The Opelousas courier., 1891-01-17

NJ. Onat young man Is yet alives
no; ne is dead. Dead to his fathers on.
Lreatles. Dead TO his mothers PRAYERS. Dead
~ 0ne family altar where he was reared
nead 70 all the noble ambitions chat once in
sPifed MIN. Twice dead. Only a cornse of
what he once was. Gibbeted before God and
maa ana angels and devils. Chained in d
death that win not loosen it's cold grasp. His
1ather is asleep, his brothers are asleep. his
SISTERS are asleep; but his mother is watching
nm, Waeching him in the night. After he
mas gone to bed and fallen into a drunken
sleep, his mother will go up to his room and
see mat ne IS properly covered, and before
she turns out the light will put a kiss unon
his bloated lips. Mother, why don't YOU 90
TO bedP' "Ahts she says, Il cannot 90 TO
bed. am Rizpah watching the slainm
And what are the political parties Of this
country doing for such cases2 They are TAX
ing care not to hurt tbs feelings of the
1ackals and buzzards that roost on the
shelves Of the grog shops and boot above the
dead. am often asked to what political
party l belong and | now declare my opin-
Ion of the political parties to-day. Each one
is worse than the other and the only consoIa-
Gon in regard to them is that they have
putrefled until they have no more power to
rot. oh, that comparatively tame scene IN.
on which Rizpah looked! American mother
hood n American wifehood this moment
are looking upon seventy Of the slain, upon
seven hundred OF the slain, upon seventy
thousand OF the slain. Woel woel woet
My only consolation on this subject is that
foreign capitalists are buying up the Ameri-
can breweries. The present owners see that
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
get these breweries into the hands Of people
living on the other side of the seq our politi-
cal parties will cease to be afraid Of the
liquor traffic, and at their conventions nomi-
mating Presidential candidates will put in
their platform a plank as big as the biggest
plank OF the biggest ocean steamer, saying:
RESOLVED unanimously that we always have
been and always will be opposed to alcohol
ISM
But / must spur on our Arab steed, ana
here we come in sight of Beeroth, said to be
the place where 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,
Jesusga says Mary; Where Is my child,
Jesus?' 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:
FL 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 a child is lost. |
shall not forget the scene when, in a great
outdoor meeting, l was preaching, and some
one stepped ON the platform and said that a
child was lost. We went on with the relig-
ious service, but all our minds were on the
lost child.
After a while a man brought on the plat
form a beautiful little tot that looked like a
piece of heaven dropped down, and said,
There is that child" And I forgot all that
/ was preaching about, and lifted the child
fn T11r ctnotliday. and cajd 2SsHara 10 fha 1oct
child, and the mother will come and get her
right away, or i will take her home and add
her to my own broodr' Aud some cried and
some shouted, and amid all that crowd | in
| stantly 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 OF what must nave
been Mary's anxiety whan she lost Jesus, and
what her g.adne.s when she fouEa her boy in
the templa of Jerusalem talking with those
old ministers Of religion, Slammais Hillel
anil iseiifah.
Ibear down on You to-day with a mighty
comfort. Mary and Joseph said. Where is
our Jesuss' and you say: Where is John?
or where is Henry or where is George?'
Well, / should not wonder il you found him
after a while. Where? In the same place
where Joseph and Mary found their boy-in
the temple. What do I mean by that2 l
1 1lCdlEH Ou NV FOdl bdpy VIC ~ GAA
ward your child and you will fud him after
a while in the kingdom Of Christ. Will you
say, lido not have any way of Influencing
my child?n / answer you have the most
| tremendous line of influence open right be
fore you. As you write a letter, and there
are or three routes By which It may
90, but you want il to go tire quickest
route, andvou put on it ssvia Southampton
or tsvia San Francisco or via Marseilles, "
put on your wishes about yo7rr child, via
the throne of God.n How long will such a
good wish take 70 get TO its destination:
Not quite as long as the millionth part Of a
second. ] will prove it. The promise IS:
before they call | will answer" Iha'
means at your first motion toward such
prayerfui exercise the blessing will come, and
IL the prayer be-nade Mt 10 O'Clock at night
il will be answered five minutes before ten.
Before they call T will answer"
Well. YOU say, L am clear discouraged
about nv son, and | am getting on In years,
and I fear [ viii not live TO sec him convert
NJ. Perhaps not. Nevertheless | think you
will find him in the temple, the heavenly
temple. There has not been an hour Ill
heaven. the last one hundred years when pa
rents liz glory had not had announced TO
them the salvation of Children whom they
left in this world proaigate. We often have
said III forgot It may be after the grass
of thirty summers has greened thu top OF
voffr crave that your son may be found In the
earthly temple. 1t may be fifty years from
now when some morning the towers are chim-
ing the mathis TO the giorifed In heaven that
y5u shall find him in the higher temple
which has mo need of candle or Of sun, fol
the Lord God and the Lamb are the igh1
thereof
Cheer IN. Christian father and mother
Cheer upl Where Joseph and Mary foune
their boy you will find yours--iu the temple
You see. God could not afford to do other
wise One Of the things He has positively
promised in the Bible is thet He will answer
earnest and believing prayer. Faaiing 20 %
that He would wreck His W throne, ana
fha Foundation OF His palace would glvs
suav ami fine bank of heaven would suspend
n~ayfnent. and the dark word, Reputation,
would be written across the sky, and tn
eternal government would be dlSbanded ant
Slod himself would become an exile. keel
on with your prayer, and you VIII yet IN
your child in the temple. either the tenpis
here or she temple above
Ont on the western pralries was q nappy
Inf isolated home. Father, mother anf
child. By the sale of cattle quite a iargs
s,Iyn of money was one night IN that caoln
as,a Aha father was away. a robber who nae
haard of the money one night looked IN q
the window. and the wife ana motner @
that home saw him and she was helpless
Her child by neT side she knelg oowa III
nraved among other things for all prouigas
who were wandering up and down the world
The robber heard her prayer and was over
whelmed and entered the cabin and knel
beside her ana began to pray. He had com
ID rob that house, but the prayer Of tna
woman for ~prodigals reminded him OF ~
mother and her prayers before ne became
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in q great audience, and the orator VINO cam