Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-11-22

unusual scene. Right here III these three
cities by the American seacoast there are a
thousand eases this moment worse than that.
Mothers watching tovS thst the rum saloon.
that annex u hell has gibbeted III q living
death. BOYS hung in ccains IF evil habi.
thew cannot Drech. The father may % to
sleep after waiting untli u oclocl. at might
for the ruined Duv 10 come home. and. giving
IT Up, Ee NAV say: Mother, come 10 bed
there's no u>e sitting III any longer, Bn.
mother Witl not 20 to lri. It's O'Clock III tue
morning. 1t j. helf past l. Il j. . o'clock.
1t is hall past ? wnen h. comes staggering
through tue hail.
No. he j. dead Dead 10 his fathers en-
t~rcaties. Dead u his mother prayers. Dead
to the family altar where he was reared
Dead 70 all the noble ambitions that once in-
spired hun. Twice dead Only ii corpse of
what he once wa GibGetad before God aud
man and angel> aud devils. Chained il a
death that VIM NOT loosen its cold grasp. His
father Is asleep. Als brothers are asleep, his
sister are asleep bat has niotheri is watching
bin, watching hil1 III tue algAt. After h-
Ira gone to bed aud fallen into a drunken
sleep, ms mother will 60 ap u his room and
SEE that he Is properly covered, and before
she turns oct the light VIII put u kiss upon
hi, h!oated lips. Mother, why don't YOU 20
~ ted An she says. Il caunot go II
bed atn itlzpah watching the slain
And what arr the political parties Of this
country doing for such cases They are TAX
ing care not u hurt the feelings vi the
jackals aud buzzard, that roost Oh the
sheive- Ot the grog shops and hoOt above the
dead. | am often asked TO what political
party | belong and | now declare my opin-
Ion u the political parties today. Zach one
Is worse than the other and the only ~c0nsola-
ton in regard to them Is that they have
putreded until they have 10 more power to
rot. Oh, that comparatively tame scene up
on which Rizpah looked! American mother
hood and American wifehOod this moment
are looking upon seventy Of the slain, upon
seven hundred Of the slain, upon seventy
thousand OF the slain. Woe. woe. woe! *
Nv only consolation on this subject is that
foreign capitalists are buying up the. Ameri-
can hreAeries. The present owners see that
the doom Of that bushes, is coming as surely
a. that God is not dead. They are unloading
upon foreign capitalists, and when we can
get these brewories into the hands OF people
living on the other side Of the sea our politi-
Cal parties will cease TO be afraid OF the
liquor traffic. and at their conventions nomi~
mating Presidential candidates will put in
their platform d plank as big as the biggest
plank Of the biggest ocean steamer, saying:
Resolved unanimously that we always have
been and always will be opposed to alcohol
ism
Dul L must spur on our ARAB oLc01, anu
here we come III sight OF Beeroth, said to be
the place where Joseph and Mary missed the
boy Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to
Nazareth, going home now from a great
national festival. Where is my child,
Jeous>' says Mary. Where is my child,
jesus says Joseph. Among the thousands
that are returning from Jerusalem they
thought that certainly He was walking on in
the crowd. They described Him, saying:
"tie is twelve years old. and OF light com
pleXion and blu" ~ T.. 4 lost child" Great
excitement in all the crowd. Nothing SO
stiTs folks as the aews that a child Is lost. L
shall not forget the scene when, in a great
outdoor meeting, | was preaching, and some
one stepped on the platform and said that a
child was lost. We went On with the relig-
ious service, tut eli our minds We're on the
lost child.
After z while n man brought on the plat
form a beautiful little tor that looked like a
piece eff heaven droupad down, and said,
Here is that Gallo Ana | forgot all tina
was preaching ahoat, asid lifted the child
to my shoulder and sad. Here is the lost
child, and the mother VIII come and get heI
right away, or | VIII taxi her home and add
her To any own brood Aud SOME cried and
some shouted, and amid all that crowd | in
stantly detected the mother. Everybody
had to get out of her way or be walked over.
Hats were nothing aud shoulders We're moth
ing and heads were nothing in her pathway
and | realized something o. what must have
been Mary's anxiety wh-li She lost Jesus, anC
what her gladne 5 when size found her boy IL
the temple OF jet usalenl talking with tnos'
old ministers % religion, Shammai, Hille
and Betirah.
iDear down on you to-day with a might
comfort. Mary and Joseph said: Where j
our Jesus and you say: ''Where is John
or where is Henry? or where is George
Well, should not wonder il You found hIu
after a while. Where In tue same plac
where Joseph and Mary found their BOY
the temple. What do | mean by that
mean you DO vour duty toward God and to
ward your child and YOU Will find him afte
q while in the kingdom Of Christ VIII yo
say. Il do not have any way OF infuencinl
my child | answer YOU have the mos
tremendous line Of influence open right be
fore you. As You write a letter. and thel
are two or three routes b. which il ma
go, but You want it To 60 the luickeS
route, and YOU put on it via SOUTHAMPTON
or via San Francisco or via Marseilles,
put on your wishes about Your child. "vli
the throne OF God How long will such
good wish take 10 get to it, destination
Not quite as long as the milliontii part OF
second. | VIII prove it. The promise Is
Before they cali / Will answer Tha
means AZ Your first melton toward sue
prayerfnl exercise the blessing VIII come. an
II the prayer be made at 10 O'Clock at nigh
1t Will be answered five minutes before ten
Before they call | VIII answer"
Well, YOU say, | am clear discourage,
about my son, aud | am getting on in years
and | fear | viii not live - sea him convert
81. Perhaps not Nevertheless | thinh yot
Will find him In the temple, tue heavenl,
temple. There has not been an hour i
heaven the last one hundred year, when pa
rents in glory ha not had announced /
them the salvation Of children whom the,
left IN This world prohigate. We ufsan hay
to say "Iforgot,' but Col has never Vet one
said Il forgot 1t may b after til. gras
OF thirty sumuer has greened the top 0
Sour sraVetha- Your son may be fouud IN III
earthly temple. Il may be fifty years froc
now wLen soale morning the towers are chin
Ing tue maths u the gto-ltiel III heaven tina
You shall hni Linn II the higher teHpl
which has no neel Vi candle or of san. f.
tie Lord God and tie Lamb arr the llgl
thereof
Cheer III, Christian father and mother
Cheer upS Where Joseph aud Mary foun
their boy YOU viii tini yours-in the templ;
You see, Cos could not afford To do othel
wise One OF the things He has positivel
promised i'll the Bible Is that He viii enswe
earnest and believing prayer. Failing to q
that he would wreck His own throne. an