Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-03-08

her wing" The wings of my text suQ.
gest warmth. and that is what most
folks want The fact is that this is
cold world. whether you take il literal
" or figuratively. We have big fire.
place. called the sun, and it has a very
hot fire. and the sto<e-s keep the Goals
well stirred up, but much of the year
we can not get near enough 10 this fire.
place TO get warmed The worlds ex-
tremities are cold al the time.
Forget not that il is colder at the
South pole than at the North pole. and
that the Arctic is not so destructive "a
the Antarctic. Once in while the
arctic will let explorers come back, bat
the Antarctic hardly ever. When NJ
the South pole, a ship sails in. the door
of ice is almost sure TO be shut against
its return So life to many millions OF
people at the north is u prolonged
shiver. But when / say that this is
cold world, chiefly mean fguratively.
II you want to know what is the
meaning of the ordinary term of receiv.
ing the cold shoulder" get out OF
money and try to borrow. The con
versation may have been almost tropi.
cal for luXuriance of thought and
speech, but suggest your necessities
and see the thermometer drop TO fifty
degrees below zero. and in that, which
till a moment before, had boon warm
room. Take what is an unpopular pc,
sition on some public question and SCI
your friends fly as chaf before a wind.
mill
As far as myself is concerned, navs
no word of complaint, but / look of day
10y day and see communities freezing
out men and women of whom the world
is not worthy. IL becomes popular
to depreciate and defame and execrnte
and lie about some people This IS the
best world1 ever got into, but it is the
meanest world some people ever got
into The worst thing that ever hap
peued TO them was their cradle, and the
best thing that win ever happen 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 many efforts were made
10 rescue him. Twice he got hold of a
plank thrown to him and twice he
slipped away from it, because that end
of the plank was covered with ice, and
he cried out: For Gods sake, give me
the wooden end of the plank this time"
and this done, he was hauled to shore.
The trouble is that in our efforts to
save the soul there is too much GOODNESS
and icy furmaiity, and so the imperiled
one slips off and floats down Give il
the other end of the plank. Warmth of
sympathy warmth of association.
warmth of genial surroundings The
world declines TO give il, and in many
cases has no power TO give it, and here
is where Christ comes in, and as on n
IL I.,v~ s1,.. l.
mosphere full of sleet, the hen clucks
her chickens under her wings and the
warmth of her own breast puts warmth
into the wet feathers and chilled feet of
the infant group in the BARNARD, SO
Christ says to those sick and frosted
and disguised and frozen of the world.
come in out of the March winds of the
worlds criticism. come in out of the
sleet of the worlds assault, come in out
of the world that does not understand
you; will comfort and | will soothe
and / will be your warmth. las a hen
gathereth her chickens under her wing"
oh, the warm heart of God is ready for
all those to whom the world has given
the cold shoulder.
But notice that some one must take
the storm for the chickens. All! the
her under the pelting rain. have seen
her in the pinching frosts Almost
frozen to death, or almost strangled in
the waters, and what fight she makes
FOR the young under wing If a dog. or a
hawk, or man come too near. And so
the brooding Christ t8lxes the storm for
us. What flood of anguish and tears
that did not dash upon Wis holy soulp
huf N.f.e,l - 4
vitals? What barking Cerberus of hell
was not let out upon Him from the KEN
neis.
What lie endured o who can tell.
To save our souls from death and heuf
Yes, the hen took the storm for the
chickens, and Christ takes the storm
for MS. Once the tempest rose so sud
denly the hen could not get with her
young back from the new, ground To
the barn, and there she is under the
fence half dead. And now the rain
turns TO snow and it is an awful night
and in the morning the Wilderness a bout
the gills and the beax down in the mud
show that the mother is dead. and the
young ones come out and can not un der
stand why the mother does not scratch
for them something to eat and they walk
over her wings and call with their tinv
voices, but there is no answering clucIS.
She took the storm for Others and per-
isheoA Poor thing! Self-sacrificinr even
unto DEATH And does il not make YOU
think of Him who endured all for us2
50 the wings under which we come for
spiritual safety are blood-spattered
wings, are night-shadowed wings. are
the tempest-torn wings. In the Isle of
Wight ! saw the grave OF Princess Eliz-
abeth, who died while a prisoner at
CarisbrooiS Castle, her finger on an open
Bible and pointing 20 the words: Come
unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
laden and ] will give you rest on.
come under the wings!
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