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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE DR. TALMAGE'S SINAY SERMON Many Temptations That Beset the %oung-We Should Carefully Guard Our Conduct. WASHINGTON, D. C.-A familiar illus tration from the barnyard is emp:oyed in this discourse by Dr. Talmage to. 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 iot." Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came to the crest c,f 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 Hia 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 phizes, saying, "0 Jerusalem, Jer'salem, how often would I have gathered thy ehi!dren 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. Al: we know is that its ances tors came from India, some of them from a 'height of 40)9 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. yet 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 unon doomed Jerusalem declares that what He had wished for that city was like what the hen does for her chickens.. Christ was thus simple in His teach ings. and yet how hard it is for us who are Sun4ay-school instructors and editors and preachers and reformers and those who would gain the ears of audiences to attain that heavenly and divine art of sim plicity! We have to run a course of lit erary disorders as children a course of phy sical disorders. We come out of school and college loaded down with Greek my thologies and out of the theological semin ary weighed down with what the learned fathers said,, and we fiy with wings of eagles and flamingoes and albatrosses, and it take- a good. while before we can come down to Christ's similitudes, the candle under the bushel. the salt that has lost its. savor, the net thrown into the sea, the snitt.e on the eyes of the blind man and the hen and chickens. I ami in warm sympathy with the unarc tentious old fashioned hen because. like most of us, she has to scratch for a living. She knows at the ctart the lesson which most people of good sense are slow to learn-that the gaining of a livelihood im plies work. and that successes do not lie r. on the surface. but are to be upturned by positive and continuous effort. The rea son that society and the church and the world are so full of failures, so full of loaf ers, so full of deadbeats is heiause people J are not wise enough to take the lesson which any hen would teach them that if 'They would-and for themselves and for those denendent upon them anything worth having they must scratch for it. Solo mon said, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard." I say. Go to the hen, thou sluggard. In the Old Testament God compares Himself to an eagle stirring un her nest. and in the New Testament the Holy Spirit is compared to a descending dove, brtt Christ in a se'rmon that began with cutting sar casm for hypocrites and ends with the paroxysm of pathos in the text compares Himself to a lyn.L One day in the country we saw sudden eonaternation in the behavior of old Dom inick. Why the hen should be so dis turbed we could not understand. Wo looked about to see if a neighbor's dog were invading the farm. We looked up to * see if a storm cloud were hovering. We could see nothing on the ground that could terrorize, and we could see nothing in the air to ruffle the feathers of the hen, but the loud, wild, affrighted cluck which brought all her brood at full run under her feathers made us look again around and above us, when we saw that high up and far away there was a rapacious bird wheeling round and round and down and down, and not seeing us as we stood in the shadow, it came nearer and lower un til we sawt its he'k was curvecd from base to ti-p ,nd it h-ad two 'lrmes of fi-e for eves. and it wa- a h-wi:. But.all the chickens were unde'r old DominieWs winigs, and either the bird1 o& prey caught a glimnse of us or not ahle to find the brood hudidled under win-, diarted back into the S 'o Christ cll with great carnestness to all the y-au'i". Why, what is the matter? It is brigt sun i"ht. nd there can be no danger. ahn is theirs. A good home is theirs. P>ry of food is theirs. Pros pet of Iong life is theirs. But Christ con tinues to ca]. ca is 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 see; there are hawks of temptation in the air, there are vultures wi'ceine for their prey, ther-e are beaks of deati ready to plunge, there are claws of allurement ready to clutch. Now I see the peril. Now I understand the ur;;ency. Now~ I see the only safety . Would that Cbhi.t might this day take' our sons and dau:hters into His sheYter "as a nen gat her'th her chickens under' her wing." Tfhe fact is that the most of them will never mind the shelter unless while they are chickens. It is a simple matter of in exorable statistics .hat most ni those who do not come to Christ in youth never come at all., What c-hance is there for the young without divine protection? There are the groshops. there aire the gam-r lini" hells, t-r are the infidelitie.' -nd immoralities o spiitualism, there are the bad books, there are the impurities, there are the business rascadltes, and so numer ous are these assailants that it is a wtonder that horesty and virtue are not lostars The birds of ary diurnal and n'octurnai, oftenatural wor d are ever on the alert Theya are~ - ins of the sky; thev have i'ar;ctes of tse. TI-e eagle prcfe-r; h flcho the livi"n ' aimals; the vultur prefers the cth a: kills v:t one stroke,a-' whil othe sy:cs orca giv p roontio ~of torture. Ad so n temp ios oc' '-'is U:l ar v-r:i Fahrs :thr.o:eaeohr an Gent Britain av itn::c :ea:t Yhree manthis nCeep all thei'r >c:olar': into tekndm irr:a:n. Ca:: ?c'n:nn that ser-awny,pu. child that lay in the cradle manym ymr rco. thie father- dead, many rmr:d \\hat a m:rcay if the Lord wvould take the child?"