The Penn's Grove record., 1892-06-03
PENIS GROVE, N. j.. FRIDAY. JUNE ). 1892

years OF age and the other was seventy-two,
and the epitaph says that latter a useful life
they died a Christian DEATH" How appro-
priately the Scripture passage cut ON the
mothers tombstone, ''She hath done what
she could.p And how beautiful the passage
cut on the fathers to nbstone. blessed ara
the dead who die in the Lord. for they rest
from their labors aud their works do follow
them"
On over the country road we ride-the
road a little rough, for the spring weather
Is not quite settled, and once down In a rut
1t IL hard to get the wheels out again with
out breaking the shafts. But at last we
come to the lane in front of the farmhouse.
Let me get out Of the wagon and open the
gate while you drive through. Here Is the
arbor under which those boys and girls many
years z used to play. But it is quite
out OF order now, for the property Is
in other hands. Yonder is the orchard
where they used to thrash the trees for
, apples, sometimes before they were quite
ripe. There Is NOV where they hunted for
eggs before Easter. There is the doorsill
upon which they used to sit. There is the
room in which they had family prayers and
where they all knelt-the father there, the
mother there and the boys and girls there.
We have got to the fountain Of pious inc
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 SCI
dom more than their fathers will let them
be-. Girls are seldom more than their mothers
will let than 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 1
knew more at fifteen years OF age than ]
have ever known since.
There come times in q girls life when she
thinks her mother Is n%otional and does not
understand what is proper and best, and the
sweet child says, 'Oh, pshawp 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. You have a re-
source Of prayer that puts the sympathetic
and omnipotent God into your parental un'
ing f1imsy books about the best ways to
bring up children. Go into the secret place
OF thunder.
At nine o'clock Wednesday morning, June
15next, on the steamer City of New York.
l expect to sail for Liverpool, to be gone IN
til September. 1t is in acceptance Of many
invitations that / am going on a preaching
tour. 1 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
my parish, and l 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
taket Icatl 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 dons 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. II you remember me in
the devotional circle, that will be well, hut
what / most want is your impor tuning,
your wrestling duplication 10 the secret
place of thunder.
God and you alone may make me the
humble instrumentality in the redemption
of thousands of souls. l shall preach in
churches, in chapels and in the fields. will
make it a campaign for God and eternity,
and l hope to get during this absence Q
baptism of power that will make me OF
more service to you when l return than l
ever yet have been. For, brethren and
sisters in Christ, our opportunity for
usefulness will soon be gone, and we shall
have our faces upliftsd 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.
lnere Will De Gne munger OF Iho tuuupiiu&
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! Boomi
But all that dim and uprosr and caash
will find US u~naffrighted, AMI will leave
US undismayed if we have made Christ
Dur confidence, and as after an August
shower, when the whole heavens have
been an numbered battery ~cannonad-
ing the earth, the fields are more green,
and the sunrise is the more radiant, and
the waters are more opaline, so 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 sbimmering, and
the sunrise Of eternal gladness the more en-
purpled. The thuuders of dissolving nature
will be followed by a celestial psalmody the
sound of which St. John on Patmos de-
scribed, when he said, 81 heard a voice like
the voice Of mighty thunderingF Ameni