The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-24

Some, too late for the train, take car
riage 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 10 his children all
| ''Goodby," aud the remark, II know you
will all be kind 10 your mother" and all
is over.
LIES duty done as sinks the clay,
Light from its load the spirit flies
While heaven and earth combine to say,
| How bless d the righteous when he dies.
A whole family saved forever If the
! deluge come, they are all in the ark
/ father, mother, sons, daughters. Together
on earth, together in heaven. What
makes it sol Explain il. Zaccheus one
I day took Jesus home with him. That is
| all. Salvation came To that house.
What sound is ii hear tonight 1t is
Jesus knocking at the door of your house
Behold! a stranger at the door;
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 want of
your house is not new carpet, or cost
lier pictures, or richer furniture-it is
Jesus
Up to forty years men work for them
selves; after that for their children.
Now, what do you propose TO leave theml
Nothing but dollars Alas what an in
heritance! 1t is more likely to be curse
than a blessing. Your own common
sense and observation tell you that
mnnpW without tho diufna hlaacfnor ic
curve. You must soon leave your chill
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 soor have TO
fight their own battles. Oh let it not be
told on Judgment day that you let your
family start without 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 initiates the mother. Alas if
father and mother miss heaven, the chill
nren will Oh! let Jesus come into your
house. Do not bolt the hall door, or the
parlor door, or the kitchen door, or the
bedroom 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
in this world or the next, all is well. In
that great, ponderous Book of the Judg-
ment, where Is recorded 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 down! Jesus
is passing by.