Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-07-06

that wing that they often escape the
searching eye of an advancing foe.
In Darkness as In Light.
My dear nearer. are you ready to
trust God in darkness as well IA in the
| light? You came to NE the other day
| and said, Il cannot understand why
| this trouble was laid at my door"
| Neither can |, my brother. | do not
understand why God should have
taken away from your side that young
man just five months after he was
| graduated for the bar. He was a
bright fellow. He was a pure boy.
lie was the child upon whom you set
your heart to take your own place.
| You are in total darkness about this
| matter. So am l. But do know God
is good. | do know that God loved
| your boy. l do know that God loves
you. Though under Gods wing it may
0e dark-.Sark at times as a dungeon
| yet l do know that above Gods wing
is Gods all seeing eye. What God did
ne did for good purpose. Trust him,
then. my brother. Trust him and have
faith as a chicken under the darkness
| Of the hens wing trusts a mothers
| love.
| l do not know why in your old age
you should have lost your money, and
now in your physical weakness you
must work or be dependent upon
others. From my standpoint you al
ways seem to have been a faithful
| and conscientious Christian. | do not
know why Ira D. Sankey, who has
sung thousands upon thousands into
the light of the kingdom of God. should
| in the evening time of his life sit in
total darkness and as blind man
have to be led around, helpless as lit
tie child LIT l do know that "all
! things work together for good to them
that love God" | do know his care
will give us peace that passeth all
understanding during the days of our
Affections. 1 do know that some
day all inexplicables will be explained,
when God lifts his wing and the food
lights of heaven roll in. 1 do know
that under such conditions you and l,
my brother. my sister. can afford to
wait and trust Christ just a little
while longer. We can trust him and
believe in him though we sit in the
darkness of the shadows of Gods en-
circling but loving wing.
When the sky is black and lowering,
| When thy path in life is drear.
Upward lift thy steadfast glances
| Mid the maze of sorrow here,
For the Lord will hear and answer
When in faith his people pray,
Whatsoe er he hath appointed
Shall best work for thee Away.
But though Gods wing is a spiritual
developing and protecting wing it only
spiritually develops and protects his
own children. A hen knows her own
brood. She will do everything in he1
power to care for and protect them.
If a farmer takes some ducks eggs and
places them in the nest of a sitting hen
she cares for those ducks after they
are Matched. If there be a pond neal
and the little ducks enter the water
the old hen upon the shore will be
frantic She will run round and round
trying to call them out. But hen, as
a rule sometimes there are exceptions
will only care for her own brood
The average hen will not allow her
brood to be mixed up with othel
broods. She will drive the strange
chickens away from her young. She
tries to keep the family intact.
Protection to All Who Seek 1t.
The hens chickens know their moth
er's voice. At her call they leave
whatever they are doing and go to her
My brother have you heard Gods
voice calling you? Have you respond
ed or have you stayed in your sin.
needless of his call? Remember, the
protection Of the divine wings is over
none but those who seek it. Gods
wing is big enough to cover all who re
pent Of their sins and come to him in
the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
But though Gods wing is big enough
to shelter the Mary Magdalenes and
the poor publicans and the Peters and
the Johns. though they may come by
the millions. Their. are some who miss
its protection. What is the reason:
Jesus tells us in this very passage
"How often would have gathered thy
children together, even as a hen gath.
ereth her chickens under her wings,
!. and We would notr' That is the reason
| OOu III Ludu " GUILE. ne Ill
vites, he pleads with them. but if they
will not come. even he can do no more
The awful storms of the goddess eter.
! nifty beat upon them. and they have nc
shelter. What the terrors and the mis-.
cry of that time will be we cannot con
, ceive. They are but dimly outlined il
, the Bible, but the images used are ter
rifying enough to blanch the bravest
cheek, and through it all memory and
conscience will reproach the sinner
with those sad words. I've would not
Shelter was offered to all who would
come. but ''Ye would not Self ex
, cluded. self destroyed: that will be the
r most terrible part of that awful fate
Obedience and disobedience to God
are the two great teachings of my text
1t was said that during q famous naya