Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-08


homes Christian principle. Can " DC
that IN any ~ the comfortable homes o.
nv congregation the g0icc nf prayer "
never liftedy what No application ~
nieht Tor pf0tectl0n2 What No thanHs-
glylpa IN Inc morning for carer How,
my brother, my sister, Will yOu anawer
f,od In the dny Of Judgment with refer.
encr 10 your children II ~ plain qncs-
lion and therefore ask ". In the tenth
chapter oi 1eremlat God says he VIII
pour out his fury upon the families That
call not upon ais name. o parent when
sou are dead and gone and the moss u
coyerrr the inscription Of the tomb
stone will your children look
hack aud think OF father nod
mother al family prayer VIII thcy take
Inc old family Bible aud open d and sec
the mark of tears Oi cnutfiiion and tears
nIaconaoIinp promise wcpt by cYts long
before none ont into darkucssf Oh "
VOC do not incnlcaic Christian principle
in the hearts of your cNiidron, aud yon
do not warn them against otil, and yon
do not invite them 60 holiness anG l0 God,
and they wander Of Mto dissipation
aud into iaAfelliY and 81 last
make shlpwrcck " tbcir Immortal
souls ON their death bed aud M
their day % judgment they viii curse
you, Seated by the register az stove,
what II on the wall should comc out The
history Of your children what o history
Che mortal and immortal lue ui your
loved ones Every parent e. writing che
bis ny oi his child lie is writing IT,
co ~osing IL into song or turning u into
q gtoan.
Nv mind Rms hacl, 60 one 81 the best
ot CARLY homes praycr, Ike o roof, over
lit. Peace. ike an atmosphere, 10 10.
pafeuts. porsoniEcatioD 81 faith
Ia trial aud comfort ~ dark
ness. The two pillars oil that
earthly home lonp agO crupbled To-
dust But shnll ever forget that early
homer Yes. when lhc Nowcr forgota the
sun that warns IT, Yes, when the
mariner targcts the sar that guided him
Yes, when love has gone out on the
hearts, altar and memory has cmptled It's
urn INTO flrgetuncss Then, the home
Ut my childhood, ! VIII forget thee, the
family altar Of fathers importantly and
mothers tenderness, the voices OF at.
lcctiou, the funerals OF our dead father
and mother, with interloekod arms Ike
INTERVIEWING branches OF trees making II
perpetual arhor of love and peace and
kindness then I viii forget thCn then
and only thcu You know my brother
that hundred times you have
been kept out Of SIN by the memory
OF such a scene as ! have been
describing You have often hud raging
temptations, but you know what has held
YOU with supernatural grasp, ! tell you
a man who has had such q good home as
that never gets over To- and mau who
has had bad early home never gets over
llt.
Again, I remark, that home rs "A type of
heaven To bring Us TO that home Christ
left Ills home. Far up ana lar back IN
the history of heaven there came a period
when us most lllustriuus citizen was
about TO absent Himself. He was not 10
| ing TO sail from beach to beach; we
have often done that He was not
/ going to put out from one hemisphere
/ TO another hemisphere; many OF us have
done that, hut He was TO sail from world
/ 90 world, the spaces meXplored and the
| immensitics unlrayeled No world had
ever hailed heaven, and heaven had never
/ halted any other world, ! think that the
1 windows aud the b0lcOnieswore throngod,
and that the peurllne beach was crowded
| with those who had come TO see Hin sail
out the hurbur OF light iuto the oceans
beyond out, and out, and out, and ON,
aud on, and on, and down, and down, and
down He sped, until one nlght, With only
one to greet Him He arrived. Ills dis
embarkatlon so unpretending, soqulet that
II was not known on earth until the ex.
cltcmont IN the cloud gave intmation
that something grand and glorious had
happened. Who comes there? From
what port did he sallg Why was this the
place OF HIS destinations ! question the
shepherds, question the camel drivers
question the angels. | have found out
He was an exile But the world has had
plenty of eXlles, Abraham an exile from
Ur of the Chaldoes; John an exile from
lEphcsus; Kosciusko an exile from 20
land; Mnz2ni an exile from Rome; EN-
NETT IN exile from Ireland Victor Hug,
nm exile from France, kossuth an eXil,
from Hungary Hut this ono OF whom
speak to-day had such resouudng farewell
and came into such chilling reception
Tor notscyen u hostcr went out with hi
lantern to help him In that ne IL NOR
TO be celebrated than any other oNpatrl
uted one OF earth or heaven.
i ills ninety Ave million miles from her
1 to the sun, aud all astronomers agroo Il
HuNlHN tllAh uul STUNT fNHltlU " Only on
, OF the small wheels of the great machiner
OF the universe, turning round some on
. great center, the confer so lat distant |
4 isbeyond all imagination and calculation
a aud IL, rs some think, that great centerl
A the distance Is heaven, Christ came IA
A from home when no came here, Have 70
1 ever thought OF the Inconsistencies q
II Christi Some of you know what home
o sickness Is, when You have been only
d few weeks absent FROM the domcsli
(. circle Christ was thirty.three year
s away from home, Some ~ YOU fee
Inconsistencies when YOU arc hundred o
q q thousand miles away from the domes
|. tic circle, Christ was more millions G
/, miles away from home than you cou
q calculate II all your lilo YOU did nothn
il hut calculate YOU know what II Is 4
IS be homeslck even amid plrasurable sun
o roundings but Christ slept In huts, an
a he was a-thirst, and no was a-hungerct
Is and lac was on the way from being Dor
a In another mans barn 70 being burlo
II in another mans grave. have rea
n how the Swiss, when they are far ava
(" from their native country, at the soun
~ of their national air get so homosick tha
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