Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-03-31

Tashtn vton's mother was patriotic. Samuel
Budgets mother was a thorough Carlsetan.
st. Rernar1's mother was noole fhiudSu-
so you might have guessed iron tneiE { III
dren Good men ALWAYS have 5ood motners
There may once ten or twenty years oe
an execution tn the rule. but IL IS onlF an
execution Benjamin Vests IN )lh@F AissSl
him after she had seen his first "onderTut
sketch with the pencil. Benz NesF
afterward said, That kiss made me
painter" <,,,.,o.,c,t, - -
turn from the army To lis Iatners mouse.
Afterward he took the turlough back to the
nfFirar saving II would like co postpone my
visit for two weeks" At the end o: the
two weeks he came and got the furlough.
He was asked why he waited " ell, ne
replied. Nv hen left home tolo my mother
1 would be a Christian in the army. an
was resolved not TO go home until could
answer her first question" GA, the almost
omnipotent power OF the mother! BUT IL
both the father and the mother be right,
then the children are almost sure TO be
right The Young people may make a wide
curve from the straight path. out tney ara
almost sure to come back to the right road.
1t may not be until the deato or one OF the
parents.
say. ''Oh. he was wild young man. but
since his fathers death he has been differ
ent" The fact is that the fathers coffin or
or the mothers coffin is often the altar OF
repentance for the, child. Oh, that was a
stupendous day, the day of fathers burial.
1t was not the officiating clergyman who
made the chief impression nor the svmDa-
rnlzlng mourners. 1t was the father asleep
in the casket.
The hands That had toiled for that house.
hold so long folded The bEain cooled off
after twenty or forty years of anxiety about
how to put that family in right position.
The lips closed after so many years of good
advice. There are more tears falling in
mothers grave than in fathers grave, but
over the fathers tomb think there is kind
of awe 1t is at that marble pillar many
young man has been revolutioniZed.
Oh, young man with cheek flushed with
dissipation! how long is it since you have
been out 20 your fathers grave? Will you
not go Inis week? Perhaps the storms OF the
last few days may have bent the headstone
until it leans far over. You had better go
out and see whether the lettering has been
1efac2d. You had better go out and see
whether the gate of the lot is closed. You
had better go and see if you cannot find a
sermon in tho springlng grass. Oh, young
man, go out this week and see your fathers
grave!
Religion did so much for our Christian an
cestry, are we not ready this morning to be
willing to receive it into our own hou schools?
If we do receive it, let it come through the
front door, not through the back door. In
other words, do not let us smuggle it in.
There great many families who want
to be religious, but they do not want any
BODY outside to know it. They would be
mortified to death if you caught them at
taeir family prayers. They would not sing
in the worship for fear the neighbors would
hear them. They do not have prayers when
they have company.
They do not know much about the nobility
of the western trapper. a traveller going
along was overtaken by night and storm,
and he entered a cabin. There were firearms
hrD tho ain He ola
He had a large amount Of money with him,
but he did not dare to venture on into the
night in the storm. He did not like the looks
of the household. After awhile the father,
shoulder, and when tine traveller looked at
him he was still more affrighted.
After awhile the family were whispering
together in one corner of the ROOM and the
traveller thought to himself: ooh! now my
time has come, L wish L was out in
the storm and in the night rather
than here" But the swarthy man came up
to him and said. ''Sir, we are a rough peo-
pie; we get our living by hunting. and we are
very tired when the night comes; but before
ing little out of the Bible and having
prayers, and l think we will have our usual
custom tonight, and if you don't believe in
that kind of thing if you will just step out
side the door for little while [ will be much
obliged to you."
| who have not half the Courage Of that
| western trapper. They do not want their
religion projecting too conSpicuously. They
would like to have it near by SO as to call on
1T IN case of funeral, but as to having it
dominant in the household from the 1st of
January, O'CLOCK a. NJ, to the 31st of De-
cember, 1O o'clock p. M, they do not want
it. They would rather die AMI have their
families perish with them than to cry out in
the bold words of the soldier i'll my text.
AS for me and my house, we will serve
the Lord"
There was, in my anc astral line, an Incl.
dent SO strangely impressive that it seems
more like romance than reality. 1t has
sometimes been so lnaccurately put forth that
| now give you the true incident. NV grand
father and grandmother living at Somer-
vile. N. j., went to Baskinridge to witness
revival under the ministry of the Rev. DR..
Finley. They came nome so impressed with
what they had seen that they resolved on
the salvation Of their children.
The young people OF the house were to go
OF for an evening party, anu my grand
mother said:
Now, when you are all ready for the
party, come to my room, for I have some
thing very important to tell YOU" ALI
ready for departure, they came to her room.
and she said TO them, Now, [ want you to
remember, while you away this even
lngg, that an all the time in this room
praying for your salvation. and l shall not
cease praying until you get back" The
young people went to the party. but amid
the foudest hilarities of the night they could
not forget that their mother was praying
tor 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 imnlor tho