BEV. DR. TALMAGE., The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sune day Sermon. ‘» Bubject: “A Protecting Wing.” TeXT: “Asa hen gathereth her chickens under Ler wings, and ye would not, -— Matthew xxiii. 37. Jerusalem was in sieht as Christ came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of 70 feet, The solendors of the religious eanital of the whole earth irradiated the landscape. There is the temple. Yonder is the king's palace, Spread out before His eyes ara the poran, the waalth, the wickedness and the coming destruction of Jerusalem, and He burst into tears at the thoucht of the ob. duracy of a piace that He would gladly have raved, and avostrophizes, saying, “Oh. Jerusalern, Jeruwlem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as & hen gathereth her chickens under her wines, and va would not." Why did Christ select ben and chicken as a simile? Noxtto the oppositaness of the comnarison I talnk it was to help all public teacher« in the matter of illustration to get down off their stilts and use comparisons that all can understand. The plainest bird on earth is the barnyard fow!, Ttsonly adornments are the red comb in its head- dress and the wattles under the throat, It has no grandeur of genealogy. All wo know i= that its ancestors cme from India, some of them from a height of 4000 feet on the sides of the Himalays. It has< no pretention of nest like the eagle's avrie. It has no luster of plumage like the goldfinch. Possessing anatomy that allows flight, yet about the Jast thing that it wants to do is to fly, and in retreat uses foot almost as much a€ wine, Mus'cians have written out in mudeal scale the song of lark and robin red breast and nightingale, vet the hen of my text hath nothing that could be taken for a sone, bot only ecluck and ecackle, Yet Chirst in the text uttered, while looking upon doomed Jerusalewn, declares that what He had wished for that city was like what the hen does for her chickeas. Christ was thus sim. ple in His teachings, and yet how harl it is for ur, who are Rundav-school instructors snd editors and preachers and reformer, and those who would gain the ears of audi- eaces, to attain that heavenly and divine art of simplicity, We have torun a course of literary dis orders as children u course of physical dis. orders, We eyne out of school and colleza loaded down with Greek mythologies and out of the theological seminary weighet down with what the learned fathers sail, aud we fly with wings of eagles and flamin- | goes and alhatrosses, and it takes a gool while haforas we can come down to Christ's similitudes, the candle under the bushel, the salt that has lostits savor, the net thrown into the sea, the spittle on the eves of the lay in the cradle many years ago, the father dead, many remarked, *Whata it the Lord would take the child!” and the mother really thought so too. But what a good thing that God spared that child, for it became world rennwnel in Christian literature and one of God's most illustrious servants —John Todd. Remember. your children will remain children only a little while, What yoa do for them as children vou must do quickly or never do at sil. “Why have you never written a book? said some one to a talentel woman, She repliel: “I am writing two and have been engaged on one work ten years and on the other five yoars—my two children. They ar» my life work.” When the house of Join Wesley's fathar burned, and they got the eight children out. John Wesley the last befors the roof fell in, the father said: “Lat us kneal dowa and thank Gol. The children ara all saved; let the rest of the place go.” My hearers, if we sours the nrasent and everlasting welfare of our children, most other things belonging to us are of but little comparative importance. Alexander ths Great allo wed his soldiers to take their fami- lies 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 wera used to warlike scenes from the start. Would God that all the children of our dav might be born into the army of the Lord! No need of letting them goa long way on the wroag road before they tarn arouad and go on the right road. The oaly time to ges chiskens under wing is while they are calckens, Hasonah Whitall Smith, ths evangelist, took her little child at two years of age when iil out of the erib and told her plainly of Christ, and the child believed and gave evidence of joyful trust, which grew with her growth 0 womanhood, Two years ars not too youngz. The time will come when by the faith of parsats chil iren will be Lorn into this world and born into the bosom of Christ at the same time, Soon wa parents will have to go and leave our children, We fizht their battles now, and we stand be- tween them and harm, but our arm will af- ter a while get weak; and we cannot fight for them, and our tongue will be palsied, and we cannot speak for them. Aras we go- ing to leave them out in the oold world to take their chances, or ars wa doing all wa can to get them under the wing of etarual safety? 