The Forrest City times., 1890-11-15

The father may Q to sleep after waiting untii twelve o'clock at night for the ruined
 boy to come home and sivins It up. hs may
 sitting ~ up any ionser." But mother vii M not go to bed. It is one o'clock in the
 morning. It is half-past one. l,
 Is two o'clock, It is half-past
 two when he comes staggering through the
 hall. Do you say that young man is yet
 alive? No; he is dead. Dead to his father
 entreatles- Dead to his mothers prayers.
 Dead to the family altar where he was
 reared. Dead to all tho noble ambitions that once inspired him. Twice dead. Only
 a corpse of what he once was. Glbbetel
 before God and man, and angels and
 devils. Chained In death that will TO, loosen it's cold grasp. His father Is s,lcep,
 his brothers arc asleep, his sisters arc
 asleep. but his mother Is watching him.
 watching him In the night. After he has
 gone up to bed and fallen into druuken
 sleep, his mother will go up to his room
 and see that he Is properly covered. and be-
 fore she turns out the light. will put kiss upou his bloated lips. .'Mothcr, why don't
 you go to bedi" "Ahl" she says "I can-
 oot go to bed. l am Rizpah watching the
 tlaini"
 And what arc the political parties of this
 country doing for such cases? They are
 taking care not to hurt the feelings of the
 .ackals and tho buzxards that roost on the
 
 above the dead. l am often
 asked 10 what political party be- long, and l now declare my opinion of the
 political parties today. Each one is | worse than the other, and the enly cons0ia- ton in regard to them Is. that they have
 ulrefied until they have no moro power to
 rot. Oh, that comparatively tame scene
 upon which Ri1pah looecd She looked
 upon oniy seven of the slain Amer can l motherhood and American wifeh pod this moment arc looking upon seventy of the
 slain. upon seven hundred of the slain. up Il seventy thousand of the slain. Woe, Wool Woe My only consolation on this
 subject is that foreign capitalists are buy ! ing up the American breweries. Tho 1 D esent owners see that the doom of that
 .usiness Is coming as surely as that God Is | not dead. They are unloading upon foreign
 capitalists, and when we can get these l breweries Into the hands of peo-
 ple living on tho other sido l of tho sea, our politiral parties | will cease to be afraid of the liquor traiic, l and at their conventions nomlna ins presidential candidates, will put in their
 platsorm a plank as big as the biggest | plank of .he biggest ocean steamer. say | log; "Resolvcd unanimously that we ai-
 ways have been, and always will be op- | DO ,ed 10 alcoholism"
 l But must spur on our Arab stced. and | here wo come in sight Of Beeroth, said to be
 tho place where Joseph and Mary iaissed l tho boy Jesus on tho way from Jerusalem | 10 Nazareth, going home nov from a great 1 national festival. ..Where Is my oh Id, l Iesusg" says Mary, "Where Is my child.
 Jesus?" says Joseph. Anon, the thousands l hat are returning from Jerusalem. they
 thought that certainly He was walking ou | in the crowd. They described Him. saying
 ''fie is twelve years old, and of light com. | plexiou and blue eyes. lost child ' | t,rauf ssx f for ent in al bp | ng so Hrs folks IS the news that child is | lost. shall not forget the scene when In . l great out door meeting. l was preaching
 and some one stepped on the platform and said that child was lost. Wo went or
 with thN religious service. but all ouI m nds were on the lost child, After a 1 while n man brought on the platform 3 1 eautiful little tot that looked like piece of heaven dropped down. and said: "liere | Is that child" And forgot all that was | preaching about. and lifted tho child 10 my
 shoulder and said Hero Is the lost child,
 md the mother will come and get her right | away. or will take her home and add hei
 to my own troodi' And some cried and
 some shouted. and amid all that crowd l l instantly detected the mother. Everybody l lad to get out of her way or be walked vor. Hats were nothing. and shoulders 1 were nothing, and heads were nothing In i ter pathway, and realized something of ! '
 she lost Jesus, and what her gladness when
 'he found her boy in the Temple of lerusa- l iem, talking With those old ministers of
 religion shammai. iitlei and Betirsh
 1 bear down on you today with mighty somfort Mary and Joseph said: "Where is )ur Jesusi and you say, Where Is John nS 1 IT where Is Henry, or where Is Georgef' 1 We'll. shouid not wondcr If you found him | liter awhile. Whercy In tho same place where Joseph and Mary found their boy-in l hc temple. What do I mean by thatg l 1 mean. you do your duty toward God and
 toward your child. ani you will find him i liter awile in the kingdom of Christ. Will
 'ou say."I do not have any way of intlnenr- 1 ing my child" 1 answer you have the most
 tremendous line of influence open right be. | ora you. As yoI write letter A ta there 1 tre two or three routes by which it may 20. ,ut you want 1t to go tue quickest route. l md you put on IL 'ytn Southamntou.' or l ''va San Franc Is O." or "yia Mafsc lies '" | put on your wishes about your child ''via l .he throne ut God. =. How long wlii such a 1 good wish take io get to it's destinatiuuy No, l lute as long as tho millionth part of a sec l ond. will prove il, The promise k. "ne- l fore they eall. I will answer" That means i u your first motion towards such praserfu l exercise the blessing will come, and fl the
 rayer be made nt teR~ o'clock at night it 1 Wlll be answered i've minutes before ten 1 "B fere they cal I will answer
 | Web, yon say, I am clear discouraged ! about my son. and am getting on ln years, and fear will not live to see hsm convert l cd, Perhaps not nevertheless l think you l will find him in the temple. the heavenly l temple, There has not been an hour in 1 heaven the last one hundred years when 1 parents fa glory have not had announced to 1 them the salvation of children whom theS | left in this world protiigate. We often have i to say ''l furgot.N but God has ueyVr vet | Atil .sA v ,,tax ha anff b. 1 grass of thirty summers have grccned the | top Of your grave, that your son may be l found in the earthly temple. Ii may be ! fifty years from now when. some morning, i tho towers aFc chln,iug the maths Of the l glorlhed in heaven that you shall find hIm | in the higher temple which has mo need of
 candle or of sun, for the Lord God and the 1 Lamb arc tho light thereof" Cheer up, 1 Christian father and motheri Cheer up, | Where Joseph and Mary found ihelr boy you will find yours -li the temple. You l see, God could not afford to do otherw lse. One of the things He has positively prGm E. sd in the Bible Is that lie Will answer ear nest and believing prayer. Falling to do that. iie would wreck His own throne, and the foundations of His palace would give way. and the bank of Heaven would sus-
 pend payment. and tho dark word "repudla- tion would be writtcn across the sky, and
 the Eternal Government would be dishand- ] ed and God Himself would become an exile. Keep on With your prayer, and you will vet find your child In the temple, either the temple here or the temple above.
 Out on the Western prairics was a happy
 but isolated home. Father. mother aud child. Ky Tho sale of catt'e quite a large sum Of money was one night in that cabin and the father wns away. rohber who had heard of the money one night io lked in st the window, and the wifo and mother os
 that homo saw him, and she was helpless. Her child by her side. she kneit doa n and
 prayed among other things for all prodigals 1 who were wandering up and down the world. The rohher heard her prayer and was overwhelmed, and entered the cabin and knclt 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 aud her prayers before he bo- came vaeabond, and from that hour hc began new life. Years after that woman
 was In city In great au Hence. and tho orator who came on the platform ant. plead
 riorioasly for righteousness and God was Inc man who many years before had looked
 Into tho cabin on the prairie ns q r bher,
 the speaker and the auditor imiat q at tcly