Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-03-07
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The fact is that the most of them
will never mind the shelter unless
while they are chickens. 1t is a simple
matter of memorable statistics that
most Of those who do not come to
Christ in youth never come at all.
What chance is there for the young
without divine protection? There are
( the grogshops, there are the gambling
hells, there are the infdelities and i'm
mOralities of spiritualism, there are
the bad books, there are the impurities,
/ there are the business rascalities, and
so numerous are these assailants that
/ it is a wonder that honesty and virtue
are not lost arts The birds Of prey.
/ diurnal and nocturnal, of the natural
world are ever on the alert. They are
the assassins of the sky; they have va
! rieties of taste. The eagle prefers the
4 flesh of the living animal; the vulture
! 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 va
riOus.
Protect the Young.
| Fathers, mothers, older brothers and
! sisters and Sabbath school teachers, be
quick and earnest and prayerful and
/ importunate and get the chickens IN
/ der wing. May the Sabbath schools Of
America and Great Britain within the
next three months sweep all their
/ scholars into the kingdom. Whom
they have now under charge is uncer-
/ tain. Concerning that scrawny, puny
child that lay in the cradle many years
/ ago, the father dead, many remarked,
''What a mercy if the Lord would take
/ the childP' And the mother really
/ thought so too. But what a good thing
that God spared that child, for it be-
/ came world renowned in Christian lit
! erature and one of Gods most illustri-
/ GUS servants-JOhn Todd. Remember,
your children will remain children only
a little while. What you do for them
as children you must do quickly or
never do at all. "Why have you never
written a book?' said some one &c a
talented woman. She replied: 81 am
/ writing two and have been engaged on
one work ten 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 before the roof fell in, the IA
Their said: Let us kneel down and
thank God. The children are all saved.
Let the rest of the place 60" My hear
ers. if we secure the present and ever
/ lasting welfare Of our children. most
other things belonging TO us are of but
| little comparative Importance Alexan-
der 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
Lord!
The Mercy of God.
But we all need the protecting wing.
If you had known when you entered
upon manhood or wOmanhOod what
was ahead of you, would you have
dared to undertake life? 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 yigor they expected or they
/ bava mot with rob,,efg Witch tbo,, IL
not anticipate You are not at forty OF
fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty
years OF age where you thought you
would be. | do not know any one ex.
cept myself to whom life has been a
happy surprise. | never expected any.
thing. and so when anything came il
the shape Of human favor or cOmfOrta
bic position or widening field of work il
was to me a surprise. | was told il
the theological seminary by some Of
my fellow students that | never would
get anybody to hear me preach unless
changed my style. so that when
found that some people did come t
hear me it was happy surprise. Blu
most people, according to their owl
statement, have found life a disap
pOintment Indeed we all need shelter
from its tempests.
About o'clock on a hot August aft
ernOOn you have heard a rumble tina
you first took for a wagon crossing
bridge but afterward there was a loud
er rumbling, and you said, ''Why, tina
is thunderw And, sure enough, tn,
clouds were being cOnvOked for full
diapason. A whole park of artiller!
went rolling down the heavens, an,
the blinds of the windows in the SIX,
were closed. But the sounds abOv
were not more certain than the sound
, beneath. The cattle came to the bar
and moaned for them to be let dow
that they might come home to shelter
| and the fowl, whether dark Brahms
or Hamburg or LeghOrn or DominicI
] began to call to its young, "ClucE
clucK, cluckp' and take them ande
, the wagon house or shed and had theI
all hid under the soft feathers by tn
: time that the first plash of rain struc
the roof. So there are sudden tempest
~ N0A oChA9s eAAANAs OAf AOW uAIh
= gets, and threatening clouds of banl
} ruptcy or sickness or persecution or b,
reavement gather and thicken an
blacken, and some run for shelter to
bank, but it is poor shelter, and other
run to friendly advisers. and they IA
+ to help, and others fly nowhere simpl
I because they know not where to g
e and they perish in tie blast, but Other
l. hear divine call saying, Come, Il
S all things are now ready" ''The spir
: and the bride say come"
Need of Warmth.
{ The wings of my text sugge
e warmth, and that is what most foil
e want. The fact is that this is a col
world whether you take it literally
II figuratively. We have a big tirepIaC
IT called the sun, and it has a very h,
q fire, and the stokers keep the Goals we
stirred up, but much of the year "
is cannot get near enough to this firepla,
d to get warmed. The worlds extrem
is ties are cold all the time Forget n
that it is colder at the south pole tha
: at the north pole and that the arctic
: not so destructive as the antarcti