Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-11-14
And what are the political parties Of this

is worse than the other and the only consola-
ton in regard to them is that they have
putrefied until they have no more power to
rot. Oh that comparatively tame scene up
on which Rizpah lookedl 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 woel
NV only consolation on this subject is that
foreign capitalists are buying up the Ameri-
can breweries. The present owners see that
the doom of that business is coming as surely
as that God is not dead. They are unloading
mon foreign capitalists, and when We can
get these breweries into the hands OF people
living on the other side Of the sea our polit-
cal parties will cease to be afraid OF the
liquor traffic, and at their conventions nomi-
mating Presidential candidates Will put IN
their platform plank as big as the biggest
plank of the biggest ocean steamer, saying;
"Resolved unanimously that we always nave
been and always will be opposed TO alcohol-
ISM
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 fest val 'Where is my child,
Jesusy' saws Mary. "Where is my child,
Jesusg says Joseph Among the thousands
that are returning from Jerusalem they
thought that certainly He was walking on in
ths crowd. They described Him, saying:
"He is twelve years old, aud OF light com
plexion and blue eyes. A lost chlldF treat
excitement in all the crowd. Nothing so
stirs folks as the news that child is lost.
Shall not forget the scene when, in great
outdoor meeting, ] was preaching, and some
one stepped on the platform and said that
child was lost We went on with tho relig-
ious service hut all our minds were on the
lost child.
After while mau brought on the plat
form a beautiful little tot that looked like
piece eff heaven dropped down, and SAID,
ssHere is that child." And forgot all that
[ was preaching about and lifted the child
To NV shoulder and said Here is the lost
child and the mother will come and get her
right away. or | will take her home and adj
her TO nv own broodm And some cried and
some shouted. and amid all that crowd IN
SANITY detected the mother. Everybody
had 70 get out of her way or be walked over.
Hats were nothing and shoulders were moth
ing and heads were nothing in her pathway,
and realized something OF what must nave
been Mary's anxiety when she iost Jesus anu
what her g'adness when she found her ooy III
tine temple of Jerusalem talking with those
Oh MINISTER'S VI ithoAS-ii '~N'-i
and Hetirah.
Ibear down on you to-day with mighty
comfort. Mary and Joseph said; Nv mere IS
our JesusY and you say: Where IS John:
or where is Henry or where Is George"
Well [ should not wonder If You found hiin
after a while Wheres In the same placs
where Joseph and Mary found their boy-in
the temple What do l. mean by that
mean YOU do your duty toward God ami To-
ward your child and you will find hum after
n while in the kingdom OF Christ. WIN you
saw, II do not have any way OF influencing
nv childY' l answer you have the most
tremendous limo of influence open right be-
fore YOU. As YOU write a letter, and there
nre two or three routes by which 1t may
90. but you want it to go the QUICKEST
,o,ta and Won nut on it via Southampton"
~. .,via San Francisco or via Marseilles"
mt ON your wishes about your child, VIA
The throne of God" How long will such
GOOD wish take 10 get TO its destinations
not quite as long as the millionth part Of
second. | will prove it, The promise Is;
"8efore they call / will answer mat
means at pour frst motion toward such
nrayerfu exercise the blessing VIII come, ana
# the praver be made at 10 o'clock at night
II will be answered five minutes before ten.
"Gefore they call / viii answer.
Well. you say, | am clear discouraged
about my son, aud l am getting on in years
and fear viii not live 70 see HIM COVERT
ed Perhaps not Nevertheless | think you
will find him in the temple, the heavenly
tennle There has not been an hour IN
heaven the last one hundred years when pa
rents in glory had not had announcer %
them The salvation OF children whom they
left in this world pr0higate. We often nave
IN CIV ~ forgot. - but GOD has never ye- once
said Il forgot" It may be- after the grass
Of thirty summers has greened the top CT
your grave that yoIrson may be found IN tne
earthly temple IL may be NIFTY years from
now when some morning the towers are On, II
ING the mathis to the ClOrihei IN = saNeh 'ha,
YOU shall find him in tde higher tem9'
which has mo need of candle or OF sun, for
the Lord God and the Lamb are the light
thereof.
Cheer uD. Christian father and mother .
Cheer upl Where Joseph and Mary found
their boz YOU will fin yours-in the temple.
You see. God could not afford to do other
wise. One o. the things He has positively
promised in the Bible is that He will answer
earnest aud believing prayer. Failing to 90
that He woald wrec., His own throne, AM
the foundation 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 viii yet ma
your child in the temple, either the Temps
here o. tho te nple above.
Out on the western prairies was happy
but isolated home Father, mother and
child. BY che 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 helpless.
Her child by ner side, she knelt down ami
prayed among other things for all prodiga $
VINO were wandering up and down the world.
The robber heard her prayer and was over
whelmed and entered the cabin and knelt
beside her and began to pray. de had come
to ROB that house, but the prayer OF tnat
woman tor prodigals reminded him OF his
mother aud her prayers before he became 2
vagahonl and from that hour he began new
life. Years after that woman was in city
in a great audience, and the orator who came
on the platform and plead gloriously for
Righteousness and God was the man whl
many years before bad looked into the cabin
'On the prairie as robber. The speaker and
the auditor Immediately recognized each
other After 50 long a time a mothers
prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for the muleteers
and baggage men have been ordered to pitch
our tents for tonight at Bethel. IL is already
getting so 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, rocks below
rocks. rocks under rocks. Whoa Whoa
We dismount in this place, memorable for
many things in Bible history. the two more
prominenta theological seminary, where of old
they made ministers. 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
ministry, and those Of us who ever had the
advantage Of such institutions will everlast-
ingy be grateful, AMI 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 theological
seminaries there is now coming forth mag
niicent 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 somnolsnce of CEN
turtles and get out from under the dusty
shelves Of theological discussions which have
no practical bearing on this age which needs
TO get rid Of It's sins AMI have its sorrows
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