The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-01
AT THE TABERNACLE.
ASA HEN GATHEReTH HER CHICK
EMS UNDER HER WINGS"

BROOKLYN. Feb. 26.-Previous to the ser
mon in the Brooklyn tabernacle this morn
ing Rev. DR.. 1almage. in giving out mum
Der Of notices. dweit upon the fact that Ger
tain picture makers of Brooklyn had used
his name a reference in their advertise
menss and circulars without his authority
Thousands OF letters OF complaint have
come TO him In this respect, and he wanted
It distinctly understood chat be knew moth
Ing Of these people or their business meth
DDS. The text selected for the morning
sermon was Matthew XIII, 81. AS a hen
g;Ethereth her chickens under her wings
and ye would not"
WHY THIS sINILR7
Jerusalem was in sight a. Christ came TO
the crest Of Mount Olivet, height of 700
feet. The splendors Of the reli gious capital
Of the whole earth ir-adizsed the landscape
There is the temple. Yonder IL the kings
palace. Spread out before his eyes are the
pomp, the wealth the N-ickedneSS and the
coming destruction OF .IeruSalern and he
bursts into tears III che thought of the ob
duracy of place that be would gladly have
saved, and spoStrophLzes. saying. 20, Je-
rusalem, Jerusalem, how often would
have gathered thy children together. even
a hen gSthereth her chickens under her
wings, and We would nOtP'
Why did Christ select hen and chickens
similes Next to tho appositeness Of the
comparison ! think IL WIS to help all pub
lie teachers In the mAtler Of illustration to
get down off their stills and use compari
sons that all can understand. The plniuest
bird on eaiTn is the harnyard fowl Its
only adornmentS are the red comb in ITS
headdress and the vattles under the throat
1t has no grandeur Of genealogy. All we
know is that it, ancestors came from India
some of them from height Of I 900 feet on
the sides Of tke Himalayas II has no pre-
tension Of ntft like the eagles eyrie II
has no lustet Of plumage like the goldllnch.
Possessing ;Lnatomy that allows flight yet
about the last thing it wants TO do Il 10 fly,
and in ret reat uses foot almost as much as
wing
Musicians have written out in musical
scale thi song of lark and robin redbreast
and nightingale. yet the ben of my text
hath nothing that could he taken for a song,
but only cluck aud cackle. Yet Christ in
the text, uttered while looking at doomed
Jerusalem. declares that what he had
wished for that city was like what the ben
does for her chickens Christ was thus sim.
pie in his teachings and vet how hard il is
for us, who are Sunday school instructors
and editors and preachers and reformers
and those who would gain the ears of audi
ences, 10 attain that heavenly and divine
art OF simplicity
We have to run a course Of literary disor.
ders a. children "a course OF physical disor>
ders. We come out OF school and college
loaded down with Greek mythologies. anil
out OF the theological seminary weighed
down with what the learned fathers said,
and we fly with wings Of eagles and famin-
goes and aihat-osses. and It takes a good
while before We can come down to Christs
similitudes. TIE candle under the bushel
the salt that has lost its SAVIOR. the net
thrown into the sea. the spittie on the eyeas
of the blind man and the hen and chick
There is not much poetry about this
winged creature Of God mentioned in my
text, but she Is more practical and more
mctherly and more suggestive of good
things than many that fly higher and wear
brighter coiors. She is not a prima donna
OF the skies nor a strut Of beauty in the
aisles Of the forest She does not cut a cir
Gle under the sun like the Rocky mountain
eagle, but stays at home TO look after fam
lily affairs She does not swOop like the
condor of the Cordilleras TO transport a
rabbit from the valley to the top OF the
crags, but just scratches for living How
vigorously with her claws she pulls away
the ground to bring up what Is hidden be.
neathl When the breakfast or dining hour
arrives, she begins TO prepare the repast
and calls al her young to partaks.
THR HEN AS TYPE.
am in sympathy with the unpretentious
old fashioned hen. because, like most Of us.
she has 70 scratch for living She knows
at the start the lesson which most people Of
good sense are slow to learn-that the gain
Ing of livelihood implies work, and that
successes do not lie on the surface. but are
TO be upturned by positive and continuous
effort. The reason that society, and the
church. and the world are so full Of far
ures, so full OF loafers so full Of dead beats,
IS because people are not wise enough TO
take the lesson which any hen would teach
them-that IL they would find for them
selves and for those dependent upon them
anything worth having they must scratch
for il.
Solomon said, Go to the ant, thou slug
gard" say, Go 70 the hen. thou sluggard
In the Old Testament God compares him
self 70 an eagle stirring up her nest, and in
the New Testament the Holy Spirit is com
pared TO descending dove, but Christ. In
sermon that begins with cutting sarcasm
for hypocrites and ends with the paroxysm
OF pathOs IN the text. compares himself TO a
hen
One day in the country we saw sudden
CONSERVATION in the behavior of old Domi-
nick. Why the hen should be so disturbed
we could not understand We looked about
to see if a neighbor's dog were invading the
farm. We looked up TO see il a stOrmcloud
were lowering. We could SEQ nothing on
the ground that could terrorize, and we
could nothing in the air TO ruffie the
feathers Of the hen, but the loud. wild, AZ
frighted cluek which brought ali her brood
at full run under her feathers made US lCok
again around Us and above us, when we
saw that high up and far away there was a
rapacious bird wheeling around and around,
and down AID down, and not seeing US as
sge stood Ia the shadow it came nearer and
lower until we saw its beak was curved
from base TO Up, anu IL lIad two flames Of
LIRE for eyes, and IL was hawk.
But all the chickens We're under old Dom
hicks wings. and either the bird of prey
caught glimpse or Us, or not able to fud
the brood huddled under wing darted back
into the clouds So Christ calls with great
earpestuess TO All the young. Why, what
Is the matters 10 is bright sunlight, and
a good home is theirs. Plenty Of food is
theirs PROSPECT OF long life Is theirs But
Christ continues 10 call. calls with more
emphasis and urges haste and says not
second ought 70 be lost Oh. do tell us
what is the matterl
an, now 1 see; there are hawks of tenn
cation ia the CIR, there are vultures wheel
Ing for their preV. there are beaks of death