The Penn's Grove record., 1895-07-12
NUMBER 81.

80 NAAHN
great many things left. God forgive mel"
Again, l remark that many Of our business
men are tempted to neglect their HON
duties. How often 1t Is that the store AMI
home clash. but there ought not to be any
collision. 1t is often the case that the father
isthe mere treasurer Of the family, a sort of
agent to see that they have dry goods and
groceries. The work of family government
he does not touch. Once or twice in a year
he calls the children up on a Sabbath after
noon, when he has a half hour he does not
exactly know what to do with, and in that
half hour be disciplines the children AID
chides them and corrects their faults and
gives them a great deal of good advice. and
then wonders all the rest Of the year that his
children do not do better when they have
the wonderful advantage of that semi-annual
castigation.
Thu family table, which ought to be the
place for pleasant discussion and cheerful-
ness, often becomes ths place OF perilOu5
expedition. II there be any blessing asked
at all, it is cut of at both ends and with the
on the carving knife. He counts on
his fingers, making estimates in tine inter
stices OF the repast. The work done, the hat
goes to the head, and he starts down the
street, and before the family have arisen
from the table he has bound up another
bundle OF goods and says to the customer,
"Auything more l can do for you today,
sir}" A man has more responsibilities than
lllfD5b NiiIh a. NAoNAthi 80 ~ F"NtbA| NS'h
petent instructors over his children and Civ
ing them a drawing master and a music
teacher. Tn physical culture of the chill
will not be attended to unless tho
father looks to it. He must some
times lose his dignity. He must unlim-
Der his Joints. He must sometimes Leaf
~" their sports and games. Toe
parent who cannot forget the severe duties
of life sometimes, to fly the kite and truudle
the hoop and chase the ball and jump tina
rope with his children, ought never to have
been tempted out of a crusty and unre1eem-
able solitariness. II you want to keep your
children away from places OF sin you can
only do 1t by making your home attractive.
You may preach sermons and advocate re-
forms and denOunce wickedneSs, and yet
your children will be captiyated by the gilt
tering saloon OF sin unless you can make
your home a brighter place than any
place on earth to them. Oh.
gather ali charms into your house. III
you can afford it, bring books and pie
lures and cheerful entertainments to the
household. But above all teach those
children, not by half an hour twice II
year on the Sabbath day, but day after day
and every day teach them that religion Is a
great gladness; that it throws chains of gold
about the neck; that it takes no spring from
the foot, no blitheness from the heart, no
sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laugh
ter, but that "her ways are ways OF ~pleaSant-
anu AL nbE ptttllS uTe p'uSG. ISyhlHh-
thize with the work being done in many OF
our cities by which beautiful rooms are set
apart by our Young Mems Christian Assoeia-
tions, and l pray God to prosper them in all
things. But l tell you there is something
back of that and before that. We need more
happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian
homes everywhere.
Again I remark that a great many Of our
business men are tempted to put the attain
ment OF money above the value of the souI,
1t Is a grand thing to have plenty OF money.
The more you get of it the better, il it come
honesty and go usefuliy. For the lack OF it
sickness dies without medicine, and hunger
finds it coffin in the empty bread tray, AMI
pakedness shivers for lack of clothes and fire.
When I hear a man in canting TRADE against
money-a Christian man-aS though it had
no possible use on earth and he hal no In
terest in it at all, 1 come almost to think
that the heaven that would be appropriate
for him would be an everlasting poorhouse.
While, my friends, we do admit there is
such q thing as the lawful use OF money
"a profitable use of money-let us rec
Dgnize also the fact that money cannot salts
fy a mans soul; that it cannot glitter in the
dark valley; that it cannot pay our fare
across the Jordan of death; that 1t cannot
unlock the gate OF heaven. There are men
In all occupations who seemto act as though
they thought that a pack of bonds and mort
cages could be traded off for a title to
heaven and as though gold would be q law
full tender in that place where 1t is so COM
mon that they make pavements out OF 1t.
Salvation by Christ Is the only salvation
Treasures in heaven are the only incorrupti-
BILE treasures.
Have you ever ciphered out in the rule of
loss and gain the sum, ''What shall 1t profit
a man il he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?" However fine your apparel, the
winds ofdeath will flutter it like rags. Home.
spun and u threadbare coat have sometimes
been the shadow of coming robes made white
in the blood of the Lamb. The pearl of great
price is worth more than any gem you eau
bring from the ocean,, than Australian or
Brazilian mines strung in one carcanet. Seek
after God, find His righteousness, and all
shall be we'll here-all shall be well here
after.
Some OF you remember the shlpwreek o.
the Central America. That noble ship had,
/ think. about 500 passengers aboard. Sud-
denly the storm came, and the surSe5
tramped the decks n swung into tho
matches, and there went up a hundred voiced
death shrek. The foam on the jaw of the
wave. The pitching of the steamers sthouSh
it were leaping a mountain. The dismal
flare of the signal rockets. The long cough
of the steam pipes. The hiss o~feStinguished
furnaces. The walking of Col on the wave!
The steamer went n 1t down without a strug-
gle. A. the passengers stationed themselves
in rows to bail out the vessel, bark to the
thump Of the buckets, as men unused to toll,
with blisterei hands AMI strained muscle,
tug for their lives. There is a sail seen
against the sky. The flash Of the distress
gun Is noticed; its voice heard not, for it Is
choksd in the louder booming OF the sea.
A few passengers escaped, but the steamer
gave one great lurch anil was gOnel So
there are some men who sail Oh prosperously
In life. AIRS we'll, all's we'll. But at last
some financial disaster come5-a euroalydon.
Down they 60! The bottom of the CONNER
cial sea is strswn with shattered hulks. But
because your property goes do not let your
soul go. Though all else perish, save that,
for 1 have to tell you of Il more s%tupendous
shipwreck than that which l just mentioned.
God launched his world 5000 years ago. 1t
has been going on under freight OF moun
tains and immortals, but ono day it will
stagger at the cry Of fire. The timbers OF
rock will burn, the mountains lame
like masts, aud the clouds like sails in the
Judgment hurricane. Then God shall take
the passengers OF the deck, and from the
berths those who have long been asleep in
Jesus, and He will set them far beyond the
reach OF storm and peril. But how many
shall go down will never b9 known until it
shall be announced one day in heaven. The
shipwreck Of a world! So many millions
saved! SO many millions drownedi Oh, my
dear hearers, whatever you lose, though
your houses go, though your lands go,
though all your earthly possessions perish.
may God Almighty, through the blood OF
everlasting covenant, save all your soulsl