Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-09-19

poet laureate of England. in a beauti-
full rhythmic masterpiece once enun-
ciated the doctrine that multitudes can
make an object despised when it should
be admired. Said he:
Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a
seed.
| Up there came fower-the people said
a weed.
To and fro they went through my garden
| bower
And. muttering discomfort, cursed me and
my flower.
Then it grew so tall it wore crown of
light
But thieves from DER the wall stole the
| seed by night.
sowed it far and wide by every town and
tower,
Till all the people cried, Splendid is the
! flower"
Read my little fable; he that runs may
| read.
| Most can raise the flowers now, for all
have got the seed.
And some are pretty enough, and some
| are poor indeed,
And now again the people call it but
| weed.
But though ''black eyed Susans'' or
the golden spore'' or the "blue eyed
| viOlets' on account of their great null
| titudes may be called a common flower
"a weed-the dove, in spite of her
multitudes, has never been called
common bird. The dove always has
been and always will be the symbol
of purity, gentleness and love. This
symbol was recognized in heather
times. Because the dove signiied pu-
rity Venus had this bird as her en-
blem. Dean Stanley in relating his
oriental travels writes thus about the
ruins of Ascalon: THE temple erected
to the Syrian Venus is destroyed, but
the sacred doves sacred by innumer-
able legends of the spot and celebrated
there even as late as Eusebius- still
fill with their cooings the luxuriant
gardens which grow in the sandy hol-
lows within the ruined walls'
Nurtured by a Dove.
In the beautiful NEUROLOGICAL legend
Semiramis, the queen, was said in her
youth to have been nurtured by dove
and at death to have been changed
into a dove We find, however, in
Christian nomenclature the dove is
also the symbol of purity and gentle
ness and divine love. In the Bible the
dove has the most hallowed of asso-
Citations. 1t was as a dove that the
Holy Spirit appeared at the baptism
of Jesus It was two doves that the
Blessed Virgin presented at the temple
as an oblation for her publication aft
| er the divine birth. What says the
psalmist in reference to the mans re-
demption from sin and his cleansing
through the blood of Jesus Christ?
Though We have lain among the pots,
yet shall We be as the wings of dove
covered with silver and the feathers
with yellow gold" Oh, my friends,
in the beautiful vision of the doves,
the poor, the gentle, the loving, the
innocent doves, f1uttering to their viii
dOws, cannot you see the symbol of
future glorified and consecrated as
semblage crowding about the sacred
affairs of Jesus Christ?
This migration of the redeemed and
spotless multitudes of human beings
to Christ's churches shall not only
.. | come with the purity of the dove, but
| also with the swift velocity of the
: dove. 1t will not come with the lead
en- feet of a man who having been
born in a Christian home, takes ten,
fifteen, twenty, perhaps thirty years,
to make up his mind to be Christian.
1t will not come with the slow proc
esses some churches have, whereby
| their sessions or vestries or boards Of
! deacons place the applicant for church
membership on probation. But these
new accessions to the churches of
Jesus Christ will come to the front
rank Of Christian service and worship
as quickly as the name of Saul was
| changed into a Paul. The new men,
! bers whom Isaiah saw in vision fed to
Christ's altar as quickly as the doves
fly to their windows.
Not only is the doves wing power
fully hurtled for quick flight, but that
fight can be kept up for almost incred-
ible distances. We find these wonder
full flights recorded by the different
cOlumbine societies in different parts
of the world. In 1865 thirty pigeons.
which are only the domesticated names
OF the wild doves, were thrown into
the air at Liverpool and started for
Ghent. The distance between these
u TWO places on a straight line is over
> ooo miles. The first bird which arrived
nome made that distance in twelve
u hours and twenty minutes If this
t nOmlng pigeon flew in a direct line he
Z, Travelled at an average speed of twen-
o ty-nVe miles per hour for twelve long
IT hours. Once pigeon was let loose in
Ii London and travelled to Antwerp. 1870
II miles distant, in five hours He made
: an average of about thirty-six miles
d per hour. In 1914 the doves speed was
/ tested, when seventy birds flew from
u st. Sebastian, Spain, to Venice On a
It straight line they travelled distance
d of over 600 miles. Homing pigeons
II have flown from Arizona to New York.
$ The enduring swiftness Of the dove is
It such that it can overly mountains and
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