The Penn's Grove record., 1893-03-03

the bsak down in the mud show that the
mother Is dead, and the young ones come
out and cannot understand way the mother
does not scratch for them something to eat,
and they walk over her wings and call with
their tiny voices, but there is no answering
3luck. She tooE the storm for others aud
persisted. Poor tningl Self sacrificing even
into dsathi
And does, it not mike YOU think of Him
who endurttl all for usS So the win IS un Ter
| which We come for spiritual safety are blood
spattered wings, are night shattered WINGS,
are tempest torn wings. In the Isle OF
, Wight l saw the grave OF Primo IS El.zi-
BETH, who died while i prisoner at Cars
brook castle, her I'm ser on an open Bibis
and pointiny to the worls Zone u ITO Ne
all ys that labor AMI are heavy laden, ami /
will give You rest" On, coma unier thu
wingsi
But now the summer day is almost passed,
and the shadows Of the house AMI barn ami
wagon shed hava len ythenei I. Tne farmer,
with scythe or hos on shoulder, is returning
from the fields Toe oxen are unyokei
Tue horses are crunciing the oats at the iull
bin. The air is bewitche 1 OF honaysuck,e
and wild brier. rhe milknan, pail in nanl,
is approaching the bsrnyari. The fowls
keeping early hours, are COLLECTING tn sir
! younc. sCiucKr' ''Clnck' ..CluckP' md
soon all the eyes Of that fsathered nurse.y
re closed.
1 The bachelors Of tbs wingei tribe havy
ascen led to their perch, but this hens, in a
motherhood dlvineiy appointed, taks all tue
risk Of a stu Der on the grouni l., and all
night long the wings will STAB outsureli,
and the little ones will not utter a sound.
Thus at shutdown, lovingly, safely, co1l.
ple1ely, b nen broots her young. So, il
we are the I1Jrd's, the evening OF our life
will come. fhs heats of the day will havs
passed. There will be shadows, and We can
mt aaa far Ila work nf life will ha aNOuf
snded.
The hawks OF temptation that hovere1 in
J The sky will have gone to the WOO Is and
folded their wings. Sweet ~silencss will come
down.. The air will be redoient with the
breath Of wdols arbors OF promises sweeter
than jasmine or evening primrose. The arr
may De q little caiil, buC Christ will call us,
and We will know the voics and heel tie
call, AMI we wilt cone uGder the wings for
the night-the strong WINGS, the soft wings,
the warm wings-and without fear and in
! full sense of safety, and tuen we will rest
from sundown 10 sunrise. "as a hen gather
eth her chic6ens un1er her wing" Dear
me, now many Souls the Lori hath thus
broodedt
Mothers, after Watching over sick cradles
) and then watching after war . over waywarl
sons and daughters at last themselves taken
care OF by q mobheriy Col. Business men,
after q lifetime stru Sgliuy with the uncsr-
I VA tAOhAoJ ma hVN1 u Az NhaA1C
of tariffs. aai tne undressing OF men wno
because of taeir disnonesties can afford to
undersell, and ye RS OF ~disappointm ant and
struggle, at last under wings whers nothing
can perturb them any more than a bird OF
prey winch is ten miles or disturbs a chios
at midnight orcodsd Ia a %oarnyari
Ny text has It's strongest application for
people who were born in the country,
wherever you may now live, aud thar is tne
majority of you. You cannot hear my text
Without naving att tue rustic scenes of tne
Did farm aouse come basS to you. Gooi old
days they were. You knew nothing mucn
OF the world, for you had not seen the
world.
: By law of association you cannot recall
the orooiing hen and nsr chickens without
seeing, also the barn, aud the baymow, and
the wagon sned, aad tne house, and the
room where you played, and che freside
with tbs dig backlog before which you sat
..a sss.. aS:saaSss &C &c c:.:., aa1 sa1
wedding, and toe deep snowbanss, ami hear
the village bell that caiie,i you to worship.
and seeing the norses whico, after pulling
you to cnurcn, stood around the old cap
boarded meeting house, and those woo sat at
either end OF the church pew, ana indeed all
the scenes of the first IA years and you
think or what you ware then and OF what
you are now, and all these thoughts are
aroused by the sight OF the old hencoop.
Some or you had better go bacS aud start
again. In thou ,ht return Co that place ami
hear the ciucK and sea the outspreii featn-
ers and come un Ter the wiag and ma 20 tue
LORD your portion and shelter and war nth,
preparing for everything that mey come,
and so avoid beng classe 4 among those de-
scribsi by the closing words Of my text, "as
q hen gatheretn ner caickeus under her
wing, ye would no." Az, that throws
the responsibility uoon us! "Ye would
not" A.as, Tor the "wou!i notsP II the
wandering proofs of the farm naei not their
MOWERS call ana risk the hawk aud dar. Vne
fresner AMI ex ooss themselves to the frost
aud storm, surely their caiamities are not
their mothers TAU t. Y would mott" God
would, nut how many would notl
Wnen a good man ASKED q young woman
who mad aOau .onei ner no ne and woo was
deploring hsr wreuchsiness why she did not
return, tue reply was; II dare not 20 nome.
NY father is so provoked he would NOT rs'
ceiys me home" "fhen," said tne Christian
man. III Will test this" And so he wrote 60
the father, and the reply cana BACK and 10 a
letter married. outside "Imnsdiate." aniin-
side SAYING, "Ler her cone at oncs; all Is
forgiven So Gods invitstion for you L!
marcel "Immsdiate' On the outside, and
inside ir 10 written, "Hs viii aoundantiy
pardon"
Oh, We wanderers from Col and happi-
ness and home and heaven, come under the
snslteriug wing Under this call l ses you
turning from your old way to the ne" way.
the living way, Zoe gospel way. A vessel IN
the Bristol cnannei was nearing tns rocAa
called the s.Steep Homes" Under the tenn
pest the vessel was unusnageable, aud the
only hope was inst the tide would caange
before she su ICE ths rocSs and went down.
and 90 the cap = II stood OF the deck waIcn
in hand. Caotaln and crew and passengers
were paliit with terror. Taxing another
look az his watcl and another 1908 at tns
sea he shouted: "fnank God, we are saved
The tide has turned! Oae minuts more and
We would nave struck the rocks" :.
soms of you have been a long while dritt
Ing in the tempest Of sin AMI sorrow an
0od. the tide mas uurdsi. Do you not Leel
the Iift Of the pillow! The grAcs OF Co
that bringeth saivA5iou has appeared 60 yoaf
soul, and Ia the woris OF 'az TO ttuta
command you 70 ''ths Lori God OF Israel
unasr whose wings tnou ha'e eohe u
is rx1a