Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-03-02

these assailments that il Is a wonder that
honesty 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 assassins OF the sky. They
have varieties Of taste. The eagle prefers
the flesh Of the living animal. Thevulture
! prefers the carcass. The falcon kills with
one stroke, while other styles Of beak give
prolongatlon 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 al.
ready gangrened. But for every style OF
youth there is a swooping wing, and sharp
beak, and a cruel claw, and what the rising
generation needs is wing Of protection.
Fathers, mothers, older brothers and sisters,
and Sabbath school teachers, be quick and
earnest and prayerful and importnnate, 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 kingdoml
Whom they have now under charge is un-
certain. Concerning that scrawny, puny
child that lay in the cradle many years ago,
the father dead, many remarked, What a
mercy il the Lord would take the childr'
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 do
for them as children you must do quickly
or never do at all. "Why have you never
written book!" said some one to a talent
ed woman. She replied: II am writing
two and have been engaged on one work 10
years and on the other 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."
Ny hearers, if we secure the present and
everlasting welfare of our children, most
other things belonging to us are of but lit
tie comparative Importance. Alexander the
Great allowed his soldiers to take their
families with them to war, and he ac-
counted 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
Lordl No need of letting them go long
way on the wrong road before they turn
around and go on the right road. The only
time to get chickens under wing is while
they are chickens.
Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangelist,
took her little child at 2 years of age when
ill out of the crib and told her plainly of
Christ, and the child believed and gave evi-
dence 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 bos-
ON of Christ at the same time. Soon we
parents will have to go and leave our chill
dren. 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 do
ing all we can to get them under the wing
of eternal safetyS
WE NEED TIE PROTECTING WING.
But we all need the protecting wing. II
you had known when you entered upon
manhood or womanhood what was ahead
of you, would you have dared to undertake
life? How much you would have been
through With most life has been q disap.
pointment. They tell me so. They have not
attained that which they expected to at
tain. They have not had the physical and
DpptaI viU0r thau tod nv fhav I,nx,a
met with rebuffs which they did not antic-
ipate. You are not at 40 or SO or go or 70
or so years of age where you thought you
would be. do not know any one except
myself to whom life has been a happy sur
prise. | never expected anything, and so
when anything came in the shape of human
favor or comfortable position or widening
field of work it was to me surprise
was told in the theological seminary by
some of my fellow students that Knever
would get anybody to hear me preach un-
less | changed my style, SO that when
found some people did come to hear me it
was happy surprise. But most people,
according to their own statement, have
found life disappointment. Indeed we
all need shelter from its tempests. About
8 o'clock on hot August afternoon You
have heard a rumble that you first took for
wagon crossing a bridge, but afterward
there was louder rumbling, and you said,
why, that is thunder!" And, sure enough,
the clouds were being convoked for q full
diapason. A whole park of artillery went
rolling down the heavens, and the blinds of
the windows in the sky were closed But
the sounds above were not more certain
than the sounds beneath.
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,
"CluckI" "Cluckw "Cluck" and take them
under the wagon house OF 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 sudden tempests for our
souls, and, oh! how clark it gets, and threat
ening clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or
persecution or bereavement gather and
thicken and blacken, and some run for
shelter to bank, but it is poor shelter,
and others run to friendly advisers, and
they fail to help, and others fly nowhere,
simply because 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" 1.-The spirit and
the bride say come" And while the heav-
ems are laundering terror the divine voice
proffers mercy, and the soul comes under
the brooding care of the Almighty ''as
hen gathereth her chickens under her
wing"
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 1t literally or figuratively. 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
onId o11 tho ti,oa Eororot not hut II ;c