3ut we all need the protecting wing. If you had known when you ent:wrel upon manhood and womanhood what was ahead of you, would you have dared to undertake life? How much you hava besa through! With most life has been a disappointment; they tail me so. They have pot attained that which they expected to attain. They have not had the physical and mental vigor thaw expected, or they bails which they did not anticipate, You arenotat 43 or 50 or 6) er 7) or 80 years ol age where you thought you would be, not know anyone except mysif to whom life has been a happy surprise. I never ex- pected anything, and so when anything blind man and the ben and chickens, Thers is not much poetry about this winged creaturs of God mentioned in my text, but shells more practical and more motherly: and mors suggest.va of good things than many that fly higher and wear brighter colors. She is not a prima doons of the skies nora strut of beauty in the aisle of the forest She does not cut a circle under tte sun like the Rocky Mountain earle, but stays at home to look alter family affairs. She does not swoop like the condor of the Cordilleras to fransport a rabbit from the valley to the too of the erage, but just seratches for a living. How vigorously with her claws she pulls away the grono i to bring up what is hidden beneath! Whan the Lesaklast or dining hour arrives, she begins to prepare the repast and calls all her young to partake, Iam In sympathy with the anpretmntious old fashion# hen, because, like most of us she has to serstoh for a living, She knows | at the start the lesion which most prople of good sens» are slow to learn that the gain- ing of a livelihood imnlies work, ant that successes do not lie on the surface, but are to be upturned by positive and continuons effort. The reason that society, and the | church, and the world are so full of faiiures, so fuil of loafers, so fall of dead beats, is be cause people are not wise enough to take the Jesson on which any hen would teach them — that if they would find for themselves and for those dependent wpon them anvthing | worth having they must scratch for it. “Relomon said, “Go to the ant, thou slur gard.” say, “030 to. the hen, thon siurz d.” lu the (id Testament God compares | Himsell to an sagle stirring up her nest, ani in the New Testament the Holy Spirit is compared to a descending dove, but Christ, ina sermon that begins with cutting sar. | casm for hypocrites and ends with the paroxysm of pathos in the text, compara imseif to a hen, : One day in the country we saw sudden esusternation in the behavior of old Dom- mick. Why the hen should be so disturioe i we could not understand, Woe looketiatont to see if a neizhbor's dog wars invading the fara. We looked! up to see if a stormcloud were hovering. We could se nothing on the ground that cwmid terrorizy, ant we could sea nothing in the air to rafts the | feathers of the hen, but the loud, wild, af. righted cluck whiel brought all her brood at tall run under hor feathers made us look again around us and above us, when wesaw that high up and far away thers was a re pacions bir wheeling down and down, not seeing us as wo | stood in tha sha ow it eames nearer and jower until we saw its beak was curved from tase to tip, and it bad two flames of fire for ever, and it way 8 baw, Bat all the chic lens were under old Dom. iniclt’s wing, and either the bird of prey canght a climpss of us, or not able to find the brood hundied ander wing darted baci into the conde, Bo Christ ealls with great | earnestness to the yppng, Why, waat is the | matter? Its bright sunlight, and there can | be no danger, fealth is there, A gool home ia theirs, Pienty of foo! is thairs. Prospeet of Joo lite is theirs. Bat Christ contivuss to cal’, calls with mors em- and urzes haste and savs not a | second ought 10 be Jost. Ob, do tell us what isthe matter! Ab, mow I see. ‘Thersare | bawks of temptation in the air; thers ars | vititures whe:ling for their prey: thers ars | beaks of death ready So plunge: thers are ciaws of allurement ready to clutch, Now I see the dhoril How I (Fsrwant the urgency. owl soe only ely. ould that Olirist niight this day take our sons an i daughters into His shelter, “as a ben gath- ereth her chickens under her wing.” The fact is that tae most of them will never flud the shelter unless while they are chickspe., It is a simple matter of inexor. able statistics that most of those wao do not rome 5 Christ in youth naver come at all, What chance is theyre for the young without divine / y ars the x ¥ ” ars the infidelities and immoralities of spivitusl’s n. Taere ars bad books. Taers ars impurities. Thers are the business ras calities, Awl go numirous are thess asail - ments that itis a wonder that honesty and virius sre nob lost arts. “The birds of prey, and nnotarnal, of the patural workl ace ever on tae alert. ‘They are the assassins of the sky. Taey have va of taste. Toe prefers tae flowhs of the liviag anuna’, vulture pre- ters the carcass, The faicon kills with ons stroke, while other styles of beaks give pro. of torture, And so the tempia- round and round, ant | style of you im sharp beak ania crosi caw, and what the rising generation needs is a fortable position or widesing field of work it some of my fellow students that 1 never would get anybody to hear me preach unless I changed my style, #0 that