The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-12-30

are not surprised at the record: horh.
ham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat jacob"
for when religion starts in family, 1t ls
apt to 20 all through. Jezebel, the mur
deress, you are not surprised to ma her
son, Jehoram, attempting assassination.
Oh, what responsibility upon the par
ent and the teacher! The musician tou
ches the keys, and the response is away
off amid the pipes and the chords, ana
YOU wonder at the distance between the
kew and the chords. So it is in life; you
touch child, the results will come back
from manhood or old age, telling just the
tune played, whether the dirge of a great
sorrow or the anthem of great joy. The
word uttered by the Sabbath'school tea
cher this afternoon will be echoed back
from everlasting ages of light or dark
ness. The home and the school decide
the Republic or the despot.sm, the bar
barism or the civilization, the upbuild'
ing or overthrow of an Empire. Higher
than Parliament or Congress are the
school and the family, and the sound of
child's foot may mean more than the
tramp of host. What, then, are you
doing to bring your children into the
kingdom of God2 If they are 30 sus
ceptible; if this is the best time to work
for their eternal interests, what are you
doing by way of instruction. There
were some harvesters in the fields of
Scotland one hot day, and Hannah LIE
mond was helping them gather the hay.
She laid her babe under tree. While
she was busy in the field there was
hutter of wings in the air, and golden
eagle Clutched the swadling band of the
babe, and flaw with it to the mountain
eyrie. All the harvesters and Hannsh
Lemond started for the cliffs. Getting
there, who dared ascend the cliff NJ
human foot had ever trod it. There
we're sailors there who had gone up the
mast in the terrible tempest, but they
did not dare risk it. Hannah Lemond
sat there awhile and looked up, and saw
the eagle in the eyrie; then she sprang
to her feet and started up where no hui
man foot had ever trod, crag above crag,
catching hold of this root or that limo,
until she reached the eyrie and caught
her babe, the eagle sweeping tiarCely all
around her. Fastening the child to her
back, she started for her friends and for
her home. Oh, what dizzy descent!
Sliding from crag to Crag, coming down
further and further, in the most danger
GUS pass she found goat and some kids
an said: "Now, I'll follow the goat, she
will know the safest way down." and
she was led by the animal down to the
plain. When she got there the people
all cried: "Thank GOdl" her strength
not failing until the rescue was effected,
and they cried: "Stand back, now, give
her air!" Oh, if mother will do that
for tne physical life of her child, what
will you do for the eternal life of your
boy and your girlP Let it not be told in
the great day of eternity that Hannah
Lemond put forth more exertion for the
physical life of her child than you 0
parent, have ever put forth for the eter-
nal life of your little one. God help you'll
l pass on to consider the power which
a child wields over the parental heart.
We often talk Of the influence parents
have over their children; | never hear
anything said about the influence child.
rem have upon parents You go to school
to them. You no more educate them
than they educate you, With their lit
tie hands they have taken hold of your
entire nature. You cannot wrench your
self from their grasp. You are different
men and women from what you were
before they gave you the first lesson.
They hav4 revolutionized your soul
There are fountains of joy IN your heart
which would never have been discovered
had not they discovered them. Life is
to you more etupendous thing than it
was before those little feet started on the
pathway of life. How many hopes, and
joys, and solicitudes that little one has
created IN your soul. You go to school
every day-a school of self denial and of
patienCe-in which you are getting wiser
day by day; and that influence of the
child over you will increase daily; and
though your children may die, from the
very throne of God they will reach down
an influence to your soul, leading you on
and up, until you mingle with their vol
cea and sit beside their thrones.
The grasp the child has over the par.
ent's heart is seen in what the parent
will do for the child. Storm and dark
ness, beat and cold are nothing to you,
if they stand between you and your
child's welfare. A great lawyer when
yet unknown, one day stood in the Court
room and made an eloquent plea before
some great man Of great legal ability; a
gentleman said to him afterward: "How
could you stand 30 calm in that august
"0h," said Erskine, II felt
my children pulling at my skirts, crying
for bread" What inconvenience and
deprivation will you not endure for your
children? Your children must be fed
and clothed if you 60 hungry and rag
ged They must be educated, though
never was. Pain of body and mind are
if your children are prospered
byit. Their j y is your joy, their sorrow
is your sorrow, their progress your vic
tory. And, oh, when the last sickness
comes, how you fight it back; and when,
after you surrender, and the spirit has
fed, the great deep is broken up, and
Rachel will not be comforted because her
children are not; and David goes up the
palace stairs, crying: "Oh, Absaiom, my
son, my son; would to God l had died
for thee, oh, Absalom, my son, my SON"
There is not family in this church
this evening that has not bent over
lost treasure. have seen many such ca.
ses of sorrow. There is one prominent
in my mind as pastor-Saville Hayes
He belonged to my parish |
in the West; nothing morbid or dull in
him. Often he has come into my house
and thrown himself down on the floor
10 an exhaustion of boyish mirth, and
yet he was a Christian, consecrated to
God, keeping his commandments. That
s the kind of childish piety l believe
IN. When sickness suddenly came he
was told he could not get well, he said:
Jesus alone can save nae. He has saved |
me. Don't cry, mamma. | shall go home
20 Jesus" And then they gave him a
rink of water to cool bis lips, and he |
Iaid: Mamma, shall take draught |
rom the water of life after awhile, of
which, if one drinks, he shall nevermore
hirat. I Law mVself at Jesns' feet and |