Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-10

good thing that God spared that child. for
it became world Renowned in Christian
literature and one o 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 havs you never
written booSy' said some one TO a talented
woman. She repliei: ~ am writing two
and have been engaged on one work ten
years and on the other five years-my two
children. They arr my life work" When
the house o. John w .sley'S father burned,
and they got the eight children out, John
Wesley the last b,for, tho ROOT fell in, the
father said: LET US kneel down and thank
Col. The children are all savel; let tue rest
Of the place go"
Ny hearers, il we Sc 'urs thu present arl
everlasting welfare OF our children, most
other things belonging TO US are of but little
comparative Importance. Alexander the
Great allowed his soldiers TO take their fani-
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 10 wArliks scenes from the start.
Would Col that all the children OF our day
might be born into the army OF the Lordi
No need of letting them go long way on
the wrong road bsfore they turn around and
go on the right roil. The only tina to ge:
chickens under wing is while they are
chickens.
Hannah Wnitall Smith. the evangelist
took her little child at two years OF age
when i'll 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 womanhooi. Two years are
not too yoanr. The tina will come when
by the faith Of parents chill ireu will be born
Iuto 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
light their battles now, AMI we stand be.
tween them and harm, but our arm will af-
ter while get weaE; and we cannot fight
Tor them, aud our tongue will be palsied
and we cannot speak for them. Are we 90
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
safetyf
But we all nee1 the protecting wing. II
you had known when you ent,rei upon
manhood AMI womauhood what was ahead
VI you, would you have dared tO undertake
life? How much you have bsel through
With most life has been disappoint nent;
they tell me so. They have not attained
that which they expected to attain. They
have not had the physical aud mental viyor
thay expected. or they have met with re-
buffs which they did not anticipate. You
are not at 40 or 80 or 90 or ~ or 50 years OF
age where you thought you would be. do
not know anyone except myself to whom
life has been happy surprise. | never ex.
pectei anything, aud 30 when anything
came in the shape OF human favor or com.
Portable position or widening field of work it
was to me surprise.
WAS told in the theological seminary by
so ne Of my fellow stu tents that | never
would got any yboiy to hear me preach unless
| changei my styla 50 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 lie
disappointment. Indeei we all need shell
ter from its tempssts. About 3 o'clock on a
hot Aug gust afternoon YOU have b 3ard rum
BILE that you first took for a wagon crossiny :
a brid re, but atterwari there was lou Ter
runbling, and you said Way. that is thun-
ier! And sure enou IN the clouds were be-
lns convoket for a full diapasou. A whole
park OF artillery went rolling down the
heavens, and the blinds o. the windows in
the sky were closet. But the sounds above
were loJ more certain tnan the sounds be-
meath.
Tue cattle cams to the bars and mo1ned
for them 70 be let down that they might
come home to shelter, anl tis fowl whether
iarG Brahma or Hlmhurg or Leghorn or
Dominick, began TO cal! t. its young,
"Cluck W "ClucSl' "ClucGP an take them
under the wagon houss or shel, AMI had
them all hid under the soft feathers by the
time that ths irst plash OF rain struck the
roof.
SO there are su lien temptests for our
souls, aud, o.. iOw dark it gets, aul thr eat
eniny clouds -. bankruptcy or sickness or
persecution or bereav ment gather and
! thcSen and b!acken, and some run for shell
ter to IA bank, but 1t is poor shelter, and
others run TO friendly advisers. and they fail
to help AMI Others ay nowhere simply be-
cause they know not whers to 60, 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" Aud while the heavens are thunder
Ing terror the divine voice protfers mercy,
and the soul comes under the broo1ing care
OF the Almighty 'as hen. gathereth her
chickens under her wing"
The wings of my text suggest warmth,
and that is what most folks want. The fact
! Is that this is a col world whether YOU take
It literally or figuratvely. We have a big
fireplace called the sun, and it mas a very
hot fire, and the stokerS keep the Goals well
stirred up but much of the year we cannot
get ne IT. enough TO this fireplace to get
warmed. The worlds extremities are cold
all the time. Forget not that 1t is colder at
the south pole than at the north pole, and
that the Arctic is not so destructive as the
| AnC4rGlC. OuCe III uNulle tue hICtiC Will
let explorers come baci. but the Autartic
hardly ever. When at the south pole a ship
sails in, the door of ice is almost sure to be
shut agains. its return.
So life to many millions of people at the
south and many millions OF people at the
north is a prolonged shiver, but when | say
this is a cold worlt | chiefly mean hgura
lively. If you want t. know what is the
meaning Of the ordinary term of receiving
the "cold shoulder" get out OF money ant
try to borrow. The conversation may have
been almost tropical for luxuriance o
thought and speecl, but su .gest your neces
stiles and se5 the thermometer diop to Sc
degrees oeloy zsro, aud III tn 1t wnich till a
moment before had been n warm room
Take what is an unpo .,ular position on som'
public question. AMI sea your friends fly a
chaR before q Windmill.
As far as myself is concerned, / have M
word of complaint, but | look of day by
day and sec communities freezing out mel
and women OF whom ths world is no
worthy. Now it takes after one and nov
after another. 1t becomes popular to de
preciate and defame aud execrAte and Ii
about some people This is the best world
ever got into, but 1t is the meanest worl
that some people ever got into. Ihe wors
thing tuat ever happene to them was tnei
cradle. and the best thing that will eve
happen to them will be their grave. VIVA
people want is warmth.
MANY years sgo a man was floating dow
ON the ice of the Merrimac, and great effor,
were made to rescue him. Twice he got ho
Of a plank thrown to him aud twice b
slipped away from it, because that end OF th
plank was covered with ice, and he cried ou
,'For Gods sake, give mo the wooden end c
the plank this time" and this done he wa
hauled TO shore. The trouble Is that in ou
aRo.t, to oova tha gOul thera IL too nuC
codness ami icy formaty, AMI SO the in
periled one slips Off and floats down. Civ
Il the other end of the plank-warmth
sympathy, warmth OF kindly association
warmth OF genial surroundings.
The world declines to give II, and 10 man
cases has no power TO give 1t, and here
where Christ comes ip, and, as on cold da