Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-27

Lord would take the clliui anu tuo
mother really thought so, too, but what
q good thing that God spared that child,
FOR it became wOrld-renOwned Ia Chris
tan literature and one Of Gods most IL
Iustrious servants-JOhn Todd. Re-
member, your children will remain chill
dren
ONLY A LITTLE WHILE
What You do for them as children,
you must do quickly, or never do II at
an. "Why have you never written
book?" said some one to talented wo-
man. She replied: II am writing two,
and have been engaged on one work
ten years, and on the other five years
ny two children. They are my life
work" When the house OF John YVES
ley's father burned, and they got the
eight children out, John wesley the
last before the roof fell in, the tather
said: LET US kneel down and thank
God. The children are all saved, let
the rest of the place go"
Ny hearers, II we secure the present
and everlasting welfare OF our children,
most other things belonging to US are
Of but little comparative Importance.
Alexander the Great allowed his SOL
diers 70 take their families with them
to war, and he accounted for the brav-
cry 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 go a
long way on the wrong road before
they turn around and go on the right
road The only time 10 get chickens
under wing is while they are chickens.
Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangel-
ist, took her little child at two years
OF age when in out of the crib, and
told her plainly Of Christ, and the child
believed aud gave evidence OF her JOY
ful 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
BIO born into 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 fight their bat
Ties 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 pasied and we
cannot speak for them. Are we going
70 leave them out in the cold world to
take their chances, or are we doing all
we can 20 get them under
THE WING OF ETERNAL SAFETY?
But we all need the protecting wing.
Notice thai some one must take the
storm for the chickens. All. the hen
takes the storm. l have watched her
under the pelting rain. / have seen her
in the pinChing frOsts. Almost frozen
10 death or almost strangled in the
waters, and what a fight she makes for
the young under wing il dog or a
hawk, or man comes too near. And so
the broOding Christ takes the storm for
us. What flood of anguish and tears
that did not dash upon His holy soul.
What beak Of torture did not pierce His
vitals. What barking CerOeruS OF hell
was not let out upon Him from the ken
nelS.
What He endured. O who can tell
To save our souls from death and hell.
Yes, the hen took the storm foe the
chickens, and Christ takes the storm
for us. Once the tempest rose so sud
denly the hen could not get with her
young back from the new ground to the
barn, aud there she is under the fence
half dead. And now the rain turns TO
snow and It is an awful night, and in the
morning the whiteneSS about the gillS
and the beak down in the mud show
that the mother is dead, and the young
ones come out, and cannot understand
why the mother does not scratch for
them something TO eat, and they walk
over her wings, and call with their tiny
voices, but there is no answering cluck.
She took the storm for others and per-
ished. Poor thing, Self-Sacri6cing
even unto DEATH And does it not make
you think OF Him
WHO ENDURED ALL FOR Us?
So the wings under which we come Tor
spiritual safety are bood-spattered
wings, are night-sbsdowed wings, are
tempest-torn wings. In the Isle OF
Wight / saw the grave Of Princess
Elizabeth. who died while prisoner at
Carisbrool1 Castle, her finger on IN open