The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-21

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eipate the hardened sinner. Oh, NJ
you must not call her thoughtle:
butterfly In our presence. You sc
we would not stand it" The fact
that the son and daughter Of tha
family did not promise much at tn
start, but they are now an Echo,
glorious Echo, prolonged Echo G
parental teaching and example
PLANTING FOR TINE AND ETERNITY.
A Vermont mother, as her boy wa
about to start for a life on the sea
said: Edward, have never seen tn
ocean, but ! understand the grea
temptation is strong drink. Promis
me you will never touch it" Man,
years after that, telling Of this in
meeting, Edward said: II gave tina
promise to mother, and have bee1
around the world and at Calcutta
the ports of the Mediterranean, Sar
Francisco, Cape Of Good Hope ant
north and south poles, and never
saw a glass of liquor in all those year.
that my mothers form did not ap
pear before me, and / do not know
how liquor tastes. l never have
tasted it and all because of the prom
Use l made to my mother"
This was the result of that CONVEX
sation at the gate Of the Vermont
farmhouse, The statuary of Thor
waldsen was sent from Italy to Ger,
many, and the straw in which the
statues had been packed was thrown
upon the ground. The next spring
beautiful Italian flowers sprang UP
where this straw had been cast, for
in it had been some of the seeds of
Italian flowers, and whether con-
sclous of it or not we are all the time
| planting for ourselves and planting
for others roses or thorns. You
thought it only straw, yet among it
were anemones
But here is slipghod home. The
parents are goddess pair. They let
their children do az they please. No
example fit to follow. No lessons of
morality or religion Sunday no bet
ter t. an any other Gay. The Bible
no better than any other book. The
house is sort of inn where the older
and younger people of the household
stop for awhile. The theory acted
on, though perhaps not announced,
Is: THE children will have to do as
l did and take their chances. Life is
lottery anyhow, and some draw
prizes and some draw blanks and we
will trust to luck"
Skip twenty years and como back
to tho neighborhood where that fam
lily used to live. You meet on the
street or on the road an old inhabi-
tant of that neighborhood, and you
say, Can you tell me anything about
the Petersons who used to live here?"
Yes, y says the old inhabitant, II re-
member them very well The father
and mother have been dead for
years" well, how about the chill
dreni What has become of them2"
The old inhabitant replies: "They
turned out badly. You know the
old man was about half an infidel and
the boys were all infidels. The old
est son married, but got into drinking
habits and in few years his wife
was not able to live with him any
longer and his children were taken
by relatives, and he died of delirium
tremens on Blackwell's island. His
other son forged the name of his en-
ployer and fled to Canada. One of
the daughters of the old folks mar
rled an inebriate with the idea of re-
forming him, and you know how
that always ends-in the ruin of both
the experimenter and the one ex-
perimented with. The other daugh-
ter disappeared mysteriously and
has not been heard of. There was a
young woman picked out of the |
East river and put in the morgue. |
and some thought it was her, but / |
cannot say" lis it possible2" YOU
cry out. Yes. it is possible. The
family Is a complete wreck" Nv
hearers that Is just what might have
been expected. All this is onlv the
Echo, the dismal Echo, the awful
Echo, the dreadful Echo of parental
obhquity and unfaithfulness. The
Did folks heaped up a mountain of
wrong influences, and this is ONLY
what my text calls 1.-THE sounding of
the mountains"
Indeed our entire behavior in this
world will have a resound. While
opportunities fly in a straight line
and just touch us once and are gone
never to return, the wrongs we prac-
ice upon others fly in a circle. and
1hey come back to the place from
which they started. Doctor Guillo-
Inc thought it smart to introduce
The instrument of death, named after
nm; but did not like it so well when
MS own head was chopped off with
the guillotine.
Make YOUR RECORD FOR JUDGMENT
DAY
So, also, the Judgment dav will he
In Echo of all our other days. The
needs such a day for there
Ire SO many things in the world that
need to be fixed up and explained. If ,
5oo mad not appointed such dav all
he nations would cry out, "Oh, God
ave us a judgment day" But we are ;
'pt TO think of it and speak about it '
Is day away off in the future
having no special connection with +
ms day or any other day. The fact I
mat we are now making up its
'olces, its trumpets will only sound {
Jack again to us what we now saw i
nd do. c
That is the meaning of all that i
scripture which says that Christ will a
n that day address the soul, saying S
1 was naked and ye clothed me: I l
vas sick and in prison and We visited t
ne. p" All the footsteps in that prison a
orrldor as the Christian Refo,mer S
1aiks to the wicket Of the incarcerat-
O. yea all the whispers of condo C
snce In the ear of that poor soul dy- b
ag In that garnet, yea all the kind t.