The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-25

| ay, over the great and amending
eternity. You may, after awhile,
say, Il am very sorry. Now, i
have got TO be 30 or 40 years of
age, and / do wish / had never
committed those sins" What
does that amount to? God may
pardon you; but undo those things
YOU never will, you never can.
In this same category of irrevo-
cable mistakes 1 put all parental
neglect. We begin the education
of our children too late. BY the
time they get to b. 10or 15' we
wake up to our mistakes, and try
to eradicate this bad habit, and
change that; but it is too late.
That parep. VINO omits, in the first
ten years of the child's, life, to
make an eternal impression for
Christ, never makes it. The child
will probably go on with all the
disadvantages which might have
been avoided by parental faithful
ness. Now you see what a mis-
take that father or mother makes
who puts off too late life adher-
ence 10 Christ. Here is a man
EMO at 50 years of age says to You,
II must be a Christian" and he
yields his heart to God, and sits
in the place of prayer today a
Christian. None of us can doubt
it. He goes home and says, Here
at so years of age | have given my
heart to the Savior. Now l must
establish a family altar" What?
Where are your children now?
One in Boston; another in Cincin-
natl; onother in New Orleans;
and you, my brother, at your fif-
tieth year going to establish your
altar? Very we'll ; better late than
never; but alas, alas, that YOU did
not do it twenty-five years ago!
When l was in Chamouni, Swift
erland, / saw in the window of
one of the shops picture that i'm
pressed my mind very much. 1t
was a picture of an accident that
occurred on one of the Swiss noun
tains. A company of travellers,
with guides, went up some very
steep places-places which but
few travellers attempted to go up.
They were, as all travellers are
there, fastened together with cords
at the waist, so that if one slipped
the rope would hold him-the rope
fastened tn the others. Passing
along the most dangerous point,
one of the guides slipped, and they
all started down the precipice;
but after awhile one more muscu-
lar than the rest strck his heels
into the ice and stopped; but the
rope broke, and down, hundreds
and thousands of feet, the rest
went. And so / see whole families
bound together by ties of affection.
and in many cases walking on
slippery places of worldliness and
sin. The father knows it and the
mother knows it, and they are all
bound together. After awhile they
begin to slide down sleeper and
sleeper, and the father becomes
alarmed, and he stops, planting
his feet on the Crock of Ages, :"
He stops, but the rope breaks, and
those who were once tied fast to
him by moral and spiritual infiu-
ences, go over the precipice. oh,
there is such d thing as coming to
Christ soon enough to save our
seyes, but not soon enough to save
Others
How many parents wake up in 4
the latter part Of life ID find out
the mistake! The parent says II
have been too lenient, or 81 have
been too severe in the discipline
of my children. fl had the lit
tie ones around me again, how
j would dol You Will
never have them aror: again.
The work il done, the bent to the
character i given, the eternity Is
| say this TO young par-
ents--those who are 25 or 80 years
Of age--have the family altar to-
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