The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-11-12

were on the lost child. After .
while man brought on the platform
beautiful little tot that looked like q
piece Of heaven dropped down, and said:
"Here is that childl" And forgot all
that / 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 l
will take her home and add'her to my
own broodw And some cried and some
shouted, and amid all that crowd in
stantly detected the mother. Every
body had TO get out OF her way or Ne
walked over. Hats were nothing and
shoulders were nothing, and heads were
nothing in her pathway, and realized
something OF what must have been
Mary's anxiety when she lost Jesus, and
what her gladness when she found her
boy In the Temple Of Jerusalem talking
with those old ministers Of religion,
Shammat Hillel and Betirah.
I bear 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
whore is Georgep" Well, should not
wonder II you found him after awhile.
Whore? In the same place where
Joseph and Mary found their boy--in
the temple. What do mean by that2
l mean, you do your duty toward God
and toward your child and you will find
him after awhile In the kingdom OF
Christ VIII you say, II 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 a letter. and there
are two or three routes by which 1t may
go, but you want it to 60 the quickest
route, and you put on 1t "via Southamp-
ton," or "via San Francisco" or "via
Marseillos," put on your wishes about
your child, "via the throne Of God"
How long will such wish tako to get
to its destination? otquite as long as
the millionth part OF q second. 1 will
prove it. The promise is: Before
they call ] will answer" That
means at your first motion towards
exercise the blessing will
come, and II the prayer be made at ten
o'clock at night 1t will be answered five
before ten o'clock. "Bofore
they call will answer"
Well, you say, am clear discouraged
about my son, and am getting on in
years, and fear will not live to see
him converted. Perhaps not but never
theloss think you will find him in the
tomple, the heavenly temple. There
has not been an hour in Heaven the last
one hundred years when parents in
glory had not had announced 10 them
the salvation OF children whom they
left in this world profigate. We often
have to say, ~ forgot but God has
never yet once said II forgot" 1t may
be after the grass of thirty summers
have greeted 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 tho higher temple
which has mo need of candle or OF sun,
for the Lord God and the Lamb arc the
light thereof" Cheer up, Christian
father and motherl Cheer upl Where
Joseph and Mary found their boy you
will find yours-in the temple. You
see, God could not afford to do other
wise. One OF the things Ho has posi-
lively promised in the Bible is that He
will answer earnest and believing
prayer. Failing to do that lie would
wreck His own throne, and tho founda-
tions Of His palace would give way,
and tho Bank OF Heaven would
suspend payment, and the dark
word 'repudiation," would DO writ
ten 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
find your child in the temple, either the
temple hero or the temple above.
Out on tho western prairies was hap
py but isolated home. Father, mother
and child. BY the sale OF cattle quite q |
large sum Of money was ono night in |
the cabin, and the father was away. A
robber 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
'ther things for all prodigals who were
up and down the world. The
,obber heard her prayer and was over
and entered the cabin, and
Snelt beside hor and began to pray. He
lad come TO rob that house, but the prayer
II that woman for prodigals reminded
lin OF his mother and her prayers bo-
ore he became n vagabond, and from
hat hour began new life. Years after,
hat woman was in city in great au-
lienco, and tho orator who camo on the
platform and plead gloriously for right
'ousness and God was tho man who
many years before had looked into the
abin on the prairie as robber. Tho
peaker and the auditor Immediately
ecognized each other. After so long q
lme, mothers prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for the mule
GERS, and baggage men have been or
cred TO pitch our tents for tonight at
Bethel II is already getting so dark
hat wo have to give upall idea OF guild
ng the horses, and leave them TO their
wn sagacity. We ride down amid mud
abins into ravihos whore the horses
cap from depth to depth, rocks below
ocks, rocks under rocks Whoal Whoal
70 dismount in this place. memorable
or many things N Bible history, tho
wo moro prominent, theological semi
airy, whore Of old they made ministers,