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

to call, calls with more emphasis and
urges haste and says not second ought
to he lost. Oh. do tell US what is the
matter. All, now | see; there are hawks
of temptation in the air, there are yul-
lures wheeling for their prey. there are
beaks of death ready 10 plunge, there
are claws Of aluremcnt ready TO clutch.
Now ! see the peril Now | understand
the urgency Now | see the only safety.
Would that Christ might this day take
our Hns and daughters into his shelter
las hen gathereth her chickens under
her wing"
Protect the Youug.
| Fathers, mothers. older brothers and
sisters and Sabbath school teachers. be
quick and earnest and prayerful and inn
| 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 in
10 the kingdom. Whom they have now
under charge is uncertain. Concerning
| that scrawny. puny child that lay in the
| cradle many years ago, the father dead.
many remarked, What mercy il the
| Lord would take the child" And the
mother really thought so, too, but what
/ a good thing that God spared that child.
| for II became world renowned in Chris
| tian literature and one of Gods most
| illustrous servants -.Tohn Todd. Rcmcm-
| Der. your children will remain children
only little while. What you do for
them rs children YOU must do quickly OF
never at all. why have YOU never
written Il book" said some one to a
talented woman. She replied Il am
! writing two aud 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
Ncsley's father burned and they got the
eight children out. John Wesley the last
before the roof fell in. the father said =;
Let MS kneel down and thank God. The
children are all saved. Let the rest Of
the place GO" My hearers. If we secure
the present and everlasting welfare Of
our children, most other things belonging
TO MS are of but little comparative impor-
lance. Alexander 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 war
like scenes from the start. Would God
born into the army of the Lord!
The Mercy of God.
Bat we all need the protecting wing
IT Won had known when you entered upon
manhood or womanhood what was ahead
OF YOU, would YOU have dared to under
take life? How much you have beer
through. With mast life has been dis
appointment, I - IA SO. They
have not attained " ey expect
ed 10 attain. They nave not HAD tn,
physical and mental yigor they expected
or they have met with rebuifs which they
did not anticipate. You are not at forty
or fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty
years OF age where you thought YOU
would be. | do not know any enc except
myself to whom life has been happy
surprise. ] never expected anything. and
so when anything came in the shape Of
human favor or comfortable position or
widening field of work it was TO me a sur
prise. | was told ia the theological semi
nary 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
to hear me ii was a happy surprise. But
most people. according to their own state
mcnt, have found life disappointment.
Indeed. we nj, need shelter from lis fem
pests.
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! bling. aud Won said. "Nhv, that is tbm-
| der" Aud. sure enough. the clouds were
being couvoked for a full diapason, A
whole park Of artillery went rolling
down the heavens and the blinds of the
windows In the sky were closed. But the
| sounds above were not more certain than
the sounds beneath The cattle came 10
the bars aud mouned for them TO be let
down that they might come home 10 shell
ter. and the fowl, whether dark Brahma
or Hamburg or Lcghorn or Dominick be-
gan to ,all Ia its young. "ClucE. chuck.
cluek" and lake them under the wagon
house or shed and had them all hid under
the soft feathers by the time that the
first pash Of rain struck the roof. So
there are sudden tempcsts for our souls,
and. oh, how dark it gets, ana threaten