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

feathered nursery are closed. The
bachelors of the winged tribe have as
cended to their perch, but the hens, in
q motherhood divinely appointed. take
all the risk of slumber on the ground,
and all night long the wings will stay
outspread. and the little ones will not
utter sound Thus at sundown, low
ingly, safely, completely. the hen
broods her young. So, if We are the
Lords, the evening of our life will
come. The heats of the day will have
passed. There will be shadows, and
we cannot see as far The work of
life will be about ended. The hawks
OF temptation that hovered in the sky
will have gone to the woods and fold
ed their wings. Sweet silences will
come. The air will be redolent with
the breath of whole arbors of promises
sweeter than jasmine or evening prim-
rose The air may be a little chill,
but Christ will call us, and we will
know the voice and heed the call, and
we will come under the wings for the
night. the strong wings, the soft wings,
the warm wings, and without fear and
In fulI sense of safety, and then we
VIII rest from Sundown to sunrise las
hen gathereth her chickens under her
wing
Dear me! How many souls the Lord
hath thus broodedi Mothers, after
watching over sick cradles and then
| watching afterward over wayward
| sons and daughters, at Iast themselves
taken care of by a motherly God.
Business men, after lifetime strug-
| Cling with the uncertainties of money
markets and the change of tariffs and
the underselling of men who because
| Of their. Shpn
dersell. and years of disappointment
| and struggle, at last under wings
| where nothing can perturb them any
more than can bird of prey which is
| ten miles OF disturb a chick at mid
| night brooded in a barnyard.
| My text has it's strongest application
| for people who were porn in the coun-
| try, wherever you may now live and
| that Is the majority of you. You can
| not hear my text without having all
the rustic scenes of tn old avxnhoHss
come back to you. Gooa old days they
were. You knew nothfas : much of the
world, for you had not aaa tbeyworld.
| By law of association 81 esnrot res
call the brooding hen e.nH ~a'i-e 80 rsrs
| ems without seeing alst glse vsFR slze
the haymow and the wagen she'd and
the house and the room ss1ers you
played and the fireside sith the mig
backlog before which you sat and the
neighbors and the burial and the we1 z
ding and the deep snowba aks and hear
the village bell that called you to
worship and seeing the horses which.
after pulling you to the church, stood
around the old clapboard meeting
house, and those who sat at either end
of the church pew and, indeed, all the
scenes of your first fourteen years, and
| frl- a
of what you are now, and all these
thoughts are aroused by the sight of
the old hencoop. Some of you had
better go back and start again. In
| thought return to that place and hear
the cluck and see the outspread
feathers and come under the wing and
make the Lord your portion and shell
ter and warmth, preparing for every
thing that may come and SO avoid be-
ing classed among those described by
the closing words of my text, las q
hen gathereth he- chickens under ner
wings. and ye would not" All, that
throws the responsibility upon u.s. "Ye
would not" Aka, for the would
|, notsi" If the wandering broods of
| the farm heed not their mothers call
and risk the hawk and dare the fresh
ct and expose themselves to the frost
and storm, surely their calamities are
not the mothers fault "Ye would
mott" God would, but how many
would not?
Il When a good man asked a young
woman who had abandoned her home
e and who was deploring her wretched.
ness why she did not return, the reply
! was: L dare not go home My father
is SO provoked he would not receivs
q me home Then said .ne Christian
S man, 81 will test this" And SO ht
T wrote to the father, and the reply
d came back, and in letter marked
n outside Immediate" and inside say
d ing, Let her come at once; all is for
y given So Gods invitation for yol
It is marked Immediate" on the outside
: and inside is written, He will abund
n antly pardon" Oh, ye wanderers
S from God, and happiness and Iom'
It and heaven, come under the shelterinl
j. wing. A vessel in the Bristol channe
Y was nearing the rocks called the Steel
It Holmes Under the tempest the yes
N sci was unmanageable. and the onl,
~ hope was that the tide would chang
N before she struck the rocks and wen
. down, and SO the captain stood on tn
= deck, watch in hand Captain an
= crew and passengers were pallid wit
, terror. Taking another look at hi
watch and another look at the sea. b
shouted: Thank God. we are saved
The tide has turned. One minut
5t mora and we would have struck tn