Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-05-03

I AithiNbStluB spirits OF sdlNdlltA anu
fallen angels as to who shall have the
mastery of that immortal spirit. f1ur
children are soon going out into he
world The temptations of life VII
rush upon them. The most rigid reso-
luton will bend to the blast OF evil.
What will be the result? 1t will re-
! quire all the restraints of the gospel.
all the strength of a fathers prayer
| all the influence of Christian mothers
example to keep them.
You say il IS too early to bring them.
Too early to bring them to God? Do
! you know how early children were
taken to the ancient passover The
rule was just as soon as they could take
| mold of the fathers hand and walk mp
Mount Moriah they should be taken to
the passover. Your children are not
TOO young to come to God. While you
sit here and think of them perhaps
their forms now so bright and beauti-
full vanish from you, and their disem-
bodied spirit rises and you see il after
the life of virtue or crime IS past ant
the judgment is past and eternity IS
here
a Christian minister said that in the
first year OF his pastorate he tried T.
persuade a young mechanic of the ira
portance of family worship. Some
time passed. and the mechanic came u
the pastors study and said: DO you
remember that girl2 That was my
own child; She died this morning very
suddenly; She has gone to God, ] have
nodoubt but if so, she has told him what
] tell you now, that child never heard
prayer in her father house-never
heard prayer from her fathers lips.
On. if I only had her back again one
day to do my duty9' 1t will be ire
mendous thing at the last day if some
one shall say Of us, Il never heard my
father pray; / never heard my mother
pray"
Again / remark, we want religion in
all our home SORROWS. There are ten
thousand questions that come up IN
the best regulated household that must
be settled. Perhaps the father has one
farorite in the family. the mother au-
othe~ favorite in the family, and there
re any questions that need delicate
.rea nent
rs amy and arbitrary decision have
no place in a household II the parents
love God there will be spirit of self
sacrifice and a spirit of forgiveness
and kindness which viii throw It's
charm over the entire household.
Christ will come into that household
and will say. Husbands, love your
4 u
wives. see that you reverence your hus. |
bands; children. obey your parents in |
the Lord; servants. be obedient 10 your |
masters and the family win be like a
garden on a summer morning-the /
grass plot and the flowers and the vines /
and the arch Of honeysuckle standing /
IN the sunlight glittering with dew.
But then there will be sorrows that /
viii come 10 the household. There I
win be but few families that escape /
the stroke of financial misfortune
Financial misfortune comes to a house 4
where there is no religion. They kick 4
against divine allo,meats; they curse
God for the incoming calamity; they /
withdraw from the world because they
cannot hold as high a position in so-
ciety as they once did, and they fret.
and they scowl, and they sorrow and
they die. During the past few years
there have been tens Of thousands of
men destroyed by their financial dis
tresses.
But misfortune comes to the Chris
tian household. II religion has full
sway in that home. they stoop grace
fully. The say. This is right" The
father SAYS: Perhaps money was get
ting to be nv idol Perhaps God is
going to make me better Christian
by putting me through the furnace of
Besides that why should
I fret. anyhow? He who owneth the
cattle on a thousand hills. and ont of
whose hand all the fowls OF heaven
peck their food is my Father He
the lilies Of the field; He will
elothe me. II lie takes care of the
raven. and the hawk and the vulture
most certainly he viii take care of me,
His child"
Sorer troubles come-sickness and
Heath. Loved ones sleep the last sleep.
A child Is buried out Of sight You !
,ay. Alas. for this bitter day. God
Jas dealt very severely with me-
san never look up o. God. cannot
bear il" Christ comes in and saws: /
'Hushl o troubled soul; il is well with
he child win strengthen thee in
N thy troubles. Ny grace IS sufficient.
When thou pass. st through the waters
will be with thee.
When through the deep waters cali thee TO &c
me rivers o. sorrow shall not overflow:
For win b. with thee Inv troubles 10 bless.
AnI slnctfT to thee thy deepest distress.
But there are hundreds Of families
represented here this morning where
elirion has been a great comfort.
are in your homes the pictures
4 your departed. and things that have
10 wonderful value Of themselves. but
-ou keep them preciouslv and careful
y because hands now still once
ouched them. \ father has gone ont