Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-09

AABcB<Nb "a AOA
Christ continues to call, calls with more
emphasis and urges haste. and says not
a second ought 10 be lost o, do tell rs
what is the matter. All, now | see.
there are hawks of temptation in the air.
there are vultures wheeling for their
prey, there are beaks of death ready To
to plunge, there are claws OF allure
ment rea y to clut.h. Now | SEE the
peril. Now / understand the urgency.
Now I see the only safety. Would that
Christ might this day take our sons and
daughters into his shelter, 'as a hen
gathers her chickens under her VIM.
The fact is that the most OF them VIII
never find the shelter niles while they
are chickens. 1t is a simple matter OF
incxorable 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 pro-
lection? There are the grog shops
There are the gambling hells. There
are the infidelities and immoralities
Of Sp~iritualism There are the
bad books There are the impnri.
bACo 4nCIC I ~ OuHAAtoo
And so numerous are these ASSISTANTS
that it is a wonder that honesty and
virtue are not lost arts The birds OF
prey, diurnal and nocturnal, of the nat
ural world, are ever on the aler. They
are the assassins of the sky. They
nave varieties of taste. The eagle pre-
fers the flesh of the living animal 1he
v%ultnre 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 q
sweeping wing and a sharp beak and q
cruel claw, aud what the rising genera
ton needs is a wing of protection.
Fathers, mothers. older brothers and
sisters, and Sabbath-school teachers be
quick and earnes and prayerful and i'm
Fortunate, and get the chickens under
wing. May the Sabbath-schools OF
America and Great Britain within the
next three months sweep all their
scholars into the kingdom. Whom
they nave now under charge is uncer-
tain. Conc erning that scrawny, puny
child that lay in the cradle many
years ago, the father dead, many
remarked, what a mercy If the Lord
would take the child" and the mother
thought so, too. but what a good
thing the Lord spared that child, for it
became world wned in Christian
literature and one of Gods most illus
trious servants-John Todd. Remem-
Der, -FOUR children will remain children
only only for a little while. What you
do for them as children you must do
quickly or never do at all why have
you neve written a DO ok?" said some
one to a talented woman. She replied:
II am writing two, and have been en-
gagged on one work ten 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
the father said: LET us kneel down
md thank God. The children are all
saved, let the rest OF the place GO" My
hearers. If we secur the present and
everlasting welfare of our children,
most other things belongi ng to us are
If but little comparative Importance.
the Great allowed his sol
liers to take their families with them
war, and he accounted for the
Of his men by the fact that
many of tn EN- were born in camp, and
we're used TO warlike see mes from the
tart Would God hal all the children
4 our day might be born into the army
4 the Lordl No need of letting them
a long way on the wrong road be-
ore they turn around and go on the
light road. The only time to get chick
under wing is W lille they are chick
ms.
Hannah Whitall Smith, the evange-
took her little child at two years of
when i'll out of the crib, and told
plainly of Christ, and the child be-
eyed, and gave evidence Of joyful
rust which grew with her growth into
Two years are not too
Dung. The time will come when by
nth of parents children will be born
ito the world, and born into the bosom
I Christ at the same time. Soon we
arents will have to go and leave our
We fight their ba tiles now,
nd we stand between them and harm,
ut our arm will after awhile get weak,
we cannot fight for them, and our
is palsied, and we cannot speak
them. Are we going to leave them
1T in the cold world to take their
lances. or are we doing all we a to .
It them under the wing of eternal /,
fety?
But we all need the protecting wing. ,
you had known when you entered }
ION manhood or womanhood what !
as ahead of you, would you have ]
red to undertake life? How much .
have been through With most :
e has been a disappointment, they :
Il me so. They have not attained !
at which they expected to attain. :
- IL