Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-15


the doom OF that business is coming as surely
as that God is not dead They are unloading
upon foreign capitalists, and when we can
1 get these breweries into the hands of people
living on the other side of the SEA our poiit-
/ 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 have
been and always viii Be opposed to alcohol
4 ism"
/ But must spur on our Arab steel, and
here we come in sight of Beeroth, said to bs
! the place where Joseph and Mary missed the
boy Jesus on the way from Jerusalem to
national festival where is my child,
Jesusfn says Mary. .sWhere is my child
Jesusg' says Joseph. Among the thousands
that are returning from Jerusalem they
thought that certainly He was walking on in
the crowd. They described Him, saying:
HE is twelve years old, and of light COM
plexion and blue eyes. A lost childp Great
excitement in all the crowd. Nothing so
stirs folks as the news that child is lost
shall not forget the scene whsn, in great
outdoor meeting, l was preaching, and some
one stepped on the platform and said that
child was lost. We went on with the relig-
ious service, hut all our minds were on the
lost child.
After whiiea man brought on the plat
form beautiful little tot that looked like
piece eft heaven dropped down, aud said,
Here is that child" And forgot all that
4 was preaching about, and lifted the child
to my shoulder and said, Here is the lost
child and the mother will come and get her
right away, or | will take her home and add
her to my own broodr' And some cried and
soma shouted, and amid all that crowd I in
SANITY detected the mother Everybody
had to 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 or whet must have
been Mary anxiety when she lost Jesus, and
what her gledness when she found her boy in
the temple of Jerusalem talking with those
old ministers of religion, Shammai Hiliel
and Betirah.
Ibear down on you to-day with mighty
comfort. Mary and Joseph said: Where IS
our Jesus?" and you say; Where is john
or where is Henry or where Is Georgey
Well, 1 should not wonder if you found him
after while. Where? In the same place
wnere Joseph and Mary found their boy--in
the temple. What do | mean by thaty
mean you do your duty toward God and to-
ward your child and you will lind him after
a while in the kingdom Of Christ. VIII you
say, II do not have any way OF influencing
my chldr' | answer you have the most
Z
fore you. AS you write a letter, and there
are two or three routes by which 1T may
go, but you want it to go the quickest
route, and you put on it ''via Southampton"
or ''via San Francisco or via Marseilles,"
put on your wishes about your child, via
/ the throne of God" How long will such a
! good wish take TO get to its destination.
Not quite as long as the millionth part of
/ second l will prove it. The promise Is:
before they call / will answer" That
means at your first motion toward such
prayerful exercise the blessing will come, and
/ II the prayer be made at 10 o'clock at night
/ it will be answered five minutes before ten.
/ Before they call 1 will answer"
/ Well, you say, | am clear discouraged
about my son, aud l am getting on in years,
and fear l will not live to see him convert
! ed Perhaps not. Nevertheless think you
will find him in the temple, the heavenly
/ temple. There has not been an hour IN
heaven the last one hundred years when pa
rents in glory had not had announced 90
them the salvation of children whom they
| lett in this world prohigate. We often have
to saw II forget, but God has never yet once
| said Il forgot" 1t may be after the grass
! of thirty summers has greened the top OF
! your grave that your son may be found IN the
( earthly temple. 1t may be fifty years from
| now wnen some morning the towers are Chin
! ing the mathis to the glori6e1 in heaven that
/ YOU shall find him in tae -igher temple
/ which has mo need of CAME OF of sun, for
| toe Lord God and the Lamb are the light
/ thereof
Cheer up, Christian father and motheri
/ Cheer upl Where Joseph and Mary found
1 their boy you will find yours-in the temple.
| You see God could not afford to do other
| wise Oha OF the things He has positively
| promised III the Bible is that He Will answer
! earnest and believing prayer. Failing to do
4 that He would wreck His own throne, and
the foundation of His palace would give
way and the bank of heaven would suspend
payment. and the dark word, Reputation"
| would be r.tten across the sky, and the
! eternal government would be disbanded aud
| God Himself would become an exile Keep
/ on with your prayer, and yoH will yet ind
/ your child in the temple. either this temple
/ here or the temple above
Out on the western prairies was happy
| but isolated home. Father, mother and
child. By the sale of cattle quite a large
] sum of money was one night In that cabin
and the father was away. A iobber 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 her side, she knelt down and
! prayed among other things for all prodigals
/ efhO were wandering up and down the world.
! The robber heard her prayer and was over
wle.med and entered the cabin and knelt
/ beside heg aud began to pray He had come
!
woman for prodigals reminded him of his
mother and her prayers before he became
I vagaoon and from that hour he began new
] life Years after thar woman was in a city
! in Great audience, and tae orator who came
on the platform aud plead gloriously for
Righteousness and God was the man who
/ many years before had looked into the cabin
/ on the prairie as roboer. The speaker and
/ the auditor Immediately recognized each
/ other After so 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 1t 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. Whoai Whoai
/ We dismount in this place. memorable for
many things in Bible history, the two more
prominenta theological seminary where of oil
/ 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 eyerlast-
ingly be grateful and in the calendar OF
saints, which l read with especial sffection,
are the doctors of divinity who blessed me
with their care
thank God that from these theological
semusries there is now coming forth a mag
nifcent crop of young minister's who are
| taking the pulpits in all parts of the land I
hail their coming, aud tell these young
brothers to shake off the somnolence of CEN
! turtles, and get cut from under the dusty
| shelves of theological discussions which have
no practical bearing on tdis age, which needs
| TO get rid of its sins AMI have its sorrows
comforted. Many of our pulpits are dying
| of humdrum. People do not 60 to churca
because they cannot endure the technicalities
and profound explanations OF nothing, and
sermons about the eternal generation of
the son. and the difference between sub
lapsarianism and supra-lapsarianisn, and
! about who Melchisedec wasn't There ought
to be as much difference between the modes
of presenting truth no and in olden time
as between lightning express rail train a1d
a canal boat.