Connecticut western news., 1902-03-06

Christ in youth never come at all. What chance is there for the young without divine protection2 There are the grogshops. there are the gambling hels, there are the intidelities and i'm moralities of spiritualism, there are the bad books, there are the impurities. there are the business rascalltles, and so numerous are these assailants that 1t 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 assa ssins of the sky; they have va rieties 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. 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 un- 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 mercy if the Lord would take
 the child!' And the mother really thought so too. But what good thing that God spared that child, for 1t be- came world renowned In Christian lit erature and one of Gods most illustri- ous servants-John Todd. Remember, your children will remain children only little while. What you do for them as children you must do quickly or never do at all. Why have you never
 written a bookT' said some one to a talented woman. She replied: "I 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 fla ther said: Let us kneel down and thank God. The children are all saved.
 Let the rest of the place go." My hear CTS, 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 f 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 vigor they expected or they have met with rebuffs 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 one ex- cept myself to whom life has been a happy surprise. I never expected any thing, and so when anything came in | the shape of human favor or comforta- ble position or widening field of work it was to me a surprise. l was told in the theological seminary by some of my fellow students that l never would get anybody to hear me preach unless
 I changed my style, so that when found that some people did come to
 hear me it was happy surprise. But most people, according to their own statement, have found life a disap- pointment. Indeed, we all need shelter from its tempests.
 About 3 o'clock on a hot August aft l ernoon you have heard rumble that | you first took for a wagon crossing @ ! bridge, but afterward there was loud CT rumbling. and you said, "Why, that Is thunderr' And, sure enough. the ! clouds were being convoked 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 to the bart
 and moaned for them to be let dowr
 that they might come home to shelter | and the fowl. whether dark Brahm0 l or Hamburg or Leghorn or Dominick bexnn to call to its young, "Cluck clp1k, cluckp' and take them undeS
 the wagon house or shed and had them
 all hid under the soft feathers by the
 time that the first plash of rain struck
 the roof. So there are sudden tempests for our souls, and, oh, how dark it | gets, and threatening clouds of bank.
 ruptcy or sickness or persecution or be reavement gather and thicken and
 blacken, and some run for shelter to a
 bank, but 1t Is poor shelter, and others run to friendly advisers, and they fail
 to help, and others fly nowhere simply
 because they know not where to go and they perish In the blast, but others
 hear a divine call saying, Come, for
 all things are now ready" "The spirit
 and the bride say come"
 Need of Warmth.
 The wings of my text suggest
 warmth. and that is what most folks l want. The fact Is that this is a cold
 world whether you take it literally or
 figuratively. We have a big fireplace
 called the sun, and 1t has a very hot | fire. and the stokers keep the coals well
 stirred up, but much of the year we
 cannot get near enough to this fireplace
 to get warmed. The worlds extremi-
 ties are cold all the time. Forget not
 that 1t 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 ex-
 plorers come back, but the antarctic
 hardly ever. When at the south pole a | shin sails in the door of ice is almost