The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-20

death~beds. Old, old book speak out and
tell of he sorrOws comfOTted, and OF the
dying hours irradisted. Old, old book!
the hands that held thee are ashes, the eyes
that perused thee are closed. What pill
low thou wouldst make for dying head :
( / salute all the memories Of the past when
/ press 1t to my heart, and when Ipress it TO
/ my lips.
/ ., that family Bible! The New Testa-
/ ment in small type IS not worthy Of being
called by that name. Have a whole Bible
in large type, with the family record Of mar
riages and births aud deaths. What If the
curious should turn over the leaves TO see
how old you srel You are Younger now
than you will ever be again. The curious
will tEd out from those with whom you
have played in your childhood how old you
are. Have a family Bible 1t will GOODWIN
from generation to generation, full of holy
memories. A hundred years after you are
dead it will be a beGediCtion TO those who
come after you. Other books, worn out, or
fallen apart, will be flung to the garnet or
the cellar; out this viii Le invIolate. and it
will be your protest for centuries against
iniquity aud In behalf of Righteousness.
q 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 social
tiles, into the library to control the reading,
luLO Lub DEQIOOIl 70 uhilOW Tie hAuLuDbA
into the hall to watch our going out and our
coming in Aye. there are hundreds of
voices in this house ready to cry out: "N es!
Yes! 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
children's welfare, don't interfere with their
eternal happiness, don't you, by anything
you do, put out your foot and trip them into
ruin. Start them under the shelter, the in
surance. the everlasting help of Christian
parentage. Catechisms will not So We them,
though catechisms are good. The rod will
not save them, though the rod may be nee
essary. Lessons Of virtue will not save
them, though they are very important.
Becoming a through and through, up and
down, out and out Christian yourself will
make them Christians"
The other arms Of this subject puts its
hand upon those who had a plous 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 may make wide
curve, were very apt to come back to the
straight path. Have you not been curving
out long enough! and is ii not most time for
you to begin to curve ina
90" you say, they were too rigid.n
Well now, my brother, | think you have a
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 ex-
ception to the general rule laid down, and
that you might spend your eternity in a
different world from that in which your
parents are spending theIrs9
feel anx Gus about you; you feel anxi-
GUS about yourself. o! cross over into the
right path. If your parents prayed for
you twice day, each of them twice a day
for twenty years, that would make 29, 900
prayers for you. Think of them
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, will
ind your last repose, urge you to the dis
charge of your duty.
Though parents may in convenant be,
And have their heaven in view;
They are not happy till they see
Their children happy too.
OF you departed Christian ancestry.
fathers and mothers in glory, bend from the
skies to-day and give new emphasis to what
you told us on earth with many tears and
anxieties. Keep place for us by your bliss
full side, for to-day, in the presence of earth
end heaven and hell, and by the help Of the
cross, and amid over whelming and gracious
memories, we resolve, each one for himself
As for me and my house, we will serve the
Lord