The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-27

the infdelities and Immoral ties OF spirit
uslism. There are the bad books. There
ara the impurities. There are the business
rascalities. And so numerous are thes'
assailmeuts that il is q wonder that honesty
ana virtue are not lost arts The birds OF
prey, diurnRl and nocturnal, OF the natural
world, are ever on the alert They are the
assassins of the sky. They have varie-
ties Of taste. The eagle prefers the flesh OF
the living animal The vultuTe prefers
the carcass. The falcon kills with one
stroke, while other styles Of beak give pro-
longation Of torture. And so the tempta-
Gions Of this life are various. Some make
quick work Of death, and others ag1Dlze The
mind and body for many years, anu some
ike the living blood Of great souls, ana
others prefer those already Rangrened. But
for every style Of youth there is a s"oop-
ing wing ami q sharp besk. and cruel
claw, and what the rising generation
needs is q wing Of protection Fathers,
mothers older brothers and sisters, and
Sabbath school teachers, be quick and ear
nest aud praYeTful 6nd lnpoTtuna5e, ana get
the chickens under w1uE. 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 { hat sCrawny, puny child that
lay in the cradle many years ago, the father
dead. many remarked: "What mercy II
AyDTQ
mother really thought So too; but what q
good thing that God spared that child, for
10 became woTld-renOwned in Christian lit
eTature and one of Gods most illustrious
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 10 talented woman: "She
replied: II am writing two, and have
been engaged on one work ten years and
on the other five Years-my two
children. They are my hfe-work.
When the house Of 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 60"
My hearers, II we secure the present and
everlasting elfare of our children, most
other things belonging to US are of but little
comparative Importance. Alexander the
Great allowed his soldiers to take their fam
lilies with them to war, and he accounted for
the bravery OF his men 10y she fact that
many of them we're born in camp, and we're
used 20 warhke scenes from the start.
" ould God that all the children Of our day
might be born into the army of the Lord
No need of letting them go long way on
the wrong road before they turn around
and go on the right road. The only time to
get chickens under wing is while they are
chickens.
Hannah Whitall 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, and gave
evidence of joyful trust which grew with
her growth into womsnhood. Two years
are not too young. The time will come when
by 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 20
and leave our children. We fight their bab-
ties now, and we stand between them and
harm, but our arm will after awhile set
weak. and we cannot fight for them, and
our tongue will be palsied and we cannot
speak for them. Are we going to leave
them out 10 the cold world TO take their
chances, or are we doing all we can to get
them under the wing Of eternal safety7
But we all need the protecting wing. Ii
you had known when you entered uron
manhood or wOmanhood what was ahead
of you, would you have dared TO undertake
lfei How much you have been through
With most life has been disappointment.
they tell me 80. They have not attained
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 forty or fifty or sixty or seventy
or eighty years OF age where you thought
you would be. / do not know any ore ex~
cept myself to whom life has been a happy
surprise. | never expected anything and
50 when anything came in the shape of
human favor or comfortable position or wild
eniUg field Of work, it was TO me a surprise.
wes told in the theological seminary by
some Of my fellow students that I never
would get anybody TO hear me preach, IN
less l changed my style, so that when /
found that some people did come to hear
me IL was happy surprise. But most peo-
pie. according TO their own statement, have
found life disappointment. Indeed, we
all need shelter from its tempests. About
three O'Clock on hot August afternoon YOU
have heard rumble theJ you first took for
wagon crossing q bridge, but afterward
there was a louder rumbling and you said
Why, that Is thunder and sure enough
the clouds were being convoked for a fun
diapasOn. A whole park Of artillery went
rolling down the heavens and the blinds Of
the Windows in the sky were closed. But
the sounds above were not more certain
than the sounds beneath. The cattle came
90 the bars and moaned for them 90 be let
down that they might come home TO shelter
and the fowl, whether dark BrAhma or
Hamburg or Leghorn or Dominick, began
TO call to It's young, "Cluckn ''Cluckw
"CluckF' and take them under the wagon
house or shed, and had them all hid under
the soft feathers by the time that the first
splash of rain struck the rooS. 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
biscken, and some run for shelter TO o bank,
but il is poor shelter, and others run 10
friendly advisers, aud they fail to help.
and others fly nowhere simply be-
cause they know not where TO go, and they
perish in the blast, bus others hear divine
call, saying: Come, for all things are now
ready ''The spirit and the bride soy
come" And while the heavens are thun-
Gerlng terror, the divine voice proffers
mercy, and the soul comes under the brood
ing care of the Almighty "as hen gath
ereth her chickens under her wing"
The wings Of my text suggest warmth,
and that is what most folks want. The feet
is that this is cold world, whether you
take 1t literally or tlguratively. We have a
big fireplace, called the sun, and it has O
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 worlds extremities are
cold ali the time Forget not that it ia
colder at the south pole than at the
north pole, and that the Arctic is
not so destructive as the Antarctic
Once in awhile the Arctic will let ex-
plOrers come back but the Antarctic hardly
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