The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-11-01
a ChtId's Work.


A few months ago cosy little chapel was
dedicated as the Third Lutheran Church of
an Ohio city. Very happy were the two
older churches to welcome the young sister,
aud very wonderful did the blessing SEEM
Five years before there was only one Luz
theran Church in the town, and 10 seemed
like only yesterday that the parent church
had hidden "Godspeed' To little company
rs they left To- form the second church. And
now there are three. How God has blessed
them aud multiplied their numbers And
to think that IL has ALL under God. come
about hy n little five. .year.old maiden coax.
ing her drunken father to go to Sunday
school with herl
1t happened in this wise: About forty
years ago in a little mountain town III AN
Eastern state, boy was led astrav hy evil
companions. and learned To drink and smoke,
and To become dlsspated youth. His pa.
rents moved at last to Ohio, and for a while
he began to grow steadier, and married "A
brave little woman. But, alas! owl inu-
ence again gained their hold upon him. and
ne became drunken sot, givenup to all
kinds OF evil and sin
One day when he happened to bc moier-
htely sober, his little five year old daughter
came in, and climbed up on his lap Iui'ing
her arms around his neck, she exclaimed:
My dear little drunken daddy"
IL seemed rs though n knife had cut into
his very soul. With questioning look he
turned to his wife
mo, did not tell her: she has heard il
somewhere else, was her answer. IL startled
Inyaj ,b, i,,,,,,, ,'' lei, iiJ "' no was no
- t. Wv MI ,,',. ~. 'i'..o c','li, -.
after: and one day Little Nell came dancing
up to her papa, with "a dozen or so little blue
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w,iI'i " ''"" ~ W 'u"''' ''"oo'' 1
e,,m,, o1n,'son nu sncu , nnu S,o"eI ,l.t'e' pue
pinossd. nnd thov after n while ,,ot n doIen
more rough men like themselves. and formed
a Bible class. They discussed the lessons,
often with ridicule and unbelief; and 10y and
by the Holy Spirit began to work IN the
midst, ana some OF Them were converted,
"b. '"''" '.''o -'''' y l"l" 'ho e'.'''
oes"" W '"eh'y nv, III ,s9| Ivy Ii.y
hve, one hundred, one hundred ana httyl
AL men, ana al interested III the lesson
study;
fluencc with the school proper, and is mum.
Der increased from four hundred TO nine
hundred IN II very short time. The church
also caught enthusiasm, and at last grew SO
in numbers that it divided and formed the
second church-and now II third Humanity
speaking, this has come from the seed sown
by n little girl.
All this happened about ten years ago
Nels father is an honored and respected
business man, and his elegant home speaks Of
his prosperity He is an earnest Christian
worker, II devoted temperance man, and an
active prohibitionist.
is il not wonderful With Christ multiply
ing power, very tiny effort may become
mighty IN its influence
''Be We steadfast and unmovable, always
aboundng in the work Of the Lord; foras-
much az ye know that your labor is not in
vain in the Lord. ."-Sunddy School Times.
Temperance News and Notes.
Tbo,o 10 /, Ems, Delhi y Y n temperance
scbnol with ahont 10 nunils