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know e. and they feel it. and they cannot

know it, and they feel IL, anu oneY '""A
get away from it. .Lo-
Two funerals after awhile-not more . Inan
two wears apart, for 1t Is seldom thsC thelo
is more than that lapse OF Ulnie De'" ,.
fathers going and mothers gonIls-Tp% r,t
funerals put out of sight the old folks. DuN
where arc the childrenY The daughters are
Id homes Where they are incarnatlons Oh
GOOD sense industry and pietJ. the sons'
! perhaps one farmer, another merchanV
another a mechanic, another mih1sUel u
the Gospel, useful, CONSISTENT agin .heua
honored What power for good tIose
seven sons and daughters! Where ala Iney
get the powerP From the schools, ana tne
seniifiaries, and The collegesf Oh, no, though
these may have Helped. From theli Superior,
mental endowment? No. | do not tnihk
thew had unusual mental caliber. From &C
cidental circumstances? No they had moth
ing Of what Is callel astounding goo luck.
| think we will take train and ride 10 the
depot nearest TO the homestead from WINCH
those men and women started. me Ifaiii
halts. Let us stop few minutes at the vi
lage graveyard andsee the tomostones OF one
| rtarents. Yes, the one was seventy-iour
years of age and the other was seventy-two,
and the e1itaph saws that 'after useful life
they died d Christian DEATH" How appro~
priately the Scripture passage cut on the
| mothers tombstone, ''She hath done Wnae
| She could.n And how beautiful the passage
|
the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest
from their Iabors and their works do follow
| them" ~,
On over the country road we rlde-the
| road little rough, for the spring weaoneI
| is not quite settled, and once down IN rIl'
| il is hard to get the wheels out again With
| out breaking the shafts. But at lasV we
come to the lane in front of the farmhouse.
| Let me get out of the wagon and open Iue
gate while you drive through. Here Is the
arbor under which those boys and giris many
years ago used to play. But 1t Is qul!e
out of order now for the properly IS
in other hands. Yonder is the orchard
where they used to thrash the trees tor
apples sometimes before they were quite
ripe There is NOW where they hunted lor
eggs before Easter. There is the doorsll
upon which they used to sit There Is the
room in which they mad family prayers ana
where they all knelt-the father there, the
mother there and the boys and girls there.
We have got to the fountain OF plous ana
gracious influences at last. That is the place
that decided those seven earthly and I'M
mortal destinies. Behold Behold That
is the secret place of thunder. Boys are sell
dom moro than their fathers will let them
be. Girls are seldom more than their mothers
will let them be. But there come times when
it seems that parents cannot control their
children. There come times in a boys life
when he thinks he knows more than his
father does, and l remember now that
knew more at fifteen years or age than
have ever known since.
There come times in girls life when she
thinks her mother is notional and does not
understand what is proper and best aud the
sweet child says ''Oh pshaw!" and she longs
for the time when she will not have to be
dictated to, and she goes out of the door or
goes to bed with pouting lips, and these
mothers remember for themselves that they
knew more at fourteen years OF age than
they have ever known SINCE But father
and mother, do not think you have lost your
influence over your child. on nave re-
source of prayer that puts the sympathetic
and omnipotent God into your parental un-
dertaking. Do not waste your time in read
ing fiimsy books about the best ways to
bring ND children. Go into the secret place
of thunder.
At nine o'cloc,- Wednesday morning, June
Is next, on the steamer City OF New YORK.
l expect to sail for Liverpool, to be gone un-
til September 1t is in acceptance of many
invitations that am going on a preaching
tour. expect to devote my time to preach.
ing the Gospel in England, Scotland, Ireland
and Sweden. l want to see how many souls
l can gather for the kingdom of God. Those
countries have for many years belonged to
nv parish, and 1 go to speak to them and
shake hands with them. l want to visit
more thoroughly than before those regions
from which my ancestors came, Wales and
Scotland.
But who is sufficient for the work under
take? 1 call upon you who have long been
my coadjutors to go into the secret place OF
the Almighty and every day from now
until my work is done on the other side of
the sea, to have me in your prayers. In
proportion to the intensity and continuance
and faith of the prayers, yours and mine,
will be the results. If you remember me in
the devotional circle, that will be well, hut
what 1 most want is your importuning,
your wrestling supplication in the secret
place>of thunder.
God and you alone mey make me the
humble fundamentally in the redemption
of thousands of souls. | shall preach in
churches, in chapels and in the fields. Twill
make it ascampaign for God and eternity,
and hope to get during this absence
baptism of power that will make me OF
more service to you when l return than |
ever yet have been. For, brethren and
sisters in Christ, our opportunity for
usefulness will soon be gone, and we Shall
have our faces uplifted to the throne of judg-
ment, before which we must give account
That day there will be no secret place of
thunder, for all the thunders will be out.
There will be'the thunder of the tumbling
rocks There'will be the thunder of the
bursting waves. There will be the
| thunder of the descending chariots There
will be the thunder of the parting heavens.
Boom Boom
| But all that dim and uproar and caash
will find us unaffrighted, and will leave
us undismayed if we have made Christ
our confidence, and as after an August
shower, when the whole heavens have
been an unilmbered battery cannonad-
ing the earth, the fields are more green,
and the sunrise is the mora radiant and
the waters are more opaline, the
thunders of the last day will make the
! trees of life appear more emerald, and
| the carbuncle of The wall more crimson, and
the sapphire seas the more shimmering, and
the sunrise of eternal gladness the more en-
purpled. The thunders of dissolving nature
will be followed by a celestial psalmody the
sound of which st. John on Patmos de-
scribed, when he said, II heard voice like
Athewoice of mighty thunderingp Amenl
Escaped Cloud Burst.