Milford chronicle., 1893-03-03
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY. MARCH 3, Is98.


prolOngation of torture
And so the temptations Of this life arr
various. Some make quick work Of death
and others agonize the mind and body fol
many years, and some like the living blood
of great souls, and others prefer those al
ready gangrened. But for every style OF
J youth there is a swooping wing, and sharp
beak, and cruel claw, and what the rising
generation needs is a wing of protection.
| Fathers, mothers older brothers and sisters,
! and Sabbath school teachers be quick and
earnest and prayerful and impOrtunate, and
get the chickens under wing.
May the Sabbath schools Of America and
, Great Britain within the next three months
! sweep all their scholars into the kingdOml
I Whom they have now under charge is un-
! certain. Concerning that scrawny, puny
| child that lay in the cradle many years ago,
/ the father dead, many remarked, What a
mercy if the Lord would take the childl'
and the mother really thought SO too. But
/ what a good thing that God spared that
child, for it became world renowned in
Christian literature and one Of Gods most
1 illustrious servants-JOhn Todd.
/ Remember, your children will remain
/ children only little while. What you do
for them as children you must do quickly
\ written book" said some one to a talent.
ed woman. She replied: Il am writing
/ two and have been engaged on one work 10
| years and on the other 5 years-my two
children. They are my life work" When
/ the house of John Wesiey's father burned,
| and they got the eight children Out-JOhn
( Wesley the last-bef0re the roof fell in the
| father said: Let us kneel down and thank
God The children are all saved; let the
| rest Of the place 60"
Ny hearers, If we secure the present and
everlasting welfare Of our Children, most
other things belonging to us are Of but lit
tie comparative Importance. Alexander the
Great allowed his soldiers to take their
families with them to war, and he ac-
counted for the bravery Of his men by the
fact that many of them were born in camp
and were used to warlike scenes from the
start. Would God that all the children Of
our day might be born into the army of the
Lord No need Of letting them go a long
way on the wrong road before they turn
around and go on the right road The on.
time to get chickens under wing is while
they are chickens.
Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangelist,
took her little child at 2 years Of age when
i'll out of the crib and told her plainly of
Christ, and the child believed and gave evil
dence of joyful trust which grew with her
growth into womanhoOd Two years are
not too young. The time will come when
by the faith of parents children will be
born into this world and born into the bos-
ON of Christ at the same time. Soon we
parents will have to go and leave our chill
dren. We fight their battles now, and we
stand between them and harm, but our
arm will after awhile get weak, and we
cannot fight for them, and our tongue will
be palsied, and we cannot speak for them.
Are we going TO leave them ont in the cold
world to take their chances, or are we do
ing all we can to get them under the wing
of eternal safety?
WE NEED THE PROTECTING WING.
But we all ueed the protecting wing. If
you had known when you entered upon
manhood or womanhOod what was ahead
of you, would you have dared to undertake
life? How much you would have been
through With most life has been disap-
pointment. They tell me So They have not
attained that which they expected to at
tain. They have not had the physical and
mental vigOr they expected, CT they have
met with rebuffs which they did net Rntic
ipate You are not at 40 or 80 or CD or 20
or so years Of age where you thought you
would be. do not know any one except
myself to whom life has been happy sur
prise. | never expected anything, and so
when anything came in the shape of human
favor or comfortable position or widening
field of work it was to me a surprise.
/ was told in the theological seminary by
some of my fellow students that l never
would get anybody to hear me preach un-
less ! changed NY style, so that when
g. ii N,h M.
was happy surprise But most people,
according to their own statement, have
found life disappointment Indeed we
all need shelter from its temPeats. About
3 o'clock on hot August afternoon yOu
have heard rumble that you first took for
wagon crossing Il bridge, but afterward
there was Il louder rumbling, and you said,
"Why, that is thunderl" And, sure enough,
the clouds were beng convOked for full
diepason. A whole park of artillery went
rolling down the heavens, and the blinds Of
the windows in the sky were closed. But
the sounds above were not more certain
than the sounds beneath.
The cattle came to the bars and mOaned
for them to be let down that they might
come home to shelter, and the fowl, whether
dark Brahma or Hamburg or LeghOrn or
Dominick, began to call to its young |
"CluckP "Cluckp "Cluck" and take them |
under the wagon house or shed, and had |
them all hid under the soft feathers by the |
time that the first plash or rain struck the |
roof
So there are sudden tempests for our
souls, and, OIL how dark it gets, and threat !
ening clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or |
persecution or bereavement gather and |
thicken and blacken, and some ruu for |
l. s.- oh
and others run to friendly advisers, and /
they fail to help, and others fly nowhere, /
simply because they know not where to 4
90, and they perish in the blast, but Others /
hear divine call, saying, Come, for all /
things are now ready" The spirit and |
the bride say come" And while the heav- |
ems are laundering terror the divine voice |
proffers mercy and the soul comes under I
the brooding care of the Almighty ''as a /
hen gathereth her chickens under her
wing"
WE WANT WARMTH.
The wings of my text suggest warmth,
and that is what most folks want. The
fact is that this is cold world, whether you
take it literally OR fguratvely. We have
a big fireplace called the sun, and it has
very hot fire, and the stOkers keep the Goals
well stirred up, but much of the year we
cannot get near enough to this fireplace to
get warmed. The worlds extremities are
cold all the time. Forget not that it is
colder at the south pole than at the north
pole, and that the Arctic is not so destruc-
tive as the Antarctic Once in awhile the
Arctic will let explorers come back, but the
Antarctic hardly ever When at the south
pole a ship sails in, the doorof ice is al
most sure to be closed against its return
So life to many millions Of people at the
south and many millions of people at the
north is prolonged shiver. But when
say that this is a cold world ! chiefly mean
iiguratively. If you want to know what is
the meaning Of the ordinary term of re
ceiving the "cold shoulder" get ont Of
money and try to borrow. The conversation
may have been almost tropical for lux
uriance of thought and speech, hut suggest
your necessities and gee the Thermometer
drop to 80 degrees below zero, and in that
which till moment before had been a