THE MANY TEMPTATIONS. Dr, Talmage Says the Assailants of Virtwe and Honesty Ase Numerous. Needs For Divine Protectioa—God's (race Briegeth Salestion I SN * WasnixagToN, D. CA familiar illus tration from the barnyard is employed in this discourse by Dr. Talmage te show the comfort and protection that heaven af fords to all trusting souls. The text is Matthew xxiii, 37, “Even as a hen gather. eth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.” Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of 700 feet. The splendors of the religious capital of the whole earth irradiated the landscape. There is the temple. Yonder is the king's palace. Spread out before His eyes are the pomp, wealth, the wick- edness and the coming destruction of Je- rusalem, and He bursts into tears at the thought of the obduracy of a place that He would gladly have saved and apostro- Bow” saying, ‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, w often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not?” Why did Christ select hen and chickens as a simile? Next to the appositeness of the comparison, I think it was to help all public teachers in the matter of illustra- tion to get down off their stilts and use comparisons that all can understand. The plainest bird on earth is the barnyard fowl. Its only adornments are the red comb in its head-dress and the wattles un- der the throat. It has no grandeur of genealogy. All we know is that its ances tors came from India, some of them from a height of 4000 feet on the sides of the Himalayas. It has no pretension of nest like the eagle's eyrie. It has no lustre of plumage like the goldfinch. Possessing anatomy that allows flight, yet about the last thing it wants to do is to fly, and in retreat uses foot almost as much as wing Musicians have written out in musical scale the song of lark and robin redbreast and nightingale, vet the hen of my text hath nothing that could be taken for a song, but only cluck and cackle. Yet Christ in the text uttered while looking upon doomed Jerusalem declares that what He had wished for that city was like what the hen does for her chicl Christ was thus His teach ings, and vet how hard it is for us who are Sunday-school instructors and edito he ears of a i who would gain t attain that heavenly and « plicity! We have erary disorders as sical and college loaded thologies and out ary weighed d¢ fathers said, 3 eagles and flamingoes and it takes a good while befo down to Christ's similitu under the bushel, the savor, the net thro spittle on the eves of the hen and chicl I amin w tentious old fash most of us, she has to ser hf Khe knows at the start the most people of i learn—that th plies wo on the su positive and son that soci world are so ers, ful are which a they wou 3 those dependent upon t} having must serat mon said, “Go to th I sav. Go to the Old Testa to an eagle the New comps in a se casm ATOXVETY {imseli to One dav eonsternation inick. Why turbed we « looked about were invading the far see if a storm clou could see nothing on terrorize, and we could air to ruffle the featl the loud, wild, afi brought all her br her feathers made wu and above us, when we saw and far away there was wheeling round and roan down. and not the shadow. it came neat til we gaw its beak w to tip and it had two flames of fir eyes, and it was a hawk jut all. the chickens were under old Dominick's wings, and either the bird of prey canght a limopse of us or not able to find the brood uddled under wing, darted back into the clouds. Bo Christ calla with great earnestness in all the young. Why, what the matter? It is bright sunlight, and there can be no danger. Health 1s theirs. A good is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs pect of long life is theirs tinnes to call, calls with more emphasis and urges haste and says not a second ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us what is the matter. Ah, now I there are hawks of temptation in the air, there are vultures wheeling for their prey, there are beaks of death ready to plunge, there are claws of allurement ready to clutch Now I see the peril. Now | understand the urgency. Now | see the only safety Would that Christ might this day take our sons and daughters inte His shelter “as a hen ga'hereth her chickens under ber wing.” The fact is that the most of them will never mind the shelter unless while they are chickens. It iz a simple matter of in- excrable statistics that moet of those who do not come to Christ in youth never come at all. What chance is there for the young without divine protection? There are the grogshops, there are the gamb- ling hells, there are the infidelities and immoralities of spiritualism, there are the bad books, there are the impurities, there are the business rascalities, and so numer. ous are these assailants that it is a wonder that honesty and virtue are not lost arts, The birds of prey, diurnal and necturnal, of the natural world are ever on the alert. They are assassins of the sky; they have varieties of taste. The eagle prefers ths flesh of the living animals; the vulture prefers the carcass; the falcon kills with one stroke, while other styles of beak jve prolongation of torture. And so the A ob of this life are various, Fathers, mothers, older brothers and and bath-achool teachers, be quick and earnest and prayerful and im Burtunate and get the chickens under wing, y the Sabbath schools of America and Great Britain within the next three months sweep of their scholars into the kingdom. Whom they have now under charge is un certain. cerning that scrawny, puny child that lay in the many years the fat dead, many remarked, ‘ at a mercy if the Lord weos!ld take the child?” And the mother really thought #0 too. Bat what a good thing that God that child, for it became world re. nowned in Christian literature and one of Sods most servante—John diences ne run a