Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-22

provision thst they shall get grandfather
and grandmothers religion2 Oh, what q
last will and testament you are making, my
! brother In the name of God, Amen, /
being of sound mind, make this nv
last will and testament. bequeath to my
J children all the money ever made and al
J the houses own; but ! disinherit them, !
rob them Of the essential grace and the
Christian Influence that | inherited. |
have squandered that on my own worldli.
ness. Share and share alike must they in
the misfortune and the everlasting out
rage. Signed, sealed and delivered in the
presence Of God and men and angels and
devils and all the generations of earth amp
heaven and hell, March, 1886.
Dye highly favored ancestry, wake up
this morning to seDse Of your opportunity
and your responsibility. l think there
must be sn old cradle, or fragment of q
cradle somewhere that could tell story Of
midnight supplicstion in your behalf.
Where is the old rocking chair in which
you were sung to sleep with the holy
nursery rbyme2 Where is the old clock
that ticked away the moments Of
that sickness on that awful night
when there we're but three OF you awake
you and God and mother2 Is there not sp
old staff in some cloeet2 Is there not al
old familysBible on some shelf that seems
to address you, saying: my sop, my
daughter how can you reject that God who
so kindly dealt with us all our lives and to
whom we commended you in our prayers
living and dying! By the memory of the
old homestead, BY the family altar, BY our
dying pillow, by the graves in which our
bodies sleep while our spirits hover, we beg
you to turn over new leaf and that now.
Oh, the power Of ancestral piety, well Illus
trated by young man of New York who
attended prayer meeting one night and
asked for prayer, and went home and
wrote these words:
MY MOTHERS PRAYERS
Twenty-Five years ago tonight my
mother went to heaven, my beautiful, bles-
sed mother, and have been alone, tossed
up and down on the billows OF life's temp
,uoss ocean. Shall ever 60 to heaven
She told me must meet her in heaven
When che took her boys hand in bers and
turned ker gentle, loving eyes on me and
gszed earnestly aud long into my face, end
then lifted then to heaven in that last
prayer, phe prayed that might meet her
in heaven. l wonder if ever sbal2
my mothers prayer Oh, my sweet.
blessed mothers prayers! Did ever boy
have such O mother as | bad2 For
twenty Gve years ! have not heard her
pray until 10 night have heard all her
prayers over again. 4hey have had, in
tact, a resurrection. Oh how she was wont
to pray She prayed as they prayed to-
night, 80 earnest, so impor;upa,e, 30 BE-
lievirg. Shall ever be Christian? She
was christian. Oh, how bright and pure
and happy was her life She was cheer
ful AID happy Christian. There is my
mothers Bible have not opened it for
years Did she believe | could ever ne.
glect her precious Bble2 She surely
thought ! would read il much and often.
How often has she read it TO me2
"Blesse mother, did you Pray in vain
for your boy?
IT SHALL NOT BE IN VAIN.
Alb no, 10, it shall not be in vain. | will
pray for myself. Who has sinned against
so much Instructions es have? Against
go many precious prayers pat up TO heaven
for me by one Of the most lovely, tender,
plous, conidirg, trusting Of mothers in her
Heavenly Gathers care end grace. She
neve. doubted She believed, She al
ways prayed as if she did. Ny Bible, my
mothers BILE and my conscience teach
what am and what ] have mace myself
Oh, the bitter pangs OF an accusing con-
science | need Saw our mighty to
save. | must seek Him. | will. am
on the sea Of existence, and ! can never
fgt off from it | al shoat. No anchor,
no rudder, no compass 40 book OF instruc-
tious, for | have put them all away from
me. Saviour Of the perishing, ave OF |
perish
Do you wonder that the next day he
arose in PRAYER meeting and said: MY
brethren, stand bsfore you monument
Of Gods amazing mercy aud goodness, for
ever blessed be His holy name; all have
and all am consecrate 10 Jesus my Sa-
viour and my Coop Oh, ,be power Of
ancestral prayer. Hear il Hasr it
II. But turn JoF q moment to
THOSE WHO HAD EVIL PARESTAGE,
and ! want TO tell you that the highest
thrones in heaven and the migh,iest ri.
umphs ard the brightest S1ovBs will be for
those Who bsd evil psrentagc but who by
the grace Of God conquered As useful, as
splendid gentleman as know Of to-day
had for father man who died blasphem-
ing God until the neighbors bad TO put
their fingers in their ears to shut out the
horror. One Of the most consecrsted and
uselul Christian ministers Of " day was
born Of drunken horse Jockey. Tide oi
evil IL trem endous in some families. 1t is
like Niagara Rapids, and yet men have
cluug 10 rock and been rescued.
There is q family in New York whose
wealth has rolled up into many millionS
that was founded By man who, after he
had vast estate sent back G'psper Of tRaEs
| because they we're two cents more than he
expected Grip and grind and gouge in
the fourth gene,stion-l suppose it will be
grip and grind and gouge in the twentieth
g genersuon. The thirst for intoxicsnts has
burned down through the arteries Of hun.
dred and fifty years. Puguaeity or com
batiyeness chsrac.erizes other families,
Sometimes one form of evil, sometimes an.
other form Of evil Bot it may be resisted,
it has been resisted. If the family frailty
be avarlce, cultivate unsel6shness and
charity, and teach your children never to
eat en- sppie without offering somebody
else half OF it. Is the family frsil.
tt combstitiveuess, keep out Ct the COM
psny Of quick tempered people, and never
answer an impertiuent ,uest,0p until you
have conp;es hundred both vsys, and
after you nave written an angry letter keep
/ il week before you send it,and dthen burn
it up Is the family ftsiltv, ::;sniGIty and
cowardice, cultivate backbone, .s.i the b.
ograpy Of brsTa uen hse Joshua or Paul
agd re II ycu cannot get little iron in
your blood. Find out what the family
ftaiIity is, and set body, mind, and soul in
bst.lo array.
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