~ Aud the mother r-ealiy tno-/.it so too. But what a goodl tl ing th:.: God spared that child, for it became worid re r-wned in Christian literature and one of Cod's most illustrior.s servants-John Tndd. My hearers. we secure the preset anu ever'asting welfare of our children,'nost other things be:.oiging to us are of but'. tle comparative importance. Alexander the Great a:owed his sa:liers to take their families with thcm to war, and he accoutnted or the bravery of his men by the fact that many of them were horn in camp and were used to warlike scenes from the start. Would Cod that all the chii dren of our day might be born into the army of the Lord! But we all need the protecting wing. Il 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 yau have been through! With most life has been a disap pointment. They tell me so. They have not attained that which they expected to attain. They have not had the physicl 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 you thought you would be. I 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. I was told in the theological seminary by some of my fellow students that I never would get anybody to hear me preach un-. less I changed my style, so that when I found that some people did come to hear me it was a happy surpi ise. But most. people, according to their own statement, have found life a disapointment. In deed, we all need shelter from its tem. pests. The wings of my text suggest warmth, and that is what most folks want. The fact is that this is a cold world whether you 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 re year we cannot get near enough to this fireplace to get warmed. This world's t extremities are cold all the time. Forget - not that it is colder at the South Pole { than at the North Po:e, and that the Arctic is not so destructive as the Antar tie. Once in awhile the Arctic will let A explorers come back, but the Antartic hardly ever. When at the South Pole a - ship sails in, the door of ice is almost sure to be shut against its return. So life to many millions of people at the south and many millions of people at the north., is a prolonged shiver. But when I say that this is a cold - world I chiefly mean figuratively. If you want to know what is the meaning of the ordinary term of receiving the "cold shoulder," get out of money and try to borrow. The conversation may have been almost tropical for luxuriance of thought and speech, but suggest your necessities. _ and see the thermometer drop to fifty de grees below zero, and in that which till a moment before had been a warm room. Take what is an unpopular position on some public question and see your friends By as chaff before a windmill. As far as myself is concerned. I have no word .of complaint, but I look off day by day and see communities freezing out men and women of whom the world is not worthy. Now it takes after one and now after an other. It becomes popular to depreciate and defame and execrate and lie about some people. This is the best world I ever got into, but it is the meanest world that some people ever got into. The worst - thing that ever happened to them was their cradle, and the best thing that will ever happen to them will be their grave. Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely, com pietely, the hen broods her young. So, if we are the Lord's, the evening of our life v will come. The heals of the day will have cl passed. There will be shadows, and we cannot see as far. The work of life will be e) about ended. The hawks of' temptation that h silefl3 Will come. The air will be redo-' let with the breath of whole arbors of -b ihsmises sweeter than jasmine or even- ii ing psimrose. The air may be a little chill, da but Christ will call us, and we-.will know tI the voice and heed the call, and we wil ome under the wings for the night, the a strong wings, the soft wings, the warm1E wings, and without fear and in full sense ta of safety, and t.hen we will rest from sun- d down to sunrise, "as a hen gathereth her* chickens under her wing." My text has its strongest application for people who were born in the country,IiE wherever you may now live, and that is -b: the majority of you. You cannot hear Idi my text without having all the rustic b' scenes of the old farmhouse come back to b you. Good old days they were. . You If knew nothing much of .the world, for you it had not seen the world. By law of asso ciation you cannot recall the brooding tl hen and~her chickens without seeing also the barn and the haymow and the wagon 0: shed and the house and the room where t you played and the fireside with the big back-log before which you sat and tne neighbors and the burial and the wedding and the deep snowbanks, and hear the vil lage bell that caEed you to worship anda seeing the horses which. after pulling youa to church, stood around the old clapboard- t ed meeting hon<e. and those who sat at si either end of the church pew and, indeed, all the