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

ark II he had not gone int rney would say:
No, there is something about that boat that is
not right father has not gone in" You can
not push children into the Kingdom of God;
you have got TO pull them in There has been
many general In a tower or castle looking at
his army fighting, but that is not the kind ofa
man TO arouse enthusiasm among his troops
II is a Garibnldi or Napoleon who leaps into
the stirrups, and dashes into the conflict, and
has his troops following him with wild huZza.
So you cannot, stand OF in your impenitent
state, and tell your children to go ahead into
Christian life, and have them go. You must
vo dash must into lead the s Christian ana cS0
tell them TO go. Do you know that all the In
sstructions you give to your children IN re-
llIeious direction goes for nothing unless You
the school takes copy book, writes u speci.
men of good writing across the top. OF the page,
but he makes mistake in one letter Of the
copies the top line, and makes the mistake,
and II there be fifteen lines on that page they
will have the mistake there was in the copy on
the top. The father has an error in his lite-a
very great error, The son comes along and
copies II now. tomorrow, next year, copies II
tothe day of his death. 1t is what you are.
not so mucn what you teach.
Have q family altar, Let II be n cheerful
place, the brightest room In your house. DO
not wear your chidren's knees ont with long
prayers. Have the whole exercise spirited.
II you have q melodcon, or an organ, or II
piano in the house have itopen Then lead in
prayers. If you cannot make prayer of your
own, take Matthew Henry,s prayers or the
Episcopal Prayer Book. None better than
that. Kneel down with your little ones morn
ing and night and commend them to GOD. Do
you think they will ever get over II? Never
After you are under the sod good many years
there will be some powerful tenn tltiOn around
that SON. but the memory of father and mother
at morning and evening prayers will have It's
effect upon him; i will bring him back from
But want you 10 make a strict mark,
sharp, plain line, between innocent hilarity on
the part of your children aud Il vicious pro-
clivity, DO not :hink your boys will go to ruin
because they make racket. A gum uure.
sponsiye child makes the worst form OF q vii
liam. Children, when they are healthy, always
make racket. want you, at the very iirst
sign of depravitv In the child, to correct It..
Do not laugh because 1t is smart. II you do
you will live to cry because IT is LsaliCious; DO
not talk of your chlldren's lraities lightly in
their presence, thinking they do not UNDER
stand you; they do understand. DO not talk
dispaTagingly of your child, making him feel
that he Is a reprobnte. Do not say to your little
one: You're The worst child ever knew" II
you do he will be the worst man you ever
knew.
Are your children safe for heaven? You can
tell better than any one else. ] put to you the
question: "Are your children safe for heaven
heard of mother who, when the house was
Gilrc, in the excitement of the occasion, get out
great many Of the valuable things-many
choice articles OF furniture-but did not think
toask until too late: rs my child safe?' II
was too late then. The flames had enelrcled
when sea and land shall burn in the final con-
AagraIion, will your children be safe
wonder II what ! have said this morning
has not struck a chord in some one in tho audi
ence who had good father and mother, but
who is not yetn Christian? Is that your his
tory
Do You know why you came here this morn.
ing? God sent you to have that memory re-
yiyGd. Your dear Christian mother, how she
loved you You remember when you were
sick, how kindly she attended you; the night
was not too long, and you never asked her to
turn the pillow but she did IL! You remember
her prayers also; you remember how some OF
you'll do not know whore the man Is In the
audicnce-how some one here broke his
mothers heart. You remember her sorrow
over your waywardness: you remember the
old place where she did you so many kind.
neSses; the chairs, the table, the d6or-sll,
where you played; the tones of her voice,
Why, you can think them back now. Though
they were borne long ago on the air. they
| come ringing through your soul to-day, call.
| ing you by the first name. You are not mi"
10 her; II is Just your plain, first name. Is not
| this the time when her prayers will be an
| swered2 Do you not think that God sent you
| in to-day to have that memory of her revivedl
| II you should come to Christ this morning
amid all the throngs of heaven, the gaddest
OF them would be your Christian parents who
| are In glory waiting for your redemption,
| Angels of God, shout the tiding+ the lost has
| come hack again; the dead is alive; Ring all
the bells OF heaven at the Jubilee Ring ring