Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-03-02

eagle prefers the flesh Of the living AM
NAL. The vulture prefers the carcass.
The falcon kills with one stroke, while
other styles of beak give prolongation of
torture. And SO the temptations OF this
life are various. Some make quick work
of death. and others agonlze the mind
and body for many years, and some like
the living blood Of great souls, and others
prefer those already gangrened. But for
every style of youth there is swooping
wing and sharp beak and cruel claw,
and what the rising generation needs is
wing of protection.
EARLY SALVATION URGED.
Fathers. mothers. older brothers and
sisters and Sabbath school teachers. be
quick and earnest and prayerful and inn
Fortunate and get the chickens under
wing. May the Sabbath schools of Amer
ica and Great Britain within the next
three months sweep all their scholars
into the kingdom Whom they have
now under charge is uncertain. Con
cerning that scrawny. puny child tEat
Law in the cradle many years ago. the
father dead. many remarked. What
mercy if the Lord would take the child.
and the mother really thought so too.
But what good thing that God spared
that child, for it became world renowned
il Christian literature and one of Gods
most illustrious servants-Jchn 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 book" said some one
to a talented woman. She replied: Il
am writing two and have been engaged
on one work 10 years and on the othe-
FIVE years-my two children. They ere
nv life work" When the house of John
Wesleys 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.
Ny hearers. if we secure the present
and everlasting welfare of our children,
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 accounted for the bravery of his
men by the fact that many of them were
born in camp and We're used TO warhke
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 long way on the
wrong road before they turn around and
90 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 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 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 tongue will be palsied, and we
cannot speak for them. Are we gong
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
SHELTER FROM LIES TEMPESrS.
But we all need the protecting wing
Ifyou had known when you entered upon
manhood and womanEood what was
ahead of you, would you have dared to
undertake life: How much you have
been through. With most life has been
disappointment: they tell me SO. They
have not attained that which they ex-
pected to attain They have not had the
physical and mental vigor they expected,
or they have met with rebuffs which they
did not anticipate. You are not at 4G or
so or GO or 10 or so years of age where
You thought yon would be. / do not
know any one except myself to whom life
has been happy surprise. ! never ex-
pected anything. and SO when anything
came in the shape of human favor or
comfortable position or widening held OF
work it was to me surprise.
was told in the theological seminary
by some of my fellow students that !
never would get anybody to hear me
preach unless | changed my style. 80
that when found that some people did
come to hear melt was happy surprise.
But most people. according to their OWE
statement, have found life disappoint-
ment. Indeed we all need shelter from
its tempests. About 3 o'clock on hot
August afternoon you have heard rum
bic that YOU first took Cor a wagon cross
ing bridge. but afterward there was
louder rumbling, and you said. Why,
that is thunder" And sure enough the
clouds were being convoked for full
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 to the bars and moaned
for them to be let down that they might
come home to shelter. and the fowl,
whether dark Brahma or Hamburg or
Leehorn or Dominick, began to call to its
Young. "Cluckm .'Cluck" "Cluck'' and
take them under the wagon house or she'd
and had them all hid ueder The soft
feathers by the time that the first plash
of rain struck the roof.
So there are sudden tempests for our
souls, and, oh! how dark it gets, and threat
ening clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or
persecution or bereavement gather and
thicken and blacken, and some run for
shelter to a bank. but it is poor shelter,
and others run to friendly advisers, and
they fail to help, and others fly nowhere
simply because they know not where to
90. and they perish in the blast, but
others hear 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 divine voice rroffers mercy. and the
soul comes under the brooeing care OF
the Almighty "as hen gatheretn her
chickens under her wing"
DANGER OF ICY FoRaALITY:
The wings Of my textsuggest warmth,
and that is what most folks want. The
fact is that this is cold world whether
you-.ake it literally or fgnratively. We