The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-01-16


Are we doing all we can
TO ret them inl Some one sent
me A paper a number of years ago when l
was In the old country marked copy,
and the article that was marked was
this. "Are all the children inp' j read
it. An old wife lay dying, she was nearly
100 ,ssas of age and the husband who
had taken the Journey with her sat by her
side. She was just bres thing family, but
| suddenly she revived, opened her eyes
and said "Whyl 1t Is DARK
eyes, Janet, it Ia uark'
"Is it night?" "Oh, yesl it is inidnig ht'"
care all the children in?" There was mat
old mother living life over again. He
youngest child had been in the grave
| twenty years, but she was travelling back
into the old days, and the dear old mother
fell asleep i'm Christ asking, "Are all the
children in?" Dear friend, are they all
| in? Put the question TO yourself today.
| Is John in? Is James in? Is he In, or Is
he immersed in business and pleasureY
Is he living a double and dishonest liie'
Sayl where is your boy, mother? Where
is your son, your daughter? is IL Wen
with your children? Can you say II Is!
| After being superintendent OF sunday
school in Chicago for number OF years
school OF over a thousand members, chllo-
rem that came from Goddess homes, work
ing hard, and 10 have mothers and fathers
working against me, take the children OH
on excursions on Sunday and do all they
| could to break up the work was trying TO
| do, used to think that il / could ever
! stand before an audience would speak to
no one but parents. that would be my
chief business. II was an old saying "get
the lamb and you will get the sheep"
| gave that up years ago. Give me the sheep
and then will have some one TO nurse the
lambs. But you geta lamb and convert
him, and il he has fGodless father and
mother you will have little chance with
| that child. What we want is Cody
| homes. The home was established long
before the church. / remember the hrst
speech l ever made in this line. had
| gone down to Michigan to a mees ing,
| and when got up / noticed that abost
| two-thirds of the audience were adults.
| i went at parents, and my whole address
was right at parents. When got through
man got up, and thought he was going
| to rebuke me. / sat there trembling, but
| he rose and said, "I want 10 endorse all
| that young man has said. Sixteen
| years ago j was in heathen
| country and my wife died,
and left me with three little children.
The first Sabbath after my wife died, my
| little daughter came to me and said,
"Papa, shan't I take the children into
mothers room and talk TO them as mother
used to? / said she might, and she led
! them off into the same chamber as the
mother used TO. When they came out
/ noticed they had all been weeping, and
i said, "What have you been crying
about? / suppose they had been crying
| for their mother. Little Nelly said, "Well,
papa, couldn't help it. We had all
| prayed, and l was just going to
bring them out here, when little Susie
made prayer of her own. "What did she
say?" "Oh, God! you have taken away
my poor mamma, and l haven't any
mamma to pray for me any more. Won't
you please make me good, just as my
| mamma wasp She has lived a consistent
| Christian life for these sixteen years. As
| little child God used her, and /
want to ask the fathers and mothers
here IL you believe your children can come
thus early into the ark /. believe that the
enemy has taken advantage OF us. i
haven't any sympathy with the idea that
our children have got to grow up before
| they are converted. Once / saw lady
|
stepped up to the mother and asked her
If she was Christian, "Yes, sir" Then
asked the oldest daughter il she was a
| christian. The chin began TO quiver and
| the tears came into her eyes, and she said,
"I wish i was" And the mother
looked very angrily at me and said, ~
don't want you to speak to my children
on that subject. They don't understand"
| And in great rage she took them all away
from me. One daughter was II years old,
! one IL, and the other 10, but they weren't
old enough to be talked TO about religion.
| Let them drift into the world and plunge
! into worldly amusements, and then see
! how hard ii is to reach them
Many mother Is mourning today be-
cause her boy has gone beyond her reach
| and will not allow her TO pray with him.
She may pray for him, but he will not let
| her pray or talk with him. In those days
| when his mind was tender and young you
| might have led him to Christ. Bring
| them in. ''Suffer the little children to
| come unto Me-" Is there a prayerless
father today7 May God let the arrow
go down into your soul! Make up your
mind that, God helping you, you are
going to get the children in.
| / heard of man once who had boy
that had been sick some time and hs
| came home one day and found his wife
weeping, She said: II cannot help but
believe that this is going to prove fatal"
And the man started and said: If you
think so, wish you would tell him." But
| the mother could not tell her boy. The
| father went to the sick room and he saw
| that death was feeling for the cords of
| life, and he said: 7" My son, do you
| know you are not going to
| live?' And the little fellow looked up
and said, "No. Is this death that / feel
stealing over me? Will / die today?"
eyes, my son, you cannot live the day
out" And the little fellow smiled and
said, "Well, father, shall be with Jesus
tonight, shan't ~" "Yes, you will spend
the night with the Lord, and the father
broke down and wept. The little fellow
saw the tears and said: "Don't you weep
| for me. will 90 TO Jesus and tell Him