Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-10

verrei. Fernaps not. Nevertheless .
think yon will find him in the temple. the
heavenly temple There has not been IA
hour ia heaven the last one hundred wears
when parents in glory had not had an
n0unced TO them the salvation of children
ahomthey leifin tiisworld profigate. We
often have to say i forgot but God has
never yet once said i 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.
IL may be fifty years from now when some
morning the towers are Ginning the mathis
Of the gloriled 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 Lamb are the light thereof
Cheer up, Christian father and motherl
Cheer upl 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 and believing prayer. Fail
ing 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 Reputation would be written
across the sky, and the eternal government
would be disbanded and God himself would
become an exile. Keep on with your
prayer, and you will yet find your child in
the temple, either the temple here or the
temple above.
CHRISTIAN wOA1AN's PRAYER.
Out on the western prairies was q happy
but isolated home. Father, mother and
child. BY the sale of cattle quite 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
In 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 for 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 vagabond, and from that hour he began
new life. Years after that woman was
in city in q great audience, and the ora
tor who came on the platform and plead |
gloriously for righteousness and God was
the man who many years before had loosed |
into the cabin on the prairie as a robber |
The speaker and the auditor Immediately |
recognized each other. After so long a |
time mothers prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for the muleteers |
and baggage men have been ordered to |
pitch our tents for tonight Mt Bethel. 1t |
is already getting 50 dark that we have to !
give up all idea of guiding the horses, and |
leave them to their own sagacity. We ride |
down amid mud cabins and into ravines |
where the horses leap from depth to depth I
rocks below rocks, rocks under rocks. |
Whoal Whoal We dismount in this |
place, memorable for many things in Bible
history, the two more prominent a theo-
logical seminary, where of old they made
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
and those of us who ever had the
advantage of such institutions will ever
lastingly be grateful, and in the calendar
of saints which read with especial affec.
ton, are thcdoctors of divinity who blessed /
me with their care.
thank God that from these theological
seminares there is now coming forth a
crop Of young ministers, who
are taking the pulpits in all parts of
the land | hail their coming, and tell
these young brothers to shake off the SOM
Violence Of centuries, and get out from I'M
der the dusty shelves of theological discus
sions which have no practical bearing on
this age, which needs to get rid of its sins
and have its sorrows conlforted. Many of
70 lyi ne bY1f ,I,,
do not so to church because they cannot
endure the technicalities and profound ex-
plantations of nothing, and sermons about
the eternal generation of the son" and
the difference between sub-lapsarianism
and experimentation, and about who
wasn't. There ought to be as
much difference between the modes of pre-
sentng truth now and in olden time as be-
tween lightning express rail train and
canal boat
Years ago went up TO the door Of fac
tory in New England. On the outside door
] saw tie words, mo admittance.n went
in and came to another door over which
were the words, "No admittance" OF
course | went in, apd came to the third
lance Having entered this / found the
useful pins, and nothing but pins. So over
the outside door of many of the churches
has been practically written the words,
''No admittance." Sorae have entered and
have come to the inside door and found
the words, mo admittance" But, per
sisting, they have come inside and found |
us sounding out our little niceties of belief,
out our little differences of theo-
10 Il irre NJ,
CANCELS ASCENDING ANB DESCENDING"
But most distinguished wss Bethel for
that famous dream which Jacob had, his
head on u collection of stones, He had no
trouble in this rocky region in finding n
rocky pillow. There is hardly anything
else but stone. Yet the people of those
lands have way of drawing their outer
garment up over their head and face, and
such pillow | suppose Jacob had under
his head The plural was used in the
Bible story, and You find il was not a pill
low of stone, but of stones, 1 suppose, so
that If one provei to be of uneven surface
he would turn oy err in the night and take
another stone for with such hard bolster
he would often change in the night Well, |
that night God huilt in Jacobs dream a
long splendid ladder, the feet of it on
either side of the tired pilgrims pillow,
and the top OF it mortised in the sky. And
bright immortals came out from the cas-
ties of amber and gold and put their shid-
ing feet on the shining rungs ofthe ladder,
and they kept coming down and going up,
a procession both ways.
suppose they had wings, for the Bible
almost always reports them as having |
wings, but this was ladder on which /
they used hands and feet to encourage all |
those of us who have no wings to climb, |
and encouraging us to believe that if |