Connecticut western news., 1894-09-27

r1age across the country. They stand around the dying bed of the father. The oldest son upholds the mother and says: Don't cry, mother. will take care of you" The parting blessing is given. No long admonition, for he has, through years, been saying to his children all he had to say to them. It is plain good byp' and the remark, 'I know you will all be kind to your mother" and all is over.
 Life's duty done, as sinks the clay,
 Light from its load, the spirit flies,
 While heaven and earth combine to say
 How blessd the righteous when he dies.
 A whole family saved forever! If the deluge come, they are all in the ark father, mother, sons, daughters. To- gether on earth, together in heaven. What makes it so? Explain it. Zaccheus one day took Jesus home with him. That is all. Salvation came to that house.
 What sound is it hear tonight? It is Jesus knocking at the door of your house.
 Behold a stranger at the doorl
 He gently knocks-has knocked before.
 If you looked out of your window and saw me going up your front steps, you would not wait, but go yourself to open the door, Will you keep Jesus standing on the outside, his locks wet with the dews of the night? This day is salvation come to thy house. The great wantNof your house is not new carpet or cost Her pictures or richer furniture. It is Jesus!
 Work For the Children.
 Up to 40 years men work for them selves, after that for their children. Now, what do you propose to leave them. Nothing but dollars? Alas, what an inheritance It is more likely to be curse than a blessing. Your own com mon sense and observation tell you that money, without the divine blessing. is curse. You must soon leave your chil- dren. Your shoulders are not so strong as they were, and you know that they will soon have to carry their own bur dens Your eyesight is not so clear as once. They will soon have to pick out their own way. Your arm is not so mighty as once They will soon have to fight their own battles.
 Oh, let it not be told on judgment day that you let your family start with out the only safeguard-the religion of Christ. Give yourself no rest until your children are the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Your son does just as you do. He tries to walk like you and to talk like you. The daughter imi- tates the mother. Alas, if father and mother miss heaven, the children will! Oh, let Jesus come into your house. Do not bolt the hall door, or the parlor door, or the kitchen door, or the bed room door against him. Above all, do not bolt your heart.
 Build your altar tonight. Take the family Bible lying on the parlor table Call together as many of your family as may be awake. Read a chapter, and then, if you can think of nothing else besides the Lords Prayer, say that That will do Heaven will have begun in your house. You can put your head on your pillow. feeling that, whether you wake up ill this world or the next, all is we'll In that great, ponderous book of the judgment where are record ed all the important events of the earth, you will read at last the statement that this was the day when salvation came into your house. Oh, Zaccheus, come down, come downl Jesus is passing byi