woaen | found that some people did come to hear me it was ing to their own statement, bave found life indeed we all neal shel. not August afternoon you have heard a ram. ble that you first took for a wagon crossiog A whale of artillery went rolling down the But the sounds above be neath. The cattle cams to the bars anid for them $5 be let down that moanad they might dar< Brahma or Hamburg or Leghorn or began to call to its young, “Cluck” “Cluck I” “Cluck ™ ani take them or shed ani had the soft feathers by ts time that the dret plash of raia stracg tae rool. So there are sulden tsmptests for our gonle, and, oh! how dark it gets, and thraat- persecution or bereavement gather and thiccen and blacken, and some ran for shel- tor to an bank, but it is poor shelter, 0, and they perish in the blast, but others r a divine “Come, for all things ars now “Ibe spicit and the bride my And while the heavens are thunder ready.” and the soul cones uader the brooding cure chickens unter hor wing.” The wings of my text suggest warmth, and toat is want most folks want. The fen: it literally or figuratively, We havea big repiace to get warmed. that the Arctic is not 80 destractive as the Antirsie,. Once ia awhile the Arctic will lst explorers come baci, but the Antartic hardly ever. Wnoen at the south poie a ship sails io, the door of ice is almost sure to be Ho life to many millions of ie at the south and many millions of people at the north is 8 prolonged shiver, but whan [ say thiz isa cold worll 1 chalelly mean ra tively. If you want to koow what is the meaning of the ordinary term of recriving der,” got out of money and try to borrow. The conversation may have ben almost tropical for luxurinoce of thought and speeca, but suggest your neces. sities and ses the theramomster diop to 50 degrees oslow gro, and inthe waicn til a moment before had been a warm room, Take what is an unpo_ ular position on some public quescion, an | see your friends By as chaff oefore a windmill, As lar as myweif is concernasd, I have no word of complaint, but [ look off day by day and ses communities freezing out men and women worthy, Now It takes after ons and now after another, It becomes popular to de- preciate and delams and execrite and lie about some sia, This is the best world | ever got in that some paogle ever got into, Tha worst thing t. at ever Bappenel to them was saeir to them will be their grave. What want is warmth, any years *go a man was floating down on the we of the Merrimac, att ceffores were made to rescus him, Twice ne got boll of a plank thrown t% him aod twice he | slipped away from it, becauss that end of the plank was covered with ice, and he oried out, ie pho Shi tae and this done I» er to shore. The trouble ba pe mpathy, warmth arith of genial The w. 8 hen gathersth her ohidems under her wing.” Oh, the warm heart of God is ready for all those to whom the world has given the cold shoulder, But notics that some one must take the storm for the chickens, Ah! the hen takes the storm, [have watched her under the polting rain. I hava seen her in the pinche sha makes for the vouug under wing if a dog or hawk or a man comes too nesr! And #0 the brooding Christ takes the storm for us, What flood of anguish and tears thas did not dash upon His holy soul! Whas heak of torture did not nierce His vitals Waoat barking Cerberus of hell was not les out upon Him from the kennals! What He endure, ot, who can tell, To save our souls from death aad hell! Yes, the hen took the storm for the chick. env, and Christ takes the storm for us, Once the tempest rose so suddenly the hen could not get with her young back from the fence half dead. An to snow, and it is an awlul night, and in the morning the whiteness about the the beak down in the mud show that the mother is dead, and the young ones come their tiny voices, bat thers ciuck, She took the storm perished, Poor thing! unto death! § DO answering Self sacrificing even which we come for spiritual safety are blood are tempest torn wings. In the Isle of Wight I saw the grave of Princws Eliza. brook castle, her finger on an opsn Bible all yo that labor and are heavy laden, and | will give you rest." Oa, come under the wings! But now the summer day is almost passed, ani the shadows of the house and bara and wagon shed have leagthenel. The farmer, with scytlie or hos on shoulder, is returning from the flelds, The oxea are unvokel. Toe horses are cranching the oats at the full bin. and wild brier. The milkiwan, pail in band is approaching the barnyard, | keeping eariy hours, are collecting their young, “Cluck!” “Cluck!” “Cluck! and soon all the eyes of thas feathered nursery are closed, The bachelors of the wingel tribe bave ascended to their perch, out the hens in a motheraood divinely appointed, tak: ail the irik of a slumber on the ground, and all night long the wings will stay outspresd, and ths little ones will not utter a sound. Thus al sundown, lovingly, safely, com. plotely, the hen broods her young No, if vening of our life i wa are the Lori's, the The heats of the day will have * will come. passed, There will bs saadows, aid we cane | not ses far, The work of life will be about i