Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-03-18

lay III the EdAtse iDaUy year ago. Tue iaI1or
lead. many remarked. WHAT a mercy if
the Lord would take the child" aud the
mother really thought 50 too. But what a
cool thing that God spared that child. for
II tcca-is worli renowned in Christian
literature and one o. Gods most il.ustr.ous
servants-John Todd.
Remember. your children will remain
children only a little while. What you do for
than as children you must do quickly OF
never do az all. s"Why have you never
rritten z bookr' said some one 70 a taleatal
woman. She replied: II am writing two
and have been engaged on one work ten
years AMI on the Other five years-Ily two
children They ara. ny life WORK" When
the house o. john Weslev's father burned,
and they got the eight children out. John
Wesley the last before the root fell in. the
father said: Let Us kneal down AMI thank
Got The children are ell saved; le. the rest
Of the place. GO
Nv h~-arcrs, ii we Sc 1ira thu prasen. AMI
everlasting Welfare Of our chill :re,, most
other things belonging 10 Us ara OF hut little
comparative importance. AlaIan ie-. the
Great allowed his soif.ers to take their AM
les with them 70 war. AMI he accounted for
the bravery Of his men by the fact TINT
many Oft ZEN were born in cauo AMI were
u>Al - w4rliaa scenes from tna start.
Would Col that all the children OF our day
might be born into thu army OF the Lord
-<2 4tF-%i - ittt AisTtil @1d ifl- WY Oil
tie wrong roa: before they turn arounf AMI
20 on the ri,ht ro1i. The only time u yet
cairkens III Ter wing is whlla they are
casrEenS.
Hannah W1i;all Smith, til, evangelist,
took hsr little chill at two years OF age
when Ill out O: tn crib anltoll her plainly
OF GhrI.f, and the child believed and gsva
cvIjence OF joyful trust, which grew wit
her growth 10 womauhJo1. Two year, a.
n3t too oun-. The time will come when
by the faith Of parents chill !rou will be torn
INTO this world and born into the bosom Of
Christ at the same time: Soon we parents
viii have 70 g AM leave our children. We
II giit their battles now, AMI we stand be-
tween them and harm, but oar arm will az
trr a While get weak; and We cannot fight
for then,salld our tongue will lie palsloi,
and weclnnot speak for them. Are we go
Ing TO leave then out in the cold world to
take their chances, or are we doing all We
can 70 GET them under the wing OF eternal
safety,
Blu We all neei the protecting wing. If
you had known when you ent rel upon
manhood AMI w0nanhoo1 what was ahead
OF YOU, would you have darrell to undertake
lifts How much you have been through!
With most life has been a disappointment;
they tell me SO. They have not attained
that which they expected to attain. They
have not had the physical and mental vlgor
they expected. or they have met with re-
butts which they did not anticipate. You
are not at 40 or so or 60 or - or 50 years of
age where you thought you would be. do
not know anyone except myself to whom
life has been a happy surprise. l never e1-
pected anything, and SO when anything
came in the shape Of human favor or com
Portable position or widening field of work it
was to NE Il surprise.
was told in the theological seminary by
some of my fellow students that I never
would get anybody to hear me preach unless
| changed ny style, SO that when l found
that some people did come to hear me it was
a happy surprise. But most people, accord
Ing TO their own statement, have found lie
a disappointment. Indeed we all need shell
ter from its tempeSts. About 3 O'Clock on s
hot August afternoon you have heard a rum
BILE that you first took for a wagon crossing
n bridge, but afterWard there was a louder
%rumbling, and you said, "Vhy. that is thun-
der" And sure enough the clouds were be.
ing convoked for a 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 be.
meath.
for them to be let down that they might
come home to shelter, and the fowl, whether
dark Brahma or Hamburg Or Leghorn or
Dminick, began to call to its young.
''Cluckn p ''ClucGI p 'Cluckr' AMI take them
under the wagon house. or 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 temptests for our
souls. and, oh how dark it gets, and threat
ening clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or
l. persecution or Bereavement gather ano
thicken and blacken, and some run for shell
ter to a bank, but it is poor shelter, and
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to help. and others fly nowhere simply be.
cause they now not where to 60, and they
perish in the blast, but others hear a divint
call saying, Come, for all things are nov
ready" 1.-The spirit and the bride say
come" And while the heavens are hunde
ing terror the divine voice proffers mercy,
and the soul comes under the %brooding care
Of the Almighty 'as a hen gathereth hel
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 cold world whether YOU take
it literally or tiguratively. We nave a big
fireplace called tne sun, aud it has a very
hot fire, and the stokerS keep the Goals we'll
stirred up, but much of the year we cannot
get near enough to this fireplace to ge
warmed. 8 The worlds extremities are cold
all the time. Forget not that it is colder at
the south pole than at the north pole, and
that the Arctic is not so destructive as the
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let explorers come back. but the Antartic
hardly ever. When at the south pole q shir
sails in, the door Of ice is almost sure to b:
shut against its return.
So life to many millions Of people at tn,
south and many millions o. people at tie
north IS a prolonged shivtr. but wa IN I say
this is a cold worli | chiefly mean fgura.
lively. If you want to know what is the
meaning Of the ordinary term of recaivin.
the cold shoulder" get out Of money and
try to borrow. The conversation may have
been almost tropical for l%uxuriauca OF
thought and speeca, but ~ .gest your neces
stiles and see the THERMOMETERS ttoo - 50
degrees below zero. and III tn 1t wnicn till a
moment before had been a warm room
lake what is an unpopular position on som
public question. AMI sea your friends fly a
chaf before n windmill.
As.ar as myself Is colcernei, | awe n.
word o. complaint. Int box off dar u,
day ana see c2-a nun!ttcs tr4-z!ne out ne:
ANS women o whom tGe world Is no
worthy. Now II taxes after one and hoy
alVT aHOrT1r. IL pe~9-7ss rocuIlr % y
prtc'ate AMI defane and execrata AMI lii
about some people, This is taa bas. worIi /
ever got into. but j. !, tn me.a.st wa~l-
that some people ever cot Iu1o. The worS
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