The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-11-10

pose you sell &OOuS ny sample, anu
afterward send to your customer an in
ferior quality of goods. You have COM
mitted fraud, and there is no mercy
for you until you have made restitu-
ton. Suppose you sell a man hand
kerchief for silk, telling him it is all
silk, and it is part cotton. No mercy
for you until you have made restitu-
ton. Suppose you sell man horse,
saying he is sound, and he afterward
turns out to be spawned and balky.
No mercy for you until you have made
restitution.
Exodus 22: ''If man shall steal an
OK or q sheep and kill 1t or sell it, he
shall restore five oxen for an OK and
four sheep for q sheep. If thief be
found breaking up, and be smitten
shed for him. II the sun be risen upon
him, there shall be no blood shed for
him, for he should make full restitu-
ton; IL he have nothing, then he shall
be sold for his theft. If the theft be
certainly found in his hand alive,
whether 1t be OK, or ass, or sheep, he
shall restore double. II q man shall
cause . field or q vineyard to be eaten.
and shall put in his beast, and shall
feed In another mans feld, Of the best
Of his own field and Of the best Of his
own vineyard shall he make restitu-
tion."
You say: 81 cannot make restoration.
The parties whom swindled are gone. :"
Then say: '"Take the money up to the
American Bible society and consecrate
IL to God" Zaccheus was wise when
he disgorgsd his unrighteous gains, and
It was his first step in the right direc-
ton.
The way being clear, Christ walked
into the house of Zaccheus. He becomes
. different man; his wife . different
woman; the children are different. Obi
It makes great change In any house
when Christ comes into It. How many
beautiful homes are represented among
youi There are pi,tures ON the wall;
there IN music in the drawing room,
and Injuries In the wardrobe, and
. full supply in the pantry. Even
II you were half asleep, there Is one
word with which could wake you and
thrill you through and through, and
that word Il 'homev There are also
houses Of suffering represented, in
which there are neither pictures nor
wardrobe, nor adornment-only one
room, and Q plain cot, or . bunk In q
corners yet It is the place where your
loved ones dwell, and your whole
nature tingles with satisfaction when
you think Of It and call It home.
Though the world may sco6 1t us and
pursue us, and al the day we be tossed
about, at eventide we sail into the
harbor Of home. Though there be no
rest for us in the busy world, and we
20 trudging about, bearing burdens
that we'll nigh crush M, there Is q
refuge, and Il hath an easy chair In
which we may sit, and . lounge where
We may lie, and . serenity Of peace in
which we may rePose, and that refuge
is home. The English soldiers, sitting
on the walls around Sebastopol, one
night heard . company Of musicians
playing Home, Sweet Home" and It
Il said that the whole army broke out
in sobs and wailing, 20 great was their
home-sicknesA God pity the poor,
miserable wretch who has no homei
Now suppose Christ should come in
to your house. First the wife and the
mother would feel His presence. Re
ligion almost alwsys begins there. 1t
Is easier for women to become Chris
tians than for us men. They do not
fight 20 against God. II woman tempt
cd man originally away from holiness.
now she tempts him back. She may
not make any fuss about It, but some
how, everybody In the house knows
that there IL . change in the wife and
mother. She chides the children moro
gently. Her face sometimes lights up
with An unearthly glow. She goes in
while, and the husband goes not after
her, nor asks her why she was there.
He knows without asking that she
has been praying. The husband
notices that her fsce IL brighter
than ON the day when. years ago, they
stood 1t the marriage altar, and he
knows that Jesus has been putting
upon her brow . wreath sweeter than
the orange blossoms. She puts the
children to bed, not satisfied with the
formal prayer that they once offered,
but she fingers now and tells them oi
Jesus who blessed little children and
Of the good place where they all hops
to be st last. And then she kisses
them good night with something that
the child feels to be heavenly bene
diction-a something that shall hold on
to the boy after he has become . mar
10 or so years Of age; for there is some.
thing in . good, loving Christian moth
er's kiss that fifty years cannot wips
on the cheek.
Now the husband is distressed and
annoyed, and almost vexed. II she
would only speak to him he would
"blow her up" He does not like to say
anything about 1t, but he knows that
ahe has . hope that he has not, and q
peace that he has not; he knows that
dying ~ he now il, he cannot 60 to the
same place. He cannot stand it any
longer. Some Sunday night, as they
cit In church, side by side, the foods o'
his soul break forth. He wants "a
pray. but does not know how. He
hides his faoe, lest some Of his worldly
frisnds see him; but Gods spirit
arouse him, melts him, overwhelms
him. And they 60 hOme-husband
and wife-in silence. until they get ia
their room, when he cries out: "Oh
pray for msr' And they kneel down.
They cannot speak. The words will
not come. But God does not want any
words. He looks down and answers
sob, and groau, and outgushing tender.
ness. That night they do not sleeI
any for talking of all the years wasted
and of that Saviour who ceased not tC
call Before morning they have lsit
their plans for = new life. Morning
comes Father and mother descent
from the bed room. Their children
do not know what is the matter
They never saw father with Bible
in his hand before. He says
'Come, children, I want you all t.
ait down while we read and pray.
Tho children look at each other, and
are almost disposed to laugh; but they
zee their parents are in deep earnest
Il is Q short chapter that the father
reads. He is q good reader at othe
times, but now he does not get OF
much. He sees 20 much to linger on
His voice trembles. Everything is $,
strangely new to him They kneel-
that Is, the father and mother do; bu
the children come down one by one
They do not know that they must. i
il some time before they all get down
The sentences are broken. TIL
phrases are . little ungammat
ical. The prayer begins abrupt.