The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-03-31


she prays better. Obi these mothers
decide almost everything. Nero's
mother was murderess. Lord Byrou's
mother was naughty and impious. You
might have guessed that from their
children. Walter Scott's mother was
fond of poetry. Washington's mother
was patriotic. Samuel Budgets mother
was thorough Christian. St Bernard's
mother was undetermined So you
might have guessed from their children
Good men always have good mothers
There may, once in ten or twenty
years, be an exception to the rule, but
1t is only an exception. Benjamin
Vests mother kissed him after she had
seen his first wonderful sketch with
the pencil Benjamin West afterward
said: THAT kiss made me painter"
A young man received furlough to
return from the army to his fathers
house. Afterward he took the fur
Tough back to the officer, saying: 81
would like to postpone my visit for two
weeks" At the end of the two weeks
he came and got the furlough. He.was
asked why he waited. "Well," he re-
piled, when / left home l told my
mother I would be a Christian in the
army, and l was resolved not to go
home until l could answer her first
question" Oh the almost omnipotent
power of the mother! But if both the
father and the mother be right, then
the children are almost sure to be right.
o, young man with cheek flushed
with dissipation! how long is it since
you have been out to your fathers
grave? Perhaps the storms of the last
few days may have bent the head
stone until it leans far over. You had
better go out and see whether the let
tering has been defaced. You had bet
ter go out and see whether the gate OF
the lot is closed. You had better go
out and see if you cannot find a SER
mon in the springing grass. o, young
man 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 re-
ceive it into our own households? II
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 are a great
many families who want to be reli-
gious, but they do not want anybody
outside to know il. They would be
mortified TO death if 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 COM
pany
They do not know much about the
nobility of the western trapper. A
traveller going along was vertal1en by
night and storm, and he entered a
cabin. There were firearms hung up
around the cabin. He was alarmed
He had large amount of money with
him, but he did not dare to venture out
into the night and storm. He did not
like the looks of the household. After
awhile the father, the western trapper,
came in, gun on shoulder, and when
the traveller looked at him he was still
more affrighted. After awhile the fam
lily were whispering together in one
corner of the room, and the traveller
thought TO himself: 'Oh. now my time
has come; wish 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
people; we get our living by hunt
ing, and we are very tired when
the night comes; but before we go TO
bed we always have a habit of reading
a little out of the Bible and having
prayers, and l think we will have our
usual custom tonight, and if you don't
belive in that kind of thing, if you will
just step outside the door for 4 little
while will be much obliged to you"
Oh! there are many Christian parents
who have not half the courage of that
western trapper. They do not want
their religion pro jecting too conspicu-
ously. They would like to have it near
by so as to call on it in case of funeral:
but as to having it dominant in the
household from the 1st of January. Z
o'clock a. m, to the 31st, of December,
10 o'clock p. m, they do not want it.
They would rather die and have their
families perish with them than TO cry
out in the bold words of the soldier in
my text: "As for me and my house we
will serve the Lord
There was, in my ancestral line, an
incident so strangely impressive that it
seems more like romance than reality
1t has sometimes been so inaccurately
put forth that l now give you the true
incident My grandfather and grand
mother, living at Somerville, n. j.,
went to Baskingridge 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 l have
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 l am all the |
time in this room praying for your
and l 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 |
the salvation of the gospel |
The daughter told them that her broth
ers were at the barn and at the wagon |
house under powerful conviction of sin. |
They went to the barn. They found |
nv uncle Jehiah, who afterwards be- |