National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-11-22

Wit Talmage, d. d., preachedin the Brook
Ign Tabernacle this morning on the subject:
what is to become Of our children?' Theopen-
iTg hymn begins:
"Come, let us Join our friends above
Who have obtained the prize:
And on the eagle wings ofloye,
To Joys celestial RISE"
After expanding from the forty-niuth chap
ter of Genesis Jacobs wonderful discrimina.
lion of the characteristics of his sons, the
preacher took for his text: Genesis xiv, 80:
Seeing that his life is bound up in the lads
life" and delivered the following discourse:
These words were spoken by Judah, as de-
Ecriptlve of the tenderness and affection which
Jacob felt towards Benjamin the youngest son
OF that patIiarchal family; but they are words
1usi appf9psiate 70 many parent IN thls house s
have known parents that seemed TO have but
little interest in their children. A father says:
My sOn must look out for himself. 1.-The
comes up well, all right; The turns out badly,
Icannot help 1t. / am not responsible for his
behavior. He must take the same risk in life
that took" AS well might the shepherd
throw l0mb into den of lions and then say:
Little lamb, look out for yourself.
IT is generally the case, that even the beast
looks after its young. | have gone through the
woods on summers day, and have heard
great cutlery in birds nest, and l have
climbed up to see what was the matter;
ionnd out that the birds were starving and that
the mother bird had gone OIL, not to come back
again But that Is an exception. II +, gener.
ally the case that the old bird Will pick Your
eyes out rather than let you come nigh its
brood. The lion will rend you in twain II you
approach too nearly the whelps; the fowl in
The barn.yard, clumsy footed and heavy
near It's little group, and God intended eyeHy
father and mother TO be the protection aud the
help OF the, child. Jesus comes into every
dwelling and says to the father or mother:
''You have been looking afler this childs body
and mind: the time has come when YOU
ought to be looking after It's immortal SOUL" /
rNu lANn hRnh NJ "A.
the question morning. noon, and night Isl
what is to become of the chidl What will
be its history? VIII II choose paths of virtue or
Where win 1t spend eternity2"
read Of a vessel that foundered, The
boats were launched; many of the passengers
were struggling In the water, mother with
one hand beat the waves, and with the other
hnno lifted up her little child toward the life
boat, crying Save my child! Save my childW
prayer of hundreds Of Christian people who
sit listening this morning while speak. |
propose TO show some of the causes of parental
anxiety, and then now that anxiety may be
find the first cause ofparental anxiety In the
ineillciency and inppriection of parents them
selves We have slight hope all Of us, that
our children may escape our faNlts. We hide
our imperieCiiOns, ind think they Will steer
clear Of them. Alas there is a poor prosp got
lily that they Will choose our
vices than choose our virtues, There is some
tnlng IKE sncredness IN pnrcnlRl llnperlecllons
when the child looks upon them. Tho folly
of the parents is not so Iepulsive when the
child looks ut 1t. He says; FEATHER INDUCES
IN III mother INDUCES in IT, II can't be 50 bad"
your boy, 10 years of age, goes on back street
smoking hts clgar-an old stump that he found
IN the street a neighbor accosts him and
says; what are you doing that foH What
would your father say If he knew itg' The
boy says 80 father does that himsefm There
Is not one Of us this morning that would de.
libCnely choose that his children should in
all things follow his example, aud IL Is the
consciousness of imperftolion on our part as
parents that makes us most anxious for our
children.
We are also distressed on account of the I'M
wisdom Of our discipline and instruction 1t
requires a great deal of ingenuity to build
house or fashion a ship, but more Ingenuity 10
build the temple Of u ehid's character and
launch II on the great ocean of time and
eternity Where there is one parent that seems
qualified for the work, there seem to be twenty
parents who mseTably fail. Here is father
who says "My child shall know nothing but
religion, he shall hear nothing but religion. ne
shall sec nothing but religion" The boy Is
. aroused at G o'clock in the morning 10 reclte
the Ten Commandments; he is awakened of
the sofa on Sunday night to see how much he
knows of the Westminster eateGhism, II is
religion morning, noon, and night Passages of