The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-09-07
From Lambertville to the Switchback fol
only 1910, on Thursday, Sept IS.
OUR RELIGION US COLUMN.
OLD CHURCH CALENDAR.

Sept. 4. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity.
Sept. II. Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.
The Lord said, of Abraham, 81 know him
that he will command his children and his
household after him, and they shall keep the
way of the Lord" Iu other words the Lord
knew that the Father of the faithful would
keep up religion in his family and that his
children aud servants, SO trained, would grow
up holy men and women, and serve Him truly
all the days of their life. 1t is In sad contrast
with this, that many who profess the faith,
their households nowadays. Parents CON-
mand their children only during their
earliest years, aud very often, even then, it is
not in the fear of the Lord" They require
obedience TO their own authority, and rightly
punish disobedience, it may be. The ordi-
well enough good order, respectfulness, mo.
rality, are apparent. The children as they
grow up, gain worldly knowledge, have
pleasant manners and correct habits in the
main, and are we'll thought of away from
home. There is a certain Difference paid to
Sunday School is insisted upon, or at least
desired. But, after all, it can hardly be said
that they keep The aoay Of tie Lord !, or that
they have been rightly taught to do SO, under
the house roof. There is not daily worship in
the family. Bedside prayers, night and
morning, have not been looked after, since
very early childhood. thrilling causes excuse
from church. And the Sunday School teacher
is depended upon, rather than the parents, to
impart definite religious instruction. The
child grown up and gone forth into the world,
has no sustaining recollections of mother
constant prayers and counsels, fathers
regular training in Bible and Catechism. So
far from being always under the loving COM
maad to walk in Gods law, it is too often the
case that be has not so much as been joined
into covenant with God, by "the circumcis-
ion of Christi or il early devoted TO Him,
yet that conservation is not continually re-
ferred to, and kept in mind, as the true
starring point Of the spiritual life. Christian
parents dare to think it will do to leave their
children free to choose for themselves, loben
they shall begin to be Christians, and sohcre,
and hoso-a perilous freedom, that results, too
often, in their never deciding to be on the
Lords side, persuaded that what their parents
think may be so loosely left to an indefinite
time and chance circumstances, cannot be of
very great Importance.
Such was not Abraham's way, nor is it the
Lords. Bible religion is family religion,
traditional religion, meant to be carried down
from generation to generation with some
such care and thoroughness and sense of i'm
portance, as secure the continuance of the
family name and property and influence.
That generations yet to come
May to their unborn heirs
Religiously transmit the saIno,
And they, again, to theirs"
Fathers, bring them up Ia the nurture and
admonition of the Lord. Not to command
and require obedience to Gods law is to set
an example of disloyalty and disobedience
''and what will ye do in the end thereof? .
One blessing and joy, most certainly, will be
denied you, even if you succeed in saving
your own souls. They, only, who command
their households after them, to maintain the
pious order OF Cody family, and keep the
way of the Lord, have any right to hope that
in the last great day they may have confidence
at His coming, and say, surrounded by their
happy domestic baud-all safe, through grace
-" Behold !, and the children that God hath
given me
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