secn's of your first fourteen years and you think of what you were then and0 of what yon are now and all these thoughts M are arousedi by the sight of the old lien- ti coop. Some of you had better go back m and start again. In thought re'turn ,to 'te that pie.ce and hear the c'uck and see toe outspread feathers and come under the wing and make the Lord your portion and shelter and warmth, prenaring for everything that may come, and so avoid being classed among those described by the closing words of my te:xt, "as a.hen ri gathereth her chickens under her wiots, and ye would not." Ah. that throws the am iesponsibility upon us. "Ye would not." cl Alas, for the ''would nots!" If the w-an dering broods of the farm heed not their mother's call and risk the hawk and dare m the freshxet 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 il not?P When a good man ashed a young woman who had abandoned her home and who was deploring her wretchedness why she did not return, the reply was: "I dare not go home. My father is so provoked he wuld not receive rme hoine."'"Thecn," a said the Christian man, "I will test , this." And so he wrote to the father, and the re pl camne back, and in a letter marked out side "Immediate" and inside saying. "Let s her come at once; all is forgiven." fSo t: God's invitation for you is marked "Im- ii mediate" on the outside, and inside .it is written, "Hle will abundantly pardon." a Oh. e wanderers from God and happiness II nd home and heaven, come nr.der the 8 shlterig wing. A vessel in the Ilristol rhne was ne-aring the rot-ks called the e Hlolm'e . Under the temnest the v el w as- umnaeabale, and the only I e w - thiat the tide woubd changc he-g -lre ne trck the" rons- and wnt 'nwa. an -o the capta in sto on the ei wc in hand. C'ptain and crew aod ;ee:.ctsC were paliid wi th terror..: Sanother look as his watch and another ok at thte sea. he shout.d: "Thanil Goid e are saved! The tide h:i turnaed! One mnute more and we would have striik the rocks." Some of you have been a long while drifting in tihe tempest of sin and orrow and have been making for the breakers. Thank God, the tide has tur-ned. )o ou not feel the lift of the billarw hegrace of God that bringeth salvation mas appeared to your soul, and, in tine words of Boaz Ruth, I commend you to th Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to trust." maneyrlzht an!L L Xlonsch.I - Coughs "Mywife had a deep-seated cough for three years. I purchased two bottles of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, large size, and it cured her com pletely." J. H. Burge, Macon, Col. Probably you know of cough medicines that re lieve little coughs, all coughs, except deep ones! The medicine that has been curing the worst of deep coughs for sixty. years is Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Three sizes: 25c.. SOc., S. All draaiss. consult-your doctor. If bt.says take It, then do as he says. If he tells you not to take It, then don't take it...o ymo7., Lesave It with him. We ar wflUng. ea C AYEB CO., Lowell Mass. HSADDLEGals on ,our Horse or Mule quick Cura. U Dos Dawe or~ sent mail with r. anlelsbook,"I ea-es of Hotses. tattle. ta id Swine and How to Treat Them." upc ceipt of 25 cents. A. C. DANIELS, tantrord It., BOSTON. MAMJ At I A Homeas8I% Y LAW admiister-d our courts. -Ea terms. Enter now. Only those in earne need apply. Add.ees W.G.COLLING Box 646, NORFOLK, VA. WE A Rfc' Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold Dy drggsts. " DO YOU SHOO If you do you shoUld send your WINCI GUN CATALOGUE It illusgates and describes all the d Ammunition.ind contains much v Winchester. epeating Arms Cc Something New on Jupiter. The great planet Jupiter has frE ient surprises in Store for those 'wh ate a it closely with telescopes. 4 i belts, composed apparently < ouds,. are continually underj mages,. an.L _..occasionally . yaorinary appariti9f rn I to wonderilig what -Mj ppinges Ahe giant .planet. .Qu gthe pasta summer a conspicno rspot has made its appearan'ce' I: esouthern' hp~isphere of the plabe1 i Its motforis are being studied lit ch interest by astronomers. in relve years ago a similar spot d~ ly sprang into view and d4 h reference to the surroundin44, ce, very mu.ch as the present B doing. When it passed the ceki rated great red spot it seemed- to"'b ven from its course and afterwar came strung out ina reddisir streal the new spCets until next Jul will also oveitake the red spot an y suffer a similar fate.: Th*i ngs are interesting as occurrence a world nearly 1,400 times lar ge .nl ours. The Pepper of the Earth. 1 This bright particular youngster h atriarchial wisdom concerning th ngs of this life, although he occa ally permits himself an ingnir o something not quite clear to him c evening he was sitting with Aigg ary and Aunt Lucretia. Convr f had turned to the subject o% arried women, and the youngstel ned intently. In a pause in the4 looked up and asked: What are maiden ladies?" N unt Mary replied: They. are 4pdies who never get The youngster's brow contractei d Aunt Mary added, to make thliig earer: They are like Aunt Lucretia an the -salt of the earth." Instantly the youngster. exclaimed Then those who get married ar epepper. I suppose."