The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-11-25

one young man goes in and the v.;.sr re
treats. oh, you say, the last had better
resolution. No, that was not it. The first
/ young man had no early good influence;
the last had been piOusly trained, and when
he stood at the door of sin discussing the
matter he looked around as if to see some
one, and he felt an invisible hand on his
shoulder, saying: Don't go inl Don't go
! inr' Whose hand was it! 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 Thea
ter, in New York. The question was whcth-
er they should go in. That night there was
/ to be very immoral play enacted in
the 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 iniquities, and died in
, the hospital of delirium tremens. The 9TH
| er young man. who retreated. chose Christ,
| went into the Gospel, and is now one of the
! most eminent ministers of Christ in this
! country. And the man who retreated gave
as his reason for turning back from the
! Park Theater that night that there was a
| voice within him saying: Don't go in;
| don't go in" And for that reason, my
| friends, believe so much in Bible-classes.
| But there is something better than the
| Bible class, and that is the Sunday School
| class. like it because it takes children at
an earlier point; and the infant class l like
still better, because it takes children before
they begin to walk or to talk straight, and
puts them on the road to Heaven. You can
not begin too early.
But l want You to remember, q father! O
mother! that it is what you do that is going
to affect your children. You tell your chill
dren to become Christians while you are
not. and they will not. Do you think
Noah's family would have gone into the
ark if he had not gone in! They would
say: mo, there is something about that
boat that is not right; father has not gone
H." You can not push children into the
Kingdom of God-you have got to pull them
in. Do you know all the instruction you
give to your children in religious direction
goes for nothing unless you illustrate it in
your own life! 1t is what you are, not SO
much what you teach.
Have q family altar. Let it be a cheer.
full place, the brightest room in your house.
Do not wear your children's knees ont
with long prayers. Have the whole exer-
else spirited. If you have a melodeon. or
open. Then lead in prayer. If you can not
make a prayer of your own, take Matthew
Henry's prayers or the Episcopal prayer
book None better than that. Kneel down
with your little ones morning and night,
and commend them to God Do you think
they will get over it, Neverl After you
are under the sod good many years there
will be some powerful temptations around
that son, but the memory of father and
mother at morning and evening prayers
will have its effect upon hint will bring
him back from the path of sin and death.
But want you to make strict mark, a
sharp, plain line. between innocent hiiarity
on the part of your children and vicious
proclivity. Do not think your boys will go
to ruin because they make a racket A
glum. unresponsive child makes the worst
form of villain Children, when healthy, al
ways make racket. Iwant you at the very
first sign of depravity in the child to cor
rect it. Do not laugh because it is smart.
If yo do you will live to cry because it is
malicious. Do not talk of your children's
frailtes lightly in their presence, thinking
they do not understand you; they do
understand. Do not talk disparaging
ly of your child, making him feel
that he is reproba:e. 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. l put to
you the question: "Are your children safe
for Heaven!" heard q mother who, when
the house was afire, in the excitement of
the occasion got out great many valuable
things-many choice articles of furniture
but did not think tC ask until too late: SIS
my child safel" 1t was too late then. The
flames had encircled all; the Child was
gonel Oh, my dear friend, when sea and
land shall burn in the final confagration
will your children be safe.
wonder if what have said this MORN
ing has not struck chord in some one in
the audience, who had good father and
mother, but who is not yet Christian! Is
that your historys Do you know why you
came here this morningl God sent you to
have that memory revived. Your dear
Christian mother. how she loved you! You
remember when you were sick how kindly
she attended you-the night was not too
long, and you never asked her TO turn the
pillow but she did it! You remember her
prayers also; you remember how some one
of you-I DO not know where the man is in
the audience--hcw some one here broke his
mothers heart You remember her sorrow
over your waywardncss; you remember
the old place where she did you so many
kindnesses-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, calling You by
the first name. You are not Mr." to her;
it is just your plain first name. Is not this
the time when her prayers will be an
swered! Do you not think that God sent
you in today to have that memory reviveda
If you should come to Christ this morning,
amid all the throngs of Heaven, the glad
dest of them woAid be your Christian par
ents who are liz glory waiting for your re
deriptiop. Angels of God, shout the tid-
ings, the lost has come back again; the
dead is alive! Ring all the bells Of Heaven
at the jubilee! Ring! Ring!
A Truly Sincere Person.
[Christian Standard.I
What far-reaching word is sincere"