The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-03-17

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!
All, now l 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 l
see the peril. Now l understand the
urgency Now l see the only safety.
Would that Christ might this day take
our sons and daughters into his shelter.
las 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. 1t is q simple
matter of inexoratle statistics that most
of those who do not come to Christ in
youth never come at all.
Human Birds of Prey.
What chance is there for the young
without divine protection? There are
the grog shops. There are the gambling
bells. There are the infdelities and i'm
moralities Of spiritualism. There are
the bad books. There are the impurities.
There are the business raScaljtieS And
so numerous are these assailments that
it is a wonder that honesty and virtue
are not lost arts. The birds of prey,
| diurnaI and nocturnal, of the natural
world are ever on the alert. They are
the assassins Of the sky. They have va
rieties of taste. The eagle prefers the
| flesh of the living animal. 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 tor manv years, and some like the
| living blood of great souls, and others
| prefer those already gangrened. But
| for every style of youth there is swoop-
| ing wing, and sharp beak, and cruel
claw, and what the rising generation
| needs is a wing of protection. Fathers,
mothers, older brothers and sisters, and
Sabbath School teachers, be quick and
| earnest and prayerful and importunate,
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 have now under
! charge is uncertain. Concerning that
scrawny, punY child that lay in the cradle
| many wears ago, the father dead. many
| remarked, what mercy il the Lord
| would take the child" and the mother
really thought so too. But what good
thing that God spared that child. for it
| became world renowned in Christian
| literature and one of Gods most illustri-
Gus 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 a book?" said some
one to a talented woman. She replied:
| IL am writing two and have been en-
gagged on one work ten wears 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 CO."
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.
Alexander the Great allowed his soldiers
to take their families with them to war,
!
men by the fact that many of them were
born in camp and were used to warli6e
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 60 long way on the wrong
road before they turn around and 60 on
the right road. The only time to get
chickens under wing is while they are
| chickens.
Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangel-
ist, took her little child at ? years of age
when i'll out Of the crib and told her
plainly of Christ, and the child believed
and gave evidence of joyful trust which
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 60 and leave our children. We fight
their battles now, and We stand between
them and harm, but our arm will after
awhile get weak, and we cannot fight
for them, and our tongue will be palsied,
and we cannot speak for them. Are we
going to leave them out in the cold world
to take their chances, or are we doing
all we can to get them under the wing
of eternal safety?
| We Want Warmth.
| The wings of my text suggest warmth,
and that is what most folks want The
fact is that this is cold world, whether
you take it literally or figurativelv. We
have a big fireplace called the sun, and
it has very hot fire. and the stOkers
keep the Goals well stirred up, but much
/! of the year We cannot get near enough
to this fireplace to get warmed. The
worlds extremitleS are cold all the time.
Forget not that it is colder at the South
Pole than at the North Pole. and that
the Arctic is not so destructive as the
Antarctic. Once in awhile the Arctic
will let explorers come back. but the
Antarctic hardly ever When at the
South Pole ship sails in, the door of
ice is almost sure TO be closed against its
return.
Sc life to many millions of people at
the South and many millions OF people
at the North is a prolonged SILVER. But
when say that this is a cold world
chiefly mean fguratively. If you want
to know what is the meaning of the ordi-
nary term of receiving the ''cold shout
der" get out OF money and try to bOr-
row. The conversation may have been
almost tropical for lCxuriance Of thought