Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-04-17
NO. IS.

that thB Rofm is coming, and that out OF
Christ there u NO safety, no pardon, no hope.
How to get them in? Go in yourselfl II
Noah had staid out, do you not suppose that
his sons-SheP, Ham and Japheth-would
wiz be apt to do just as you do. Reject
Christ yourself, and the probability is that
your children will reject Him.
An account was taken OF tho religious
condition Of families in a certain district.
In the families Of pious parents two-thirds Of
the children were Christians. In the families
where the parents were ungodly only one
twelfth of the children were Christians.
Which way Will you take your children? Out
Into the deluge or into the ark? Have you
ever made one earnest prayer for their Inn
mortal souls? What will you say in the
Judgment when God asks, "Where is George
or Henry or Frank or Mary or Anna? Where
are those precious souls whose interests ]
committed into your hands?"
A dying son said to his father, ,,"Father,
you give me an education and good manner
and everything that the world could do for
me, but, father, you never told me how to
HE, and now my soul Is going out In the
| iarkness."
| oh, 70 who have taught your children
] how to live, have you also taught them how
| to die2 Life here is not so important as the
great hereafter. 1t IL not so much the few
furiongs this side Of the grave as it is the
| unending leagues beyond. o eternity,
| eternityl Thy locks white with the ages, thy
| voice announcing stupendous destiny, thy
srms reaching across all the past and all the
hture! o eternity, eternity!
Go home and erect family altar. You may
break down in your prayer. But never
mind, God will take what you mean, whether
you express it intelligibly or not. Bring all
! your house into the ark. Is there one son
whom you have given up2 Is he so dissipat-
ed that You have stopped counseling and
him up9 Did God ever give you up? While
you have single articulation OF speech left,
cease not to pray for the return Of that prod
lgal. He may even now be standing on the
Deacn at Hong nons or Madras. meditating q
return to his fathers house. Give him up?
Never give him up! Has God promised to
bear thy prayer only to mock thee2 It Is not
too late
N st. Paurs, London, there Is whisper
ing gallery. A voice uttered most feebly at
one side OF the gallery is heard distinctly at
the opposite side, great distance of. 30
every word of earnest prayer goes all around
the earth and makes heaven a whispering
gallery. Go into the ark-not to sit down,
but to stand in the door and call until all the
family come in Aged Noah, where is Japh-
eth? David, where is Absalom? Hannah,
where is Samuel?
On one Of the lake steamers there were
father and two daughters journeying. They
seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gen.
tlemen stepped up to the poor man to prof
fer some form OF relief and said, "You seem
to be very poor, sir" Poor, sir" replied
the man, 'ft there's a poorer man than mo
s-troublin the world, God pity both OF us!'
81 will take one Of your children and adopt
it, If you say so. think it would be great
relief to YOU" "a what?" said the poor
man. "a relief! Would it be a relief to have
the hapds chopped off from the body, or the
heart torn from ths breast? relief indeed
God be good to us! What do you mean,
sir?" However many children we have, We
have none to give up. Which Of our families
can We afford to spare out of heaven? Will 1t
be the oldest2 viii It be the youngest? VIII
it be that one that was sick sometime ago?
Will 1t be the husband? Will it be the wife?
No, no! Wemnst have them all in. Let us
~I> .h. ahiLinan's hands and start now.
Leave nos one behind Come, father; come,
mother; come, son; come, dsughter; come,
brother; come, sisterl Only one step and We
ARE In Christ, the door, swings out to admit
us. And 1t Is not the hoarseness Of a stormy
blast that you hear, but the voice of q loving
| and patient God that addresses you, saying,
"Come, thou and all thy house, into the
ark" And there may the Lord shut US inl