Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-22

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emily.
ought not you, my brother, TO b
better, having had Christian nurture
than that man who can truly cay thii
morning. "The first word ! remembe
my father speaking TO me was an oath
the first time / remember my fathei
taking hold OF me was In wrath;
never saw bible TIL | was ter
years OF age and then
was told IL was pack o.
lies The lrst twenty years OF my life
/ was associated with the vicious.
seemed TO be walled in by sin and death. y
Now, my brother, ought you not--I leave
II as matter Of fairness with you--onghi
you not be far better than those who had
no early Christian inluencesY Standing
as you do between the generation that Is
past and the generation that Is to come,
are you going to pass the blessing on, or
/ are you going TO have your life the gulf In
which that tide OF blessing shall drop out
Of sight forever You are the trustee OF
piety In that ancestral line, and are you
going to augment or squander that sol
emn trust fund.- Are you going to dsin-
! hcrit your sous and daughters of the heir
| loom which your parents left your All
/ that cannot be possible, that cannot be
possible that you are going TO take such a
position as shat You are very careful
about the life assurances, and careful
about the deeds, and careful about the
mortgages, and careful about the title OF
/ your property, because when you step of
! the stage you want your children TO gel
I 1t all Are You making no provision that
I they shall get grandfather and grant
mothers religioni on, whai q last will
and testament you are making my
brother "ln the name Of God, amen. L.
being OF sound mind make this my last
will aud testament / beQueath to my
children all the money I ever made and
al the houses own; but / disinherit
them, rob them Of the ancestral grace
and the Christian influence thnt I inner
tied. have squ1ndered that on my own
Worldliness. Share and share alike must
they IN The misfortune and the everlast-
ing outrage Signed, sealed, aud deliy-
cred IN the presence OF God and men and
angels and devils and all the generations
Of earth and heaven and hell, March, IgSG ="
O We highly favored ancestry, wake up
this morning TO sense of Your oppor-
tuuity aud your responsibility. | think
there must be an old cradle
or Il fragment of a cradle somewhere that
could ten story of midnight suppllca-
ton in yonr behalf. Where Is tbe old
rocking-chair in which you were sung
TO sleep with the holy nursery rhymes
Where is the old clock that licked away
The moments OF tbat sickpegs ON maj
awful night when there were but three of
you awake-you and God and mo'hel?
Is there not an old staff ia some
closet? Is there not an old family bible
on some shelf that seems to address you,
saying: "My son, my daughter, how can
you reject that G ID who so kindly dealt
with us all our lives and to whom we com
meuded you in our PRAYERS living and dy-
ing BY the memory Of the old homestead.
by the family altar, by our diving pillow
by the graves in which our bodies sleep
while our spirits hover. we BEG You TO
turn over new leaf, aud that now.u on.
the power Of ancestral piely, well Illus
trated by.a Young man of New York who
attended prayer meeting one ninht and
asked for PRAYER and went home and
wrote these words
"TWcnty-Ave Years ago tonight nv
mother went TO heaven. nv beautifui
blessed mother, and / have been
alone, tossed up and down upon
the DiliOWS OF lfieis tCmDpstu3us
ocean. Snail ever no Ia
heaven? she told me must meet her Ln
heaven When She took her bows hand
ia hers and turned her gentle. loving eveg
on me and gazed earnestly and long into
my face, and then lifted them 10 heaven
in that last PRAYER, she prayed that /
might meet her in heaven. wonder If /
ever shall?
nMy noiber,s nraverr On INV s,y,o+
BLESSED motber,s ntoveri ia NAV 1o,,
have s1cb n mother NJ hadS M
tyeutv-8ye vrors bavo not bsord bor
prav mill t0.njaht have banrJ al, bor
PRAYER. over aoajn Thev have bad
Ia fact. a terrible resnr,ecfion ~
how she ,vos want TO NAV ST.
prayed as thev nraved to.nigbt so
earnest. go imnortttnate 50 helieYina
Shall ever be n Cbristian2 Sbe syas y
Christian On how hr,asht and me- " 80 .
happy was her life she was n cheerfnI
and happy Christian. There IS INV
mothers bible. have not opened n for
years. Did she believe could ever
neglect her precious bible? She surelv
thought would read IL much on2
often. How often has she read il 20 mel
BLESSED mother, did YOU pray in vain
for vour bnp2 II shall not Ia IN -,