The Canton times., 1895-08-16

po- cause i have called and We refused;
he have stretched out my hand and
ag man regarded; but ye have set
naught all my counsel, and won
st, none of my reproof; also will laua
y. at your calamity; will mock whe
h, your fear cometh."
to Now, lest any Of you should NAL,
O. this mistake, l address you in tn
d words of the Mediterranean sea car
l. tain: what meaneth thou, sleer
% er? Arise, call upon thy GOD, if so b
e that God will think upon us, that w
It perish not II you have God, 70,
e had better call upon Him. Do you say
/. Il have no God?" Then you had bet
= ter call upon your fathers God. When
: your father was in trouble, who did he
, fly to? You heard him, in his old days,
, tell about some terrible exposure in a
! snow storm, or at sea, or in battle, or
among midnight garroterc. and how he
escaped. Perhaps twenty years before
You were born, your father made sweet
acquaintance with God. There is
something in the worn pages of the
Bible he used to read which makes
you think your father had God In
! the old religious books lying around
the house there are passages marked
with a lead pencil-passages TINT make
You think your father was not god
less man, but that, on that dark day
when he lay in the back room diving,
ne was ready-all ready. But per.
maps your father was bad man
prayerless, and blasphemer, and YOU
never think of him without shudder.
He worshiped the world or his own ap-
petites. DO not, then, beg Of you,
call upon your fathers God, but call
on your mothers God. L think she
was good. You remem Der when your
iather came home drunk on cold
night, how patient your mother was.
ou often heard her pray. She used
20 sit by the hour meditating, as
'hongh she were thinking of some
ROOD, warm place where it never
'ets cold, and where the bread does
lot fail. and staggering steps never
ome You remember her now. as she
at, IN cap and spectacles, reading her
',oie sunday afternoons. What good :.
dvlce she used to give you! How !
lack and terrible the hole in the y
round looked to you when, with two "
'pes, they let her down to rest in the
'aveyard All! l think from your :
oks that am on the right track. y
wake. . sleeper, and call upon thv :. :.
others God st
Hut perhaps both your father and W
other were depraved. Perhaps your IN
adle was rocked by sin and shame.
q II is wonder that from such a an
'rtlng You have come to respectable w
:. Then don't call upon the God OF tn
her OF your parents, beg of you. tai
sut you have children. You know WI
klndled those bright eyes, and sn'
lnded those healthy limbs, and az
beating within their breast an ag
mortality. Perhaps in the belief
t somehow 1t would be for the best. gre
have taught them to say an even ste
prayer and when they kneel be. pa
you and fold their little hands, INT
look up. their faces all innocence oth
love, You know that there is God rou
ewhere about in the room. tina
think | am on the right track at the
Awake. O sleeper, and call upon a
God OF thy children. May He set will
q little ones to pulling at tbv
t until they charm thee to the
God to whom tonight they will
their little prayers!
any years ago a man, leaving his
~ In Massachusetts,. sailed from
on to China, to trade there. On
'oast OF China, in the midst of a
OF storm, he made shipwreck. :,
adventurer was washed up on the a
d senseless-all his money gone. 81
ad to beg in the streets of Canton
ep from starving. For two wears
was no communication between
elf and family. They supposed
dead. He knew not but that y
family were dead. He had
out as captain. He was too
to come back as private sailor.
'fter awhile he choked down his 'ADN
and sailed for Boston. Arriving
he took an evening train for the nary
OF the state, where he had left Cont
mily. Taking the stage at the he:Sh
and riding score Of then
he got home. He SAYS The
going up in front of the Gotta gs steam
Q bright moonlight. the nlac. these
like Heaven. He rapped ON and e;
lndow. and the afrrighted servanN the m
Inn In. He went to the room per n
his wife and child were sleen. compl
he did not dare to wake them Nail
fear Of the shock. Bendino just ,
kiss his child's cheek, a tear bottom
pom the wife's face, and She fioorin
ned, and be said, Mary" and board,
ew his voice, and there was an in tho
ribable scene of welcome and built O
Id Thanksgiving to God. and b
ay know that many OF vou ar. ing to