. Birds of the Bible . )eculiar habit oftraveling in the daytime, and their flight was strong andhigh. Ilie last of ]\Iarch, when spring had arrived inPalestine, some bright day ^Merom, (ialilee, the Jordan,and Jabbok suddeidy were peo])led with hungry storkssi-arching for li/.ards, frogs, snakes, and any small animal,large insect, or water resident, (ireat flocks of these birdssettled over ruins near marshes and watt-r, by lakes andriveis in cultivated places, and in forests near the wattr;while cloud after cloud passed on farther north. In pointing out the carelessness of the piople, Jere-mi
. Birds of the Bible . )eculiar habit oftraveling in the daytime, and their flight was strong andhigh. Ilie last of ]\Iarch, when spring had arrived inPalestine, some bright day ^Merom, (ialilee, the Jordan,and Jabbok suddeidy were peo])led with hungry storkssi-arching for li/.ards, frogs, snakes, and any small animal,large insect, or water resident, (ireat flocks of these birdssettled over ruins near marshes and watt-r, by lakes andriveis in cultivated places, and in forests near the wattr;while cloud after cloud passed on farther north. In pointing out the carelessness of the piople, Jere-miah calKcl attention to the wisdom of the birtls in watch-. s .>:wqgrX- TIIK ST OK K iiH\) inf; tlic seasons and follow in^- them. He said, Vea, thestork in tlic lieaven knoweth her appointed times, which})roved that he had heen observing the birds; and tlien headded, but my people know not the ordinances of theLord Tlie splendid picture these birds made in fligllt so im-})ressed ZicliaiIali, tlie man wlio was o-ivcn to seeing vis-ions, that in the instance of the ephah of lead and thetalent lie said of the two women he saw bearing awaythe ephah, The wind was in their wings, for they hadwings like the wings of a stork. These birds came withthe showers and renewal of spring, settled in every avail-able spot all over Palestine, and began housekeeping. Workers in the fields saw the home life of those bythe rivers; fishermen were familiar with them around lakesof fresh water, and where rivers entered the salt seas;herdsmen of the plains and waste places watched thoseover ruins; but I doubt if they entered cities and nestedon the housetops, as t
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