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

on the ooSou OF an uNnlNncne. lhc
volcano will blaze and tho avalanche
will thunder Thcrcoarc estates which
have been coming together from age to
age Many years ago that estate
started I'm husbands industry aud q
wifc's economy. II grew from genera
ton To generation by good habits and
high.mndcd enterprise. Old fashioned
industry was the mine from which that
gold was dug, and God will keep the
deeds OF such IN estate In his buckler
/ Forcclose your mortgage, spring your
snap Judgments plot with acutest i'm
triguc against family property like
| that and YOU can not do IL permanent
damage. Better than warrantce decd
and better than fire insurance Is the
defense which Gods own haad will give
| IT,
hut hero Is man lo-day ms poor as
job after he was robbed Ivy Satan of
everything but his boils; yet, suddenly,
Tomorrow he Is rich man. There Is
no accounting for his sudden ailluencc.
! lie has not yet failed often enough To
become wealthy. No one prctends To
! account for his princcly wardrobe, or
the chased silver, or the full-cnrbcd
stceds that rear and neigh like Bucepha-
| lus in the grasp of his conchmnn. Did
he come To sudden inheritance?
| No. Did he make fortune ON
! bargain and SalcH No Ev.
eryhody asks, Where did that part
ridge natch? The devil suddenly threw
| him up, and the devil will suddenly let
him come down. That hidden scheme
/ A 81 e
! plot That partridge, swift disaster.
| will shoot IL down, and the higher II
! flies the harder IL falls The prophet
saw, as You and have seen, the awful
mistake OF cartridges.
But from the top of u Bible fir tree !
hear the shrill cry Of the stork. job.
Ezekiel, jeremiah, spcaa 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 It's way from the rec
gion III the Rhine To Africa AS winter
comes ON all the storlts fly To warmer
climcs, and the last one of their number
that arrives ut the spot To- which they
migrate Is killed 10y them What havoc
II would mako in our species IL those
men were killed who are always be-
hind. In oriental cities the storlS Is do
mcsticatcd and walks about on the
street, and will follow its keeper In
the city Of Ephesus saw long row OF
pillars, on the top of each pillar was a
stork's nest
But the word "storlS" ordinarily
means mercy and affection, from tho
fact that this bird was distinguished
for its great love to its parents. 1t
never forsakcs them, and even after
they become feeble protects and pro-
vidcs for them. In migrating the old
storks lean their necks ON the young
storlts, and when the old ones give out
the young ones carry them on their
back. God forbid that young stork |
should have more heart than we. |
Blessed Is that table ut which an old |
father and mother sit. Blessed that |
altar at which an old father and moth
err lnccl. What il is to have mother
they know best who have lost her.
God only knows the agony she suf- |
fcrcd for us, the times she wept over
our cradle and the anxious signs her |
bosom hcaved rs we lay upon it, the |
sick nights when she watched us long |
after every one was tired out, but God |
and herself Her life blood beats IN |
our hearts and her image lives in our |
face, That man is gracclcss n IA canni- |
bal who ill-trcats his parents. and he |
who begrudgcs them daily bread and |
clothes them but shabbily. may God |
have patience with him; can not ] |
heard u man once say; II now have my |
old mother on my hands" No storSs |
on your way with food To your aged |
parents shame him!
But yonder in this Bible sky flies |
bird that Is spcckled. The prophet de-
scribing the church cries out: mine |
heritage is unto me rs u specified bird. |
the birds ronnd about are against her"
80 IL was then 50 IL is now. Holiness
picked at Usefulness picked at A
specified bird Is peculiar bird. ono
that arouscs the antipathy OF all the
bealSs Of the forest The Church of God
is peculiar institution, and that Is
enough 10 evoke attack OF the world,
FOR IL Is "A spccklcd bird To be picked at
The inconsistencies of Christians arc
banquet on which multitudcs get fat
They aScribc everything you do 90
wrong motives. Put n dollar In the
poor box and they will say that he
dropped IL there only that he might
hear IL ring, | invite them to Christ
and they will call you fanatic. Let
there bc contention among Christians
aud they will say; "liurrahl the church
Is in decndcncc Christ intended that
His church should always remain n
specified bird. Let birds of another
feather pick at her but they can not
rob her of single plume. Like the al