Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-11-20

you louhG nlM fltSf u Willic- NHSAos IN
the same place where Joseph and Mary
found their boy-ll the temple. What do
/ mean by thai? ! mean, you do your
duty toward God and toward your child
and YOU will find ham after n while in the
kingdom of Christ. VIII you say, Il do
not have any way of influencing my
childs" / answer you have the most ire
mendous line Of influence open right be-
fore you. As You write a letter, and there
are two or three outes by which it may
go, but you want it to go the quickest
route, and you put on it via Southamp-
tom or via San Francisco" or "via Mar
s~eilles,'' put on your wishes about our
child, "via the throne of God" How long
will such a good wish take to get to its
destinations Not quite as long as the mil
lionth part of a second. i win prove it.
The promise is. Before they call will an
swer.'' That means at your first motion
toward such prayerful exercise the bless
ing will come, and if the prayer be made
az 10 o'clock at night it viii be answered
five minutes before ten. "Before they call
l win answer"
Well, you say, | am clear discouraged
about myson, and I am eettingoni in years,
and / fear l will not live TO see him CON
verted, Perhaps not. Nevertheless /
think you will find him in the temple, the
heavenly temple. There has not been an
hour ia heaven the last one hundred years
when parents in glory had not had an
nounced to them the salvation of children
whomtley left nthis world profigate. We
often have to say II forgot but God has
never yet once said II forgot II may be
after the grass OF thirty summers has
greened the top of your grave that your
son may be found in the earthly temple.
1t may be fifty years from now when some
morning the towers are cbimingthe mathis
Of the gloriied in heaven that you shall
Gnd him Ia the higher temple which has
"nO need OF candle or of sun, for the Lord
God and the Lamb are the light thereof"
Cheer up, Christian father and mother
Cheer up! Where Joseph and Mary found
their boy you will find yours-in the tenn
pie. You see, God could not afford to do
otherwise. One Of the things he has posi-
lively promised in the Bible is that he will
answer earnest aud believing prayer. Fail
ing 60 do that he would wreck his uvn
throne, and the foundations Of his palace
would give way, and the bank Of heaven
wonld suspend payment, and the dark
word ''igpudiationn would be written
across the sky, and the eternal government
would be disbanded aud God himself would
become an exile. Keep on with your
prayer, and you viii yet find your child in
the temple, either the temple here or the
temple above.
Il CHRISTIAN woMAE's PRAYER.
Out on the western priiries was "a happy
but isolated home. Father, mother and
child. BY the sale Of cattle quite a large
sum Of money was one night in that cabin.
and the father was away, a robber who
had heard Of the money one night looked
ia at the window, and the wife and mother
of that home saw him and She was help
less. Her child by her side. she knelt down
and prayed among other things fer all
prodigals who were wandering up and
down the world. The robber heard her
prayer and was overwhelmed and en-.
tered the cabin and knelt beside her
and began to pray, He had come TO
rob that house. but the prayer Of that
woman for prodigals reminded him Of his
mother and her prayers before he became
a vagahond, and rom that hour he began
a new life, Years after that woman was
in a city IN a great audience, and the ora.
tor who came on the platform and plead
g%loriously for Righteousness and God was
the man WHO many Years before had looked
into the cabin on the prairie rs a robber.
The speaker aud the auditor Immediately
recognized each other. After so long Il
time a mothers prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for the muleteers
and baggage men have been ordered 20
u tents for tonight Mt Bethel. II
is already getting 50 dark that we have to
give up all idea of guiding the horses, and
leave them to their W ~sagacity. We ride
down amid mud cabins ard into r%avines,
where the horses leap from depth to depth,
below rocks, rocks under rocks.
Whoal Whoal We dismount in this
memorable for many things in Bible
the two more prominent a theo-
seminary, where of old they made
ministers, and for Jacobs dream. The
students Of this Bethel Theological semi
nary were called sons of the prophets. .
Here the young men were fitted for the
ministry, and those Of US who ever had the
advantage Of such institutions will ever.
astingly be grateful, and in the calendar
IF saints, which ! read with especial affec.
ion, are the doctors of divinity who blessed
with their care. /.
thank God that from these theological
'eminaries there Is now coming forth a
magnificent crop Of young ministers, who
ire taking the pulpits in ell parts of {
he land. / hail their coming, and tell
hese young brothers to shake Off the som ,
Of centuries, and get out from I'M !
Ter the dusty shelves Of theological discus
ions which have no practical bearing on
his age, which needs to get rid of its sins
md have its sorrows comforted. Many Of /
'ur pulpits are dying of humdrum. People Z
10 not 20 TO church because they cannot !
'ndure the technicalities and profound ex l
of nothing, and sermons about I
he eternal generation Of the son. and G
he difference between sub-lapsarianism
md supra-lapsarianism, and about who {
delchisedee wasn't There ought to be as I
much difference between the modes OF pre- l
truth now and in ollen time as be !
ween a lightning express rail train and q :
anal boat
Years ago ! ven up to the door Of a fac I
DRY in New England. On the outside door c
saw tie words. NO dmittance.m j went
n aud came TO another door over which I
we're the words, mo admittance.t' OF
curse | went ia, and came to the third y
loor inscribed with the words, NO admit 9
Hucp 50 HAVING nfnra1 thia found 4ba Z