Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-05-02

good.
SO it was demonstrated in q police court
in Canada, where a mother, her little child
in her arms, sat by table on which her own
han icuffs lay, and the little babe took up
the handouts and played with them and had
great glee. She knew not the sorrow OF the
hour And then when the mother was sent
to prison the mother cried out 80 God,
let not this babe 90 into the jail Is there
not some mother here who will take this
| child? 1t is good enough for heaven. 1t IL
pure. L an bad. am wicked Is there
not some one who will take this child? I
cannot have it tainted with the prison &"
Then brazen creature rushed up and said,
"Ies, I'll take the chill" NO 10" s.id
the mother, mot you. not You. Is there not
some good mother here who will take this
: child?" And then when the officer OF the
law in mercy and pity took the child to carry
it away to find home for it the mother
kissed It lovingly goo iby and said: "Gooi-
by, my darling. 1t is better you should
D never see 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 a few excellent
| cItechisms? Bring them TO church? That is
all very well, but of little final result unless
/ you do it with tho grace OF God in your
| heart. Do you not realize that your children
are started for eternity? Are they on the
I right road? Those little forms that are now
/ 50 bright and beautiful when they have
scattered in the dust, there viii be an i'm
( mortal spirit living on in mighty theatre OF
action. and your !aithfulnass or your neglect
now Is deciding that destiny.
! There is contention already among minis
terinS spirits of salvation and fallen angels
! as to who shall have the mastery OF that i'm
| mortal spirit. Your children are soon GO
! ing out IN the world. The Temptations OF
I life will rush upon them. The most rigid
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J What will be the result? 1t will require all
! the restraints OF the gospel, all the strength
! OF a fathers prayer, all the influence of q
| Christian mothers example TO keep them.
! You say it is too early to bring them. Too
early to bring them TO Go12 Do you know
| how early chldren were taken to the
| ancient passover? Tho rule was Just ms soon
! As they could take hold Of the fathers hand
aud walk up Mount Morgh they should be
/ taken to the passover. Your children are
not too yOungtO come to Col. While you
/ sit here and think OF them perhaps their
! forms now so bright and beautiful vanish
! from you, and their dsembo1ied spirit rises,
and you see it after the life of virtue or
crime is past, andthe judgment is gonc, an I
| eternity is here
Christian minister said that in the first
year OF his pdstorats he tried to persuade a
young mechanic OF the Importance of family
I worship. Some time passeI, and tho me
chanic came TO the pastors study and said
"DO you remember 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 prayer in
her fathers house, never heard u prayer
from her father lip7. Oh, II only had her
back again one day to do my dUty!' 1t Will
be Il tremendous thing at the last day if some
shall say OF Us: 81 never heard my father
pray. never heard my mother prayer"
Again, l remark, we want religion in all
our home sorrows. There are 10000 ques
lions that come up in the best regulatcI
household that must be settled. Perhaps the
father has one favOrite in the family the
mother another favor!ts in the family, AMI
there are many questions thar need delicate
treatment.
Tyranny and arbitrary decision have no
place in household. II the parents love
Col, there will be a spirit of self sacrifice and
spirit o! forgiveness, and a kindness which
will throw its charm over the entire house
hold. Christ will come into that household
and will say "Hushands. love your wives
and bs not bitter against them. Wives, ses
that you reverence your husbands. Children,
obey your parents In the Lord. Servants,
be obetient to your masters" And the fam
tly will bs Ike garden on a summer morn
lng-the grass plot and the flowers, and ths
vines, and the arch OF honsysuckle standing
in the sunlight glitterlng with dew.
But then there will be sorrowS that will
some to the household. There are but few
families that escape the stroke OF financial
misfortune. Financial misfortune comes to
a house where there is no religion. They
kick aga nst divine allotments, they curse !
God for ths incoming calamity, they with !
draw from the world because they cannot !
hold as high a position in society as thsy /
once did, and they frsy, and they srowI. ami T,
they sorrow, and they die. During the past !
few years there have been tens OF thousands /.
oi men destroyed by their financial dis /,
.rssses.
But misfortune comes to the Christian /;
household. II religion has full sway in that !
no ne, they stoop gracefully. Tnev say. !
This - right" The father says perhaps :
money was getting to be my IDOL. Perhaps .
God is going TO make me- better Christian ,
BY putting ne through the furnace OF triou- I
ation. Beside that, whv should fret any
how? He VINO owneth the cattle on thou :
sand hills aud out OF whose hands all the .
'Owls of heaven peck their fool is my =,
Father. He clotheth the lilies OF the flelI |
He viii clothe me. II Ha fakes OF the |
raven. aud the hawk. and the yujturs, most |
certainly He will take care OF me, His |
child"
Sorer troubles come-sickness ami death.
Loved ones sleep the last sleep. A child Is |
buried out OF sight. You say "Aiss, for |
this bitter day. God has dealt very severely |
with me. can never look up. o GO'. |
cannot bear IT." Christ comes in, and II, |
lays Hush, o troubled soulI 1t is well |
with the child. I will strengthen thee in all
hy troubles. My grace is sufficient. When !
.hou passgth through the waters, 1 will be
with thea"
Whe through the sep waters I oE'l thee to q
The riT - of sorrow a not overflow.
For VIII b. with thee thy troubles g. bless
And sarct.fy to thee thy deepest distress.
But there are hundreds Of families repre-
tented here this morning where religion has
'sen great comfort There are in your
ZONES the pictures OF your departed an
hngs that have no won ieriul value ot thsr-
9ivo5, but you keep thsn preciously Rnl
'aEefullv because han Is now still oLcs |
ouchsri 0. 4 father has gon9 out OF this
lousehO. . q mother has gone out OF this,
laughter yI7t atter her grsdultlon day, a
'on Just as he vas onierlnc on the duties OF
life
Aud to other homes trouble viii come. l
NY it not that you may he forebodinc, not
hat yoT may do tha unwise thing OF taking
r1po!e bv the iOrs!Ork. but that you may bs
lady. We must 20 ono by one. There will
90 partin.,s 10 all our households We must