The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-04-27

py consistent life and bya compelling prayer
that shall bring the throne OF God down into
your room. Go home and take up the Bible
and read it together, and then.kneel down
and commend your souls to Him who hns
watched you all these years. and before you
nse there will bea futter;ns Of w:ngs over
your head, angel crying to angel, "6snola
they pray" ,
But this does not include all your family
Bring the children too. God bless the deal
children! What would our homes De Wltn. n.
out them? We may have doDe much 1oi
them. They have done more for us. WHAT
q salYe for wounded heart there is IN the
soft palm Of g. chiid's hand! Did harp OF
aute ever have such music as there ls IN a
child's "cood night" From our coarse,
rough life the angels Of God are often driven
back. But who comes into the nursery With
out feeling that angels are lowering around.
They who die in infancy 80 straight into
glory, but you are expecting your children
to grow up in this world. Is 1t not a ques'
Hon, then, that rings through all the corr1.
dors and Wiadings and heights and depths OF
your soul, what Is to become OF your sons
and daughters for time and for eternity!
"Oh." YOU BAY, "I mean to see that they have
good manners" Very we'll. Il mean to
dress them we'll, IT, have myself to go shabby" -"
Very good II shall give them an educa-
Hon: shall leave them fortune Very
we'll. But is that all? Don't you mean to
take them into the ark? Don't you know
That the storm is coming, and that out OF
Christ there Is no safety, no pardon, no hope.
no heaven? .,
HOW to get them in? 60 in yourself! II
Noah had staid out. do you not suppose that
his sons-shem, Ham and Japheth-Would
have staid out? Your sons and daughters
will be apt to do Just as you do. Reject
Christ yourself, and the probability IS thai
your children will reject Him.
An aocount was taken Of the religious
condition Of families in q certain district.
In the families Of pious parents tHo-tblrds- -ol
the children were Christians. In the fanilief
where the parents we're 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 i'm
mortal souls? What win you say in the
Judgment when God asks, "Where IS George
OF 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 ga7e me an education and good manner
and everything that tho world could do for
die, and now my soul Is going out IN the
darkness"
Oh, ye who have taught your children
how to i've, have you also taught them how
to dep Life here is not 80 important as the
great hereafter. 1t Is not so much the few
furiongs this side Of the grave as 1t Is the
unending Leagues beyond. 0 eternity,
eternityI Thy looks white with the ages, thy
voice announcing stupendous destiny, thy
srns reaching across all the past and all tho
future! o eternity, eternity!
60 home and erect family altar. You may
break down In your prayer. But never
mind, God will take what you mean, whether
you express 1t intslligibly or not. Bring all
your house into the ark. Is there one son
whom you have given up? Is he 50 dissipat.
ed that you have stopped oounsedng and
praying? Give him up? bow dare you give
him up? Did God ever give you up? While
you have a single articulation Of speech left
cease not to pray for the return Of that prod
igal He may even now be standing on the
beach at Hong Kong or Madras. medftating
return to his fathsr's house. Give him up?
Never give him -,,pi Has God promised to
bear thy prayer only to mock thee3 It Is mol
loo late.
In St. Paul's, London, there Is whisper
ing gallery. A voice uttered most feebiy al
one side Of the gallery IS heard distinctly at
the opposite side, great distance oil. So
every word Of earnest prayer goes al around
the earth and makes heaven a whispering
gallery. Go into the ark-not to sit down,
but to stand in t6e door and call until all the
family come in. Aged Noah, where is Japh:
eth9 David, where is Absalou2 Hannah
where is Samuel?
On one Of the lake steamers there were
father and two daughters journeying. They
seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gen.
tiemen 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, "if there's poorer man than me
a-troublin the world, God pity both of us3'
81 will take one of your children and edopt
it, if you say 50. think it would be great
relief to you" "a what" said tho poor
man. "a relief! Would it be relief to have
the hands chopped of from the body, or the
heart torn from the breast? A 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 oldest? Will it be the youngest? Will
it be that one that was sick sometime ago?
Will 1t be the husband? Will it be the wife?
No, no! We must have them all in. Let us
take the children's hands and start now.
Leave not one behiSd. Come, father; come,
mother; come, son; come, daughter; come,
brother; come, sister! Only one step and we
are in Christ, the door, swings out to admit
us. And It is not the hoarseness Of g stormy
blast that you hear. but the voice of loving
and patient God that addresses you, saying,
"Come, thou and all thy house, into to-
erh." And there may lhe Lord shut Us il.