The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20

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suddenly; she had gone to God, have
no doubt, but if so, she has told Him
what tell you now: that child never
heard prayer in her fathers house
never heard prayer from her fathers
lips. Oh! if only had her back again
one day to do my duty 1t will be a
tremendous thing at the last day if
some one shall say of us: 81 never
heard my father pray; l never heard
my mother pray"
Again l remark, we want religion in
all our home sorrows There are ten
thousand questions that come up in the
best regulated household that must be
settled Perhaps the father has one
favorite in the family. the mother an
other favorite in the family, and there
are many questions that need delicate
treatment
| Tyranny and arbitrary decision have
no place in household. If the par
ents love God there will be spirit of
self-sacrifice, and a spirit of forgive
ness, and kindness which will throw
| its charm over the entire household.
Christ will come into that household
wives and be not bitter against them;
wives, see that you reverence your hus-
bands; children, obey you parents in
the Lord; servants, be obedient to your
masters, and the family will be like a
| garden on a summer morning-the
grass plot, and the flowers, and the
vines and the arch of honeysuckle
standing in the sunlight glittering
with dew.
But then there will be sorrows that
will come to the household There are
but few families that escape the stroke
| of financial misfortune. Financial
| misfortune comes to a house where
there is no religion. They kick against
divine allotments: they curse God for
the incoming calamity, they withdraw
from the world because they cannot
hold as high a position in the world as
they once did, and they fret and they
scowl and they sorrow and they die
During the past few years there have
been tens of thousands of men dstroyed
by their financial distresses
| But misfortune comes to the Chris
tian household. If religion had full
sway in that home, they stoop grace
| fully. They saw: "This is right"
The father SAYS: perhaps money was
getting to be my idol Perhaps God is
going to make me a better Christian
by putting me through the furnace of
tribulation. Besides that, why should
| fret, anyhow? He who owneth the
cattle on thousand hills and out of
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peck their food, is my father. He
clotheth the lilies of the field; He will
clothe me. If He takes care of the
raven and the hawk and the vulture,
most certainly He will take care of
me, His child"
Sorer troubles come-sickness and
death. Loved ones sleep the last sleep
A child is buried out of sight You
say: "Alas. for this bitter day.
God has dealt very severely with me. !
can never look up o, God, l cannot
bear it." Christ comes in and he says:
FLUSH. o troubled soul; it is well with
the child. Twill strengthen thee in all
thy troubles. My grace is sufficient
When thou passest through the waters
| will be with thee"
| When through the deep waters l call thee to go,
| The river of sorrow shall not overflow:
| For will be with thee thy troubles to bless,
| And sanctify to thee tn deepest distress.
But there are hundreds of families
represented here this morning where
religion has been a great comforts
And to other homes trouble will come
| say it not that you may be forebod-
ing, not that you may do the unwise
thing by taking trouble by the fore
lock. 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 accents, there
are anthems that whelm 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 sickles to har-
vest the sheaves of Heaven.
Saints will to the end endure;
Safely with 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 a chapter; that
will make you strong. Kneel down
and offer the first prayer in your house
hold. 1t may be broken petition; ii
may. be only God be merciful to me, a
sinner" but God will stoop. and spirits
will listen, and angels will chant: BE.
hold. he prays."
Do not retire from this house this
morning until you have resolved upon
this matter. You will be gone. 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?" Nothing, only /
was thinking that this is the very
Bible out of which my father and
mother used to read at 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 the 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