-New Yor hrist's call is His servant's3 co cration. The shoemaker coiihplains that his life~ 1 work and no play. A Noted Teacher. Prof.Walter Wilson, of the Savannah Uil 2001, says: "I feel it my.duty to testily ewonderful curative properties-of Tette L. It cured in a.edy yson,whosefe ere affected iIbsuorn skin trogb] rer using 'Iswithout ay ben t" 50c.ab from J. T. Shu~ avannah, Ga., if your druggist dont keep There is one titled person to every 1 atitled persons in Russia.. Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Cures So omach and Headache. At_Druggists, 5( There are still districts in Italy wiec a peasants live on chestnuts and acorn Alabastine. the only durable wall Co lag, takes the Place of scaling kalsomir wall paper and paint for walls. It can use on paster, brik, wood or canva| There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors -ronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it in curable. Science has proven Catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires ocstitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., is the only constitutionaleure on the market. It is taken internally In doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts direct ,y-on the blood and mucous surfaces of the - system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address P. J.-CanxnY & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The Kaiser's motor car is geared to four speeds, ranging from three to forty miles an hour. - Best For the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a can cer, you will never get well until yoc.r bowels are put right. CAscAnz-rs help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements,eost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCAnTS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up In metal ooxes,-every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. The, California giant trees, or Segquia, are in' the opinion of Richard,T. Fisher, probably 5000 years old. One of the Buenos Ayres newspapers has a consultation roor4m in which the poor can get medical aid and medicine free. FITS permanently cured.. No fits ornervous ness after first day's use of Dr: Kline's Great NerveRestorer.62 trialbottle and treatisefree Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. He- who -laughs. last is slow to see the joke.. . H. H. GBEEN's Soxs, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the A world. See their liberal offer in advertise 17 me$t in anothei- cfUm Of this paper. st It is proposed ia crease the strength of the Belgian army 180,000 men. We relpnd 10c. f package of P=r AX FazLzss aito give satis fadtion. " onroB o. nionville, Mo,, takes a level- ed man to curvive . a oke of good fo e. . . Plso's Cure cannot too highly spoken of as;a cough,cure.-J. W. O'Barsx, 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Mnn., Jan. 6,1900 Cupid and' the burglar both laugh at ?oalcsuniths. -e name and address or a postaf card for a IT'S FREE. fferegt Winchester Rifles; Shotguns and aluale Information. Send at once to the New Haven, Conn. rei1ovecs fr'om the soil AargW quantities of Potash. - ~ The fertilizer ap-. ~ 0 plied, must furnish 8: 1:1enough Potash, or the land will lose its pro B ducin'g power. Read carefully our books on crops-sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, I 93 Nassau St., New York. ~ USE CAPUDIEI FOR LAGRIPPE, COLDS, I.FEVERISHNESS, AN~D AIL ii Kos HEAD)ACHIE'.. . NO R ELIEF-NO COST Ssra by all Druggita. Self-Threadin~ Sewing ?lachine Heedle! Sen27candwewilsend yonUsample package assorted needles. Give n:mne of ma"hine. Agents wanted. Na t icNeedle Co.,14tNss.iu St., N.Y. City I, $100 fqr$ I. Ju "Ft"*pm ien, nwo'n,refund ou 1n .t nonnd (or f acts WNEW DIE COVERY; gives DR~ OPsY qu e...r.f a.d.cures...r.t cases. Book of teetimonia's and 10 d ay.' treat-:.ent Free. Dr. K- - GREEN's 3008. Box3, At'anta, Ga+ Geld Mleds.l at autta.iu Expositlon. ~McILHENNY'S TABASCO so. 10. DA 'ys~ Work in Washington. In a letter from Washington, Bill eMo'rgan notes' the slow manner in Swhich business is transacted In the national capital and gives the follow ing story..to.illustrate it: ~. State-Benator Fitzpatrick of Kansas, was in~ Washington on department bus. in ess. ~He couldn't get this business pushed through, no matter how sauoIl he hurried. One day-he.me,Ntio1al Committeeman Dave Mulvane and ~complained' that during the whole day *he hadn't- been able to accomplish a t. sinigle . thing. e, "Didn't you write a letter to your 7 wife?" asked Dave. t."Yes, I did," responded FitzpgIck y0 "Well, don't kick. You can only do ono thing a day in this city, and you've done it.-Kansas City Journal. Sanctification is not a shrinking eC process. t- Ala'ba.stine can be used over paint or as. paper: paint or paper can be used over be Alabastine. Buay only in five pound pack tages nroperly labe:ed: take no sa.b8titute. ."S. Mrs. L. A. Harris, a of a Chicago Woman'! how Ovarian Troubles out a Surgical Operat ?Doctors have a perfect craz< .there is any trouble, nothing but a iuhndred dollars and costs, and inclu agony, and ofte death. " I suffered for eight years with c of dollars for relief, until two dbctor :nyonly chance of life. My sister b ham's Vegetable Compound f and she strongly urged me to let tl pound. I did so as a last resort; u tive Wash for five months, and was i were over and my health restored. E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound would occur."-MRs. L. A. 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