Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-25
my text: "As tor me and my house we

will serve the LORD.
There was, in my ancestral line, ar
incident so strangely impressive th;t II
seems more like romance than reality
1t has sometimes been so inaccurately
put forth that now give you the true
incident My grandfather and grand
mother. living at Somerville, n. j.,
went to Baslsingridge to witness re-
vival under the ministry Of Rev. DR..
Finley. They came home so impressed
with what they had seen that they re.
solved on the salvation of their child.
rem.
The Young people OF the house were
to go off for an evening party, and my
grandmother said:
Now, when you are all ready for the
party, come to my room, for ! have
something very important to tell you. "
All ready for departure, they came to
her room, and she said to them: Now,
/ want you to remember, while you are
away this evening, that ] am all the
time in this room praying for your
salvation, and shall not cease pray
ing until you get back" The young
people went to the party, but, amid
the loudest hilarities of the night, they
could not forget that their mother was
praying for them. The evening passed,
and the night passed.
The next day my grandparents heard
an cutlery in an adjoining room, and
they went in and found their daughter
imploring the salvation of the gospel.
The daughter told them that her broth
crs were ut the barn and at the wagon
house under powerful conviction of sin.
They went to the barn. They found
my uncle Jehiah, who afterwards be.
came minister of the gospel, crying TO
God for mercy. They went to the
wagon house. They found their son
David, who afterwards became my
father, imploring Gods pardon and
mercy. Before great while the whole
family were saved, and David went and
told the story to a young woman to
whom he was aflianced, who, as the re-
suit of the story, became Christian,
and from her own lips-my Mothers
have received the incident
The story of that converted house
hold ran through all the neighborhood,
from family to family. until the whole
region was whelmed with religious
awakening. and ut the next communion
in the village church at Somerville over
200 souls stood up to profess the faith
of the gospel. My mother, carrying
the memory of this scene from early
into farther life, in after
years resolved upon the salvation of
her children, and for many years every
week she met three other Christian
to pray for the salvation of
their families. I think that all the
members of those families were saved
myself, the youngest and the last.
Oh, when we see what family re-
ligion did for your fathers household,
do we not want it to come into the
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 to watch our going out
md our coming in? Aye, there are
of voices in this house ready
10 cry out: "Yes! Yes! As for me
and my house, we will serve the Lord"
There are two arms to this subject.
The one arm puts its hands on all the
parents. 1t says to them: Don't inter-
fere with your children's welfare. Don't
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
,urance, the everlasting help OF Chris
Ian parentagc. Catechisms will not
save them, though catechisms are good.
The rod will not save them, though the
-od may be necessary. Lessons OF
virtue will not save them, though they
ire very important Becoming
through and through, up and down,
,ut and out Christian yourself will
make them Christians
The other arm of this subject puts its
land upon those who had pious bring
ng up, but who as yet have disappoint-
ID the expectations excited in regard to
hem. said that children brought up
n Christian households, though they
night make wide curve, were very
lpt to come back to the straight path.
lave you not been curving out long
enough? and is it not most time Tor you
o begin to curve in?
"Oh," you say, they were too rigid"
Well, now, my brother, l think you
rave pretty good character consider
ng what you say your parents were
Do not boast too much about the style
n which your parents brought you up
Night IT not be possible that you would
De an exception to the general rule laid
lown, and that you might spend your
eternity in different world from that
n which your parents are spending
heirs?
nv the memory of the cradle in