The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-05-13

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seven o'clock in the morning and ten
o'clock at night there may be mo-
ment when You will be in urgent need
of God. Besides that. family prayers
will be secular advantage. father
went into the war to serve his country.
His children stayed and cultivated the
farm. His wife prayed. One OF the
sons said afterwards: Father is fight
ing, and we are digging, and mother is
PRAYING" "Ah!" said some one, pray
ing, and digging, and fighting Will
bring us out of our national troubles.
We may pray in the morning; GIVE
us this day our daily bread" and SIT
down in idleness and starve to death; +
but prayer and hard work will give
livelihood to any family. Family reh-
gion paws for both worlds. Let us have
an altar in each one of our households. |
You may not be able to formulate a
prayer. Then there are Philip Henry's
prayers, and there are McDuff's pray
ers, and there are Philip Docdridges
prayers, and there are the Episcopal
church prayers, and there are scores OF
books with supplications just suited TO
the domestic circle.
''Ohr, says some man, II don't feei
competent to lead my household IN
PRAYER" Well, do not know that 1T
| is your duty to lead. think perhaps
| it is sometimes better for the mother OF
| the household to lead. She knows bet
| ter the wants of the household. She
can read the Scriptures with more
| tender enunciation. She knows more
of God. / will put it plainly, and say
she prays better. Oh! these mothers
decide almost everything. Nero's
mother was murderess Lord Byron's
mother was naughty and impious.
You might have guessed that from
their children. Walter Scott's mother
was fond of poetry. Wnshington's
mother was patriotic. Samuel Bud
gets mother was thorough Christian.
st. Bernard's mother was noble
minded. So you might have guessed
| from their children. Good men al.
WAYS have good mothers. There may,
once in ten or twenty years, been an
exception to the rule. but it is only an
exception. benjamin Vests mother
. kissed him after she had seen his first
wonderful sketch with the pencil Ben
: iamin West afterward said THAT kiss
! made me painter"
! A young man received furlough te
return from the army to his fathers
house. Afterward he took the furlough
back to the officer, saying: Il would
; like to postpone my visit for two
: weeks At the end of the two weeks
he came and got the furlough. He wa!
asked why he waited. well" ne re
piled, .'when l left home | told my
u mother would be a Christian in thu
II army, and l was resolved not to e
i home until / could answer her hrs
u question" Oh the almost omnipoten
power of the mother. But if both tn
e father and mother be right, then tn
children are sure to be right. III
u young people may make a wide curry
e from the straight path, but they ar
IL almost sure to come back to the righ
20 road. 1t may not be until the death
le one of the parents How often is it tina
y we hear some one say: "Oh! he was
&c wild young man, but since his father
sc death he has been different" The fact
III that the fathers coffin, or the mother
y coffin, is often the altar of repentane
IS for the child. Oh! that was stupent
ne GUS day, the day of fathers burial.
al was not the officiating clergyman WI
e, made the chief impression, nor II
''r sympathizing mourners; it was II
y father asleep in the casket The hans
IN that had toiled for that household
- long, folded. The brain cooled Q
W after twenty or forty years OF anxie'
~ about how to put that family in rlg
III position. The lips closed after SO mai
wears of good advice. There are mo
- tears falling in mothers grave than
or fathers grave; but over the fathe'
-. tomb think there is a kind OF awe
TOT is at that marble pillar many YOU
y" man has been re volutionized.
're o. young man with cheek flush
gu with dissipation! how long is it sin
as YOU have been out to your fathe
nu grave? Perhaps the storm Of the Ia
Ter few DAYS may have bent the headsto
'lo until it leans far over. You had betl
'ne go out and see whether the letter.
Ply has been defaced. You had better
.lu out and see whether the gate OF the
is closed. You had better go and
me II YOU can find sermon in the spril
o. ing grass. o. young man! go out 7
'ne week and see your fathers grave.
're' lipion did SO much for our Christi
rem ancestry, are we not ready this mo
'er, ing to be willing to receive it into
my own household? If we do receive
ou. let it come through the front door,
req through the back door. In OF
ON words, do not let us smuggle 1t
me, There are a great many families v
era want to be religious, but they do
GU want anybody outside to know
nat They would be mortified to death
you Won caught them at family prayt
They would not sing in the wors
aas for fear their neighbors would b
49, them. They do not have prayers w
: 70 they have company!
They do not know much about
: - nobility of the western trapper. A Il
~ eler going along was overtaken
80. night and a storm, and he entere
. cabin. There were firearms hung
80 around the cabin. He was alarmed.
IN. had large amount of money with h
80. hut he did not dare to venture out
s;on The night In the storm. He did not
800 the looks of the household. A
W. LII A. fothar tho xypStarn ira n