The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-22
MORNING.

never Illustrated a Bible as that DOOk IS
illustrated to my eyes. Through it | can
see into marriages and barials, joys and
sorrows, meetings and paTtsags, Thanks
giving days and Christmas festivals, cra-
dies and deathbeds. Old, old book! speak
out and tell Of the sorrows comforted and
of the dying hours irradiated. Old, old
bookl the hands that held thee are ashes,
the eyes that perused thee are closed
What pillow thou wouldst make for a
dying headl / salute all the memories of
the past when press it TO my heart and
when press it TO my lips.
THE OLD FAMILY BIBLE.
Oh, that family Biblei The New Tesla
ment in small type is not worthy Of being
called by that name. Have whole Bible
in large type, with the family record of
marriages and births and deaths. What If
the curious should turn over the leaves to
see how old you are? You are younger now
than you will ever be again The curious
will find out from those with whom you
have played in your childhood how old you
are Have a family Bible. 1t will godown
from generation to generation full of holy
memories. A hundred years after you are
dead it will be a benediction TO thOse who
come after YOU Other books worn out or
fallen apart will be flung to the garnet or
the cellar, but this will be inviolate and it
will be your protest for centuries against in
EQUITY and in behalf of righteousness.
Oh, when we see what family religion
did for our fathers household, do we not
want it to come into the dining room to
break the bread, into the nursery to bless
the young, into the parlor to purify the
socialities. into the library to control the
reading, into the bedroom to hallow the
slumber, into the hall 20 watch cur going
out and our coming in2 Aye, there are
hundreds of voices in this house ready to
cry out: "Yesl Yesl AS for me and my
house. we will serve the Lord"
There are two arms to this subject. The
one arm puts its hand on all parents. 1t
says to them: Don't interfere with your
childrens welfare. Don't interfere with
their eternal happiness. Don't you 10y any
thing you do put out your foot and trip
them into ruin. Start them under the shell
ter, the insurance. the everlasting help of
Christian parentage Catechisms will not
save them, though catechisms are good.
The rod will not save them, though the rod
may be necessary. Lessons of virtue viii
not save them, though they are very inn
portant Becoming a through and through,
up and down, out and out Christian your
self will make them Christians"
The other arm of this subject puts its
hand upon those who had a pious bringing
up, but who as yet have disappointed the
expectations excited in regard to them. |
said that children brought up in Christian
households, though they might make a
wide curve, were very apt to come back to
the straight path. Have you not been
curving out long enough, and is it not
most time for you to begin to curve in?
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Well now, my brother, think you have
pretty good character considering what you
say your parents were. Do not boast too
much about the style in which your parents
brought you up. Might it not be possible
that you would be an exception to the gen
eral rule laid down, and that you might
spend your eternity in a different world
from that in which your parents are spend
ing theirs7
CHRISTIAN SOLICITUDE.
feel anxious about you; you feel anx-
ious about Yourself. oh, cross over into
the right pathl If your parents prayed for
you twice a day-each of them twice a day
for 90 years-that would make $4,000 pray
ers for you. Think of theml
BY the memory of the cradle in which
your childhood was rocked with the foot
that long ago ceased to move; by the crib 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 for your
welfare, and by the two graves in which
you, now the living father and mother, viii
find your last repose, l urge you to the dis
charge of your duty.
Though parents may in covenant be
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
anxieties! Keep "a place for US by your
blissful side, for today, in the presence Of
earth and heaven and hell, and by the help
of the cross, and amid overwhelming and
gracious memories, we resolve, each one for
himself, As for me and my house. we viii
serve the Lord