Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-18

But is that all? Don't you mean Ia
take them into the ark? Don't Won
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? Go in your
self. II Noah had staid out, do Won
not suppose that his sone-Shem.
Ham and Japhcth-would have staid
out! Your sons and daughters will be
apt to do just as you do. Reject
4 Christ yourself, and the probability
Is that your children will reject him.
An account was taken OF the relip-
ious condition of families in certain
district. In the families of pious paf.S
ents two-thirds of the children were
Christians. In the families where the
parents We're ungodly only one-twelfth
or the children We're Christians.
which way will you take your chill
drcn? Out into the dcluge, or into the
ark! Have you ever made one earn
est prayer for their immortals souls?
What will you say in the Judgment.
when God asks. "Whcrc is George, or
Henry, or Frank. or Mary. or Anna?
Where are those precious souls whose
interests l committed into your
hands?"
A dying son said to his father.
RATHER, you gave me an education,
and good manners. and everything
that the world could do for me; hut,
father, YOU never told me how to die;
and now my soul is going out in the
darkness"
oh. We who have taught your chill
Irnn how To 1.-Two I, ol,,
thcm how to die? Life here is not SO
important as the great hereafter. 1t
is not so much the few furlongs this
side of the grave as it is the unendina
leagues beyond. o eternity. eterrey!
Thy locks white with ages. ThAs
voice announcing Stupendous destiny!
Thy arm reaching across all the past
and all the future! eternity. eter-
nifty!
Go home and erect n family altar.
You may break down in your prayer.
But never mind. God will take what
You mean, whether you express it in
telligibly or not. Bring all your house
into the ark Is there one son whom
you have given up? Is lie so diss-
pated that you have stopped counsel
ing and praying? Give him up? How
dare you give him up? Did God ever
give YOU up? While you have sim
gle articulation of speech left, ccasas
not to pray for the return of that
prodigal. He may even now he stands
ing on the beach at Hong Kong or
Madras meditating a return to his
fathers house. Give him up? Never
give him up! Has God promised to
hear thy prayer only to mock thee?
1t is not too late.
In 81. Panl's. London. there is IL
whispering gallery. A voice uttered
most fecbly ut one side of the gallery
is heard distinctly at the opposite
side. Il great distance off. So every
word of earnest prayer goes all around
the earth, and makes heaven Wits
perins gallery. Go into the ark-not
4" sit down. but to stand in
the door. and call until all the family
come in. Aged Noah, where is Jap
beth? David. where is Absalom?
Hannah where Is Samuel?
On one of the lake steamers there
were a father and two daughters jour
neying. They seemed extremely poor.
A benevolent gentleman stepped up
to the poor man to prefer some form
of relief. and said: you seem to be
very poor, sir" "Poor, SIR" relied
the man, "if there is poorer m,sa,
than me a troublin' the world God
pity both of u.s. 81 will take one of
your children and adopt it. if you say
So" "a what" said the poor man.
"a relief! Would it be relief to have
the hands chopped off 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 car
we afford to spare out of heaven? Will
it he the oldest? Will it he the young
est? Will it be that one that was sick,
some time ago? Will it he the hus-
band? Will it be the wife? No! No!
We must have them all in. Let us
take the childrens hands and start
now. Leave not one behind. Come,
father! Come, mother! Come, son!
Come. daughter! Come, brother! Come,
sister! Only one step, and we are in.
Christ, the door, swings to admit us;
and it is not the hoarseness of
stormy blast that you hear but the
voice of loving and patient God that
addresses you, saying: Come thou
and all thy house into the ark" And
there may the Lord shut us in!
Incident in the Life of n veteraas