The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-03-08

there can be no danger. Health Is
theirs. A good home IL theirs.
Plenty of food Is theirs. Prospect Of
long life Is theirs. But Christ con-
tinues to call, calls with more en-
phasis and urges haste and says not
a second ought to be lost. Oh, do
tell us what il the matter, All, now
see; there are hawks of temptation
in the air, there are vultures wheel
ing for their prey, there are beaks of
death ready to plunge, there are
claws of allurement ready to clutch.
Now / see the peril. Now / under
stand~the urgency. Now see the
only safety. Would that Christ
might this day take our sons and
daughters into his shelter "as hen
gathereth her chickens under her
wing"
The fact is that the most Of them
will never mind the shelter unless
while they are chickens. 1t is sim
pie 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 bells, there are the infideli-
ties and immoralities of spiritualism,
there are the bad books, there are
the impurities, there are the bust
ness rascalities, and so numerous are
these assailants that it is n wonder
| MI ,s,-f,
arts. The birds of prey, diurnal md
nocturnal, of the natural world are
ever on the alert. They are the as
sassins of the sky; they have varie-
ties of taste. The eagle prefers the
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.
But we all need the protecting
wing. If you had known when you
entered upon manhood or woman
hood what was ahead of you, would
you have dared to undertake life?
How much you have been through!
With most life has been disappoint-
ment. They tell me so. They have
not attained that which they expect
ed to attain. They have not had the
physical and mental vigor they ex-
pected or they have met with rebuffs
which they did not anticipate. You
are not at 40 or so or 60 or 70 or
80 years of age where you thought
you would be. l do not know any
one except myself to whom life has
been happy surprise. never ex-
pected anything, and so when any
thing came in the shape of human
favor or comfortable position or wild
| ening field of work it was to me a sur
prise. I was told in the theological
seminary by some of my FELLOWSHIP
dents that I never would get any
body to hear me preach unless
changed my style, SO that when I
found that some people did come to
hear me it was a happy surprise.
But most people, according to their
own statement, have found life dis
appointment. Indeed, we all need
shelter from it's tempests.
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
figuratively. We have big fireplace
called the sun, and it has a very hot
fire, and the stokers keep the Goals well
stirred up, but much of the year we
cannot get near enough to this fire.
place to get warmed. The worlds ex-
| tremities are cold all the time. For
| get not that it is colder at the south
! pole than at the north pole and that
the arctic is not SO destructive as the
antarctic. Once in awhile the arctic
will let explorers come back, but the
antarctic hardly ever. When at the
south pole 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 n prolonged
SILVER. But when say that this is
cold world chiefly mean fguratively.
If you want to know what is the mean
ing 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 lux
uriance of thought and speech, but sug
gest your necessities and see the Their
mometer drop to so degrees below zero,
and in that which till n moment before
had been n warm room. Take what is
an unpopular position on some public
question and see your friends fly as
chaff before windmill. AS far as my
self is concerned, I have no word Of
complaint, but I look off day by day
and see communities freezing out men
and women of whom the world Is not
worthy. Now it takes after one and
now after another. 1t becomes popular
to depreciate and defame and execrate
and lie about some people. This is the
best world ever got into, but 1t is the
meanest world that some people ever
got into. The worst thing that ever
happened to them was their cradle,
and the best thing that will ever hap
pen to them will be their grave.
What people want is warmth. Many
years ago man was floating down on
the ice of the Merrimac, and great eff
forts were made to rescue him. Twice
he got hold of a plank thrown to him
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