The Brookhaven leader., 1886-09-02

o happy bond that seals my vows
To Him who merits all my Lowell
Let cheerful anthems al His house,
While to His sacred throne l move.
High Heaven, that heard the solemn vow,
That vow renewed shall daily hear;
Til in Iife's latest hour bow,
Aud bless in death a bond so dear.
2. Again, IL we want TO be Christians,
like Ruth in the text, we must take the
Christians path:
where thou goest. I will go,
cried out the beautiful Moabitess TO Naomi,
the mother-in-law. Dangerous promise
that There were deserts to be crossed.
There were jackals that came down
through the wilderness. There were BAN
dts. There was the Dead Sea. Naomi
says:
Ruth, you must go back. You are too
delicate TO take this journey. You will
give out in the first five miles. You can
not go. You have not the physical stam-
ina or the moral courage to go with me-
Ruth responds:
Mother, am going anyhow. II stay
in this land I VIII be overtorne of the
idolators: IL l so along with you ! shall
serve God. Give me that bundle. Let me
carry it. l am going with you mother,
anyhow"
And if we want to serve God, we must
do as Ruth did, crying out:
Where thou goest, vii %.
Never nj the De Sea. Afoot or
horseback. II there be rivers to ford, We
must ford Them II Their lie mountains to
scale, we must scale them. If there lie
enemies TO fight, we must fight them. II
requires grit and pluck 10 get from Moab
to judah. Oh, how many Christians
there are VIII can be diverted from the
rath by a qulver OF the lip, indicative Of
scorn: They do not sur ender to tempta-
ton. but they ben1 to it. And if in g
company there lie those who tell unclean
stories they will 60 SO far a. to tell some-
thing on the m rgin between the pure and
the impure. And il there be those who
swear in the room and use the rough word
damn" thoy Will 90 So far as the word
darn" and lock over the fence, win NJ
they could 90 farthe-: int as TO any de
termination like Ruth's 20 go the whole
road Of all that is right, they have not the
| grace 10 do it. They have not in all their
| body a much courage as Ruth had in her
| tile finger. Oh, my friends, let US
start FIR Heaven AMI 90 clear
THROUGH, In The river that runs ~
| the gate Of the city we shall wash Of all
! our bruises When Dr. Chalmers I.,H-ed
| his astronomical discusses, they were
were read in the haylofls, in the fields, in
| the garrets ana in the palaces, because
! they advocated the idea tat the sta ;
were inhabited. O. bearer. does not your
! souI thrill with the thougIt hat there i
another world beauiifuIiy inhafitedg Nav,
more. that Won bv the grace of God NAV
! become one of its glorious ci,iz ns:
3. Again | rema,k: If we want to be-
come Christians, like Ruth in the x, we
mu,t cbogs. the Cbris,ian', habitat.on.
"hero taon iod@e9t' Viii 10 &C.
cried ruth TO Naomi She knew that
wherever Naomi stopped, whether It We're
| howell or mansion, there would be ChrIN-
| tian home, and she wanted 10 lie IN II.
| What do mean ty Christian home; !
mean home In which the BI6ie Is the
chief book; home in which the family
kneel in prayers; a HON" in which father
and mother are practical Christians: a
! home which on Sabbath, from sunrise
to sunset, there is profitable converse, and
| cheerful song, and suggestions Of letter
world. Whether tue wall lie 'reSc"ed or
not, or only ceiling OF unplaned raiterS;
whether the marble lions lie couchant at
the front entrance, or PLAIN
| latch is lifted hy a toW-string-that
home is the ante-chamber of
| Heaven. A man never gets over
having lived in such an early home. II
| holds you in an eternal grip. Thou n
your parents may have been Gone forty
| years, the tears of pentence and gladness
that were wept at the family altar still
| glitter in your memory. Nay, do you not
now feel warm and hot on your hands tue
tears which that mother shed thirty years
| ago, wh@n, one cold winter night, she
| came and wrapped you up in the bed and
prayed for your welfare here and for
| your everlasting welfare before the throne:
o, ye who are to set up your own home,
see that it be Christian home! Let Jesus
make the wine at that wedding. home
without God is an awful place, there are
so many perlls to threaten 1t, and God
himself is so bitterly against II; but
The Lord encampeth around ABOUT the
haOitatioh OF the Just
What grand thing 1t IS to have Coo
stand guard at that door, ana the LORD
Jesus the family physician; and the wing $
of angels the canopy over the pillow, ana
the Lord OF glory perpetual guest. 4ou
say it is important that the wife anu the
mother be Christian. say to you 1t Is
just as important that the husband and
father be CHRISTIAN Yet now many
clever men there are VINO say: