Connecticut western news., 1893-03-02
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 One day in the country we saw sud- den consternation in the behavior of old Dominick. Why the hen should be so disturbed we could not understand. We looked about to see if neighbours dog were invading the farm. We looked up to see If stormcloud were lowering. We could see nothing on the ground that could terrorize, and we could see nothing in the air to ruffle the feathers of the hen, but the loud, wild, afrighted cluck which brought all her brood at full run under her feathers made us look again around us and above us, whep we saw that high up and far away there was 8 rapacious bird wheeling round and round, and down and down, and not seeing us as we stood in the shadow it came nearer and lower until we saw its beak was curved from base to tip, and it had two flames of fire for eyes, and it was a hawk.
 But all the chickens were under old Dominick's wing, and either the bird of prey caught glimpse of us, or not able to find the brood huddled under wing darted back into the clouds. So Christ calls with great earnestness to the young. Why, what is the mat ter? It is bright sunlight, and there can be no danger. Health is theirs. A good home is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs Prospect of long hfeis theirs. But Christ continues to call, calls with more en- phasis and urges haste and says not second ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us what is the matter! An, now see. There are hawks of temptation in the air; there are vultures wheeling for their prey; there are beaks of death ready to plunge; there are claws of allurement ready to clutch. Now I see the peril. Now I understand the urgency. Now see the only safety. Would that Christ might this day take our sons and daughters into his shelter, ''as hen gathereth her chickens under her wing"
 The fact is that the most of them will never find the shelter unless while they are chickens. It is simple matter of memorable statistics that most of those who do not come to Christ in youth never come at all. What chance is there for the young without divine protection? There are the grog shops. There arethe gambling hells. There are the infdeli- ties and immoralities of spiritualism. There are bad books. There are the i'm purities. There are the business rascai- ties. And so numerous are these assail ments that it is 8 wonder that honesty and virtue are not lost arts.
 The birds of prey, diurnal and noctur- nal, of the natural world are ever on the alert. They are the assassins of the sky. They have varieties of taste. The eagle prefers the flesh of the living ami 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 agonize 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 sweeping wing and sharp beak and a cruel claw, and what the rising generation needs is a wing of protection.
 EARLY SALVATION URGED.
 Fathers, mothers, older brothers and sisters and Sabbath school teachers, be quick and earnest and prayerful and i'm portunate 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- corning that scrawny, puny child that lay in the cradle many years ago, the father dead, many remarked, What mercy if the Lord would take the childr' and the mother really thought 80 too. But what good thing that God spared that child, for it became world renowned in Christian literature 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 bookY' said some one to talented woman. She replied: II am writing two and have been engaged on one work 10 years and on the other five years-my two children. They are my life 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 go."
 My 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 were used to warlike 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 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 3 years of age when ill out of the crib and told her plainly of Christ, and the child believed and gave evidence of joyful trust, which 1 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