Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-03-04

that which they expected to attain. They
have not had the physical and mental vigor
they expected or they have met with re.
/ Bluffs which they did not anticipate. You
are not at 40 or 50 or 50 or ~ or 80 years OF
age where you thought you would be. do
! not know anyons except mysslf to whom
life has been happy surprise. never ex-
pected anything, and SO when anything
| came in thu shape of human favor or COM
| Portable position or widening field OF work it
was to me a surprise.
was told in the theological seminary by
so ne of my fellow Students that I never
would get anybody to hear me preach unless
changed my styla, 50 that wnen l founi
that some people did come to hear ms it was
a happy surprise. But most people, accord
lag to taeir own statement have founl life
disappointment lnleei we all neei shell
ter fro its tenpests. About 3 O'Clock on a
not Au gust afternoon you have heard a rum
tie III .U you first tooI for wagon crossing
a brii &c, but after varI le-e WAS a lou Ter
ru nblin :, ami you said, WY. that is thuu-
lerr And sure enou IN the cou Is were be-
in Z convokei for a full diapasol. A whole
PARK OF artillery went rolling down the
heavens aud the blinds OF the windows in
the SKY were closeI. But ths squads above
were not mora certain taa1 the sounds be-
meath.
Tne catt,e cana to the bars all moanel
for th sn t5 be let down that tisy might
come home to shelter, an t1s fowl, whstler
DARK B;ahna Or Fl inburs or Leghofn o.
DominicS. began to call to its young,
"CluckP "Clucki' ''Clucip an t,ke theal
I'm Ter the wagon housa or shell, AMI hai
Them all hid under the soft feathers by tn.
time that the first ptash OF rain stru;S ths
/ roof.
So there ara su lden tamptssts for our
souls and, oh how dark il gets, and THREAT
ening ciou1s of bankruptcy or sickness or
/ persecution or Bereavement gather an
/ thic1en and blackeD, AMI so ne run for shell
/ ter to a bank, but 1t is poor shelter, ani
others run to friendly advisers. and they fail
TO help, AMI others fly nowhere simply be-
cause they know not whera to 90, and they
perish in the blast, but others hear divine
call saying, Come, for all things are now
ready" "rhe spirit aud the bride say
/ come" And while the heavens are thunder
ing terror the divine voics proffers mercy,
an the soul comes Under the broo1ing ;re
of the Almighty ''as a hen gatheretl ner
chickens under her wing"
| The wings of my text suggest warmth.
! and that is what most folks want. Tne fac
I is that this is a cold world whether you tasa
I it literally or figuratively. We have big
( fireplace called the sun, and it mas a 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
warmsd. The worlds e1trenities are cod
all the time. Forget not that is colder az
! the south pole than at the north pole, AMI
| that the Arctic is not so destructive as the
Antirtic Once in awhile the Arctic will
/ let explorers come back, but ths Autartic
hardly ever. When at the south pole ship
sails in, the door of ice is almost sure to bs
shut against its return.
So life to many millions of people at thu
south and many millions CO people at tie
north is prolonged SILVER, but when say
this is a cold worli l chiefly mean figura
lively II you want to know what Is the
meaning of the ordinary term OF receiving
the cold shoulder" get out of money AMI
try to borrow. The conversation may have
bean almost tropical for luxuriancs of
/ thought and speech, but su ,gess your neces-
stiles and sea the thsrnonstsr diop to 50
degrees below zero, and in tnat which till a
moment before had been a warm room.
Take what is en- unpo 1ular position on some
public question, an sea your friends fly as
chaif before windmill.
As far as myself is concerned, L have no
I word of complaint, but look OF day by
day and see communities freezing out men
and women OF whom ths world is not
worthy. Now it taxes after one and now
after another. 1t becomes popular TO de-
prec ate AMI defame AMI execrlte All lie
about some people This is thu best world II
ever got into. but it is the melnast world
that some people ever got into. Ihs worst
thing at ever happenet to them was their
era lie, all the best thing that will ever
happeJ to them will be their grave. what
eopIe ant is warmth.
