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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
JR. TALMACE'S.SUN.AV SEBMON
Many Temptations 1 hat Beset the
Young We snouiaareiuuy uuaiu
Our Conduct.
' TTaWttwoto:. D C A familiar illus
tration from the barnyard is employed in
thi3 discourse by Dr. Talmage to - snow
the comfort ana protection mat neaven ui
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 asv 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,1 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 land apostro
phizes, saving, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
how often would I have gathered thy
' children together, even as a hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings, and ye
would not?" v - . (
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 $o do is to fly, and in
retreat uses foot almost as much as wing.
Musicians have written out in musical
scale the eong of lark and robin redbreast
and i nightingale. yet the hen of my text
hath nothing that could be taken for-a
song, but only cluck i and ? cackle. ? Yet
Christ in the text uttered while looking
nnon doomed Jerusalem declares that what
tte 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 Sunday-school instructors and editors
i 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 acourse 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 fly with wings of
eagles and flamingoes and albatrosses, and
It takes a good while before we can come
down .to Christ's similitudes, t the candle
under the bushel, the salt that ha9 lost its
savor, the net. thrown, into the sea,; the
snittle on the eyes of the blind man and
the hen and chickens. .;.,,
Wl am in warm svmnathv with the iinnre-
tentious old fashioned hen because, like
most of us, she has to scratch for a living.
She knows at the start the lesson which
most people of good sense are slow to
earn that the gaining of a livelihood im-
- plies work, and that successes do not lie
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 failuresso full of loaf
ers, so full of deadbeats is because people
are not wise enough to take the lesson
yvhich any hen would teach them that if
they would find for themselves and for
those dependent upon them anything worth
having they must scratch for it. Solo-
- mon said, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard."
say. Go to the, hen, thou sluggard. ! In
Jthe Old Testament God compares Himself
to an eagle stirring up her" nest, and in
the New Testament the Holy Spirit is
- compared to a descending dove, but Christ
in a sermon that began with cutting sar
casm for ' hypocrites and ends with the
paroxysm of pathos in the text compares
Himself to a hen.
fOro day in the country we saw sudden
consternation in the behavior of old .Dom
inicl:.' Why the hen should be so dis-
- turbed we could not understand. We
looked about, to seq if a neighbor's dog
were invading the farm. Wc looked up to
see if a storm cloud were hovering.. , We
. could see nothing on the ground that cduM
terrorize, and we could see nothing in the
air to ruffle the feahers of the hen, but
t the loud, wild, affrighted cluck ' which
brought al her brood at full run under
- tier feathers made us look, again around
Jand above tis, when we saw that high up
and far : away -there was a rapacious bird
wheeling round and round and down and
idown,. and not seeing us as we stood in
yes, and it was a hawk. 'But all the
- chickens were under old Dominick's wings,
, land either the bird of prey caught a
.glimpse of us or not able to find the brood
. (huddled under wing, "darted back into the
fclouds.
j So Christ calls with great earnestness to
' fill the; young. , Why, what is. the matter?
It is bright sunlight, and there can be no
,r danger, 4 Health is theirs. A good home
s theirs, Plenty of food is theirs. Pros-
tpect pf long life is theirsl ,J3ut" Christ scon-
itinues to s call, calls with more 'emp&asis
;land urges haste and says not a second
' jpugbt, to be lost. , Oh, do tell us what is
f tthe matter. Ah, " now, I see; there - are
. ttiawks of temptation in the airf there are
- vultureftiJ ..wheeling -for their prey, there
Iare; beaks of death ready to munge, 1 there
ow I seethei3erD.,.'tNow I understand
he urgency. Now I see the onlv safetv.
ould that Christ mieht this dav take
four- sons and Slaughters; into His shelter
. ; her .wing." ..- vv -.' .
The facC is thattfee ! most oftheni will
4 jtiever mind the shelter oiiiless Awhile they
,J are chickens. It is a simple matter of in
u texorab,le statistics that most of those rvvho
7 do not. come' to Christ in youth never come
,t at all. Wliat chance; is there for; the
' young without divine protection ? -There
4 are the grogshops, there are - the " gamb
. ling hellsj there are . the , infidelities and
"moralities of spiritualism, there ' are the
bad .books .' there are thft .1mmirifica , fVo7-o
, are thec business' nrsicalities, and so- numer
; bus are these assailants that it is a wonder
vna.x, nonesty and virtue are not lost-arts.
.tie dittos ot prey, diurnal and nocturnal,
f the natural world are ever on the alert.
.hey are assassins of the skv: : thev
jvarieties of taste. The eagle prefers the
uesu oi. vae. living animals; the vulture
prefers -the carcass j 1 tho t falcon kills with
pne ; stroke, while other ' styles of beak
IW (the shadow, it came nearer and lower un-
til. we saw its beak - was curved from base
(to tip and it had two 'flames of fire for
nroloncration:of torture. ..And so, the
temptations ofthis life are various. . V
Fathers, mothers, voider brothers and
sisters and ! Sabbath-school , teachers, M
quick and earnest and prayerful and im
portunate and get the chickens under wing.
