The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-11-21
it is halt-past when he comes staggering

through the hall. ring
1 :, DO you say that Young man is yet alive,
= no; ne Is dead Dead tn his fathers en-
treaties Dead to his mothers prayers Da,d
| 10 Tue family altar where he was reared
| Dead to all the noble ambitions that once in
spiret him. Twice dead. Only n corpse of
VIA mnao ne once was. Gibbetel before God and
man ana angels aui devils. Chained I'm n
father Is asleep. his brothers are ssIe,n his
sisters are asleep; but his mother Ia watcbinv
hn'' Watching him in the night. After he
mas sone to bed ani fallen into a drunken
see that he is properly covered, and before
she turns out the light will put a kiss ynon
MS M 'Is, SlGssed lips Mother, why don't you go
| 20 hedT "Ah" shc says, ~ cannot go to
oeo- am hizpah watching the sainr'
AMI what arc the political parties of this
country doing FOR such Crses9 They nrr TAX
ing caro- not to hurt ths feelings of the
| Jackals and buzzards that roost ON tho
| shelves OF the gr"g shops AMI hoot above the
dena am often asked to what political
ION ot the political parties to-day Each one
IL worsc than the other aud tue only cops,n.
ton ~ rcgnri to them is that they have
pn,reiisd until they have no more power to
on which lizpah loOkodl American mother
hooI and American wifehood this moment
| ar" looking upon seventy OF the slain, upop
seven hundred Of the slain, upon seventy
|
MY only consolation on this subject is that
foreign capitalists arc buying up the Ameri-
| can brcwcrics. Tho prcsont owners SOC that
the doom of that business Is coming as surely
aS TINT God Is not dead. They are unloadinR
| upon foreign capitalists, and when we can
get these hrewerieS into the hands of people
| living on the other side of the sen our politt-
cal parties will cease to be afraid Of the
liquor trailic, and at their conventions nomi-
Mating ,%aiE Presidential candidates will put in
plank OF tho biggest ocean steamer, saving:
| hesoived unanimously that we always havo
been and always will be opposed to alcohol
| ISM"
But nust spur on our Arab steel, an
here we como In sight of Becroth, said to be
the place where Joseph and Mary missed the
Soy Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to
Nazareth going home now from a great
national festival. Where IL my child.
Jes,,sT says Joseph. Among tho thousands
TINT arc returning from Jerusalem they
thought that certainly He Was walking OH in
! tho crowd. They described Him, saving:
| "Ho Is twolve years old, and of light COM
plexion and blue eyes a lost chtldf Great
eXciteincnt iu all tho crowd. Nothing 80
stirs folks as tho news that child is lost.
SHALL not forget tho scene when, i'm n great
outdoor meetlng, l wns preaching, aud some
one stepped on tn" platform and satt that
child was lost. We went on with the reilly
ious service, but oil our minds were OH the
lost child
After while man brought OH the plat
form beautiful little tot that lookci like
piece of heaven droppct down. mud said
Here Is that child" Aud forgot all that
| was preaching about, and lifted the child
to my shoulder AMI sad, 'Here IL tho lost
child, AMI the mother will come and pet her
| right away. OF l will take her home aud adj
her {" my own hroodr' Aud somc cried and
come shouted, aud amid all that crowd | in
stantly detected tho mother. Everybody
hal tn get out of her way or he walke,i over
! Hats were WrthinS ami shoulders wore moth
Ing an'i heals We're notiliug in III v,..; ?.y.
and realized something of what must have
| been Marysanxi"iy WHOM sha lost Jesus md
] what her g'a,lne;s when she found her boy in
/, the temple or Jerusalem tnikiug with ti,ose
| and BetiraL
'hcar down on You today with mighty
comfort. Mary ana Joseph sa,d: Whore is
| ~ whore is Henry? or where is Georga?'
| wen, should not wonder if You found him
| nftcr awhile Whrr.' In the same place
where Joseph aud Mary foumI their hov--in
| the trmp'e. What do l mean by thotg I
mean N"u 81" vour duty toward Go'I ami to-
war'' your "iiill AMI YOU will tinl him fter
E9;Wh,l"i IN tn" kingdom "t Christ. win YOU
| say thn not hnvo any wny of influencing
! tA ,Sh'S1Y' l answer YOU havo tho most
tr"'n"uinAs line of Influence open right be.
fore You. AS you write a letter, uuL tl,er.
are fYoi3r three routes by which IL may
| so, but you want it to 90 the quickest
| route, and yuu put on it. "sia Southauipton.
| or via San Francisco," or "via Mars"illcs," :"
the throne of Ciod" How long will such a
good wish take 10 get to it's destination?
Not quite as long "a the milIionth part of a
"Befnro tllcy call will answer That
means ut your first motion toward such
pray.rful exercise the blessing will COM and
it the prayer Ire made at ~ O'clock at night
it will ho answered five minutes before ten.
rs,siesrfura tlioy call will answer"
EWelL,. you say, l am clear discouraged
! aL0ut Iny SOD, aud ] am getting OH in years,
and fear l will not live to SEQ him convert
Sed Perhaps not. Nevertheless think you
swiH find him in the temple the heavenly
temple. There has not been an hour In
heaven the last ono hundred years when pa
gents in glory hal not had announced to
d, them the salvation Of chidron whom they
left in this world proHiyatc Wo often have
tosey "lIorgot," but Go 4 has never yet once
said 'I forgot" 1t may b, after the grass
of thirty summers has greencd the top of
your grav. that your son may be found in the
earthly temple. 1t may be fifty years from
now when some morning the towers are chin
ing the mathis to the gloriiei In heaven that
You shall find him in tho higher temple
which has ''no need OF condle o.: of sum- for
tho Lord God and tho Lamb are the light
thereof
Cheer up, Christian father and motheri
their boy You will find yours--in tho temple.
You see, God could not afford to do other
| wise. One of the things He has positively
promised In tho Bible is that He will answer
I earnest and believing prayer Failing to do
! that lie would wreck His own throne, AMI
the foundation Of His palace would give
way, and tho bank Of heaven would suspend
| payment, and the dark word, "repudiatlon,"
would bc written across the sky, and the
| eternal government would be disbanded and
| God Himself would become an exile. Keep
| on with your prayer, aud you will yet find
/ your ciil, in the temple, either tho temple
| here or tho to'nple above.
Out on the western prairies was happy
but isolated home. Father, mother and
child. BY the sale of cattle quite II large
| sum of money was one night I'm that cabin,
| and the father was away. rObber who had
heard Of the money one night looked In at
| the window, aud the wife and mother or
that home saw him and she was helpless.
Her child by nor side. sho knelt down and
| prayed among other things for all prodigals
VII" were wandering up and down the world
The robber heard her prayer and was over
whclmed and entered the cabin and knelt
beside her and began to pray. He had come
| ~ rpb thnt hp,ISn Inf tho prayer pf that