Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-22

NOW we pass on where seven vontbS
We're put to death and their bodies 9Th
Deted or hung in chains, not for anythino
they had themselves done. but az q
reparat1on for what their father and
grandfather, Saul, had done. Rprial
was denied these youths from Nav until
November. Rizpath, the mother Of two
OF THESE dead boys, appoints herself as
Sentlnel to guard the seven corpses from
beak of raven and tooth of wolf and
paw of lion. She pitches black tent on
the rock close by the gibbets. Rizpah
oy day sits on the ground in front of her
tent. aud when yulture begins to lower
cut or the MONDAY sky seeking it's prev
among the gibbets Rizpah rises, her hong
mar nylng In the wind, and, swinging
ner arms wildly about, Shoes away the
nird or prey until it retreats to it's eyre.
AT night she rests under the shadow of
her tent and sometimes falls into q
drowslness or half sleep. But the step
OF a Jackal among the dry leaves or the
painting hyena arouses her, and with the
I1ry OF maniac she rushes out apon the
rock crying, away! Awayr' and then,
examining the gibbets to see that they
still keep their burden, returns again to
ner tent till some swOoping wing from
Che midnight sky or some growing mon
ster on the rock again wakes her.
And what are the political parties
or this country doing for such cases?
;Ihey are taking care not to hurt the
feelings of the jackals and bnzzards that
roost On the shelves of the grog shops
and boot above the dead. 1 am often
asked to what political party I belong,
and l now declare my opinion of the
political parties to-day. Each one is
worse than the other, and the only con-
ISOLATION in regard to them is that they
have putrehed until they have no more
power to rot. Oh, that comparatively
tame scane upon which Rizpah looked!
She looked upon only seven of the slain.
American motherhood 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! woe!
My only consolation on this subject is
that foreign capitalists are buying up the
American brewerieS. The present own
ers see that the doom of that business is
coming as surely as that God is not dead.
They are unloading upon fofeign capital
lists, and when we can get these breweries
into the hands of the people living on
parties will cease to be afraid of the
liquor traffic. and at their conventions
nominating presidential candidates will
put in their platform a plank as big as
the biggest plank of the biggest ocean
steamer, saying: s'Resolved unani-
mously that we always have been and
always will be opposed to alcoholism"
I bear down on you to-day with a
mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph
said. "Where is our Jesus?" and you
say, s'Where is John? or where is
Henry? or where is George" Well,
should not wonder if you found him after
awhile. Where? In the same place
where Joseph and Mary found their
bOy--in the temple. What do / mean
by that? I mean, you do your duty
tow ard God and toward your child, and you
will find him after while in the kingdom
OF, Christ. Will you say, Il do not have
any way of influencing my child?" Lam
swer 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 may go, bat you
want it to go the quickest route, and you
put ON it, ''via Southampton" or ''via
San Francisco" Or ''yia Marseilles," put
on your wishes about your child, ''via
the throne Of God" How long will such
a good wish take to get to it's destlna-
ton? Not quite SO long as the millionth
part of second. / will prove 1t. The
promise is, Before they call will an
swer'' That means at your first mo-
ton toward such prayerfal exercise the
blessing will come, and if the prayer be
made at 10 o'clock at night, it will be
answered five minutes before 10, BE
fore they call | will answer
Well, you say, / am clear discouraged
about my son, and l am getting on In
years, and [ fear l will not live to see
him converted. Perhaps not. Neverthe-
less | think you will find him in the tenn
pie, the heavenly temple. There has not
been an hour in heaven the last 100
years when parents in glory had not haG
announced to them the salvation OF
children whom they left in this world
profligate. We often have to say, II
forgot" but God has never yet once SAID,
81 forgot" 1t may be after the grass
of thirty summers have greened the top
of your grave that your son may be
found in the earthly temple. 1t may be
fifty years from now when some morn
ing the towers are Ginning the mathis
of the glorified in heaven that you shall
find him in the higher temple which mas
'.no need of candle or of sun, for the
Lord God and the Lamb are the hight
thereof"
Cheer up, Christian father and mother!
Cheer up! Where Joseph and Mary
found their boy you will find yours-ln
the temple. You see, God could not al
ford to do otherwise. One OF the thlngs
He has positively promised in the Blole
is that He will answer earnest ana pc
lievng prayer Failing to do that ne