That man is graceless as a canni
bal who i'll treats his parents. and L.
who begrudges them daily bread anl
clothes them but shabbily, may Goo
| have patience with him: I cannot. !
heard man once say, Il now have ny
old mother on my hands Ye stork.
on your way with food to your aged
| parents, shame him.
THE PROSECUTED CHURCH.
But yonder in this Bible sky flies a
bird that is speckled. The prophet &c