May the Sabbath schools of 'America and
Great Britain within the next three months
sweet) all their scholars into the kingdom.
Whom they have now under charge is un
certain. Concerning that" scrawny, puny
child that lay in the cradle many yean
ago, the father dead,- many . remarked,
"VVkat a mercy if' 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 re
nowned in Christian literature and one oi
God's most , illustrious servants John
Todd. . ' . 5
But we all need the protecting wing. Ii
you naa unown wnen you emereu upuu
manhood or womanhood what was ahead
of vou. would vou have dared to under
take life? How much- you have been
through! With most life has been a disap
pointment. They tell me so. 'l hey nave
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. oz
fifty or sixty or seventy or eighty years ol
age where you 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 m the shape of human la-
vor or comfortable position or widening
field of work it was to me a surprise. 1
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 djd come to hear
me 1 it was a : happy surprise. But ' most
Eeople, according to their own statement,
ave found life a disappointment. In
deed, we all . need - shelter from its f tem
pests. " :' - : -r
But now the summer day is almost past,
and the shadows of the house and barn
and' wagon : shed have lengthened. The
farmer, with scythe or hoe on 'shoulder,
is returning from the fields. The oxen are
unyoked. 1 The horses are crunching the
oats at the full bin. tt The air is bewitched
of honeysuckle and wild brier. The milk
man, "pail in hand, is approaching the
barnyard. The fowls, keeping early hours.
are collecting ' their young. Uluck!
"Cluck!" "Cluck!" And soon all the
eves of that feathered nursery are closed.
The bachelors of 4the winged tribo have as
cended to their percn, but the hens, m a
motherhood divinely - appointed, take all
the risk of a slumber on the ground, and
all night long , the wing3 will stay out
spread, and the little ones will not utter a
sound. -, - n. v.,
Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely, com
pletely, the hen broods her young. So, if
we are the Lord's,-the evening of our life
will come. The heats of the day will have
passed. . There will be shadows, 1 and we
cannot sea as far. The work of life will be
about ended. The hawks of temptation
that hovered in the sky will have gone to
the woods and folded their wings. : Sweet
silences will come. : The air will be redo
lent with the breath of whole arbors of
promises sweeter than jasmine or even
ing piimrose. The air may be a little chill.
but Christ will call us, and we will know
the voice and heed the call, and we will
come under the wings for the night, the
strong wings, the soft wings, the warm
wings, and without fear and in full sense
of safety, and then we will rest from sun
down to sunrise, "as a hen eathereth her
chickens under her wing." ,
My text has its strongest application
for people who were born in the country,
wherever you may now live, and that ii
the majority of you. You cannot hear
my text without having all the rustic
scenes of the old farmhouse come back to
you. Good old days they were. You
knew nothing much of the world, for you
bad not seen the world. By law of asso
ciation you cannot recall the brooding
hen and her chickens without seeing also
the barn and the haymow and the wagon
shed and the house and the room where
you played and the fireside with the big
back-log before which you sat and the
neighbors and, the burial and the 'wedding
and the deep snowbanks, and hear the vil
lage bell that called you to worship and
seeing the horses which, after pulling you
to church, stood around the old clapboard
ed meeting house, ' and those who sat . at
either end of the church pew and, indeed,
all the scenes of your first fourteen years,
and you think of what you were then and
of what you arejiow and all these thoughts
are aroused by the sight of the old; hen
coop, come of you -had better go back
and start again. In thought return to
that place and hear the cluck and- see5 the
outspread feathers and come under, I the
wing and make the .Lord your portion
and shelter and warmth, preparing for
everything that , may . come, and so .avoid
being classed among those described by
th closing words of my text, as a hen
gathereth ; her chickens under her wings,
and ye would not." Ah, that throws the
responsibility " upon us.' "Ye would j not."
Alas, 'for the "would nots!" If the wan
dering broods of the farm heed not their
mother's call. and. risk, the hawk and dare
thcfresbet and expose ' themselves to the
frost and storm, surely their calamities
are not the mother s .fault,,; ? ; x e would
not!",? God would, but how. many .would
When a good man asked a young woman i
who . had abandoned her home and who i
was deploring her wretchedness why she
did not return, the reply .vras: T dare t
not . go home. ' My father is so provoked
he would not receive me home." "Then,"
said the Christian man, "I will - test .this."
t And so he wrote to the' father, and ( the re-
pljLcame back, and in a letter; marked out
side : "Immediate" and inside saying, '"Let
her come ' at once; all is forgiven." '. So
Uod s invitation for; you is; marked; ;'Im-.
mediate" on , the; outside, and . inside it is,'
written, . "He will 'abundantly pardon."-;
Oh; ye wanderers from vGod and happiness''
and home and heaven, come tinder the ' '
sheltering wing. v. A: Vessel ; in the Brist ol -Channel
was nearing , the . rocks called the .
Steep Hblmesl " Under the temoest the
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fore she struck the rocks" and went down.'
and so ' the" captain stood 6onthe deck
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breakers. Thanlc God, the tide has turned.
Do you hot 'i feel the lift of the ' billow j
The grace of God that bringeth salvation
nas appeared to your soul, ; and
words of IJoaz Kuth, I . commend
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