Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-03-04
ACCOMAC C. II VA. SATURDAY MARCH 4 1893

home is IngirR. Plenty Of food is theirs.
Prospect of long lifeis theirs But Christ
continues to call. calls with more en-
phasis and urges haste and says not 8
second ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us
what is the matter! All, now l see. There
are hawks of temptation in the air; there
are vulturcs wheeling for their prey;
there are beaks of death ready to plunge;
there are claws of allurement ready to
clutch. Now | see the peril. Now !
understand the urgency. Now Isee the
only safety. Would that Christ might
this day take our sons and daughters
into his shelter, "as q hen gathereth her
chickens under her wing"
The fact is that the most Of them will
never find the shelter unless while they
are chickens. tits a simple matter Of
inexorable statistics that most of those
who do not core to Christ in youth
never come at all. What chance is there
for the young without divine protectionf
There are the rog shops. There arethe
gambling bells. There are the intideh-
ties and immoralities of spiritualism.
There are bad books There are the i'm
purities. There are the business Fascah-
ties. And SO numerous are these assail-
ments that it is wonder that honesty
and virtue are not lost arts.
The birds of prey, diurnal and noctuf-
nal. of the natural world are eyer on
the alert. They are the assassins of the
sky. They have varieties of taste. The
eagle prefers the flesh of the living ami
NAL. The vulturc prefers the carcass.
The falcon kills with one stroke, while
other styles of beak give prolongation OF
torture. And so the temptations OF this
life are various. Some make quick work
of death, and others agonize the mind
and body for many years, and some like
the living blood of great souls, and others
prefer those already gangrened. But for
every style of youth there is IL swooping
wing and sharp bea1 and cruel claw,
and what the rising generation needs IS
a wing of protection.
EARLY SALVATION URGED.
Fathers, mothers, older brothers and
sisters and Sabbath school teachers, be
quick and earnest and prayerful and i'm
Fortunate and get the chickens under
wing. May the Sabbath schools of Amer
lea and Great Britain within the next
three months sweep all their scholars
into the kingdom. Whom they have
now under charge is uncertain. Con-
corning that scrawny, puny child that
lay in the cradle many years ago, the
father dead, many remarked What o
mercy if the Lord would take the childf
and the mother really thought so too.
But what a good thing that God spared
that child, for it became world renowned
in Christian literature and one of 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 have
YOU never written booky' said some one
to talented woman. She replied: II
am writing two and have been engaged
on one work 10 years and on the other
five years-my two children. They are
my life work" When the house of John
Wesley's father burned, and they got the
eight children out, John Wesley the last
r II ffafher=said:
children are all saved; let the rest of the
place go"
Nv hearers, if we secure the present
and everlasting welfare of our children,
most other things belonging to US are of
but little comparative Importance. Alex
ander the Great allowed his soldiers to
take their families 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 to warlike
scenes from the start. Would God that
all the children of our day might be born
into the army of the Lordl No need OF
letting them go a long way on the
wrong road before they turn around and
90 on the right road. The only time to
get chickens under wing is while they
are chickens.
Hannah Whitan Smith, the evangelist,
took her little child at 2 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 into womanhood.
Two years are not too young. The time
will come when by the faith of parents
children will be born into this world and
born into the bosom of Christ at the same
time. Soon we parents will have to 60
and leave our children. We fight their
battles 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 palsied, and We
cannot speak for them. Are we going
TO leave them out in the cold world te
take their chances, or are we doing al
we can to get them under the wing Of
eternal safety?
SHELTER FROM LIES TEMPEsTs.
But we all need the protecting wing
If YOU had known when you entered upor
manhood and wolnanhood what wa:
ahead of you, would you have dared tt
undertake hfeP How much you have
been through. With most life has beer
DISAPPOINTMENT; they tell me SO. They
have not attained that which they eN
pected to attain. They have not had thu
physical and mental vigor they expected
b. they have met with rebuffs which they
aid not anticipate. You are not at 40 o.
so or go or 70 or so years of age where
YOU thought you would be. do no
know any one exceptnyself to whom lif'
has been happy surprise. never ex
pected anything, and so when anything
came in the shape Of human favor O
comfortable position or widening field o
work it was to me surprise.
was told in the theological seminar.
by some of my fellow students that
never would get anybody to hear m