course of disorders. sal KES x TF rath LIT SYD eases o » to be uptn 80 not ' . that 1 and 1 they th Ts 1€3 again around that high un ous bird and OOK A0WN BeeINg is OCUry is home Pros But Christ con A + everlasting welfare of our children, most other things belonging to us are of but lit: tle comparative importance. Alexander the Great allowed 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 were born in camp and were used to warlike scenes from the start. Would God that all the chil dren 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 ahead cf you, would you have dared to under take life? How much you have been through! With most life has been a dizcp- pointment. They tell me so. They have not attained that which they expected to attain. They have not had the physical and mental ‘vigor they expected or they have met with rebuffs which they did not anticipate. You are not at forty or fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty years of age where vou thought you would be. 1 do not know any one except myself to whom life has been a happy surprise. I never expected anything, and so when anything came in the shape of human fa- vor or comfortable position or widening field of work it was to me a surprise. was told in the theological seminary by some of my fellow students that I never would get anybody to hear me preach un- less 1 changed my style, so that when I found that some people did come to hear me was a happy surprise. But most eople, according to their own statement, fo found life a disappointment. In deed, we all need shelter from its tem pests, The wings of my text suggest warmth, and that 1s what most folks want. The fact is that this is a cold world whether vou take it literally or figuratively. We have a big fireplace called the sun, and it has a very hot fire, and the stokers keep the coals well stirred up, but much of the year we cannot get near enough to thas fireplace to get warmed. This world’s extremities are cold all the time. Forget not that it ie colder at the South Pols than at the North Pole, and that th Arctic is not so destructive as the Antar- tic. Once in awhile the Ar will let explorers come back, but the Antari hardly ever. When at the South Pole a saila in, the door of ice is almost sure to be shut against its return So life to m-ny millions of people at the eouth ny millions of people at the north longed shiver it bios Lic ship say phat this is a cold y mean figuratively. If want to know what is the meaning of the ordinary term of the “cold and try to when 1 receiving money t your ned ter drop to in that whi been a WaArm roon an unpopular position * question and see you before a win fl. As oncerned, I have word day and Take what 1s of | i the meanest The heats of the day be shad The air ath of wh bre weeter than jasmine or little ¢l ill kt we will [he air may be a i, and the eall we wu and warm sone im sun for you the brooding yt ] w and seCIng aso i the house ed and the before whi i the burial I sr vhanka, i called vou to which, after pe with sat and id hear the vil worah horses ng , stood aro sshoard- meeting hone d who =at at either end of the church pew and, indeed, ill the seenes of your first fourteen years, at vou were then and the old ela; those ou think of w {i what vou are now sroused by the sight of the old hen: Some of vou had better go bark fart again In thought retorn to ace and hear the cluck and see the feathers and eome under the wing and make the Lord portion and ter warmth, preparing for werything that may come, and so avoid ing « vw] among those deseribed by ] of my text, “as a hen chickens under her wings, vould not.” Ah, that throws Lhe yasibihity upon ns. “Ye would not.” Alas, for the “would nots!” If the wan dering broods of the farm heed not their mother’s call and rick the hawk and dare the freshet and expose themselves to the frost and storm, surely their calamities are not the mother's fault. “Ye would not!” God would, but how many would not? When a good man asked a young woman who had abandoned her home and who was deploring Her wretchedness why she did not return, the reply was: “1 dare not go home. My father is so provoked he would not receive me home.” “Then waid the Christian man, “I will fest this” And so he wrote to the father, and the re ply came back, and in a letter marked outs, side “Immediate” and inside saying, ‘Let her come at onee; all in forgiven.” Se God's invitation for you is marked “Im. mediate” on th: outside, and inside it is written, "He will abundantly pardon.” Oh, ye wanderars from God and happiness and heme and heaven, come under the sheggering wing. A vessel in the Dristel Channel was pearing the rocke ealled the Steep Holmes. Under the tempest the vessel was wnmanageable, and ¢ only I ntspread { your she gryel FERC sz words he fore she struek the rocks and went down, and so the captain stood on the deck watch in hand. Captain and crew and passengers were pallid with terror. Tak: ing another look at his watch and another look at the ses, he shouted: “Thank God, we are saved! The tide bas turned! One minute more and we would have struck the rocks!” Some of yon have been a lon while drifting in the tempbst of sin an sorrow and have loen ing for the breakers, Thank God, the tide has turned, Do you net feo] the lift of the billow? The grace of God that bringeth Lion has appeared to your soul, and, in words of Boaz Ruth, I ¢ mend you te “the Yard Cod of Jerael, under whose wings thou Last come (o trust.” [Copyright, 1068, L. Kiopsch.] MAJESTY'S DOCKYARD, PORTSMOUTH, ENCLAND, AT Where Upwards of 10,000 Men Are Con. stantly Employed. Sometime ago the Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette published a most thrill ing and remarkable experience of the wife of Mr. Frederick Payne, himself connected with the Portsmouth Dockyard for many years. 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