The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-09
THE WEEKLY SENTINEL: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1885,

been fulfilled: Thou shalt be missed,
because thy seat will be empty"
". l pass on and I find one more
dcnt cha I. 1t is high ha I. 1t is
tn cafld's clair. If that chair be occu-
p e,i. !. { lux it is the most potent chair in
all lie household. All the chairs wait
on it all thu chairs are turned toward it,
1t m ans more than David's chair at
SauIS baiu.et. At any rate it makes
more racket. That is strange house
thai can e DUH with child in it. How
thai child breaks up the hard ,orldliness
OF place, and keeps you young to
sixty, seventy and eighty years of age,
Ii you have no child Of your own, adopt
one; i will open heaven to your soul.
1t d" i'll pay its way. Its growing in the
morning will give the day heerful
starting, and its glee at night VII give
the day a che, rful close. You do not
like children? Then you had better stay
out of heaven, for there are so many
there they would fairly make you crazy
Only alb ut five hundred millions of them
The old crusty disciples told the mothers
to keep the children away from Christ.
8 You bother Him. they said; "you
trouble the Master Trouble Him He
has filled heaven with that kind of
trouble
pioneer in California says that for
the first year or two after his resi-
was not a single child in all the reach
of hundred miles. But the Fourth of
July came, and the miners were gathered
together, and they were celebra, ing the
Fourth with GRAFTON and poem and IL
boisterous brass band and while the
band WAS playing, an infants voice was
heard crying, and all the miners were
st"rIe and the swarthy men began to
think Of their homes on the eastern
Coast, and of their wives and children
far away, and their hearts We're filled
witt! homesickness as they heard the
babe ry. But the music went on, and
the child cried louder and louder,
and the brass band played louder and
louder, trying to crown out the infantile
int Eruption, when a swarthy miner, the
tears rolling down his face, got up aid
shook II fist and said: g Stop that
noisy band and give the baby chance
Oh, there was pathoS in it as we'll as
good cheer in it! There is nothing to
arouse, and melt, and Subdue the soul
like chiids voice.
But when 1t goes away from you, the
high chair becomes a higher chair, and
there is dcsolation all about you. In
three. ourthS of the homes of my con-
grega: i>n there is vacant high chair.
Somehow y, never get over it. There
is no one To put to bed at night; no one
to ask strange questions about God and
high chair? 1t is to call you higher.
What a drawing upward it is to have
children in heaveni And then it is such
a preventative against sin. If a father
is going away into sin he leaves his liv-
ing chill rem with their mother; but if a
father is going away into sin what is he
going to do with his dead Children float
ing about him and lowering over his
every hayward step? Oh, :. eak out, va
cant high chair, and say i" Father, come
back from sin; mother, come back from
worldliness. 1 am watching you. 1 am
waiting for you" With respect to your
child the words of my text have been
fulfilled: Thou shalt be missed, be-
cause thy seat will be empty
My hearers, I have gathered up the
voices of your departed f.iends, and
tried to intone them into one invitation
upward. 1 set in array all the vacant
cha. OF your homes, and OF your SO, ial
role, and l bid them cry out: lime
is short. Eternity Is near. Take my
Saw mr.. Be at peace with my God.
Come up " rr- I am. We live ,@Ath-
e ON cart: come, let us I've t either
in heaven We answer that ii at on.
We come. Keep seat 10. u. as Saul
kept IL seat for David: bn that sat
shall not be empty. When we are all
through with this world. AMI W.. ave
shaken hands IL around for the last
time, and all our chairs il. the home
circle, and IN the outsid world, il he
vacant may we wOrshippng c. in
that place from which e shall so out
no more forever. l tina. k God there
will be no vacant chairs in heaven.