Connecticut western news., 1890-11-12

conventions nominating presidential candidates will put in their platform 8 plank as big as the biggest plank of the biggest ocean steamer, saying: Re solved unanimously that we always have been and always will be opposed to aleohohsn.'
 But must spur on our Arab steed, and here we come in 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 great national fes- tival. Where is my child, JesusT' says Mary. Where is my child, Jeeusf' 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: He is 12 years old, and of light complexion and blue eyes. A lost childl" Great excitement in all the crowd. Nothing % stirs folks as tho news that child is lost shall not forgst the scene when, in great out door meeting, was preaching, and some one stepped on the platform and said that Q child was lost. We went on with. the religious service, but all our minds were on the lost child
 After while man brought on the platform beautiful little tot that look ed like piece of heaven dropped down, and said, ''Here is that child" And forgot all that I was preaching about, and lifted the child to my shoul- der and said, ''Here is the lost child, and the mother will come and get her right away, or I will take her home and add her to my own broodr And some cried and some shouted. and amid all that crowd instantly detect ed the mother, Everybody had to get out of her way or be walked over Hats were nothing and shoulders were nothing and heads were nothing in her pathway, and realized something of what must have been Mary's anxiety when she lost Jesus, and what her gladneas when she found her boy in the temple of Jerusalem, talking with these old minister's of religion, Shammai, Hnlel and Bet;rah
 THE ANSWER TO PRAYER
 bear down on you today with a mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph said, Where Is our Jesasr' and you say, Where is Johnf or where Is Hen ryi or where is Georges'' We'll, should not wonder if you found him after while. WheEes In the same plaee where Joseph and Mary found thair boy-in tho temple. What do I mean by thati I mean, you do your duty toward God and toward your child and you will find him after a . while in the kingdom of Christ Will you say, II do not have any way of in- fluencing my childp' answer you have the most tremendous line of influence open right before you. As you write letter, and there aze two or three routes by which 1t may 60, but you want it to go the quickest route, and you put on it ''via Southampton, " or ''via San Francisco, 1" or ''via AazseiHes," put on your wishes about your child, "via the throne of God" How long will such 8 good wish take to get to its destination? Not quite as long e the milhonth part of second. win prove it. The prouise k, Before they call will an swer." That means at your first mo- tion toward such prayeefal exercise the blessing will come, and if the prayer be made at 10 o'clock at night it will be answered i've minutes before ten, Before they call will answee."
 We'll you say, am clear discour- aged about my son, and am getting on in years, and I fear will not live to SO him oonverted. PeRhaps not. New sstheless I think you will find him in tho temple, tho heavenly temple. There has not been an hour in heaven the last one hundred yeazs when parents in glory had not had announced to them the salvation of children whom they left In this world prohieate. We often hAve to say II forrot," but God has never yet once said II forgot" It may be after the grass of thirty sum- mas have greened the top of your grave that your son may be found in tho earthly temple. It may be fifty years from now when some morning the towers arc ohiming the matins of tho g3oe3ned in heaven that you shall ind him in the higher temple which has mo need of candle or of sun, for tho Lord God and the Lamb are the laeht thereof" .,
 Cheer up, Christian father and moth q! Cheer up! Where Joseph and Mary found their boy you will find yonzs-in the temple. You see, God eould not afford to do otherwise. One of ftAe things he has positively promised in tho Bible is that he will answer earn st And believing prayer. Failing to do that he would wreck his own throne, and the foundations of his palace would give way, and the bank of heaven would suspend payment, and the dark word "repudiation" would be written acroes the sky, and the eternal govern ment would be disbanded and God himself would become an exile. Keep on with your peayer, and you will yet ind your child in tho temple, either tho temple here or the temple above.
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