Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-10
with those old ministers of religion,
ShammRi. Hillel aud Betirah,

l bear down on you to-day with q
mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph SAID ::
'Where is our Jesus3' and you say +,
"Where is John? or where is Henry?
or where is George?'' Well, l should
not wonder if you found him after
a while. WhereI In the same place
where Joseph aud Mary found their boy
in the temple. What DO l mean by
that. l mean: do your duty toward
God and toward your child, and you will
find him after while in the kingdom Of
Christ. Will you say, 81 do not have
any way of influencing my child. -
| 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 may go, but
you want it to go the quickest route, and
you put on it 'via Southampton, or
''via san Francisco or "via Mar
seilles.' 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 US long as the
millionth part of second. | will prove
it. The promise is, "Before they call
will answer That means at your first
motion towards such prayerful exercise
the blessing will come, and il the prayer
be made at ten CLOCK at night, it will
be answered five minutes before ten.
Before they call will answer
Well, you say, l am clear discouraged
about my son, and / am getting on in
years, and l fear l will not live TO see
him converted. Perhaps not, neverthe-
less. think You Will find him in the tenn
pie, tie heavenly temple. There hes
not been an hour in heaven the last 100
years when parents in glory had not had
announced TO them the salvation of chill
dren whom they left in this world pro-
tligate. We often have to say, al for
got, ~ 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 has
"no need of candle or of sun, for the
Lord God and the Lamb are the light
thereof. Cheer up, Christian father
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 thingsHe has positively prom
Used III the Bible Is that He will answer
earnest and believing prayer. Failing
to do 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 :repudiation' would be
written across the sky, and the Eternal
Government would be disbanded and
raI L!
Keep on with your prayer, and you will
yet find your child in the temple, either
here or the temple above.
Out on the Western pralries was q
happy but isolated home. Father,
mother and child. by the 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 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 en-
tered the Gu in, and knelt beside her and
began to pray. He had come to rob that
house, but the prayer OF that woman
for prodigals reminded him of his mother
and her prayers before he became
vaeabOnd, and from that hour he began
new life. Years after, that woman
was in city in great audience, and
the orator who came OH the platform and
plead gloriously for Righteousness and
God was the man who many years before
had looked into the cabin out on the
prairie as robber. The speaker and
the auditor Immediately recognized each
other. After SO long q time, mothers
prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for the mule
teers and baggngemen have been or
dered to pitch our tents for to-nighs at
Bethel. 1t Is already getting SO dark
that we have to give I'D all idea of guild
ing 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 dismounted in this place,
memorable for many things in Bible his
tory, the two more prominent, theo-
logical seminery where of old they maze
ministers, and for Jacob 8 dream. The
students of this Bethel theological semi
nary were called "Sons of Prophets.
Here the young men we're fitted for The
ministry land those of us who ever had the
advantage of such institutions will ever
be grateful, and in the calender
of saints. which read with especial af-
lection, are the doctors of divinity who
blessed me with their care. l thank
God that from these theological seminal
ries there Is now coming forth a magnifl-
cent 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 somno-
lence of cen turtles and get out from I'M
der the dusty shelves of theological dis
oussions which have no practical bearing
on this age, which needs to get rid Of its
sins and have its sorrows comtorted.
Many OF our pulpits are dying Of hum
drum. People do not go to church be-
cause they cannot endure the
aud profound explana-
tons of nothing, and sermons about the
eternal generation of the Son, and
the difference between sub lapsarianisnN,
and supra-lapsariauism, and about who
wasn't. There ought to
be as much difference between the modes
Of presenting truth now and in olden
time, as between q lightning express
and q oanal-boat. Years ago
went up to the door of a factory in New