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

guessed that from their children. Walter
Scott's mother was fond of poetry. Wash
ington's mother was patriotic. Samue
Budgets mother was thorough Christian
St. Bernard's mother was nOble-minded
So YOU might have guessed from their
children. Good men always have good
mothers. There may, once in ten or twenty
wears, be an exception TO the rule, but II Is
only az exception. Benjamin w ests
mother kissed him after che had seen his
first wonderful sketch with the pencil
BENJAMIN West afterward said: That kiss
made me q painter"
A Young man received a furlough TO re-
turn from the army to his fathers house.
Afterward be took the furlOugh back 70 the
officer. saving: II would like TO postpone
my visit for TWO weeks. At the end OF the
two weeks he came and got the fur. ugh.
He was asked why be waited. ven Ne
replied, "When / left home / told my
mother I would be a Christian in the army,
and was resolved not to 60 home until
could answer her first question q the
almost ornuiDotent power OF the mother
Bat il both the father and the mother De
right. then the children are almost sure to
be right The Young people may make
wide curve from the straight path but they
are almost sure to come back to the right
road. Il may not be until the death Of one
of the parents. How often It Is that we
hear some one say: so! he was q wild
young man, but since his fathers death be
has been different The fact
is that the fathers coffin, or the mothers
coffin, is often the altar Of repentance for
the child. o. that was stupendous day,
the day of fathers burial. 1t was not the
officiating clergy man who made the chief
impression, nor the sympathizing mourners;
it was the father asleep In the casket. The
hands that had toiled for that household so
long, folded. The brain cooled off after
- gy,Fr low oh NraF hfv
60 put that family IN right position. The
lips closed after 80 many years Of good adj
vice There are more tears falling in
mothers grave than in fathers grave; but
over the fathers tomb / think there is a
kind of awe. 1t is at that marble pillar
many a young man has been revolutionized.
o. young man with cheek flushed with
dissipation how long is it since you have
been out to your fathers gravel win you
not 90 this week. Perhaps the storms of
the last few days may have bent the head
stone until it leans far over. You had bet
ter go out aud see whether the gate Of the
lot is closed. You had better 60 and see if
you cannot find sermon in the springing
grass. Q young mani go out this week and
see your fathers grave. Religion did so
much for our Christian ancestry, are we
not ready this morning to be willing to res
ceive it in our own householder IL we do
not receive it, let it come through the front
door, not through the back door. In other
words, 90 not let US smuggle it in. There
are great many families who want TO be
religious, but they do not want anybody
outside TO know it. They would be morti-
fed to death il you caught them at family
prayers. They would not sing in the wor
ship for fear their neighbors would hear
them. They do not have prayers when they
have company!
They do not know much about the nobil-
fly Of the western trapper. A traveller GO
ing along was overtaken by night and
storm, and he entered cabin. There were
firearms hung up around the cabin. He was
alarmed. He had a large amount of money
with him, but he did not dare to venture
out into the night IN the storm. He did
not like the looks of the household. After
awhile the father, the western trRpper,
came in, gun on shoulder, and when the
traveller looked at him he was still more af-
frignted. After awhile the family were
whispering together IN one corner of the
roo n, ami the traveller thought to himself:
80! now my time has come | wish / was
out in the storm and in the night rather
than here.n But the swarthy man came up
to him and said: "Sir, we are a rough peo-
pie; we get our living by hunting, and wa
are very tired when night comes; but be-
fore going to bed we always have habit of
reading a little out of the Bible and having
custom tonight. and if you don't believe in
that kind Of thing II you will Just step out
side of the door for little while | will be
much obliged TO you"
o. there are many Christian parents who
have not half the courage of that western
trspper. They do not want their religion
projecting too cOnspicuously. They would
like to have it near by so as to call on it in
case OF funeral; but as to having it domi-
nant in the household from the first Of JAM
uary, seven o'clock a. m, to the thirty-irst
Of December, ten o'clock D. m, they do not
wanti it. They would rather die, and have
their families perish with them, than to cry
out in the bold words of the soldier of my
text: LAS for me and my house, We will
serve the Lord
There was, in my ancestral line, an Incl
dent so strangely impressive that it seems
more like romance than reality. Il has
sometimes been so iuaccurately put forth
that l now give you the true incident. NV
grandfather and grandmother, living at
Somerville, New Jersey, went TO Basking-
ridge to witness a revival under the minis
try OF the Rev. DR.. Finley. They came
home 30 impressed with what they had
seen that they resolved on the salvation of
their children.
The young people of the house were to
60 of for an evening party, and my grand
mother said:
Now, when you are all ready for the
party, come to my room, for l have some
thing very important TO tell you.n All
ready for departure they came to her room,
and she said TO them: Now, | want you TO
remember, while you are away this even
ing, that | am all the time in this room
praying for your salvation, and / shall not
cease praying until you get back" The
young people went to the party, but ami,
the loudest hilaritles of the night they coul.
not forget that their mother was prayiu.
for them. The evening passed and the night
passed.
The next day my grandparents heard ON
cutlery IN an adjoining room, and they went
In and found their daughter implorinR the
salvation Of the gospel. The daughter told
them that her brothers were at the barn
and the wagon house under powerful cons
viction of sin. They went to the barn.
They found my Uncle Jehiah, who after
ward became a minister of the gospel, cry
ing to God for mercy. They went to the
wagon house. They found their son David,
who sfterward became my father, lmplor-
ing Gods pardon and mercy. Before a
great while the whole family were saved,
and David went and told the story to a
young woman to whom he was afianced,
who, as a result of the story, became a
Christian, and from her own lps-my
mother's-I have received the incident.
The story of that converted household
ran through all the neighborhood, from
family to family, until the whole region
was whelmed with religious awakening,