The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-11-15

l'pS Mother, why don't you go TO
bed?' 'Ah!' she says, 81 cannot go to
bed. l am Rizpah watching the lain!
And what are The political parties of
this country doing for such cases? They
are taking care not to hurt the feelings
of the iackals and the buzzards that
rOost on the shelves of the grog shops
and boot above the dead. | am often
asked to what political party | belong,
and now declare my opinion of the
political parties of to-day. Each one is
worse han the other and the only con
ISOLATION In regard to them is that they
have putrefied until they have no moro
power to rot. O, that paratively
tame scene upon which Rizpah looked!
She looked upon only seven of the slain.
American motherhood and American
wifehool this moment are looking upon
seventy of the slain, upon 700 of the
slain, upon 40, 900 of the slain. Woe!
woe woe!
My only consolation on this subject is
that foreign capitalists arc buying up
the American breweries. The present
owners see hat the doom OF that bust
ness is coming as surely rs that God is
not dead. They are unloading upon
foreign capitalists, and when we can
get these breweries into the hands of
people living on the other sldo of the
sea, II political parties will cease to
be afraid of the liquor traffic, and at
their conventions nominating Prosi-
Dental candidates will put in their
platform a plank as big as the biggest
plank of he biggest ocean steamer,
saying: Resolved, unanimously, that
we always have been and always will be
opposed to alcoholism"
But | must spur on our Arab steed,
and here we come in sight of Beeroth,
said to be the place whore Joseph and
Mary missed the boy Jesus on the way
from Jerusalem to Nazareth, going home
now from a great National festival.
Where is my child, Jesus?" says Mary.
''Whero is my child, Jesus?" says Jo-
seph. Among the thousands that are
returning from Jerusalem, they thought
thatcertainiy He was walking on in the
crowd. They described Him, saying:
"ileis twelve years old, and of light com
p~leXion and b.ue eyes. A lost child!"
Great excitement in all the crowd.
Nothing so stirs folks as the news that
q child is lost.
| bear down on you to-day with q
mighty comfort. Mary and Joseph said:
Whore is our Jesus?' and you say,
"'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 Mary
and Joseph found their boy-in the
temple. What do | NEAR by that? l
mean, you do your duty toward God and
toward your child, and you will find him
after awhile in the Kingdom of Christ.
Well, you say, | an clear discouraged
about my son and | am getting on in
years, and | fear | will not live to see
HIM converted. Perhaps not, never
theless l think you will find him in the
temple, the heavenly temple. Thare
has not been an hour in Heaven the last
one hundred years when parents in
glory had not had announced to them
tho sa walton of children whom they
left in this world prof gate. We often
nave to say: 81 forgot" but God has
never once yet said, II forgot" 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 things He has
positively promised in the Bible is that
lie Will answer earnest and believing
prayer. Failing to do that lie would
wreck His own throne, and the founda-
tions of His palace would give way, and
the Bank of Heaven would suspend pay
ment, and the dark word ''~repudiation''
,1,Il -, ,p,;+ta, n,pNa 4lA ,Ir.- .-1
the Eternal Government would be dis
banded and God Himself would become
an exile. Keep on with your prayer
and you will yet find your child in the
temple, either the temple here or the
temple above.
But we must hurry on, for the mule
teers and baggage men have been or
dered to pitch our tents for to-night'at
Bethel 1t is already getting SO DARK
that we have to give up all idea of guild
ing the horses and leave them to their
! own sagacity. We ride down amid mud
cabins and into rav,ne 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
h'SbOAJ ~ w ihSiS PAoAAA"NiS "
theological seminary, where of old they
made ministers, and for Jacobs dream.
The students of this Bethel theologi-
cal seminary were called 'Sons of tho
PROPHETS" Here the young men were
fitted for the ministry, and those OF us
who ever had the ad vantage of such in
st tutions will everlasting y be CRATE
full, and in the calendar Of saints, which
j read with especial affection, are tho
doctors Of divinity who blessed mo with
their care. ! thank God that from these
theological seminaries there is now
coming forth a magnificent young crop
OF min stcrs who are taking the pulpits
in all parts OF the land. i hail their
coming and tell these young brothers
to shake off the somnolence of
centuries and get out from under
the dusty shelves OF theological discus
s ons which have no practical bearing
on this age, which needs to get rid OF
it's sins and have its sorrows comforted.
Many of our pulpits are dying OF hum
drum. People do moi go to church, be-
cause they can not endure the techni-
calities, and profound explanations OF
nothing, and sermons about the 'eter-
raj generation of the Son" and the diff
ference between sublapsarianism and
supralapsariaaism, and about who Mel
chlsidek wasn't. There ought to be as
much difference between the modes of
presenting truth now and in olden time
as between a lightning express rail train
and a canal boat.
But most distinguished was Bethel
for that famous dream which Jacob had.
his head on a collection OF stones. He
had no trouble in this rocky region OF
finding a rocky pillow. There is hard
ly any thing else but stone. Yet the
people OF these lands have a way Of
drawing their outer garment up over
thor head and lace, and such q pillow I
suppose Jacob had under his head. The
plural was used in the Bible story, and
you find it was not a pillow OF
stone, but OF stones. | suppose,
so that If one proved to be of I'M
aver surface he would turn over in the
night and take another stone, for with
such a hard bolster he would often
change in the night. Well, that night
God built in Jacobs dream Il long
: splendid ladder, the foot of it on either
side of tho tired pilgrims pillow, and
the top of it mortiscd in the sky. And
: bright immortals came out from he
castles of amber and gold and put their
+ shinninp feet pn thp shining runUS of