ended, The hawks of temptation that hoversd in ithe sky will have gone to ths woo is and | folded their wings, Sweet silences will come lown, The air wil be redolent with tae { breath of whole arbors of promises sweeter than jasmine or evening primrose. Toe air { may oe a little chill, but Carigt will call ue, {and wa will know the voices and heed tue call, ani we will come under the wings { the pight--the strong wings, the sot wings, { the warm wings-—and without fear and in for from sundown to sunrise, “as a ben gather. | eth ber chickens under her wing.” Dear me, how many souls the Lord hath thus trosded! Motners, alter watching over sick cradles | and then watching afterwar { over wayward sons and deugoters at inst themselves taken care of by a motherly God, Busnes msn, alter a lifetime struggling with the uscosr. teintio= of moaesy marsets, aod the change i of tariffs, aad tae underswiling of mea who because of their dissonesties oan afford to undersell, and vers of disappointment and struzgie, at last under wings whers nothing can pertart them any more than a bird of prev which is ten miles off disturbs a chick at midnight brooded io a oarayard My text has ite stroagest application for people who were born in the country, | wasrsver you may now live, and that is the majority of you, You cannot hear my text witnout saving ail the rastic scenes of the old farmbouse come back to you. Good old days they ware, You knew nothing much of the world, for you had pol seen the word. By law of association you casnot recall i the roading hen and her chizkens without sseing also the barn, and the baymow, and the wagon shed, and the house, and the room where you played, and the fireside with the vig backlog before which you sat, and the neighbors, and the buria', and the wadding, and the deep snowbanks, and hear the village bell that called you to worship, and sering the horses which, alter pulling you to church, stood around ithe old clap boarded meeting house, and those who sat at either end of the church pew, and indeed all | the scones of the first 14 years, and you think of what you were then and of what you are now, and all tosses thought: are | arousad by the sight of th) oid heacoop. Some of you had better go back po. start again, In thought return to that place and hear the cluck and ses the ontepread faath- ers and comes un ler the wiag and make the ! Lord your Jortion aod sheiter and war nth, presaring for everything that may coms, | and so avoid being classe! among those de. | soribad by the closing words of my text, “as ia hen gathereth her caick»as under her | wing, and ye would no." An, that throws | the responsibility upon us! “Ye would | not.” Alas, for the “would notal®™ If the | wandering broods of the farm heel not thair | motiner's call and risk the hawk and dare the | freahot and expose thomsnives to the frost | their mother's fan &. “Ye would not!” Gad would, but how many would not! | When a good man asked a young woma {| who had atandonsd ter homes and who was | denloring her wretchednem why she did not ! return, tee reply was: “'l dare not hom, | My fatoer is so provoked he w nos re- cava me home.” * Uhen” said ths Christain man, “I will test thie,” And so he wrote to | the father, and the reply 2ame back and na | jottar marged outside “Immediate” and in- | forgivan.” 8» Gols invitation for you is | marked “Immediate” on the outside, and | foside it Is written, “He will abundantly | pardon.” Ob, yo wanderers from Gol and happi- | ness and home and heaven, come wader the sheitsring wing, Under this call I ses you | \weruing from your old way to the new way, the living way, the gospel way. the Bristol channel was near | called the “Steep Home” U pest the vessel was unmanageable, and tae ooly hope was that the tide would obange betors she strack the rocks and went dowo, - EE SA AR 5 Ft 1H BOSE HAA BAA AR English iguorance of America did not | begin with this generation, Goldsmith's description of Niagara Falls includes the statement that ‘‘some Indians in their canoes, 581t is said, have ventured down it in safety.’ Wisi ss III rim non | Keep the Birthdays, | Keep the birthdays religlousiy. | They belong exclusively to, and are treasured among the sweelest memo- ries of home. Do not let anything prevent some token, be It ever so slight, to show that it is remembered. Birthdays are great events to chil- dren. For one day they feel that they are heroes The special pud- ding is made expressly for them: a , ; : A Bow's This ¥ now taelke . { i © sew jacket, or trousers with pockets, We offer One Hundred Dollars rewsrdl for * . | away Clothes may uot make ihe man, but suits makes he lawyer, “| have been occasionally troubled with | Coughs, and in ench case hinve teed Brows's any | Broxcsian Tuocues, which hare EYET fallett, § a | i 1 sat say thew gre seand to wone in the i ft mu ee and a i Feliz A. May. Cashier, 851. Paul, Munn, or the first pair of boots, are donned; | uy case of catarrh that canpol be cored by AX cdirtln ¥. J. Cnesy & Co, Prope. Toleao, 0, insignificance lesidé “little Charlie,” | we the undersigned. have known ¥ | W 3 six to-day,” and Is soon *'go- | * ; Who is ‘six to-day, 4 3 Shoo & | perfectly honorable in all business transac- | tons, and financially able to carry out sauy ob- ‘athers ave hi lozen | Fathers who have balf a do nn 1it- ET & Tatar Wholesals Druggists, Toledo, | tle ones to care for, are apt to neglect 0. : Warping, Ersxax & Mamvix, Wholesale sometimes when they gre busy, and Tiall's Caisrrh Cure fu taken foternally, sot sometimes when they “are nervous” | Ing directly upon the blood and mucous sure | Price Toc. ver bottle, Soll by ali druggists. gouvenirg are cocrished by their pet | i froma the hearthstone, they {| have none to remind them that they haps weary round of life, or to wish them in the ola-fashioned phrase, | dav,” they would never perinit cause to step between them and big brothers and sisters sink into | taking Hall's Catarrh Core. Cheney tor the last 10 years, and believe bim | ing to be 4 man.” | Ugntions made by their firm, thay: ey + LCT ; birthdays, they come too often i Tori o faces of the systems Testimonials sent free. but if they only knew how much such | price 7 Fh an Susy or Harry, years afterwards. when | have added one more year to the pers ‘smany happy returns of their birth- pareut's privilege. { OT de When one woman praise; asnolber, folks aa . 2 ' think she is sarcastic, About $40,000,000 i3 pald every | year in Germany for the creation and | exercise preservation of forests; 200,000 fam. | lization. ilies are supported from them, while | these abuses. something like 3,000,000 find employ- | ment in the various woud industries of the empire The total revenue from the forests amounts to $14,500,- 000, and the current expenses are 85.500 G00 i We est too much and take too little outdoor it is claimed that Garfield fea & What is done cannot be andone, especially if it is a hard. oiled egg. | If aMicted with sors eyes wm Dr. sass Thom | son's Eve-water, Druggists seid at 25¢ A firstclam 1ellow The fresh n. ray COSTS MORE to make Royal Bak- ing Powder than any other, because its ingredients are more highly refined : expensive. But the Royal is correspon- dingly purer and higher in leavening strength, and of greater money value to the consumer. The difference in cost of Royal over the best of the others does not equal the difference in leav- ening strength, nor make good the inferior work of the cheaper powders, nor remove the impuri- ties which such powders leaye in the food. Where the best food is required, the Royal Baking Powder only can be used. All cannot possess a Married by Instalments, There folk Kr an odd story told by a Nor. giana) of his parishioners who war married talents Hi with his bride, and had expressed his readiness to forsake al 3 | Keep only to her as long as they both | \ ' vicar of one DY in | had gone to church | others and . . in the shape of a coin, butn of art should ly only special coin el. When itcame to ’ turn, he Ver the your HE wWoniat shie was not so minded United States Goverment mn could make her agree share of the bargain Plead- 1 storming were alike in vain, t Iz itended couple left ! to each other entered it. The ple stared to lad that the would-be bridegroom was an even more ardent lover after this incident than before it He laid steady eiege to the heart of the fickle fair one, and at last induced her {0 go to churca with him agam. | His scheme was to get her there and leave her in the lurch, as she had left | him Unluekily for its success, he had taken a losse-tongued cocarade into his confidence The vicar had got wind of I¢ and | wus prepared. To the horror of the conspirator, he proposed to take up | the marriage service where it was left off on the former occasion, and | getting a ready assent from the young | wowean to fulftil the condiditions she | had previously declined, went on | without hicdrance to the end, and bound the disgusted bridegroom | tightly to the expected object ¢f Lis re- | venge. : This wes great sport to #2 vicar, | but no laughing matter to the poor | wretch who found the joke turned so | completely against himself. The | viear never moved a muscle, although inwardly he must have been explod- ing. His levity leaned to virtue's side. Was it not inflicting proper | punishment on the mind who would have made a fool of his parson und a mockery of the marriage service to pay an old score? Was he not guard ing the sanctity of the marriage cere- mony from vuigar ribaldry? Prob ably: bat, at the same time, he was punishing the young woman much wore ¢Tectually than if he had let the rascal Jilt her, Mura Bixao-Don't you think, dear, it would be a good idea for you to give me an expense book, so that tho coming year you will know where all the money goes? DNingo-—-1 can tell without any expense book, darling. HO DOTS Lt her ing and ¢ By fs LEI 3% ana nore } than nen they village p As there early promised to be $1.00 for For Sale Everywhere All 1 have to do is to look on your back. New York Hera ““ALL THE SAME, ALWAYS. SPRAINS. FS > BRUISES. Mr. Porasarr, Texas, Prevsmma, Pa., NS Juno 20, 1888, | B02W ylie Ave, Jan. 20,°87 Buffered 8 months with One of my workmen fell | strain of back ; could not from a ladder, be sprained badly. 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