The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02

half. Where b the old rockins-ehair d
which you were sung 20 sleep with tn
holy nursery rhyme? Where II the Old
clock that licked away the moments ol
that sickness on that awful night whea
there were bat three Of you awake-you
and God and mother? II there not IN old
STAG in some closet! Il there not IN old
family Bible on some shelf that seems "a
address you. saying:
my son, my daughter, how can you ~
ject that God Who 20 kindly dealt with ~
all our lives and 10 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 20 turn over .
new leaf, and that now"
Oh, the power Of ancestral piety, well
illustrated by . young man Of New York
who attended . prayer.meeting one night
and asked for prayer, aud went home and
wrote these words:
Twenty five years ago TO- night my mother
went to hesven-my beautiful. blessed
mother-and have been alone, tossed ND
and down upon the pillows Of lies tenn.
pestuous ocean. Shall ever go to heavenp
She told me I must meet her in heaven.
When she took her boys hand IN hers and
turned her gentle loving eyes on me and
Gazed earnestly ami long into my face. and
then lifted them to heaven in that last
PRAYER, she prayed that might meet her in
heaven. wonder n 7 ever shall.
Myimother's prayeri Oh. my sweet, bic ssetl
mothers prayer, Did ever boy have such
4 m 4
have not heard her pray until to night (
have heard all her prayers over again. They
have had. in fact. terrible resurrection.
Oh. how she was wont TO pray, She PRAYED
as they prayed tonight, so earnest 50 i'm.
Fortunate, so believing. Shall I ever he q
Christian? She was Christian. Oh. how
bright and pure and happy was her life, She
WAS q cheerful and happy Christian There
Is my mothers Bible. I have not opened it
for years. Did she believe I could ever
neglect her precious Bible. She surely
thought would read It much and often.
How often she has read IL to me.
Blessed mother. did you pray in vain for
your boy2 II shalt not lie in vain. Alb, no.
no. 1t shall not he In vain. will pray for
myself Who has sinned against so much
instructions rs I have? against SO many
precious prayers put mp 20 heaven for me by
one of the most lovely, tender, pious. con.
filling, trusting OF mothers in ner Heavenly
Fathers care and grace. she never doubted.
She believed. She always PRAYED as II .he
did. My, Bible. my mothers Bible and my
conscience teach what am and what I have
m AIDE myself oh. the hitter pangs Of an &C.
cusIng conscience, need . Saviour mighty
to save. I must seek him. will am on the
sea OF existence, and can never get of from
L. arm afioat. No anchor. no rudder, no
mo- book of instructions, for have
put them all away from me. Saviour of the
save or perish.
Do you wonder that the next day he
arose in a prayer meeting and said:
my brethren. stand before you a mon.
ument of Gods amazing mercy and good.
ness, forever blessed be His holy name; all
have and all am consecrats to Jesus,
nv Savior and my Godl"
Oh. the power Of ancestral prayer! Hear
t! Hear it!
9. But turn for q moment TO those who
had evil parentage. and I want to tell
you that the highest thrones in Heaven,
md the mightiest triumphs and tho |
brightest crowns will be for those who
had evil parentage, but who, by the |
race Of God, conquered. As useful. a. |
'plendid . gentleman IS I know Of to. |
lay, had for father q man who died bias.
God until the neighbors had to |
INT their fingers In their ears to shut out |
he horror. One Of the most consecrated /
Ind useful Christian ministers Of TODAY
vas bern OF drunken horse jockey. Tide
4 evil tremendous in some families. 1t is
ike Niagara rapids, and yet men have
lung to . rock and been rescued.
There n . family in New York whose
wealth has rolled up into many millions
hat was founded by . man who, after
10 had vast estate. sent back q paper OF
acks because they were two cents
more than he expected. Grip and grind
nd gouge in the fourth generation-I SUD-
ose Il will be grip and grind and
ouge in the twentieth genera
ION. The thirst for intoxicants
a. burned down through the
rteries OF . hundred and fifty
ears. Pugnacity or co,nbativeness char.
cterizes other families. Sometimes one
'rm Of evil, sometimes another form Of
vii. But It may be resisted. it has been
SISTED. II the family frailty be avarice,
nltivate unselishneas and charity, and
zach your children never to eat an apple
ithout offering somebody else half Of e.
} the family frailtv combativeness. keep
ut OF the company of quick-tempered
eople. and never answer an impertinent ,
nestion until you have counted hundred
9TH ways, and after you have written Q
tier keep IL week before you send it,
~ than hs~~ I. L. -
mildly and cowardice, cultivate back.
me, read the biography of brave men
10 Joshua and Paul. and see II You can
It get little iron in your blood. Find
It what the family frailty ID. and set :
'dy. mind and soul in battle array.
think the genealogical table was PMS
the first chapter of the New Testament 5
Il only 70 show our Lords pedigree, but 5
show that . man may rise up in an an.
stral line and beat back successfully all
Q influences Of bad heredity. Seem .has c
table that good King Asa 2
me Of vile King Alba. See in that
table that Joseph and Mary c
ID the most illustrious Being that ever Il
uched our world, or ever will touch il, Il
d in their ancestral line scandalous Re. o
boam and Themar and Bathsheba. If 3
is world Is ever TO be Edenized-and il n
II be-an the infected families of the q
rth are to be regenerated, and there will n
ne arise in each family line and open u
new genealogical tabls. There will a
some Joseph in the line to re-
rse the evil influence Of Rehoboam. and :
're will be some Mary in the line to re-. =
rse the evil influence of Bathsheba. Per.
ps the star Of hope may point down to r
ur Manager. Perhaps you are to he the 3
10 or the heroine that is 70 put down the -
'kes and stop that long train of genoa. :. =
'ical tendencies, and switch it Oh ON an. II