Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-03-08

at all. what chance ~ there for
the young without divine projection?
There are the grog-shops There
are the gambling kellS There are
the infidelities and imrnoralities of spir-
itualism- There are the bad books
There are the impurities There
are the business rascalities And
so numerous are these ailments
that it is wonder that hon
esty and virtue are not lost arts. The
birds of prey. diurnal and nocturnal,
of the natural world, are ever on the
alert They are the assassnss of the
sky. They have varieties of tasye. The
eagle prefers the flesh of the living an
imaL The vulture prefers the sar-
cass- 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 n swooping wing
and sharp bealS and cruel claw. and
what the rising generation needs is a
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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 king
dom Whom they have now under charge
IS uncertain. Concerning that scrawny,
puny child that lay in the cradle many
years ago, the father dead many said:
What mercy il the Lord would take
the child" and the mother really
thought so, too, but what q good thing
that God spared that child. for il be-
came world-rcnowned in Christian lit
erature, and one of Gods most illustri-
Gus scrvauts-John Todd. Remember
your children will remain children only
little while. What you do for thorn
as children you must do quickly, or
never do at all. "Why have you never
written a book?" said some one 10 a
talented woman. She replied Il am
writing two and have been engaged on
one work ten years and ON the other
five years-my two children. They are
my life-woril." When the house of
John NcSley's father burned. and they
got the eight children out, John Wesley
the last before the roof fell in. the
father said: Let us lSneel down and
thank God. The children are all saved.
let the rest of the place 90" My hear
ers, If we secure the present and ever
lasting 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 dav
might be born into the arms of the
Lord No need OF letting them GO a
long way on the wrong road before
they turn around and 90 on the right
road. The only time 10 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 be-
licved, 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 par
ents viii have to go 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 can not fight for them, and our
tongue will be palsied and we can not
speak for them. Are we going TO leave
them out in the cold world 20 take their
chances, or are we doing all we can to
get them under the wing of internal
safety.
But we ali need the protecting wing.
If you had known when you entered
upon manhood or womanhood what
was ahead OF You, would you have
cared TO undertake life? How much
you have been through With most.
life has been disappointment they
tell me so They have not attained
that which they expected to- attain.
Ihcy have not had the physical and
mental vigor they expected, or they
have mot with rcbuffs which they
did not anticipate You are
not at 40 or 80 or go or 10 or so vcars Of
age where you thought you would be.
do not know anyone except myself TO
whom life has been q happy surprise.
never expected anything. and so when
anything came in the shape OF human
favor or comfortable position or widen
ing field OF work il was TO me n sur
prise. / was told in the theological
seminary by some of my fcllow-studcnts
that / would never get anybody Co hear
me preach unless j changed my STYLE
SO when ] found some people did come
TO near me IT was % happy surprise.
But most people according 10 their
own statement, have found life n dis
appointment Indeed, we all need shell.
ter from it tcmpests.
About 9 o'clock on a hot August NJ
tcrnoon you have heard o rumble that
you first took for wagon CROSSING "a
bridge, but afterward there was q,
louder rumbling, and YOU said. WHY.
that is thunder!' and. sure enough. tho
clouds were being convol,cd for n full
dlapason. a whole park ol artilers
went rolling down the heavcns ana
the blinds OF The windows in the s.,v
were closed But the sound. rb,oo
wcre-not more certain than the sounds
beneath. The cattle came To- tho
bars and moancd for them to be
ietdown that they might come home 10
shelter and the fowl. whether dar,.
Brahma or Hamburg or I,cchorr ,,r. dom