The St. Mary banner., 1902-04-26
Nv hearers. if we secure the present and

everlasting welfare of our children, mos
other things belonging to us are OF but II
tie comparative Importance. Alexande
the Great allowed his soldiers to tax
their families with them to war, and b
accounted for the bravery OF his men b
the fact that many of them were born /
camp and were used to warlike scenes troI
the start. Would God tina, all the chi
dren of our day might be born into th
army of the Lord!
But we all need the protecting wing.
you had known when you entered upo
manhood or womanhood what was ahea
| Ct you, would you have dared to under
take life: How much you have bee
through! With most life has been disaE
pointment. They tell me so. They hav
not attained that which they expected t
attain. They have not had the physica
and mental vigor they expected or the
| have met with rebutfs which they di
| not anticipate. You are not at forty o
| fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty years o
| age where you thought you would be.
| do not know any one except myself t
| whom life has been a happy surprise.
| never expected anything, and SO whel
| anything came in the shape of human ia
vor or comfortable position or widenin;
field Of work it was to me surprise.
was told in the theological seminary b,
some of my fellow students that | nevel
would get anybody to hear me preach un
less | changed my style, so that when
found that some people did come to heal
me 1t was a happy surprise. But mos
people, according to their own statement
have found life disappointment. In
deed, we all need shelter from its tenn
pests.
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 tiguratlvely. we
have a big fireplace called the sun, and il
has very hot fire, and the stokers keep
the Goals well stirred up, but much of the
year we cannot get near enough to this
fireplace to get warmed. This world 5
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 az the Antar-
tic. Once in awhile the Arctic will let
explorers come back, but the Antartlc
hardly ever. When at the South Pole a
ship sails in, the door of ice is almost
sure to be shut against its return. So life
to many millions OF people at the south
and many millions OF people at the north
is prolonged shver.
But when [ say that this is a cold
WOTiu i cHlGHy INedn uBuEdliNt!g. II you
want to know what is the meaning of the
ordinary term of receiving the cold
shoulder" get out OF money and try to
borrow. The conversation may have been
almost tropical for luXuriance of thought
and speech, but suggest your necessities
and see the thermometer drop to fifty de-
grees below zero. and in that which till
before had been warm room.
Take what is an unpopular position on
come public question and see your friends
fly as chaif before windmill As far as
myself is concerned. l have no word OF
but | look off day by day and
see communities freezing. out men and
women OF whom the world Is not worthy.
Now 1t takes after one ana no" after an
other, 1t becomes popular to depreclate
and del&me and execrate and lie about
some people L his is the best world |
ever got into, but il is the nearest world
that some people ever got INTO, The worst
thing that ever, happened to them was
fhel- cradle. and the best thing that Will
ever happen to them viii be their grave.
nus at sundoWn, lovingly, safety, com.
pieteiy, the hen hroods her young. so: II
We are the LORD $, the evening OF our lie
will come The heats OF the DAY Will have
passed. there Will be shadows, and we
'snnot see as far: Inc work OF lite Will he
'bout ended. Inc haWks OF temptation
lha1 hoVered ~ the SKY VIII nave gone 10
ne WOODS ana folded H. thelr wings; sweet
'Hehce: VIII come. ne air VIII ne redo.
ent with the nreaih OF Whole aroors OF
promises s"eeaer m tnan jasmine or even
ng pI,mrose. y, ne - ar may pc httie emil,
w ohrlst VIII can us, ana we VIII know
h3 voice ana heco the call, ana we VIII
cme anoer the wings 1or the nilght, the
1Iong wings, the sou wings, the warm
,f!ngs, anu wi.hout rear ana IN iuil sense
7 saie.y' ano .hem we wiil rest rom sun
L:", iG"n W I suIisI as Heh sa'hefeth ner
n..Aeis unuef nei wing
My text has its strongest application
or people who were born IN the country,
wherever you may now live, and that is
~ text without having all the rustic
Genes OF the old farmhouse come back to
ou Good Old days they were. You
new nothing much of the world. for you
al not seen the world. By law of asso-
lation You cannot recall the brooding
en- and her chickens without seeing also
ne barn and the haymow and the wagon
bed and the house and the room where
ackIos De.Gre "hlch you sat and the
eiS,po's 81 .t anu 1ne puriai ah9 ,he "eddlng
~ tnT IN UP snoM M3 panhs. ana near the VII,
peti tbe Ina. bnrses esvd you 80 wor5np ana
,eahS ah .he no[sGs Mnicn' alter pnilhg yon i
u nieeoine mouse, ana tnose VINO sat at
, ,hsr . end of the church pew and, indeed, +;
'ne scenes ol your IlrsG fourteen years; |
~ you thilk Oh What yoM were tnen ana .
= VIVA. ao1 are m .pw 4t ana an .nese tnougnts
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