Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-02-27
AT The TABERNACLE.
LAS a HEN oATHERETH HER
CHICKENS UNDER HER WINGS
Ted Of Dr. Talmanos Sunday Morning Ser
mor-Ho Complains Thai Certain Adycr.
Users Have Been Using Ms Name.


Users Have Been Using His Name.
BRooBLYN, Feb 2es-!frcvious 70 the ser.
mon IN the Brooklyn tabernacle this morn
ing Rev, pr. Talmuge, In giving outanum-
Der OF notices, dwelt upon the fact that Ger.
tain picture makers OF brooklyn had used
his name as q reference IN their advertise.
mcnts and circulars without his authority.
Thousands OF letters OF complaint have
come 20 him ia this respect, and ho wanted
IL distinctly understood that he knew moth.
ing Of these people or their business meth
dds. Tho tcyt selected for the morning
sermon was Matthew xiii ~, "As hen
gathcrcth her chickens under her wings
aud 20 would not"
WHY THIS sDiIE2
Jerusalem was Ia sight "a Christ came TO
the crest OF Mount Olivct, height Of 100
feet The splcndors of tho religious citpital
OF che wholcoarth irriidiHted The Landscapes
There Is the temple. Yondcr is the kin2's
palace. Spread ont before his eyes are the
pomp, the wealth, the wicl,cdness and the
coming destruction OF Jerusalem. and he
bursts Into tears 40 the thought OF the Oh
duracy Of a place that he would gladly have
saved, aud npostrOphizes, saying, 20, Jo.
rusolcm, Jerusalem, how often would
have gathered thy children together, oven
as hen gatheroth her chickens under her
wings, and yc would notp
Why did Christ select hen and chickens
as usimiloi Next TO the Hppositcness of the
comparison think 10 WIS TO help all pub.
lie teuchcrs in the matter Of illustration 70
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sons that oil can understand. The plnineat
bird on earth is the barnynrd fowl. Its
only ndornmcutH Rrc the red comb In its
headdress aud the wattles underthe throat.
II has no grandeur OF genealogy All we
know Is that its ancestors came from India,
some of them from u height OF 1900 feet on
the sides Of the Himalnyas. II has no pre-
tension OF nest like the engle's cyriu It
has no luster OF plumugc like the goldnnch.
| Possessing anatomy that allows fight, yet
about the last thing IL wants 10 do Is to ily,
and la retreat uses foot almost as much rs
wing.
Musicians have written out In musical
scale the song Of lark and robin redbrcast
and nightingale, yet the hen Of my text
hath nothing that could be taken for song,
| but only cluck and cackle, Yet Christ in
the text, uttered while looking ut doomed
! jerusalem declares that what he had
! wished for thRt city was like what the hen
! does for herchlckous, Christ was thus sim
! pie In his teachings, and yet how hard 1t Is
for us, who are Sunday school instructors
aud editors and preachers and refoumcrs
and those who would gum the cars OF audi.
cnces, 10 attain that heavenly aud divine
art OF simplicity
We have 20 run n course OF literary disor.
dcrs as children "A course Of physical disor
ders, We come ont OF school and college
loAdod down with Greek mythologies, and
out Of the theological seminary weighed
down with what the learned fathers said
and We ilywith wings Of eagles and flamin.
goes and albatrossos, and 1t takes a good
while before we can come down 20 Christ's
simllitudes, the candle under the bushcl,
the salt Tint has lost It's SAVIOR, the net
thrown into the sea- the spittle on the eyes
OF the blind man and the hen aud chick
ems
There s. not much poetry about thi.
winged creature Of God mentioned In my
text, hut she is more practical and NOR,
mothcrly and moro suggestive OF good
things than many that ily higher and weaJ
brighter oolors She is not prima donnt
OF the skies nor a strut of beauty Ia Oh,
cisles of the forest. She does not cut cir
Gle under the sun like the Rocky mountail
eagle, bat stays at home to look after fam
lily afairA She does not swoop like th,
condor Of the Cordilleras TO transport
rabbit from tho valley to the top OF th,
orngs, but just scratches for living How
vigorously with her claws she pulls away
the ground Go bring up whit is hidden be
neathl When the breakfast or dining hou
arrives, she begins 20 prepare the repas
and calls all her young 10 partake.
TuR HEN AS A TYPE.
amin sympathy with the unpretentious
old fashioned hen, because, like most Of Us
she has 10 scratch for n living She know
&C the start the lesson which most people O
good sense are slow 20 lelru-that the gain
ing OF "A livelihood implies work, and tina
Successes do not lie ON the surface, but ar
70 be uptuned by positive and continuou
effort The reason that society, aud Il.
church, and tho world are 20 full OF iai
nres, SO full OF loalors, SO full OF dead beats
is because people ere not wise enough &
take the lesson which any hen would teac
thom-thRt II they would find for theu
selves and for those dependent upon ther
anything worth having they must Ecratc
for IL
solomon said, go to the ant, thou slug
gard" say, Go 10 the hen, thou sluggarS
In the Ola Testament God compares hin
, self 10 am eagle stirring up her nest, and /
the New Itstament tho Holy Spirit Is con
pared 10 a descending dovethut Christ, !
: a sermon that begins with cutting sarcasi
for hypocrites and ends with the paroNysi
OF path0s IN the text, compares himself %
hen.
One day "a the country wo saw suddr
CONSIDERATION Ia tho behavior Of old Dom
nick. why the hen should be SO dhturbg
We could not understand. We looked aboy
20 sec ifaNcighhors dog We're Invading q
farm We looked up go SEQ " a Stornclou
were hoycrIng. We could SEQ nothing 9
the ground thnt could tcaorize, and v
could see nothing IA the air 20 rui.le q
4 Feathers q. the hen, eue the loud, Wild, q
L high,ol sluei, Wiiloa brought all her bros
~ s.ll rlu ull,sg ~. le,.tkegs made Us los