Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-15

be quick and earnest and prayerful
and importunate and get the chickens
under wing May the Sabbath schools
of America and Great Britain within
the next three months sweep all their
scholars into the kingdom Remem-
Der, 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
My hearers. if we secure the pres
ent and everlasting welfare OF our
children. most other things belonging
to us are of but little comparative inn
portance. Alexander the Great allow
ed 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 We're 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,
But we all need the protecting wing.
If you had known when you entered
upon manhood or womanhood what
was anead of you, would you have
dared to undertake life? You are not
at forty or fifty or sixty or seventy
or eighty years of age where you
thought you would be. l do not know
any one except myself to whom life
has been a happy surprise l never
expected anything, and SO when any
thing came in the shape of human ia
vor or comfortable position or widen
ing field OF work it was to me a sur
prise. 1 was told in the theological
seminary by some of my fellow stu
dents that I never would get anybody
to hear me preach unless l changed my
style, so that when l found that some
people did come to hear me 1t was a
happy surprise. But most people, ac-
cording to their own statement, have
found life a disappointment 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 cold
| world whether you take it literally or
| fguratively. We have a big fireplace
called the sun, and it has a very hot
| fire, and the stokers keep the Goals
we'll stirred up, but much of the year
we cannot get near enough to the fire.
| place to get warmed. Inc worlds ex-
tremities are cold all the time. Forget
not that it is colder at the south pole
! than at the north pole, and that the
| arctic is not SO destructive as the ant
| arctic. Once in while the arctic will
| let explorers come back, but the ant
arctic hardly ever. When at the south
| pole ship sails in, the door of Ice
is almost sure to be shut against its
| return So fife to many millions oi
| people at the south and many millions
| of people at the north is prolonged
shiver But Wien / say that this Is {
cold world l chiefly mean figuratively
If you want to know what is tht
meaning of the ordinary term of re
| ceiving the -cold shoulder, get ou
| of money and try TO borrow. The con
versation may have been almost tropi
| cal for 1uxurlance of thought ant
speech, but suggest your necessitie.
and see the Thermometer drop to 81
degrees kelow zero, and in that which
till a moment before had oeen warn
room. Take what is an unpopular
| position on some public question ant
see your friends fly as chaff before ;
windmill AS far as myself Is con
! cerned, / have no word of complaint
but look of day by day and see com
munities freezing out men and wo
men of whom the world Is not worthy
Now it takes after ne and now afte
another. It becomes popular to de
preciate and defame and execrate an
lie about some people. This is tn
best world ever got into. but 1t is tn
meanest world that some people eve
got into. The worst thing that eve
happened to them was their cradle
and the best thing that will ever hap
pen to them will be their grave
But notice that some one must TAX
. | the storm for the chickens. All, tn
hen takes the storm. / have watche
, her under the pelting rain l have see
her in the pinching frosts. Almos
, frozen to death or almost strangled
!, the waters. and what fight she make
for the young under wing IL a dog {
a hawk or a man come too neari An
so the broodiug Christ takes the storl
for u.s. What flood of anguish an
tears that did not dash upon his hol
soul? What beak of torture did NJ
pierce his vitals? What barking Ce
. berrs of hell was not let out upon hi
from the Kennels? Yes. the hen TAX
> the storm for the chickens, and Chri
takes the storm for u.s. The wings VI
!. der which we come for spiritual safe
are blood spattered wings. are nigl
: shadowed wings, are tempest tol
wings In the Isle of Wight / ga
the grave of Princess Elizabeth. WI
died while a prisoner at Carisbrool
castle, her finger on an open Bible, Al
. pointing to the words. Come unto n
all ye that labor and are heavy lade
and I. viii give you rest" Oh, con
= under the wings!
/. But now the summer day is almo