St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-03-02

Europe. one UOOk Tue Tram iIoiu LoH-
don to Liverpool, and they were talk
ing on the way what Liverpool hotel
they should stop at. When they got
there they went to the Northwestern
Hotel, but found they cOnldn't get
rooms there for several days. What
are you going to do )? they said to her.
''T'm goirg to stay she said. 81 have
a room; telegraphed on for it ahead "
That's what Christians want to do.
They must get their rooms ahead.
They must get their names in the
Lambs Book of Life. And the next
thing, it seems to me is to get the names
of our own loved ones in. | can't make
out what men are making money for,
to leave their children, to make their
way down to death and damnation
easy. l would rather leave them with
out a penny, and know that their names
are written in the Lambs Book of Life.
1 knew a mother who was dying, and
she requested her children to be brought
to her. The eldest came in and she
gave her her blessing. The second one
was brought and received her blessing.
All seven were brought to her, and at
last the little baby was brought in.
She was too young to understand, and
so she pressed it to her bosom and then
gave it to the father, with her message
for it, and, as she looked up into that
husbands face she said, 81 charge you,
sir, to bring all these children home
with you" So God charges us to bring
all our children and friends home with
us. l once knew of father whose son
was brought home in an unconscious
state, mOrtally injured. The family
physician came and pronounced him
dying. He became conscious at last
and looked round. The father told him
he was dying. And the son said to the
father: "Won't you pray for me, father9
You never prayed for me-" Seventeen
long years God had given that boy to
that father, and he had never prayed
for him. Now he was dying, and that
father couldn't pray. And the boy died,
and now that father says if he could go
to that grave and call back that son,
and make one prayer for him, he would
give all he is worth. Am l talking to
prayerless father nowq If so, don't
let this glorious sun go down before
you have prayed for the children God
has given you. What a contrast be-
tween that father and one in New York
1 was told about. The father came
home one day to dinner and found his
boy dying. And he went and sat by
the bedside and said, ''My boy, do you
know you are dying ?" "Will / die to-
day, father" he said. eyes, you can
not live till night" "Well, then, 1 will
be with Jesus tonight, won't 7" And
the father said, eyes, my son, you will
spend the night with the Saviour"
Tho Goa 70 hiln hic
tears, but the boy said, ''DOn't weep
for me, Pm going to the Saviour, and
I'll tell him that ever since L can re-
member you have tried to lead me to
him." If there is an intidel here l want
to say right here that from the bottom
of my heart pity you. o! how cruel
Atheism is ! How cruel these men are
who want to take away our only hope.
| have been standing beside the sick
bed of my only son, and as | go and
talk to him there is a sadness comes
over me, when l think he may be taken
from me. But thank God, if he is
taken; l shan't have to say as the in
fidels did the other day-"We commit
him to the elements, and the winds,
and the waves" o, how cruel infidel-
ity isl Let us set our faces like f1ints
towards heaven to-day, and take all to
the Saviour that we can.
70 In the construction of old houses,
and in too many instances new ones al
so, great defect is to be found in the
absence of any mode of ventilation for
the cupboards. This omission is
serious one in all cases, but especially
in those which are devoted to the re-
ception of food or dirty linen. In such
cases these closets, with their contents
become Laboratories for the manufac-
ture of polluted air, which flom time
to time escapes into the living rooms
and makes itself unpleasantly appar-
ent. The remedy for this is not diff
cult; few perforations tn the doors
will be found serviceable, but if prac-
ticable the wall of the cupboard should
also be perforated, so that a thorough
draft could he misunderstanding
Record.