The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-03-02

mother really thought so too. But what !
eooi thing that God spared that child, for
~ bscams world renowned ia Christian
literature and one os Gods most illustriou
servants-.John Todd.
Remember. your children will remain
children only Iitte while. What you do for
them as children you must do quickly or
never do at all. "Why have Won neye,
written bookr said Soma one TO a talente /
woman. She replied: III am writing two
aud have been engaged on one work ten
years and on the other five years-my two
| children. They are NY life work. When
the house OF John Wssley's father burned.
and they got the eight children out, John
wesley The last bsfore the root fell in, the
father said: LET us kneel down aud thank
GOD. The children are all saved; let the rest
OF the place GO"
My hearers. IL we serurs the present aud
everlasting welfare Of our children, most
other things belonging to us are of but little
comparative Importance. Alexander toe
Great allo wed his soldiers 20 take tneir FAM.
lies 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 day
might be born into the army of the Lord (!
No need OF letting them 10 long way on
the wrong road before they turn around and
go on the right roii. The only time TO ges
chickens under wing IL while they are
chickens.
Hannah whitall Smith. th, evanre,is,
took her little child at two years OF age
when i'll out OF ths 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 torn
into this world and born into the bosom OF
Christ at the same time. Soon we parents
will have 20 go and leave our children. We
fight their battles now, AMI we stand be.
tween them and harm, tut our arm will at
ter while get weaS, and we cannot fight
FOR them, aud our tongue will be palsied,
aud we cannot speak for them. Are we 60.
ing to leave them out in the cold world 10
take their chances, or ars ws doing all we
can TO got them under the wing oi eternal
safety
But We all neei the protecting wing. IL
you had known when you entered upon
manhood aud womandoot what was ahead
OF you, would you have darel to undertake
lifey How much you have been throu IN (,
With most life has been n disappointment.
they tell me so. They have not attained
that which thoy expected 60 attain. They
have not had the physical aud mental yiror
they expected. or they have met with re
buds which they did not anticipate. You
are not at 40 or 80 or % or 40 or 80 years of
age where you thought you would be. do
not know anyone except myself TO whom
lie has been a happy surprise. never ex.
pected anything aud so when anything
came In the snape OF human favor or com
Portable position or widening field OF work 1t
was to me surprise.
was told In the theological seminary by
some OF my fellow students that | never
would get anybody 60 hear me preach unless
l changed my style, so that when | found
that some people did come to hear me it was
happy surprise. But most people, accord 4.
ing to their own statement have found life
disappointment. Indeed we all need shell
ter from its tempests. About o'clock on a
hot August afternoon you have heard rum
BILE that you first TOOK for "a wagon crossing
bridge, but afterward there was louder
rumbliDy, and you said, Way, that is thuu-
der" Aud sure enough the clouds we're bs-
ing convokei for full diapason. A whole
park OF artillery went rolling down tho
heavens, and the blinds OF the windows in
the sky were closed. But the sounds above
were not more certain tnau the sounds be-
meath.
The cattle came to the bars and mo,ned
for them TO be Let down that they might
come home to shelter, and the fowl, whether
d2yiS Dfahdla oF Hlmburg or LsghofH OF
Dominick. began to call TO its young,
"Cluck p "CluckH "Cluck', an take them
under che wagon house or shed, aud had
them all hid under the soft feathers by thc
time that the first plash Of rain stru,l; the
roof.
SO there are su lden tsmptests 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 blacken, and some run for shell
ter to bank, but 1t is poor shelter, and
Others run to friendly advisers. and they fail
to help and others fly nowhere simply be-
cause they know not where TO go, and they
perish In the blast, but others hear divine
call saying, Come, for all things are now
ready" "fhe spirit and the brido say
come" Aud while the heavens are thunder
ing terror the divine voice protfers mercy,
and the soul comes under the brooding care
OF the Almighty "as hen gatheretL her
chickens under her wing
The wings OF my text suggest warmth
and that Is what most folks want. The facs
is that this is u e )ll world wnether you take
it literally or iieuratively. We have big
lireplacs 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 10 get
warmed. The worlds extremities are cold
all the time. Forget not tnat it is colder at
the south pole than at the north pole, and
that the Arctic is not so destructive as the
Antirac. Once in awhile the Arctic will
ieJ explOTeT5 cOIle DiCa. DuU tub AuLdrtle
hardly ever. When at the south pole ship
sails in, the door of ice is almost sure TO bs
shut against its return.
SO life to many millions of people at the
south and many millions OF people at the
north is prolonged shiver. but when | say
this is a cold world | chiefly mean fgura.
lively. IL you want TO know what is the
meaning OF the ordinary term OF receiving
the cold shoulder" get cut OF money and
try to borrow. The conversation may have
been almost tropical for luxuriancs OF
thought and speech, but su ygest your neces-
sites and ses the thermometer diop TO so
degrees below zsro, aud in thlt which till "A
moment before had been warm room.
Take what is an unpopular position on some
public question. and SEQ your friends fly as
chaH before a windmill.
AS far as myself Is concerned, | have no
word of complaint. but look off day by
day and see communities freezing out men
and women OF whom ths world Is not
worthy. Now il takes after one and now
after another. 1t becomes popular to de-
preciate and defame and execrats and lie
about some people. This is the best world
ever got into, but IL is the meanest world