Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-27
THE REJECTED OFFER
OF JESUS CHRIST TO WREIOHED AND WICK
ED HUMANITY.
SLOW Ohsn Would Have Gathered Thy Children
Together, Even as a Hen Gathered Her
Chickens Under Her Wings and 70
Would No.
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RRooK1YN, y. ", February 26.-Pre-
viops 10 the sermon in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle. this morning, Rev. DR..
Talmaee. in giving out number OF no
ticas dwell upOn the fact that certain
picture-makers Of Brooklyn haa useu
his name as o reference in advertise
ments aud circulars without MS authof-
itv. Thousands OF letters or complaint
have come 10 him in this respect, ana
ne wanted il distinctly understood that
he knew nothing OF these people or their
bnsiness methods. The text selected
for the morning sermon was; Matt 2j'
81. "As q hen gathereth her chickens
upder her wings, aud We would not
Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came
N the crest Of Mount Olivet, height
~ seven hundred feet. The splendors
~ the religious capital OF the whole
Garth irradiated the landscape. There
A. the temple. Nondor Us tho King
nalace. Spread out before his eyes are
Tho romp. the wealth, tle wicEelness
and the coming destruction or Jerusa-
lom and he bursts into tears &C the
thought OF che oudurlcy OF place ihai
~ would gladly have saved, and apos'
tronhiras. saving. "Oh, Jerusalem
.Ierpgalen. how often would ] have
gathered thy children together even
al n hen rathcreth her chickens under
her wings. and Sc would noL
WHY did Christ select hen aud chith-
ensasa simiuee Next 10 the apostle
ness OF the comparison, ] think 10 was
10 helm an public teachcrs in the matter
OF Illustration 90 GET down OIL lhelr
stlts and use comparisons that aiI can
understand. Tho p.aiuest bird on e2rth
A. the BARNARD fowl. It's only scorn-
mants are the red comb in It's head
dress and the wattles under the t2rO2l.
It has no
GRANDEUR or GENEALOGN.
An we know is that It's ancestors came
from India, some OF them from a height
Of four thousand feet ca the sides OF the
Hmalayas. 10 has no pretension OF
next ike the eagles eyre. IL has no
lustre OF plumage like the goldunch.
Possessing anatomy that allows Hight
vet about the last thing 10 wants TO do
Is to lv. and in retreat uses foot almost
ss much as wing Musicians have writ
ten out in musical scale the song OF lark
and robin red-breaSt and nightingale,
vet the hen of my text hath nothing
that could be taken for q song, out
onlv cluck ard cacklc. Yet Christ
in the text, uttered while looking upon
doomed Jerusalem, declares that what
he had wished for that city was ike
what the hen does for her chickens.
Christ was thus simple in his teachings,
and vet how hard 10 is for Us, who are
Sunday School instructors and editors
and preachers and refOrmers, and those
who would gain the ears OF audiences,
10 attain that heavenly and divine art
Of SIMPLICITY. We have % run course
OF literary disorders as childcn a course
Of physical disorders We come out or
school and co Iege loaded down with
Greek mvtholOgies, and out OF the
Theo.OgSal Seminary weighed down
with Y khe learned fathers said, and
- UTyh wings Of eagles and tlamin-
goes and albatr0Sses, ana u taxes
good while before we can come down TO
Christ's similitudes, the candle under
the bushel the salt that has lost us Sa-
vor, the net thrown into the sea, the
sDittle on the eyes OF the blind man,
and the hen and chickens. There Is
not much poetry about this
WINGED CREATURES OF GOD
mentioned in my text, but she is more
Dractiral and more mOtheriy and more
suggestive OF good things than many
tbat lv higher aud wear brighter colors.
She is no, a prima donna Of the skies,
nor strut OF beauty p the aisle Of the
forest. She does NOT cut circle under
the sun like the Rocky Mountain eagle,
but STAYS at home TO look after family
affairs. She does not swOop ike the
condor Of the C0rdilleTas 20 transport a
rabbit from the valley 20 the top of the
craqs. but Just scratches for a living.
How vigorously with her claws she pulls
away the ground TO oring up what Is
hidden beneath! When the breakfast
OF dining hour arrives, she begins to
preDare the repaSt, and calls all her
young TO p0rtake.
lam IN sympathy with the unpreten-
tious Old-fashiOned hen, because like
most OF us she has 20 scratch for liv-
ing. She knows az the start the lesson
which most people of good sense are
slow 10 learn-that the gaining Of
livelihood implies work, and that sue
cesses DO not lie on the surface, but are
10 be uDturned by positive and continu-
Gus effort. The reason thar society and
the church and the world are so full OF
foilures, so fun OF lOaferS, so full OF dead
beats. IS because people are not wise
enough TO take the letsOn which any
hen would teach them, that If they
wOuld find for themselves, and for those
dependent upon them, anything worth
having they must scratch for it. Sol
onion said: SEQ 20 the ant, thou slug
gard" ] say 60 10 the hen, thou slug
gard. I'm the Old Testament God COM
pares himself to an eagle stirring up
her nest, and ia the new spirit the Holy
Shirt is compared 90 adesceuding dove,
hut Christ, in sermon that began with
cutting sarcasm for hypOcrites and
ends wiki the parOxysm OF
pathos in the text, compares
ONE DAY IN THE COUNTRY,
we saw sudden CONSERVATION In the be-
bayior of old Dominick. Why the hen
should be so disturbed, we could not I'M
derstand. We looked about TO see if q
peighbOr's dog were invading the farm.
We looked up TO see If storm cloud
were lowering. We could see nothing
on the ground that could terrorize, and
we could see nothing in the air TO ruiile
the feathers OF the hen, but the loud,
wild. afrighted cluC6 which brought
All her brood 40 full run under her
feathers. made us look again around as
and above us, when we saw that high
mo and far away there was a rapaciOus
bird wheeling round and round, and not
seeing Us as we stood In the shadow, it
came nearer and lower, until we saw