The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-03-09

temptation In the air; there are vultures
wheeling tor their prey; there are beaks
of death ready to plunge; there are
claws of alluremept ready to clutch,
Now l see the peril. Now 1 under
stand the urgency. Now see the only
safety. Would that Christ might this
day take our sons and daughters into
his shelter, ''as a hen gathereth her
chickens under her wing!" The fact
is that the most of them will never find
the shelter unless while they are chick.
ems. 1t is simple matter of iuexOrable
statistics that most of those who do not
come TO Christ In youth never come at
all.
What chance is there for the young
without divine protection? There are
the grog shops. There are the gamb.
ling hells. There are the intidelities
and immoralitles Of spirituallsm. There
are The bad books. There are the inn
purities. There are the business rascal
tiles. And 50 numerous are these as
sailments that it Is wonder that hon
estv and virtue arc not lost arts. The
birds Ofprcy, diurnal and nocturnal, of
the natural world are ever on the alert.
They are the assassins ofthe sky. They
have varieties OF taste. The eagle pre-.
fcrs the flesh Of the living animal. The
vulturc prefers the carcass. The falcon
kills With one stroke, while other styles
OF bcak give prOlongatlon oftorture.
And 80 the temptations of this life
are various. Some make quick work of
death, others agonlze the mind and bo-
dy for many years. and some like the
living blood of great souls, and others
prefer those already gangrened. But
Tor every style OF youth there is q
swooping wing, and a sharp beak, and q
cruel claw, and what the rising genera
ton needs is q wing of protection. Fa.
Tiers, mothers, older brothers and Sis
ters, and Sabbath school teachers, be
quick and earnest and prayerful anil i'm.
Fortunate, and get the chickens un.
der wing.
May the Sabbath schools of America
and Great Britain within the next II ew
months sweep all their scholars inthe
the kingdom! Whom they have moot
under charge is uncertain. Concernig
that scrawny, puny child that lay in the
cradle many years ago, the father dead,
many remarked, Nv hat a mercy if the
Lord would take the child!" and the
mother really thought 80 too. But what
good thing that God spared that child, a
for it became world renowned in Chris
tan literature and one of Gods most il.
lustrious servants-John Todd.
Remember, your children will remain
children only little while. What
you do for them as children You must
do quickly or never do at all. "Why
have you never written a book?, said
| some one TO a talented woman. She re.
piled; Il am writing two and have been
engaged on one work 10 years aud on
The other Years-my two children.
They are my lite work." When the
house of John Wesley's father burned,
and they got the eight childran out
John Wesley tho last-before the roof
fell IN the father said: LET us knee
down and thank God. The children arc
ali saved; let the rest of the place co.
| MY hearers If we secure the present
and everlasting welfare of our children
most other things belonging to us are O
but little compal ative importance. AL
exsnder the Great allowed his soldier,
to take their families with them to war
and he accounted for the bravery of hls
men by the fact that many OF then
| WV cOAh III Suulp duu HcEt uSeQ u
warlike scenes from the start. Would
God that all the children of our day
mlght be born in the army of the I1ord
No need of letting them 60 long way
on the Wrong road before they tnrn
around and 60 on the right road. The
| only time TO get chickens under wing is
whilo they are chickens.
Hannah Whitall Smith the eyapoe.
list, took her little child at 2 wears of
age when ill 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 woman
hoo1. 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 pal lents will
have TO 60 and leave our children. We
night their battles now, and we stand
between them and harm, but our arm
Will after awhile get weak, and cannot
fight Tor them, and our tongue will be
palsied, and we cannot speak for them.
Are we going to leave them out in the
colo world to take their chances, or are
we dong all we can to get them under
''> WHY VI oICihal ealoIys
But we all need the protecting wing.
Ii 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 many life has
been a disappointment. They tell me
80. They have not attained that which
they expected to attain. They have not
had the physical and mental vigor thoy
expected, or they Lave met with rebuns
which they did uot anticipate. You are
not at 40 or SO or GO or 70 or 80 years
OF age where you thought you would be.
L 40 not know any one except myself to
whom life has been happy surprise.
never expected anything, and so when
anything came in the shape of human
favor or comfortable position or WIDEN
ing field of work 1t was TO me SIR.
prise.
l was told in the theological seminary
by some of my fellow students that I
never would get anybody to hear me