News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-13

mean by that? L mean, you 90 your
dutv toward God and toward your
child and you will find him after a
n while in the kingdom of Christ. Will
YOU say, II do not have any way of in
fluencing my child?' 1 answer you
have the most tremendous line of
influence open right before you.
AS YOU write letter, and there
are two or three routes by which it
NAV go, but you want it to go the
Quickest route, and you put on it via
southampton, " or via San Francisco, "
or ''via Marseilles," put on your wishes
about your child, via the throne OF
God" How long will such good
wish take to get to its destination:
Not quite as long as the millionth part
of a second. l will prove it. The
promise is, Before they call I will an
swer." That means at your first mo-
ton toward such prayerful exercise the
blessing will come, and if the prayer
be made at 10 o'clock at night it will
be answered five minutes before ten,
Before they call will answer"
Well, you say, l am clear discour,
aged about my son, and am getting
on in years, and ] fear | will not live tC
see him converted Perhaps not. New.
ertheless l think you will find him ii
the temple, the heavenly temple. There
has not been an hour in heaven the
last one hundred years when parents il
glory had not had announced to then
the salvation of children whom they
left in this world profiigate. We Otter
have to say II forgot" but God ha'
never yet once said II forgot" L
may be after the grass of thirty sum
mers have greenei the top of you
grave that your son may be found il
the earthly temple. 1t may be fift!
wears from now when some morning
the towers are Ginning the mathis o
the glorified in heaven that you shall
find him in the higher temple which
has ''no need of candle or of sun, TO
the Lord God and the Lamb are tn,
Eight thereof"
Cheer up, Christian father and moth
err! Cheer up Where Joseph an(
Mary found their boy you will fine
yours-in the temple. You see, Coz
could not afford to do otherwise. On
of the things he has positively promised
in the Bible is that lie will answer earn
est and believing prayer. Failing to d.
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 govern
ment would be disban6.d 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.
THE RoBBER OVERCOME.
Out on the western prairies was q
happy but isolated home. Father,
mother and child. By the sale of cat
tie 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 win
dow, and the wife and mother of that
home saw him and she was helpless.
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
entered the cabin, and knelt beside heI
and began to pray. He had come tC
rob that house, but the prayer of that
woman for prodigals reminded him OF
his mother and her prayers before he
became a yagabond, and from that
hour he began a new life. Years after
that woman was in city in great au-
dience, and the orator who came on
the platform and plead gloriously fol-
righteousness and CCd was the man
who many years before had looked into
the cabin on the prairie as a robber.
The speaker and the auditor immedi-
ately recognized each other. After SC
long a time a mothers prayers an
swered.
But we must hurry on, for the mule
teers and baggage men have been or
dered to pitch our tents for tonight al
Bethel 1t is already getting so dark
that we have to give up all idea Of
guiding the horses, and leave them tC
their own sagacity we ride down
amid mud cabins and into rayines,
where the horses leap from depth to
depth, rocks below rocks. rocks under
rocks. Whoa! Whoa, We dismount in
this place, memorable for many things
in Bible history, the two more promi
nent, a theological seminary, where OF
old they made ministers, and for Jacobs
dream. The students of this Bethe
Theological seminary were called 'sons
of the prophets" Here the young mer
were fitted for the ministry, and those
of US who ever had the advantage Of
such institutions will everlastingly be
grateful, and in the calendar of saints
which read with especial affection
are the doctors of divinity who blessed
me with their care.
/ thank God that from these theologi
cal seminaries there is now coming fortl
a magnificent crop of young ministers
who are taking the pulpits In all parts
of the land. hail their coming. anC
tell these young brothers to shake of
the somnolence of centuries, and ger
out from under the dusty shelves O
theological discussions which have nc
practical bearing on this age, which
needs to get rid of its sins and have it.
sorrows comforted. Many of our pull
pits are dying of humdrum. People
do not go to church because they can
not endure the technicalities and pro
found explanations of nothing, anC
sermons about the ''eteFnal generation
of the son." and the difference between
sub-lapsarianism and supfa-lapsariaa
ism, and about who Melchisedeci
difference between the modes of pre-
sentipg. truth now and in olden TIM
as between lightning express rail trail
and a canal boat,
Years ago / went up TO the door of /
factory in New England. Un the GU.
side door l saw the words, "No admit
lance" / went in and came to an
other door over which were the words
mo admittance. OF course / wen
in, and came to the third door in
scribed with the words, mo admit
lance" Having entered this l foun,
the people inside making pins, beauti
full pins, useful pins, and nothing bu
pins. So over the outside door, O
many of the churches has been prac
tically written the words, "No admit
tance." Some have entered and hav
come TO the inside door and found th