The Wahpeton times., 1890-11-20

gone to bed and fallsninto drunken elesp,
bis mother will 60 up to his room and csc
that he is propsrly covered. and before she
turns out the light. will put n kiss upon
ss eGstsa s, lips aSsher Why aonsyou
to bed. Iam Rizpah watching the slain!''
And what are the political parties Of this
country doing for such cases? They are
taking caro- not to hurt the feelings Of the
jackals and the buzzards that roost on the
shelves Of the grOg-shops. and hoot above
the dead. am o ten asked to what political
party belong, and now declare my
opi4ton Of the political parties Of today.
Each one is worse than the other, and the
only consolation in regard to them is, that
| they have been putrsfied until they have no
more power to rot. oh, that comparative
tame scene upon which Rizpah' looked! she
lean motherhood and American wifehood.
this moment are looking upon 20 Of
| the slain, upon 700 Of the slain, upon TO-
900 of the slain. Woe! Woe! Woe! My on.
| ly consolation on this subject is that foreign
capitalists are buying upthe American brew
cries. The present owners see that the doom
of TINT business is coming. as surely as
that God is not dead. They are unloading
upon foreign capitalists, md when we can
get these brewerics into the hands of
people living on the other side of the seq,
our political parties will cease to be afraid
nominating presidential candidates will put
in their platform plank as big as the big
| gest plank of the biggest ocean steamer, say
ing: Resolved unanimously. that we always
have been, and always will be, opposed to
| alcoholism
here We come in sight of Beeroth, said to DO
the place where Joseph and Mary missed
the boy, Jesus on the way from Jerusalem
| to Nazareth, going home now from q great
national festival. "Where 10 my child,
Jssus?" says Joseph. Among the thousands
that are returning from Jerusalem they
Thought that certainly He wac walking on
in the crowd. They described Him, saying:
He is II years old, and of!ight complexion
and blue eyes. A lost child! "Great excite
ment in all the crowd. Nothing SO stirs
10 lks as the news that q child is lost. l shall
not forget the scene when in q great out.
door meeting. was preaching and some
one stepped on the platform md said that u
child was lost. We went on with the religi-
ous service, but nll our minds were on tho
lost child. After while man brought
on the platform beautiful little tot that
looked like piece of heaven dropped down,
and said: "Here is that child" And for
got all that was preaching about, and lift.
ing the child to my shoulder said: "Herc is
the lost child, the mother will come and get
her right away, or will take her home, and
add her to my own brood!" And some
cried, and some shouted, and amid NIL the
crowd l instantly detected the mother
Everybody had to get out OF her way or be
walked over. Hats we're nothing, and
shoulders were nothing, md heads were
nothing in her pathway. and realized some.
thing OF what musthave been Mnry's anxiety
when she lost Jesus, and what her gludness wns
when she found her boy in the temple Of
Jerusalem talking with those old ministers
of religion, Shammu, Hilel and Betiral.
bear down on yon to-day with q mighty
comfort. Mary and Joseph said: "Whcre
is our Jesus?" and you say, Where is John?
or where is Henry? or where is George"'
Well, should not wonder ifyou found him
where Joseph and Mary found her boy-in
the temple. What do mean by that?
mean you do your duty townrd God and to.
ward your child and you will find him after
u while in the kingdom Of Christ. Will you
say II do not have any way of influencing
my child" lnnswer you have the most
tremendous line of influence open right be
lore you. As you write letter, and there
are two or three routes by which it may go
but you wantit to go the quickest route, and
YOU put on it via southampton" or via
San Franssco," or via MarseiIles" put on
your wishes about your child via the throne
Of God" How long will such q good wish
take to get to it's destination? Not quite so
long rs the miliionth pnrt ofa second.
will prove it. The promise is Before they
call | will answer" That means at your
first motion towards such prayer'ul exercise
the blessing will come and il the prayer be
made ut 10 O'Clock Mt night. it will be an.
swcred five minutes before 10. "Beforc they
Gull will answer"
Well, you say, am clear discouraged
about my son, and am getting on in years,
and fear l will not live to see him con-
vertNd. Perhaps not, nevertheless l think
you will find him in the temple, the heavenly
TOW, IL TI,nro l,1, hn,>r g,
heaven the last 100 years when parents in
glory had not had announced to them the
salvation of their children whom they left
in this world profgate. We often have to
sny, Il forgot" but God has never yet once
said II forgot" 1t may be after the grass
$50 summers have greened the TOP, Of yonr
grave, that your son may he found i'll the
earthly temple. 1t may be so years from
now when, some morning, the towers are
chimeing the mathis of the glorifisd in
heaven 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
and mother! Cheer up Where Joseph and
Mary found their boy you will find yours
in the temple You see, God could not
afford to do otherwise. One of the things
He has positively promised IN the Bible is
that He will answer earnest and believing
prayer. Failing to do that, He would wreck
palace would give wny, and the bank OF
heaven would suspend payment. and the
dark word '.repudution." 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 tenn
pie, either the temple here or the temple
above.
Out on the western prairics was Il happy
but isolated home. Father, mother. and
child. BY the sale of cuttlc quite lnrne
| and the father was away. A robber who had
heard of the money one night looked in ut
the window, and the wife and mother ot 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 over
whelmed, and entered the cabin and knrlt
beside hor and began to pray. He had come
to rob that house, but the prayers of that
woman for prodigals reminded him OF his
vngabond, and from that hour lie began a
new life. Years after. that woman was in q
city i'll great audience, and the orator who
came on the platform and plead glorously
| for righteousness and God was the man who
many years before had looked into the cabin
on the prairie as q robber. The speaker and
the auditor Immediately recognized each
other. After 50 long a time. u mothers
| prayers were answered.
A PetrIfied Body.
Atlanta Journal: A petrificd human
body-a body which has been turned from
/! flesh tc white marble as hard and firm as
the stone itself. This is the very strange