Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-03-31

are. Have family Bible. It will 70 down
from generation 70 generation, full OF holy
memories hundred years after you ara
dead It will be benediction to those who
come after you. Other books, worn out or
fallen apart will be flung TO the garret or
the cellar, but this will be inviolate. and IL
will be your protest for centuries against
iniquity and In behalf of righteousness.
On, when We see what family religion did
for our fathers household, do we not want
| 1t 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
to watch our going out and our coming inf
Aye there are hundreds OF voices in this
house really to cry ont: "Yesl Yesi As
for me and my house, we will serve the
| Lord"
There are two arms to this subject. Toe
one arm puts its hand on all parents IL
says to them: Don't interf ere with your
| children's welfare, don't interfere with their
eternal happiness, don't you by anything
| you do put out your fopt and trip them into
ruin. Start them under the shelter, the In
surance, the everlasting help of Christian
parentage. Catechisms will not have them,
though catechisms are good. The rod will
not save them, though the rod may be ueces.
sary. Lessons Of virtue will not save them.
though they are very important. Becoming
through and through, up and down, out
and out Christian yourself will make them
! Christians
The other arm of this subject puts its
hand upon those who had pious bringing
up, but who as yet have disappointed the
expectations excited in regard to them. 1
said that children brought up in Christian
households, though they might mae
wide curve, were very apt TO come back to
the straight path. Have you not been
curving out long enough, and is 1t not most
time for you to begin to curve ip'
Well now, my brother, think you have
pretty good character considering wha. you
say your parents were. Do not boast too
much about the style in which your parents
brought you up. Might 1t not be possible
that you would be an exception to the gem
eral rule laid down, and that you might
spend your eternity in different world
from that in which your parents are SPEND
ing theirs,
feel anxious about you; you feel anxious
about yourself. Ga, cross over into the right
path. IL your parents prayed for you twIcs
a day, each OF them twice day for 20 years
that would make 29, 900 prayers 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 iu
which your own children sIumber 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 reposs, urge you to the dis
charge OF your duty.
| Though parents msy in covenant b
| Aud have their heaven In view,
| They are not happy till they see
| Their children happy too
Oh, you departed Christian anc cAstry,
fsthe,S al mothers in glory, bend from the
skiet. 70 =. and give new emphasis to what
| you tosj a on esrth with many tears aud
anxieti4> Keep place for US by your
blissiul siue for to-day. in the presence OF
earth and heaven an hell, and by the help
Of the cross and amid overwhelming and
gracious memories, we resolve, each one for
him self, "As for me and my house we will
! serve the Lord"