THE EAGLE AT NIAGARA

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 30, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 18.

THE EAGLE AT NIAGARA.

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. — Prov. 29:1.

A GENTLEMAN standing by Niagara, saw an eagle swoop down upon a frozen lamb incased in a floating piece of ice. The eagle stood upon it as it was “drifting” on toward the rapids. Every now and again the eagle would proudly lift his head into the air to look around him, as much as to say, “I am ‘drifting’ on toward danger; but I know what I am doing; I will fly away and make good my escape before it is too late.” When he neared the falls, he stooped and spread his powerful wings and leaped for his flight, but alas! alas! while he was feasting on that dead carcass, his feet had frozen to its fleece. He leaped and shrieked and beat upon the ice with his wings until the ice-frozen lamb and the eagle went over the falls and down into the chasm and darkness below.

This is a graphic picture of the tippler, the sensualist, the embezzler; of any and every man who has begun to do evil, intending to stop before he goes too far.—Selected.