Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-27

gets to give the reward, the cheat may
crop ont in some faithlesSness half
| thousand years further on. II moths
culture child's vanity and eulogize his
curls and extol the night-bls or sky
blue or nut-brown Of the chfld's eyes, and
call ont In his presence the admiration OF
spectators, pride and arrogance may be
prolonged after half dozen family records
have been obliterated. II mother ex-
press doubt about some statement Of the
Holy Bible in the child's presence, long
! after the gates of this historical era have
closed and the gates Of another era have
opened, the result may be seen In
| CHAMPION BLAsPHENER.
But, or the other hand, II mother walk
Ing with child see suffering one by the
Bsyside and says: "My child, give that
I1e-cent piece to that lame boy" the re-
suit may be seen on the other side Of the
following century in some George Muller
building whole village Of orphanages.
If g mother sit almost every evening by
the truudle bed Of a child and tesch it
lessons Of Szviour's love and SAViour's
example, of the importance OF ruth and
/ the horror of lie, and the virtues Of in
dustry and kindness and sympathy and
self-s.crifce, long after the mother has
gone and the Ichild has gone and
| the lettering on both the tombstones
shall have been washed cut by the
i storms OF innumerable winters,
there may be standing, as result
OF those trundle-bed lessons, flaming
evangels, world-m owing reformers, cir
culating Summerfelds, weeping Paysons,
laundering Whitehelds, emanclpating
WSshingtons.
Good or bad influence may skip one
generation or two generations, but 1t will
be sure to land in the third or fourth gen
Grafton, lust as the Ten Commandments,
speaking of the visitation OF God on fam
lies, SAYS nothing shout the second gen.
Grafton, but entirely sklps the second and
speaks Of the third and fourth genera
tion: "Visitirg the iniquities of the
fsthers upon the third and fourth genera
lions of them that hate me Parental
influence, wright and wrong, may Jump
over a generation, but it will
come down further on IS
sure as you sit there and l stand
here. Timothy's ministry was projected
by his grandmother Lois. There are men
and women here, the sons and daughters
OF the Christian church, who are sucn as
q result of the conservation of great
great-grandmotheTs. Why, who do
you EllQk LnG Lulu lSI AOu
talk as though His memory was
weak. He can no easier remember
PRAYER five minutes than he can five CEN
turtles. This explains what we often see
some msn or woman distinguished for
benevolence when the father and mother
were distinguished for peDuri0usness, or
you see some young man or woman with
bad father Snd d hard mother come out
glorIously for Christ and make the church
sob and shout and sing under their ex-
hortstions. We stand IN corners Of the
vestry and whisper over the matter, and
say: Chow is this, such great piety In
SONS and daughters o! such parental
worldIiness and sins?" 1 will explain il
to vou if you will fetch me the old family
Bible containing the full record. Let
some septuagenarisn look with me clesr
upon the page of births and marriages,
} and tell me who that woman was with the
old fashioned name of Jemima or Betsy
, or MehitSbel. All, there she is, the old
grandmother or great-grEndmother who
= mad enough religion to saturate CEN
: tury.
There she is, the dear old soul, Grand
t mother Lois. In our beautiful Green
= wood (may We all sleep there when ouI
l work is done, for when l get up in the
: resurrection morning want my congre-
. CATION all about me)-in Greenwood
) there is the resting-place of George W
I Bethune. once C minister Of Brooklyn
=, Heights, his name never spoken among
intelligent Americans without suggesting
: two things
ELoQUENCB AND EVANGELISM.
In the same tomb sleeps his grandmother
Isabella Graham, who was the chief in,
, SEPARATION of his ministry. You are not
surprised at the poetry and pSthos and
pulpit power of the grandson when you
e read of the faith and devotion of his won
3 derfuI ancestress. When you REID this
e letter, IL which she poured out her wild
= owed soul in longiDgs for sons saliva
/ ton, you will not wonder that succeed
, ing generations have been blessed:
. New York, May 20, 179l.-This day my
only son lett me in bitter wriDgings Of
r heart; he is again launched on the ocean
e Gods ocean. The Lord saved him from
shipWreck, brought him to my home, anC
: allowed me once more to indulge my afec
D tions over him. He has been with me
q but short time, and Ill have improved
q it; he is gone from nay sight and my
g heart bursts with tumultuous grief
n Lord have mercy on the Widows son
t "the only son Of his mother"
3 ask nothing in all this world for him
8 l repeat my petition, save his soul alive
e give him salvation from sin. 1t is NO
}. toe danger Of the seas that distresses me
s 1t is not the hardships he must undergo
!, it is not the dread of never seeing hin
s more in this world; it is because l car
d NOS discern the fulfilment of the
s promise in him 1 can not dis.
? Germ the new birth nor its fruit, but ev.
/. cry symptom of captivity TO satan, TIT
world and self-Will. This, this is VIVA
distresses ne; and in connection witt
# this his being shut cut from ordinance a
;, q distance from Christians; shut up witt
s those who forget God, proiane His name
g and break His Sabbath; men who Otter
r live and die like beasts, yet are accounta'
:. bic creatures, who mu t answer for ever
? moment of time and every word, though
/ and action. o Lord, many wonders has
d Thou shown Re; Thy ways of dealing
J. with me and mine have not been common
e ones; add this wonder to the rest. Call
n convert, regenerate and establish ssilo
l. IN the faith Lord, all things are posi-
i BILE with Ghee; glorify Thy Son and ex.
s tend His kingdom by sea and land;
/, TAKE THE PREY
d from the strong l roll him over upol
d Thee. Many friends try to comfort me