The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-05-31

religion has been great comfort
There are in your homes the pictures
of your departed. and things that have
no wonderful value OF Themselves; bu,
you keep them previously and carefully
because hands now still once touched
them. A father has gone out of thi,
household, n mother has gone out OF
this, daughter just after her gradua-
tion day, a son just as he was entering
on the duties of life.
And To other homes trouble will
come. | say IL not that you may be
foreboding, not that you may do the
unwise thing of taking trouble by the
forelock, but that you may be ready.
We must go one by one. There will be
partings in all our households We
must say farewell. We must die. And
yet there are triumphant strains that
drown these tremulous accent, there
are anthems that overwhelm the dirge.
Heaven is full of the shout of delivered
captives, and to the great wide field of
human sorrow there come now the
reaper angels with keen sicklcs TO har-
vest the sheaves of Heaven.
Saints will to the end endure;
Safely will the Shepherd keep
Those He purchased for His sheep.
Go home this day and ask the bless
ing on your MONDAY meal Tonight
set up the family altar. DO not wait
until you become Christian yourself.
This day unite Christ to your house,
hold, for the Bible distinctly says that
God will pour out His fury upon the
families that call not upon His name.
Open the Bible and read chapter;
that will make you strong. Kneel
down and offer the first prayer in your
household. 1t may be n broken petit
ton, 1t may be only God be merciful
to me, sinners" but God will stop, and
spirits will listen, and angels will
chant Behold! he prays-"
Do not retire from this house this
morning until you have resolved upon
this matter, You will be gone, i will
be gone, many years will pass, and per.
haps your younger children may forget
almost everything about you; but forty
years from now, in some Sabbath twi.
light, your daughter will be sitting
with the family Bible on her lap read
ing to her children, when she will stop,
and peculiar solemnity will come to
her face, and tear will start, and the
children will say, Mother what makes
you cry?" and she will say. Nothing,
only | was thinking that this is tho
very Bible out of which my father and
mother used to read ut morning and
evening prayer"
All other things about you they may
forget; but train them up for God and
Heaven; they will not forget that
When a queen died, her three sons
brought an offering to the grave. One
son brought gold, another brought sill
yer, but the third son came and stood
over the grave and opened one of his
veins and let the blood drop upon his
mothers tomb, and all who SAW it said
it was the greatest demonstration
of affections My friends, what is
the grandest gift we can bring
to the sepulchres of Christian
ancestry? IL is life all consecrated to
the God who made us and the Christ who
redeemed US. I can not but believe tina.
there are hundreds of parents In this
house who have resolved to do their
WiOiS Uuby, anu Nhab ~ thiS HhchiSht
they are passing into better life; and
having seen the grace of the Gospel in
this place to-day, you are now fully
ready to return to your own house,
and show what great things God has
done unto you.
Though parents may in covenant be.
And have their heaven in view;
They arc not happy till they see
Their children happy too
May the Lord God of Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers
be our God and the God of our children
forever.