Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-02-27

AOW u thbAi WO bdW ITO Dttk WAS CuTNtO
from base to tip, and it had two flames
of fire for eyes, and it was hawk.
But all the chickens were under old
Dominick's wing. and either the bird of
prey caught glimpse of us, or not
able to find the brood huddled under
wing darted back into the clouds. So
Christ calls with great earnestness to
the young. Why, what is the mat
ter? It is bright sunlight, and there can
be no danger. Health is theirs. A good
home is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs.
Prospect of long lifeis theirs. But Christ
continues to call, calls with more en-
phasis and urges haste and says not a
second ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us
what is the matterl 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 plunge;
there are claws of allurement ready to
clutch. Now l see the peril Now l
understand the urgency. Now see the
only safety. Would that Christ might
this day take our sons and daughters
into his shelter, "as 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 simple matter of
inexorable 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 protection?
There are the grog shops. There are the
gambling hells. There are the infideli-
ties and immoralities of spiritualism.
There are bad books. There are the i'm
purities. There are the business rascali-
ties. And 80 numerous are these assail-
ments that it is a wonder that honesty
and virtue are not lost arts.
The birds of prey, diurnal and noctur-
nal, Of the natural world are ever on
the alert. They are the assassins of the
sky. They have varieties of taste. The
eagle prefers the flesh of the living ami
NAL. 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 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 swooping
wing and sharp beak and cruel claw,
and what the rising generation needs is
wing of protection.
EARLY SALVATION URGED.
Fathers, mothers, older brothers and
sisters and Sabbath school teachers, be
quick and earnest and prayerful and i'm
Fortunate and get the chickens under
wing. May the Sabbath schools of Amer
lea and Great Britain within the next
three months sweep all their scholars
into the kingdom. Whom they have
now under charge is uncertain. Con-
corning 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 childp
and the mother really thought SO too
But what a good thing that God spared
that child, for it became world renowned
IN Christian literature and one of Gods
most illustrious servants-John Todd.
Remember, your children will remain
children only little while. What you
10 for them as children you must do
quickly or never do at all. "Why have
you never written book?' said some one
to a talented woman. She replied: II
am writing two and have been engaged
On one work 10 years and ON the other
i've 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
md everlasting welfare of our children,
most other things belonging to us are Of
put little comparative Importance. Alex
lnder the Great allowed his soldiers to
AXE their families with them to war,
md he accounted for the bravery of his
nen by the fact that many of them were
BORN in camp and were used to warlike |
genes from the start. Would God that |
III the children of our day might be born |
nto the army of the Lordl No need of !
citing them go long way on the |
wrong road before they turn around and
70 on the right road. The only time to
ret chickens under wing is while they |
ire chickens.
Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangelist,
ook her little child at years Of age /
when ill out Of the crib and told her
,lainly of Christ, and the child believed
md gave evidence of joyful trust, which
rev with her growth into womanhood
Two years are not too young. The time
will come when by the faith of parents
hildren will be born into this world and
,orn into the bosom of Christ at the same
ime. Soon we parents will have to go
nd leave our children. We fight their
,attles now, and we stand between them
nd harm, but our arm will after awhile
ret weak, and we cannot fight for them,
nd our tongue will be palsied, and we
annot speak for them. Are we going
o leave them out in the cold world to
AXE their chances, or are we doing all
ve can to get them under the wing Of
ternal safety?
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