Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-07-11

He is by corrupt past a drunkard,
libertine. thief. lie wants to get I'M
der the protecting shadow or coos
wing. When he arises In the morning
he kneels by his bed and says: ~
God | am awfully weak. | know not
which way to turn unless l look 10
thee. Save me this day from the wine
cun Save me from the fatal pitfalls |
which are yawning at my feet. save
mo O God. save me, save me-. VIII |
Cod answer such Il pleading prayer
as that? Oh, yes. God says 10 this
moral cripple: Come, my child, come
under my wing, my protecting Wing
7 will surround thee with holy COM
nanionship. | will shut out from thy
SIGHT the buzzards and the hawks ana
the serpents and the rats OF sin whlch
would destroy your life! Come my
child. come. Come under the SHADOW
OF my spiritually protecting wing
NV friends. some Of us have been Try
inc 70 resist temptation III our own
strength viii you not depend upon
the strength of God? Some of us are
trying to do as the brilliant Tom Mar
shall of Kentucky did, who one DAY
stood ND in Broadway Tabernacle ana
said: "Were this great globe one crys'
+olIite and | offered the possession II
would drink one glass OF Drahuy l
would refuse it with scOrn. Ana
want no religion. | want the temper
oncc plcdcc alone" But. alas. FOOT
Tom Marshall, depending upon ms
own strength. was at last shoveled INTO
y drunkard's grave. VIII you today as
Christian. accept Gods protecting
wing against your besetting sin! mat
wing is a pledge that God Will not al
low YOUR temptation to be stronger
than YOU shall have power given 10 re-
sist. >,,.-
Gods protecting wing is one OF ChrlS'
non fellowship. An old homely prov
orh saws. "A hen will make just aS
much noise and scratch just as haru
for one chicken as she Will Tor ten
THAT may be true. Such actions upor
! tho mart of the feathcrcd bird might D'
worry exemplary. But one Of the mos
ridiculous sights to me is a great DE-
fot hen strutting through the barnyar'
, followed bv one wee. little chlrplhi
, chicl,en Better for that little chlcKel
: IN he killed and the hen go about he
legitimate business of laying eggs 10
! the breakfast than for the mother Oir'
e 70 continue to waste her energies upol
r that one offspring. The natural Droo'
t for q hen is not que or two chickens
:. but eight. nine or ten or even thlrtee
t chickens. Every would be sitting he
~ left alone nearly always lays thil
: toon oogs for her nest. She wants
l large family. \ large family is goo
d For tho hon It is good for the chicl
ems.
l. 4 Practical Application.
. 1vhot is the practical application
5 this simile? Why, Gods wing IS
r nlace under which not only one Chri
e tian can find rest, but many Christian
8 Gods children are going to find sale'
e and nrotection under Gods wing D.
e cause they will work together ana n'
s. together and have their hearts beatlr
IS toqether and, as it were, snuggle up |
k gether and keep each other splrituai
Is warm. They will be together as clo
If in fellowship as the chickens are cio
id together under their mothers wing.
Ill Won lift up a hen who is covering II
r. little ones at night you will be su
S. prised how many chickens her snls
ii area is able to shelter. The reason
e" each chicken is pressing close again
er the other chickens as well as again
ne its mothers breast.
m What today is the Christian 1eilo
lis shin of YOUR daily life? Remember I
ct records are being kept in reference
lg this matter which shall decide 70
ed sniritual welfare for time and for ell
AS nitv. A lady one day came to me h'
er Iohn Newton and asked him now
friend of hers who was member
Mr.. Newton's congregation had ui'
ed "Ah. nv lady" answered the veneraI
to rroo cher that is not the importa
ok ouestion you ought to have asked !
a should have asked not how she dl'
Ter but how she lived" Are you living
ed fellowship with Christ's children! 4
he YOU living in close communion WIN
err members of your church? Are you
ng ing in prayerful love with all men a
Ter women who are trying to bring
'ur name of Jesus before a sinful ra'
he Are you living with Chrlsts lollo"
en- rs closely as chickens gather under
III wings of a mother hen?
10 Gods wing often protects his chlldl
ro- hest when they themselves are enN
oped by total darkness. The Ill
chickens. running to the warning
se Of the clucking hen, answer for
his most part to the blind obedience
to faith and love. When they crawl un
ork the oyershadowing and enveloping c
I'M ering of that wing they can see nc
I'D. ing. Under that wing is total Ga
me ness. Once in awhile a chickens c
PHI ositv will impel her to poke her Il
he head out of the mothers feathers
col see what is going on. But Wheh
,ple chickens are truly under that W
red thev leave all and trust all to 4
ned mothers care. 1t Is because u
we'd chickens stay in total darkness un
mi. that wing that they often escape
,lly searching eye of an advancing foe'
ght In Darkness as In Light
,ay- My dear hearer, are you ready
and trust God in darkness as well as IN
yer light? You came to me the other
raw and said, 81 cannot understand
nds this trouble was laid at my do
able Neither can l, my brother. 90
me. understand why God should
ken taken away from your side that yc
.nal man Just five months after he
Y to graduated for the bar. He wa
the bright fellow. He was a pure
ieve He was the child upon whom you