Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-03-08

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Copyright, Louis Klopsth, 1902
81 FAMILIAR illustration from the
AA barnyard is employed in this dis
$3.50 course by DIR. Talmage to show
the comfort and protection that heaven
affords to all trusting souls The text is
Matthew xiii, 81, Even as hen gath
efeth her chickens under her wings, and
We would not"
Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came
to the crest of Mount Olivet. height OF
400 feet. The splendors of the religious
capita of the whole earth irradiatcd the
landscape. There is the temple lon-
der Is the kings palace. Spread out be
fore his eyes are the pomp. the wealth,
the wickedneSs and the coming destruc-
ton OF Jerusalem, and he bursts into
tears at the thought OF the ohduracv of
a place that he would gladly have saved
and apostrophizes, saying 20 Jerusalem
Jerusalem, how often would l have gath
cred thy children together. even as a
hen gathereth her chickens under her
wings, and We would not"
Why did Christ select hen and chick
ems as simile? Next to the apostle
ness of the comparison, think il was 10
help all public teachers in the matter Of
Illustration to get down off their stits
and use comparisons that all can un-
derstand. The plainest bird on earth is
the barnyard fowl Its only adornmcnts
are the red comb in its hcaddrcsS and the
wattles under the throat Ii has no
grandeur of geuealogy. All we know
Is that its ancestors came from India
some OF them from height Of 4,000
feet on the sides Of the Himalayas. 1t
has no pretension of nest like the eagle
eyrie. 1t has mo luster of plumage like
the goldhnch. Possessing anatomy that
allows flight. yet about the last thing it
wants 10 do Is to fly. and in retreat uses
foot almost as much rs wing Musicians
have written out in musical scale the
song of lark and robin redhreast and
nightingale. yet the hen of my text hath
nothing that could be taken for a Song.
but only clIcS and cackle. Yet Christ
in the text uttered while looking upon
doomed Jerusalem declares that what he
had wished FOR that city was like what
the hen does for her chickens.
Christ's Simple Teachings.
Christ was thus simple in his teach
ings. and Yet how hard it is for us whe
are Sunday school instructors and edp
TORS md preachers and reformers and
| Mo woHld gain the ears Of audi
- ftafn that heavenly aud or
spslhe art OF simplicity We have to rim
a course OF literary disorders al children
course Of physical disorders. We come
out Of school and college loadcd down
with Greek mythologies and out of the
theological seminary weighed down with
what the learned fathers said, and We
fly with wings of eagles and hamingocs
and albatrosseS, and it takes good while
before we can come down 10 Chrst's sim
flitudes. the candle under the bushel, he
salt that has lost it's SAVIOR. the net
thrown into the sea-. the Spittle on the
eyes of the blind man and the hen and
chickens.
There is not much poetry abont this
winged creature of God mentioned in my
text. bat she is more practical and more
motherly and more suggestive Of good
things than many that fly higher and
wear brighter colors She Is not a prima
donna of the skies nor strut Of beauty
in the aisle Of the forest. She does not
cut a circle under the sun like the Rocky
Mountain eagle. but stays at home to
look after family affairs She does not
swoop like the condor OF the eordilleras
to transport rabbit from the valley TO
the top Of the crags. but just scratches
for a living.
am in warm sympathy with the un-
pretentious old fashioned hen because,
like most of us, she has TO scratch for
a living. She knows at the start the
lesson which most people Of good sense
are slow to learn-that the gaining Of
livelihood implies work and that sue
cesses do not lie on the surface. but are
to be upturncd by positive and continu
Gus effort. The reasons that society and
the church and the world are so full ~
failures, so full of lOafers, so full Of dead.
beats is because people are not wise
enough to take the lesson which any
hen would teach them that If they would
find for themselves and for those Deepen
dent upon them anything worth having
they must scratch for il. solomon said.
Go TO the ant, thoa slugeard" ] say,
10 to the hen. thou sluggard In the
Old Testament God compares himself to
an eagle stirring up her nest. and ia the
New Testament the Holy Spirit is com
pared to a descending dove. but Christ
in a sermon that began with cutting Sar-
casm for hypocrites and ends with the
paroxysm Of pathos in the text compares
himself to a hem
Hawks Of Temptation.
One day in the country we saw sudden
CONSERVATION in the behavior Of old Dom |
mick. Why the hen should be so dis |
turbed We could not understand. We
looked about TO see il q neighbours dog
were invading the farm. We looked |
up to see If stormcloud were lowering.
We could see nothing on the ground that |
could terrorize, and we could see moth
ing in the air to rufFie the feathers of
the hen, but the loud, wild affrighted |
cluck which brought all her brood at full |
run under her feathers made us look |
again around and above us, when we saw |
that high up and far away there was a
rapacious bird wheeling round and round |
and down and down, and, not seeing us |
as we stood in the shadow, II came near |
er and lower until we saw it's beak was
curved from base to tip and Il had two |