The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-21

but this will be inviolate and it VIII De your
protest for centuries against inquiry uuu Al
behalf Of righteousness.
Oh! when we see what family relglon
did for our fathers household. 40 we no.
want it to come into the dining room 10
break the bread, into the nursery to bless
the young, into the parlor to purify me
socialitieS. into the library to coLtrol tne
reading, into the bedroom TO naiiow !ne
slumber, into the hall to- watch our soils
out and our. coming in! Aye, uielG 9 are re
hundreds of voices in this house ready 10
cry out: "Yes! Yes! AS for me and my
house we will serve the lord; ..:o+
There are two arms to THIS supJecl'
The one arm puts its hand on az pa s'.;+I
1t says to them: Don't interfere VIII
your children's welfare. Don ineeA ~. w..
with the eternal happiness; don you
by anything you do, put out your 1901 stlo
trip them into ruin Start them under lie
shelter. the insurance, the everlasting heip
of Christian parentage. Catechislils WIZ
not save them, though catechlsms are sooo;
The rod will not save them though Tue l?u
may be necessary Lessons Of virtue Will
not save them. though they are very import
ant. Becoming a through and through. ua
and down, out and out Christian yoursel1
will make them Christians.
The other arm of this subject puts us
hand upon those who had plous orlhs,
ing up but who as yet nave e; o rsappG to
them. l said that children brought mp III
Christian households, though they might
make a wide curve, We're very apt 10 colhe
back to the straight path. Haye you not
been curving out long enough: ana IS y
not most time for you to begin to curve M ;;
"Oh," you say, they were TOO nSld.
Well now, my brother, l think you nave
a pretty good character considering What
you say your parents We're. DO not boast
too much about the style IN which your
parents brought you up. Might IL not De
possible that you would be an exception
to the general rule laid down, and that you
might spend your eternity In different
world from that in which your parents are
spending theirs!
/ feel anxious about you; you feel anx-
ious about yourself. Oh! cross over ITO
the right path. If your parents prayed Tor
YOU twice a day. each OF them twice a
day for twenty years, that would make
10000 prayers for you. Think OF them!
by the memory of the cradle in which
YOUR childhood was rocked with the 1901
that long ago ceased to move. by the cfib
in which your own children slumber night
by night under Gods protecting care, by
the two graves in which sleep those two
old hearts that beat with love so long Tor
your welfare. and by the two graves III
which you. now the living father and moth
err, will find your last rcpose, L urge you
TO the discharge of your duty.
Though parents may III covenant De,
And have their heaven in view;
They are not happy till they see
Their children happy too.
OH you departed Christian ancestry,
fathers and mothers in glory. bend from
the skies today, and give new emphasis
to what you told us on earth with many
tears and anxicties Keep a place for us
by your bissful side. for today, in the
presence of earth and heaven and hell,
and by the help of the cross, and amid over-
whelming and gracious memories. we re-
solve, each one for himself AS for me
and my house. we will serve the Lord"