Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-02
AT THE TABERNACLE.
las A HEN GATHERETH HER CHICK
EMS UNDER HER WINGS"

Text of DR.. TaimaGo's sunday Morning Ser
mon-ue Complains That Certain Adver-
Users Have Been Using Els Name with
out Authority.
BRooK1YN, Feb. 9G.-Previous to the ser.
mon in the Brooklyn tabernacle this morn
Ing Rev. DR.. Talmage, in giving out num-
Der of notices, dwelt upon the fact that Ger.
tain picture makers of Brooklyn had used
his name as a reference in their advertise
ments and circulars without his authority.
Thousands of letters of complaint have
come to him in this respect and he wanted
it distinctly understood that he knew moth.
ing of these people or their business meth.
DDS. The text selected for the morning
sermon was Matthew xiii, 81, "As n hen
Gathercth her chickens under her wings,
rnd we would not"
WHY THIS sMILE?
Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came to
the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of 100
feet. The splendors of the religious capital
of the whole earth irradiated the landscape
There is the temple Yondcr is the kings
palace Spread out before his eyes are the
pomp, the wealth, the wickcdness and the
coming destruction of Jerusalem, and he
DiIStS lulO TEARS NJ ine tuOURHJ OF the CD
duracy of a place that he would gladly have
saved and apostrophizes, saying, 80, Je-
|rusalem, Jerusalem, how often would |
have gathered thy children together, even
as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
wings, and We would notl'
Why did Christ select hen and chickens
as smile? Next to the apposteness of the
comparison | think it was to help all pub
lie teachers in the matter of illustration to
get down off their stills and use compari.
sons that all can understand. The painest
bird on earth is the barnyard fowl. Its
only adornments are the red comb in its
healdress and the wattles under the throat.
Ut has no grandeur of genealogy. All we
know Is that its ancestors came from India,
some of them from Il height of 4, 10 feet on
the sides of the Hmalayas. 1t has no pre-
tension of nest like the eagles eyrie 1t
has no luster of plumage like the goldfnch.
Possessing anatomy that allows flight, yet
about the last thing it wants to do is to fly,
and in retreat uses foot almost as much as
wing
Musicians have written out in musical
scale the song of lark and robin redbreast
and nightingale, yet the hen of my text
hath nothing that could be taken for song
but only cluck and cackle. Yet Christ in
he text, uttered while looking at doomed
Jerusalem, declares that what he had
wished for that city was like what the hen
oes for her chickens. Christ was thus sim
pie in his teachings, and yet how hard it is
Tor us, who are Sunday school instructors
and editors and preachers and reformers
Ind those who would gain the ears of audi
ences, to attain that heavenly and divine
hrt of simplicity.
We have to run a course of literary disor-
on nc Obi Iran 4
lers. We come out of school and college
loaded down with Greek mythologies, and
put of the theological seminary weighed
Town with what the learned fathers said
and we fly with wings of eagles and fanlin-
goes and albatrosses, and it takes a good
while before we can come down to Christ's
similitudes, the candle under the bushel,
he salt that has lost it's SAVIOR, the net
thrown into the sea, the spittle on the eyes
Of the blind man and the hen and chick
ems.
There is not much poetry about this
Winged creature Of God mentioned in my
text, but she is more practical and more
InOtherly and more suggestive of good
hings than many that fly higher and wear
brighter colOrs, She is not a prima donna
bf the skies nor a strut of beauty in the
lisles of the forest She does not cut cir
lie under the sun like the Rocky mountain
,agle, but stays at home to look after fam
ly affairs. She does not swoOp like the
condor of the Cordilleras to transport a
abbt from the valley to the top of the
rags but just scratches for living. How
vigorously with her claws She pulls away
he ground to bring up what is hidden be
leathl When the breakfast or dining hour
arrives, she begins to prepare the repast
and calls all her young TO partake