The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-03-17
At the Tabernacle.


lyn tabernacle Sunday morning Rev. DR..
Ialmage, in giving out number OF
notices, dwelt upon the fact that certain
picture makers of Brooklyn had used
his name as reference in their adver-
tisements and circulars without his au-
thority. Thousands of letters of COM
plant have come to him in this respect.
and he wanted it distinctly understood
that he knew nothing Of these people or
their business methods. The text Sc
lected for the morning sermon was Mat
thew xiii, 81, LAS hen gathereth her
chickens under her wings. and yet We
would not"
Why This Smile:
Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came
to the crest of Mount Olivet, height of
700 feet. The splenGors Of the religious
capital of the whole earth irradiated the
landscape, There is the temple. YOn-
der is the kings palace. Spread out be-
fore his eyes are the pomp, the wealth.
the wickedness, and the coming destruc-
ton Of Jerusalem, and he burst into tears
at the thought of the obduracy of a place
that he would gladly have saved, and
apostrophizes, saying, 80, Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, how often would have gath
cred thy children together. even as hen
gathered her chickens under her wings,
and We would nOtr'
Why did Christ Sc ect hen and chick
ems as q smile? Next to the appOsiteness
Of the comparison think it was 10 help
all public teachers in the matter OF Illus
tration to get down off their stills and
use comparisons that all can understand.
The plaineSt bird on earth is the barn
yard fowl Its only adornments are the
red comb in its headdress and the wat
ties under the throat 1t has no gran
deur of gcnealogy. All We know is that
its ancestors came from India, some OF
them from height of 1000 feet on the
sides of the Himalayas. 1t has no pre-
tension of nest like the eagles eyrie. 1t
has no luster of plumage like the gold
finch. Possessing anatomy that allows
flight, vet about the last thing it wants
to do is to fly. and in retreat uses foot
almost as much as wing.
Musicians have written out in musical
scale the song of lark and robin red
breast and nightingale. vet the hen of
my text hath nothing that could be
taken for song, but only cluck and
cackle. Yet Christ in the text, uttered
clares that what He had wished for that
city was like what the hen does for her
chickens. Christ was thus simple in
His teachings, and yet how hard it is for
us, who are Sunday-schOOl instructors
and editors and preachers and refOrmers
and those who would gain the ears OF
audiences. to attain that heavenly and
divine art of simplicity.
We have to run a course OF literary dis
orders as children a course OF physical
disorders We come out of school and
college loaded down with Greek mytholo.
gies, and out of the theological seminaries
weighed down with what the learned
fathers said, and we fly with wings OF
eagles and flamingoes and albatrosses.
and it takes good while before we can
come down to Christ's similitudes, the
candle under the bushel. the salt that
has lost its SAVIOR, the net thrown into
the sea, the spittle on the eyes of the
blind man and the hen and chickens.
There is not much poetry about this
winged creature of God mentioned in my
text, but she is more practical and more
motherly and more suggestive Of good
things than many that fly higher and
wear brighter colors. She is not a prima
donna of the skies nor q strut of beauty
| in the aisles of the forest She does not
| cut a circle under the sun like the Rocky
Mountain eagle. but stays at home to
look after family affairs. She does not
swoop like the condor of the Cordilleras to
transport a RABBIT from the valley to the
| top of the crags, but just scratches for a
living. How vigorously with her claws
| she pulls away the ground to bring up
what is hidden beneath! When the
breakfast or dining hour arrives, she be.
| gins to prepare the repast and calls all
her young to partake.
The Hen as a Type.
am in sympathy with the unpreten.
tious, old fashioned hen, because, like
most of US, she has to scratch
| for a living. She knows at the
| start the lesson which most people OF
| good sense are slow to learn-that the
| gaining of livelihood implies work, and
that successes do not lie upon the sur
face, but are to be upturned by positive
and continuous effort. The reason that
society. and the church and the world
are so full of failures, so full of loafers
so full of dead beats, is because people
are not wise enough to take the lesson
which any hen would teach them-tha,
if they would find for themselves and fol
those dependent upon them anything
| worth having they must scratch for it.
| Solomon said, Go to the ant thou
| slugsard." say, Go to the hen, thou
sluggard. In the Old Testament. Goo
compares Himself to an eagle stirring ul
her nest and in the New Testamen,
the Holy Spirit is compared to descend
ing dove. but Christ in a sermon that
begins with biting sarcasm for hypocrites
and ends with the paroxysm of pathos
in the text, compares Himself to hen.
One day in the country we saw sud.
den CONSERVATION in the behavior OF ole
Dominick. Why the hen should be 81
disturbed We could not understand. We
looked a5out to see If a neighbours dog
were invading the farm. We looked W
to see if stormcIoud were lowering
We could see nothing on the ground thai
could terrorize, and we could see moth
ing in the air to ruffle the feathers o.
the hen. but the loud. wild. affrightel
chuck which brought all her brood q,
| full run under her feathers made US lool
again around US and above US, when w
saw that high up and far away there
was q rapacious bird wheeling arount
and around. and down and down. anG
not seeing Us as VIC stood in the shadow
it came nearer and lower until we saw