Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-04

take our sons and daughters into his
shelter, las hen gathereth her chick
ems under her wing"
And so the temptations of this life
are various Some make quick work OF
death, and others agonize the mind and
body for many years, and some like the
living blood of great souls, and others
prefer those already gangrencd. But
for every style of youth there is n
swooping wing and sharp beak and 4
cruel claw, and what the rising genera
ton needs is 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
kingdom. Whom they have now
under charge is uncertain. Concerning
that scrawny, puny child that lay in
the cradle many years ago, the father
dead, many remarked: What mercy
if the Lord would take the child" and
the mother really thought so too, but
what good thing that God spared the
child, for it became world renowned in
Christian literature, one of Gods most
illustrious servant's-John Todd. Re-
member your children will remain
children only little while. What you
do for them as children you must do
quickly or never do ut all. why have
you never written bool?' said some
one to talented woman. She re-
piled: 81 am writing two, and have
been engaged on one work ten
wears and on the other five years
my two children. They are my
life-work." When the house of John
Wesley's father burned, and they got
the eight children ont, John Wesley the
last before 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 GO" My hearers,
if we secure the present and everlast-
ing welfare of our children, most other
things belonging to US are of little COM
parative Importance.
Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangelist,
took her little child ut two years of age
when i'll out of the crib, and told her
plainly of Christ and the child believed,
and gave evidence 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 he born into this world
and born into the bosom of Christ at the
same time.
But most people, according to their
own statement, have found life n disap-
pointment. Indeed we all need shelter
from its tcmpests. About 3 o'clock on
hot August afternoon you have heard
a rumble that you first took for wagon
crossing Il bridge. but afterward there
was louder runbling, and you said,
why. that is thunder. and sure enough
the clouds were being convolscd for Il
full diapas on. A whole park of artil-
lery went rolling down the heavens
and the blinds OF the windows in the
sky were closed l!ut 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
Brahma or Hamburg or Leghorn
or Dominick, began to call to its
Young, "Cluck." "Cluck." "Cluck" and
take them under the wagon house or
shed. and had them all hid under the
soft feathers by the time TINT the first
pash of rain struck the roof. So there
are sudden tempests for our souls, and,
oh! how dark it gets. and threatening
clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or
persecution or bereavement gather and
thicken and blackcn, and some run for
shelter to bank. but it is poor shell
ter. and others run to friendly advisers
and they fail to help, and Others fly no.
where, simply because they know not
where to go, and they perish in the
blast: but others hear u divine call
saying: Come, for all things are now
ready" 1.-The spirit and the bride say.
come" And while the heavens are
laundering terror, the divine voice
proffers mercy and the soul comes I'M
der the brooding care of the Almighty
las hen gathereth her chickens under
her wing"
The wings of my text suggest warmth,
and that is what most folks want The
fact is that this is Il cold world, whether
you take it literally or figuratively.
rf,t n 4 al tb.,
time. Forget not that it is colder ut
the south pole than at the north pole,
and that the Arctic is not so destructive
rs the Antarctic. Once in awhile the
Arctic will let explorers come back, but
the Antarctic hardly ever. When at the
south pole, ship sails in, the door of
ice is almost sure to be shut against
its return So life to many mil
lions OF people at the south and