Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-04-01

nifty and your responsibility! think rhurs
must me an old eradle, of q fraemrnt of A
cradle, somewhere that couid eli story Of
midnight suppIication in your behalf.
Where Is The oid rocking g=chair III which
p you were sung 10 sleep with the boly
nursery rhymef Where is the old clock that
tucked away the moments Of that sickpess
; ton that awful night when there were but
three OF YOU Huake-~yoa audD God. and
mothers Is there bot AN old statf in some,
elosett Is there not an old family Bible on
some shelf thatssem address yoa, saya
ing: Ny senrsny daughters how. canyon
reject that God who SO kinds dealt with
us-aIl our ffses and to whom we commend
D youm our prayersilying end dying2, Blythe,
memory OF the old homestead by the,
family altar, by our dying pillow, by the
graves IN which our bodiss sleep whils,our,
spirits hover, we beg you, to turn, ever a
: new leff, and that now." Oh, the power
OF ancestral piety, well illustrated by a
Young man of New, York who attended D.
prayer imeeting one. night and asked for
prayer, and went home and wrote these
words: 'hF'hl- -H4 2niiil7b Bn9 u
% sMy mothers prayeri Oh, my sweet, f,
blessed mothers PRAYERS! Did ever how hays
such mother as I hady For twenty Ave
years have not heard her pray until to-
night. ,,j have heard all her PRAYERS oyer
d again. They have had, In fact. a terrible Z
resurrection. on, how she was went I'd
pray! She prayed as they prayed to-uighH :
so earnest, SO importunate, SO believing.
Shall ever be a Christianf She n%asfar
Christian. Oh, how bright and pure and
happy was her lifel She rwas a. cheerful
and happy Christian. There is my mother's
Bi' le. have not opened it for years. Did
abe believe Icould ever neglect her precion'i 4
Bible2 She surely Thought I would read jot
much and often! How often has she resss /
1t to mel 3ssk.l k.laayK Il Il Eq.,isl ,.r.,t,,,,a
Il Blessed mother, did you. pray in. vain IL,
your boy? 1t shall not be in vain All! 4
no, no, it shall not be in vain. will pray \
for myself. Who has, sdnnedr against So d
much Instructions ash haye2v-against So
many precious prayers, put, up 10 heaven
for me BY one of the most lovek, tendeM.g i
pious, c0nfding, trusting of mothers in iYsrs \
heavenly Fathers care and grace Sheu|
never doubted. Sheip believed. She sal.
ways prayed rs if she did. My Bible, my
mothers Bible, and my conscience ieaHpI
what am and whattI have made IN, s eif d
Oh, the bit IT, pangs of an accusing con m
scienceit l need u Savior mighty to ,yi4 u
must seek him, l will j Lam on has
of existence, and can never get off iT.bia IL
it. am ahoat No ant'hor, no rt,tldeF,, Il olI
compass no Eookr Of Instructions, for -io
have put them all away from mts ieayioy,d
OF the perishings save or perishir IA,
,,, Do you wonder that the next t.ay he arrsf
in a'praSer- meeting and 1said.i I'M A
brethren, Istand before you a a,monume!,yl
of Gods amnzingl mercy and goodness, for 1
ever blessed be His holy name; all / have
and all l am l consecrate to Jesus, nv
Savior, and my God" On, the power 9of |
ancestral prayer Hear it, hear it! ,Iiiwi siJJ
+, 2.slBut turn for o. moment ts those |
who had evil parsntage, and, I want to tell
YOU that the highest thrones in heaven and |
the mightiest triumphs ana the 4
brightest crowns will be for those
who had . ievilyaa aparentage,rs but who A
by y the graceeI of God conquered. /
AS useful, as splendid, gentleman as T y
know Of TO- day Had FOR ifatiier diiiin nii,iin VITO
died disappearing God until the ineighbors
had to put their fingers i'm their ears to 1
shut outthe horror.i One of the most con-.
secrated and usefnl Christian ministers of |
to-day was born of drunken horse Jockey.
Tide Of evil tremendous in. some families. Y
1t is like Niagara rapids, and Yet men have
chung to o. rock and been rescued. .asa .otd
Fheralis family in New York whose,
wealth has rolled up, into many millions |
that was founded by o man who, after he |
had vast estate, sent back a paper Of tacks |
because they were two cents more than he A
expected. Grip and grind and 2gougeF ia
the fourth generationTT-I suppose It will be |
grip and grind and g6tge in the twentieth |
generation. The thirst for intoxicants hnsEd
burned downS through the arteries Of az
hundred and. fifty years. Pugnacity or /
combatlveness characterizes other families. /
Sometimes one form of evil, sometimes
smother form Of evil. But il may be
resisted; IL has been resisted. II the
family frailty be ayarice, cultivate un-
seltishness land charity and Teach, your
children! never to eatb an apple with Il
ouU onering somebody else half it, l6the, b
family frailty 7combatipeness. keep out Of
the company 9of quick kstempered6 people, 4
and never answer an impertinent qnestiond
until you have counted d hundred both
ways, and after you have written an angry I
letter Keep ~ 2 week before you send it,
end then burn it up! Is the family hailty
tiraiditY aud cowardice, cultivate back
read the biography a Of brave, men like L
Joshualand PaSls and see it You cannot get
q httieiponiin your blood. Finds sut what
the family fralityB ls, and set body, mind, /
and soal In battle taifay.ii 90 smit siso,tf I
Think the genealogical table was pat In ll
the .11 rst Y ss shagt # ts Nsv Testament % not
show d that man MI may s rise pp L II aScss1
trail ii line and aeat back successfully all the
bad influences Of bad heredity. See id that I
tahie that good King ASA eHfae 4
of wills Kit1 hiti. "A onpa q lt,sy;,,aJ