The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-31

VIII take tnlS Cn1ldF ana then Wnom
the officer OF tn law In mercy ana pity
took the child to carry IL away to find
home for IL, the mother kissed IL low
ingly good-by, aud said: "Good-by, my
darling; It is better you should never
ses me again"
However worldly and sinful people
are they want their children good.
How are you going TO have them good?
Buy them few good books? Teach
them few excellent catcchisms?
Bring them TO church? That is all
very we'll but OF little final result un-
less you do IL with the grace of God in
your heart Do you not realize that
your children are started for eternity?
Are they on the right road? Those lit
tie forms are now so bright and beau
tiful, when they have scattered in the
dust there will be an immortal spirit
living on in a mighty theatcr of action,
and your faithfulness or your neglect
now is deciding that destiny.
There is contention already among
ministering spirits of salvation and
fallen angels as to who shall have the
mastery of that immortal spirit. Your
children are soon going out in the
world. The temptations of life will
rush upon them The most rigid reso-
luton will bend in the blast of evil
What will be the result? 1t will re-
quire all the restraints of the Gospel,
all the strength of fathers prayer, all
the influence of n Christian mothers
example to keep them
You say /. 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 hold of the fathers hand and
walk up Mt 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
beautiful, vanish from you, and their
disembodied spirit rises, and you see it
after the life of virtue or crime is past
and the judgment is gone and eternity
is here.
A Christian minister said that in the
last year of his pastorage he tried to
persuade young mechanic of the inn
portance of family worship. Some time
passed and the mechanic came to the
pastors study and said, do you re-
member that girl? That was my own
child; she died this morning very sud-
denly: she has gone to God, l have no
doubt, but if so, she has told him what
tell you now: that child never heard
a prayer in her fathers house-never
heard prayer from her fathers lips.
OH If ! only had her back again one
day to do my duty!" 1t will be a ire
mendous thing at the last day if some
ono shall say of us, II 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
favorite in the family, the mother an
other favorite in the family, and there
are many questions that need delicate
treatment
Tyranny and arbitrary decision have
no place in household. If the parents
love God there will be a spirit of self
sacrifice, and n spirit of forgiveness
and kindness which throws its charm
over the entire household. Christ will
come into that household and will say,
Husbands, love your wives, and be
not bitter against them; wives see that
you reverence your husbands; chill
dren, obey your parents in the Lord,
servants, be obodient to your masters"
and the family will be like garden
on 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
will come to the household. There are
but few families that escape the stroke
of financial misfortune. Financial III -
fortune comes to house whore there
is no religion. They kick against the
divine allotments; they curse God for
the incoming calamity, they withdraw
from the world because they can not
hold as high a position in society 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 de- |
stroyed by their financial distresses.
But misfortune comes to the Chris |
tian household. If religion has full |
sway in that home, they stoop grace
fully. They say: This is right" The
father says: Perhaps money was get
ting to be my idol Perhaps God is
going to make me better Christian by |
putting me through the furnace of |
tribulation. Besides that, why should |
/ fret, anyhow? lie who owneth the |
cattle on "A thousand hills, and out of
whose hand all the fowls of Heaven |
peck their food, is my Father. He |
clotheth the lilies of the field; lie will |
clothc me. II lie takes care of the |
raven. and the hawk. and the vulture, |