Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-22

bratln What chance for boy like THAR
Two Young men come 20 the door OF
sin. They consult whether they will so
In. The one young man goes In and the
other retreats. o, you say, the last had
better resolutions. No, that was not II.
The first Young man had no early good In.
fiuence; the last had been pionsly trained,
and when he stood nt the door OF sln dis
cusslng the matter, he looked around AS
II TO see some one, and he felt IN lnyisi-
BILE hand on mis- shoulder, saying, "Don't
20 IN! don't 20 inn Whose hand was
lit2 A mothers hand, fifteen years ago
gone to dust. a gentleman was telling
me OF the fact that some years ago there
were two young men who stopped at the
door OF the Park theater, ia New York.
The question was whether they should go
in. That night there was TO be q very
immoral play enacted In the Park theAter.
One man went In, the other stayed out.
The young man who went In went on
from sin to sin, and through crowd OF
iulquitles, and died, in the hospital, OF
delrium tremens The other young
man, who retreated, chose Christ, went
into the gospel, and " now one OF
the most eminent minister's OF
Christ In this country. And the man who
relreated gave ms his reason for turning
back from Park theatre that night, that
there was an early voice within him, say.
ing: "Don't go I'M don't 90 inl" And
for that reason, my friends, believe so
much In Bible classes, But there IN
something better than the Bible class and
that Is the Sunday class, Ike II
because II takes children at an earlier
point; and the infant class IKE sun
better, because It takes children before
they begin 10 walk or 10 talk straight,and
puts them on the road 70 heaven. you
cannot begin too early, You stand on
the bank Of river flowing by. You can
not stop that river, but you traIel DAYS
and days towards the source OF ~ ana
you find after awhile where II comes
down dropping from the rock, and With
your knife you make a course Ia this or
that direction for the dropping 10
take, and you decide the course
of the river. You stand and see your
chlldren's character rolling on VIII great
impetuoslty and passion, and you cannot
affect them. Go up towards the source
where the character first starts, and de-
eide that II shall take the right direction,
and It will follow the path that you give
H.
But want you 10 remember, q father
o mOtherl that Is what you do that IL GO
ing TO effect your children, and not what
you say You tell your children 70 DC.
come Christians while you are not, aud
they will mot. DO you think Noah's
family would have gone into the ARK u nc
had not gone in2 They would say mo,
there Is something about that boat that IL
not right; father has not gone IN" You
cannot push children into the Kingdom OF
God; you have got 10 pull them In. There
has been many a general 10 a tower or
castle looking NJ bis army hghtinR,
but that is not the kind OF man 70
arouse enthusiasm among hts troops. II
is Gahbaldi or Napoleon ]. who leaps
into the strrups, and daHhes into the con
Hlct, and has his troops following hin
with wild huzza. SO yoa cannot stand
OF 10 your impenitent state, and toll your
children 10 90 ahead into Christian NE
and have them 20. You must yourself
dash into the Christian conflict.
you MUST LKAD THEN
and not tell them 70 go. DO you know
that all the Instructions yCu give 70 your
children In a religious direction goes for
nothiEg unless YOU illustrate II IN your
own lief The teacher AZ the school takes
c0py-booK, writes q specimen Of good
writing across the top Of the page, bat he
makrs q mistake ia one letter OF the copy
The boy comes along on the next nnsi
copies the top line and makes the mis-