Many years SGD man was floating down
| on the ice of the Merrimac, and great Ell )rtS
were made to rescue him. Twice ne got mol
of plank thrown to him and twica no
! slipped away from it, because that end OF ths
plank was covered with ice, and he cried ont
/ ssTor COTS sake, give me the wooden end of
~ i'm " done
! hauled to shore. The trouble is til 1t in out
! Efforts to save the soul there is too much
co.duess an icy formaHtY AMI so the i'm
perilei one slips off and floats down. Give
it the other end of the pauk--warmth OF
sympathy, warmth OF kindly ASSOCIATION,
/ warmth OF genial surroundings.
/ The world declines to give IT. aud IN many
/ cases has no power to give 1t, aui here Is
| where Christ comes IN, and, as on cold day,
| the rain beating an the atmosphere iu't o.
/ sleet, the hen c.ucks her chickens under hei
wings and the warmth O. her own breast
puts warmth INTO the wet feathers AMI the
/ chilled feet of the infant group of the barn.
ward. so Christ says to those sick and frostei
+ an disgustei and froz IN of the world. Come
Ia rut OF the March wia Is of the wo?ld''
criticism; come in out of the sieet OF tb'
worlds assault; come in out o. wori1 tntl
. does not uuderstan you aud does not wan
/ 10 understand YOU; | will comfort aui
. :
q hen gathereth her chickens under her
wing Oh, the warm heart of G ID is ready
for all those to whom the world has given
the cold shoulder.
/ But notice that some one must take this
storm for the chickens. All the hen takes
the storm. have watched her under the
/ peltiny rain. / have seen her in toe pinch
I ny frOsts almost frozen to death or almost
stran gle1 in tbs waters, AM what a fight
she MAKES for the young under wing if a
/ dog or hawk Or a man comes too near! AMI
50 the hrooling Christ takes the storm for
rs. What fool OF anguish and tears that
ii not dash upon HIS holy soul What
hoax % torture did not nierca His yitalsl
( Wat tar ling Cer5erui Of hell was not let
out upon Him from the kennels!
VIDA, He aniu:eL on, wh1 cln teu
To save oar souls fro Il 9TH and he'll
Yes, the hen took the storm for the chick
ems an Christ takes the storm for us Once
the tie n7es5 ro-e so sill ldeny the hen could
not get with her young back from the nav
ground to the barn, and there she is under
the fence half daa I. And now the rain turns
to snow, and it is an awful night, and in the
! morning the whitenesS about the giils and
the beak down in the mul show that the
mother is dead, and the young ones come
out and cannot understand why the mother
/ does not scratch for them something to eat
and they walk over her wings and call with
their tiny voices, but taere is no answering
chuck She took the storm Tor others and
persisted. Poor thing Self sacrificing even
unto death
And does it not make YOU think of Him
/ WHO endured all for u.s. So the wings under
which we CONS for spiritual safety are blood
spatterei wings, are night shattered wings.
are tempest torn wings. In the Isle of
/ Wight | saw the grave of Primo ass Ella
/ beth, who died while a prisoner at Carts
brook castle, her finger on an open Bible
and pointing to the words, Come unto Me
all We that labor and are heavy laden, an |
will give you rest" Oh, coms under the
wings!
/ But now the summer day is almost passed.
AM the shadows of the house AMI barn AMI
wagon shed have lengthenei. Tde farmer
with scythe Or hoe on shoulder, is returning
! from the fields. Tie oxea are unyokel
The horses are crunching the oats at the full
! bin. The air is bewitchel of honeySuckle
aud wild brier. The mii;mau. pail in hand
is approaching the barnyard. The fowls,
young, "Clucx" 'Cluckf' Chuck and
soon all the eyes Of that featherei nursery
/ are closed
The bachelors of the wingel tribe have
assembled to their perch. but the hens, in a
motherhood dlvinely appointed, taxi all tue
risk of a Stun Der on the ground, and all
/ night long the wings will stay outspreld,
! aud tbs little ones will not utter a sound.
Thus at suldown, lovingly, safely. con.
/ pletely, the hen brooiS her youuy. So il
we are the LorPs. the evening OF our life
will come. The heats of the day will have