The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-02-28

| their scholars into the kingdom. Whom
they have now under charge is uncertain
Concerning that scrawny, puny child tina
lay in the cradle many years ago, thu
| father dead, many remarked, "What ;
mercy if the Lord would take the child,
and the mother really thought SO, too, bu
what good thing that God spared tha
| child, for it became world-renowned II
Christian literature, and one of Gods most
illustrious servants-John Todd. Remember
| your children will remain children only q
little while. What you do for them as
children, you must do quickly or never dc
| at ALL why have you never written a
| book!' said some one to a talented woman
| She replied: Il am writing two, and have
been engaged on one work ten years and on
| the other five years-my two children They
John Wesley's father burned, and they got
| the eight children out, 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 everlasting welfare of our chill
dren, most other things belonging to us are
of but little comparative Importance. Alex
ander 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 warike 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 so on the right road The only
time to get chickens under wing is while
they are chickens
Hannah WhitaIl Smith. the evangelist,
took her little child at two years of age
when i'll out of the crib, and told her
plainly of Christ. and the child believed
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 bosom of Christ at the same
time. Soon we parents will have to go
and leave our children. 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 tongues will be palsied and we
cannot speak for them. Are we going
to leave them out in the cold world to
take their chances or are we doing all
we can to get them under the wing of
eternal safety?
But we all need the protecting wing.
If you had known when you entered upon
manhood or Womanhood what was ahead
OF you, would you have dared to under
take life?- How much you have been
through! With most life has been dis
appointment, they tell me so. They have
not attained that which they expected to
attain. They have not had the physical
have met with rebuffs which they did not
anticipate. You are not at forty or fifty
or sixty or seventy or eighty years Of age
where you thought you would be- ! do
not know any one except myself to whom
life has been happy surprise | never
expected anything, and so when anything
came Ill the shape of human favor or COM
portable position or widening field of work
it was to me surprise. 1 was told in the
theological seminary by some of my fell
Inyyr CTR don't. hot I
body to hear me preach, unless / changed
my style, so that when | found that some
people did come to hear me, it was a happy
surprise. But most people according to their
own statement, have found life disappoint-
ment. Indeed we all need shelter from its
tempest. About 5 o'clock on a hot August
afternoon YOU have heard a rumble that
you first took for Il wagon crossing bridge.
but afterward there was Il louder rumbling,
and You said, why that is thunder, And
sure sure enough mo, the clouds were being convoked
Tor full diapaSon. a whole park of artille-
ry went rolling down the heavens
and the blinds of the win
dows in the sky were closed But
the sounds above were not more certain
than the sounds beneath. The cattle came
% Gon nG PATS , nGd m2aned for 5AS 10 be lf
and the fowl, whether dark Brah-
Dominick, began to call 10
its young, "Cluck" "Clucb!' "Cluck:' AID
take them under the Wagon-hOuse or sled,
and had them all hid under the soft feath
ers by the time that the first plash Of tt in
struck the roof. SO there are sudden temp
eStS for our souls, and oh. how dark it
gets, and threatening clouds of bankruptcy
or sickness persecution or bereavement
gather and thicken and blacken, and some
run for shelter to a bank, but 1t lis poor
shelter and others run TO friendly advisers.
and they fail to help. and others fly no.
,1,- Nrbr
to go, and they perish in the blast. but
others hear a divine call saying: Come,
for all things are now ready The
spirit and the bride say come And while
the heavens are laundering terror, the dl-
vine voice profers mercy, and the soul
comes under the brooding care of the AL
mighty las a 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 cold world, whether
you take it literally or tiguratively. we
have a big fireplace, called the sun, and 1t
has a very hot fire, and the stokers keep
the Goals well stirred up, but much OF the
year We cannot get near enough 70 THIS
fireplace to get warmed. The world eX-
tremities are cold all the time. Forget not
that it is colder at the south pole than ut
the north pole, and that the Arctic Is not
so destructive as the Antarctic. Once IN
q while the Arctic will let explorers come
back, but the Antartlc hardly ever. w uell
at the south pole, ship sails in the door
of ice is almost sure to be shut against its
return. SO life TO many millions OF peo-
pie ut the south and many millions of peo-
Die at the north is a prolonged shivcr. But
when say that it is Il cold world, | chiefly
mean fisuratively. If you want to know
what is the meaning of the ordinary term
of receiving the cold shoulder, get out
of money and try to borrow. The con-
versation may have been almost tropical
for luxuriance of thought and speech, but
suggest your necessities and see the Their
mometer drop to fifty degrees below zero,
and in that which, till Il moment before,
had been warm room. Take what is
an unpopular position on some public
ouestion and see your friends fly as chaif
before q windmill. AS far as myself is
concerned, / have no word of complaint,
but | look off day by day and see commu-
mites freezing out men and women of
whom the world is not worthy. Now it
takes after one and then after another.
1t becomes popular to depreciate and de-
fame and execrate and lie about some
people. This is the best world | ever got
into, but it is the meanest world that some
people ever got into. The worst thing
that ever happened to them was their era
die and the best thing that will ever hap
pen to them will be their grave. What
people want is warmth. Many years ago
a man was floating down on the ice OF the
Merrimac and great efforts We're made to
jN1, hold n nj