Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-22

No wonder Lord Byron was bad. Do you
know his moi er AID him when saw
MIN one day limping cross The floor win MS
unsonnd fooi Get ont OF my way, you lame
brat" What chance for 4 boy ike thntf
Two young men come to the door OF sin.
| They consult whether they Will g. in. The
one young man goes in and the her e
! treats. Oh. you -av, The last had better reso-
lutlon. No, that was not II. The Il 81 young
man mad no early good influence; the last
had been piously framed, ami when ne sloou
at the door of SIN discussing the matter, ne
! looked around as il to see some one, and ne
( felI an Invisible hand IN his sh ulder, SAYING:
| Don 20 in. don't go in.' Whose hand was
! 1t? A mothers hand. fifteen years ago gone
10 dust. a gentleman vas telling m" OF the
| Iact mat some years ago there we're Two
! 20 ng men who stopped at the door OF the
I PARK Theatre, in New York The question
| was whether they should go in. That night
/ there was t. be a very immoral pay
/ enacted n the Park Theatre. One man went
| IN; The other stayed out The young
man who went In, went on from sin u 81 b.,
| auC through a crowd OF tnlqullIes. ana QlHi
! IN the hospital of delirium tremens y he
/ other young man who retreated chose Christ,
/ went into the gospel and Is now one OF the
! most EN- nent ministers OF Christ in TINS conn
/ Try. And the man who retreated gave as his
/ reason for tur ing back from PARK Theatre
! mat night. that there was an early voice
! within hi saying: "Oou't go IN! don't 20
! In" And Tor that reason. my freuds, be-
| Ieve so much IN BIbl' classes. But there Is
s"methl, better than the Bible class, and
! nat Is The sunday school class. like it e.
cause 1t takes children at an earlier point.
aud the infant class ifkestiiI better, becau e
II takes children before they begin to walk or
70 Talk straight, and puts them on the road to
Heaven. You cannot begin too early. You
stan1 on the bank of river flowing by. You
cannot stop that river. hut you travel day.
and d VS. towards he source Of it,, and you
ind after awhile where it e mes down drop
ping from the rocS, and with YOUR knife you
make course in this or that direc ion for the
dropping to take, and you decide the course OF
the river. You stand and see your childrcn's
charac er rolling on with great impetuOslty
and passion. and you cannot affect them. Go
up towards the source where the CHARACTER
first starts, and decide that il sha take the
right direction, and 1t Will follow the path
you give it.
Blu | want you to remember, father o
mother that IT is what you do that is going
to affect your children, and not what you say.
I on tel Your Chi dren to become Christians
while YOU are not, and they will not. Do you
think Noah's family won have gone into the
ark if he mad not gone in ! They would say:
NO, there is something about that boat that
10 not right; father has not gone in" You
cannot push children into the kingdom OF
God; you have got to pull them in. There mas
been many general in a tower site
looking at his army fighting, but that is not
the kind OF man to arouse enthusiasm among
his troops. II ls Garibaldl or Napo con ;.
who leaps into the stlrrups, and dashcs INTO
the conflict, and mas his troops following him
with wild huZz4s So you cannot stand of IN
your impenient state, and tell your childrel
to go ahead into the CHRISTIAN lie,
and have them 90. You must
Yourself dash into the Christian con-
hlct; you must lead them and not
tell them to go. Do you know that all the iu-
stru tions you give to your children in a re-
gious direction goes for nothing unless you
illustrate II IN Your own life. The teacher at
the school takes a copy book, writes a spec
linen OF good writing across the top of the
page, Dul he masses d mistake in one letter Of
the copy. The boy come. along on the next
line, copies the top line amt makes the mis-
take, anu If there be fifteen lines on that page
they will have the mistake there va, in the
copy on the top. The father has an error in
his lile-a very great error. The eon comes
along and copies it now, tomorrow, next
year, copies IL to the day of his death. 1t is
what you are, not 50 much what YOU teach.
Have family altar. Let 1t he a cheerful
place, the brightesr room in your house DO
not wear your chldre : knees out with long
prayers. Have the whole exercise spirited.
f you have Il melodeOn, or an organ, or
piano. in the house, nave 1t open. Tnen lead
in prayers. If you cannot make a pray er of
your own, take Mathew Henry'a prayers or
the Episcopal prayer book. None better than
that. kueel down with your little ones mora
ne and night and cOmmeud them TO God. Do
you think they VIII ever get over it? Never
After you are under the sod a good many
wears, there WI be some powerful temUtatlon
around that son, buS the memory of father
and mother at morning and evening prayers
wil have the effect upon him; 1t win bring
him back from the "a OF sin and death.
But want on to make strict mark. a
sharp, plain line between innocent hlarty on
the tart of your children and vicious pro-
ciiVity. 10 not think your DO, 3 Will 20 to
rum because they make y racket. A glum,
unrespUnslve child, makes the worst form of Il
villain. Children. when they are h. althy,
always make racket. L want you. At the
very first sign of deDravity In the child, to
correct 1t. DO not laugh because It is smart
II you do, you VIII live to cry because II Is
malicious. DO not talk OF your Chidren's
fralties lightly in their presence. thinking
they do not understand you; they do unuer-
stand. Do not talk dsparagingy of your
child, making HIM feel that he is a reprobate
Do not say to your little one: You're the
worst child | ever knew" If 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 sa e for
heaven?" | heard of a mother " no, when the
house was afre, in the excitement OF the oc-
casiOn, got out Il great many Of the valuable
thlngs-mtny choice articles of furniture
but ala not think to ask until too late: is my
child safeY' II was too late then. The q mes
had enclrcled all; the child wa zone! o, my
dear friend. when sea and land shall burn 10
the anal conhagratlOn Will your children be
safe?
| wonder If what have said this morning
has not struck a chord in some one IN the au-
dieuce who h d good father and mother, bat
who is not yet Christian? Is that your his
tory2
DO you know why you came here this morn
Ing? God sent you to have that memory re-
vived. Your dear Christian mother. how she
loved you! You remember when YOU were
sick. how kindly she attended you; the night
was not 100 long, and you never asked her To
turn the pillow, but she dO IL! You remem-
Ter her prayers also; YOU remember how
some of you'll do not know where the man is
IN the audlence-how some one here bro q his
mothers heart. You remember her sorrow
over your waywardness; you remember the
old place whore she dld you 20 many kind
nesscs; the chairs, the table, the door -sIll
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 ng you by the lirst name
You are not "Mr." to her; IL is Just your
plaln, first name. Is not this the time when
her prayer will be answered. Do you not
think that sod sent you IN day to have that
memoir of her revived? If you should come
TO Christ this morning, amid all the throngs
of heaven, the gaddcst OF them wouli be
your Christian parents who are in glory wait
ing ( your REDEEM ton. Angels OF Cod
shout the tidi *, the lost has come back
agair; the dead IS alive! Ring all the bells of
heaven at the jubilee! Ring! King!
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