Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-10


| others prefer those already gangrened- But
| for every STYLE Of youth there Is a swoo2in5
! wing ana sdarp beak am cTQeI cav,
aud what the rising generation nee1S Is d
| wing OF DrotSc-tOU-
Fathers, mothers, older brothers AMI sis
ters and Sahbath-sc zool teachers. be quick
and earnest ana LrayerIul and lmoortunat5
and get the chickens under the wing. May
the Sa5bath-schools OF America aud Great
Britain within the next taTee months sweep
| all their scholars into the klngdon. " nom
| they have now under charge IS uncertain.
Concerning that scGawny, puny cnuo thaE
| lay in the cradle many years ago, tue IaLner
dead. many remarked. What mercy Il
the Lord would take the calld! 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 o: Gods most Ilustrlous
servants-John Todd.
Remember your children will remain
children only little while. What you do foc
them as children you must do quickly or
never do at all. ''Way have you never
written book?" said some one TO talented
woman. She replied: "I am writing two
and have been engaged on one work ten
years and on the other five years-nv two
children. They ara NY life work. W nen
the house % John W asley'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 Tue rest
of the place GO"
Nv hearers. il we Sc >ura the present and
everlasting welfare of our children, most
other things belonging to is are or but little
comparative Importance. Alexander the
Great alio wed his soldiers TO take their IA nj
lies with them to war, and he accounted for
the bravery of his men by the fact That
many of taem we're bora in camp and were
used TO warli1e scenes from the start.
Would God that all the children or 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 anu
20 on the right road. The only tt me to get
chickens under wing IS while they are
chickens.
Hannah WhitalI Smith, the evangelist
took her little child at two 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 grew with
her growth to 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 and leave our children. We
Fl ght their battles now, and we stand be-
tween them and harm, but our arm will at
ter while get weak; and we cannot hight
for them, and our tongue will be palsied
and we cannot speak for them. Are we go
ing 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?
But we all need the protecting wing. If
YOU had known when you eut9rel upon
manhood and womanhood what was ahead
OF you, would you have dared to undertake
life? How much you have been throug CHI
With most life has been disappo intment;
they tell me so. They have not attained
that which they expected to attain. They
have not had the physical and mental vigor
they expected. or they have met with re-
Bluffs which they did not anticipate. You
are not at 40 or so or 60 or 20 or 80 years of
age where you thought you would be. do
not know anyone except myself to whom
life has been a happy surprise. I never ex-
pected anything, and SO when anything
came in the shape of human favor or COM
Portable position or widening field Of work it
was to me surprise.
l was told in the theological seminary by
some Of my fellow students that l never
would get anybody to hear me preach unless
changed my style, SO that when found
that some people did come to hear me it was
happy surprise. But most people, accord
ing to their own statement have found life
disappointment. Indeed we all need shell
ter from its tempests. About 3 o'clock on
hot August afternoon you have heard rum
BILE tn 1t you first took for a wagon crossing
bridge but afterward there was a louder
rumbling, and you said, why, that is thun-
derr' Aud sure enough the clouds were be-
ing convoked for full diapason. A whole
park of artillery went rolling down the
heavens and the blinds OF toe windows IN
the sky were closed. But the sounds above
were not mora certain than the sounds be-
heath.
The cattle came to the bars and moaned
for them to be let down that they might
come home to shelter, and the fowl, whether
dark Brahma or Hamburg or Leghorn or
Dominick. began to call to its young,
"Cluckp' "Cluck! "Cluckr' and take them
under the wagon house or shed, and had
them all hid under the soft feathers by the
time that the first plash of rain struck the
roof.
So there are su 1den temptests for our
souls, and, oh how dark it gets, and threat
ening clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or
persecution or bereavment gather and
thicken and blackeD, and some run for shell
ter to bank, but 1t is poor shelter, and
otherSr TIN to friendly advisers. and they fail
to help and others fly nowhere smply be-
cause they know not where to so, and they
perish in the blast but others hear divine
call saying, Come, for all things are now
ready" The spirit and the bride say
come" And while the heavens are thunder
ing terror the divine voice proffers mercy,
and the soul comes under the brooding care
of the Almighty ''as a hen gatheretn her
chickens under her wing"
The wings of my text suggest warmth,
and that is what most folks want. The TACT
is that this is odd world whether you take
1t literally or fguratively. We have a big
fireplace called the sun, and it has a 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 extremities are cold
all the time. Forged not that it is colder at
the south pole than at the north pole, and
that the Arctic is not so destructive as the
Ant4rtic. Once in awhile the Arctic will