The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-04-04

rise there will bca fiuttering OF wings over
your head; angel crying to angel, "Behold,
| But this does not include all your family
Bring the children too. God bless the dear
children. What would our homes be with
out them2 We may have done much for
them. They have done more for us. What
n salve for n wounded heart there H. In the
soft palm OF n child's hand Did harp or
| flute ever have such music as there Is In n
child's good 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 go straight into
glory, but !ou are expecting your children
| to grow up in this world IL il not n ques-
| tton, then. that rings through all the corri-
dors and windings and heights and depths Of
your soul, what Is to become Of your sons
| and daughters for time and foi eternitv2
"Oh, you lay, 81 mean to see that they have
good manners Very we'll. Il mean to
dress them well, III have myscltto 60 shabby"
Very good. ~ shall give them an educa-
tion; shall leave them fortune" Very
well. But "a that all? Don't you mean to
take them into the ark? Don't YOU know
that the storm is coming. and that ont Of
Christ there Is no safety, no pardon no hope.
no heaven?
fiVM ~ kfA lltUl lNs 'fN III yourself. III
Noah had staid out. do yuu not suppos, that
his sons--Shcm. Ham and Jnphcth--would
have staid out2 Your sons and dau yhtnrs
will be apt to do just ~ YOU do. Reject
Christ yourself. and the probability Is that
your children will rclect Him.
An account was taken OF the religions
condition of families In n certain district.
In the families of pious parents two-thirds Of
tho children were Christians. In the families
where the parents were uugoily only one
twelfth OF the children were Christians
Which way will you take your childrun2 out
into the deluge or into the ark2 Have you
ever made ono earnest prayer for their inn
mortal souls2 What will YOU say in tho
JUDGMENT when God asks, "Whcrr Is George
or Henry or Frank or Mary or Aunl2 Where
are those precious souls whose interests |
committed into your hands,"
dying son said To his father f"Father.
you gave mo an education and good manners
and everything that the world could do for
me. but, father, You never told mo how to
die, and now my soul Is going out in the
darkness"
Oh. yo who have taught your children
how to live, have you also taught them how
TO die? Life here Is not -o important as the
great hereafter. II Is not 40 much the few
furlongs this side of the grave as 1t is tho
unending leagues beyond. o eternity,
eternity Thy locks white with the ages. thy
voice announcing stupendous destiny, thy
arms reaching across nll the past and all the
future! O eternity, cicrnity.
Go home and erect family altar You may
break down In your prayer. But never
mind, God willtake what you mean, whether
you express II intelligihly or not. Brlng all
your house into the ark. l. there one son
whom you have given up2 l. hpso dissipat-
cd that you have stopped counscliug aud
praying2 Give him up How dare YOU give
him up? Did God over give yOu upy While
you have q single articulation Of speech loft,
cease not to pray for the return Of that prod
igal. lie may even now be standing ON tho
beach ut Hong Kong or Madras. mciitHtiug
return to his fathers house. Give him upy
Never give him up! Has God promised 10
hear thy prayer only 10 mock thee? II Is not
too late.
In st. Paul. London, there j. whisper
ing gallery. \ voice uttered most iecbly ~
one side OF the gallery Is heard distinctly nc
the opposite side, II great distance on So
every word OF earnest prayer goes all around
the earth and makes heaven n whispering
gallery Go into the ark-pot To- sit down
but to stand in the door and call until all the
family come in. Aged Noah. where is Japh-
eth? David, whore is AbsulOmy Hannah
where Is SnmuelP
On one of the lake steamers thcro were n
father and two daughters journoying. They
seemed extremely poor benevolent gem
tlemen stepped up 10 the poor man 10 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 mo
a-troublin the world, God pity both OF usl'
II will take one OF your children and adopt
II, IL you say so. think It would be a great
relief to YOU" IA WHAT" said the moor
man. "a relief Would II be II relief 70 have
the hands chopped on from the body. or the
heart torn from the breasty relief indeed
God be good 10 u.s. What do you mean,
sirS' However many children we have we
have none 20 give up. Which Of our families
can we a1ord 20 spare out Of heavcn2 viii IL
be the oldest? Will IL be the youngest? Will
IL ho TINT one that was sick sometime ago?
VIII IL be the husband? viii II be the wife?
No, no, We must have them all in. Let NJ
take tho chldrens hands and start now.
Leave not ono behind. Come father; come
mother; come, son; come, daughter; come
brother; come, sister! Only one stop and we
arc in Christ. the door, swings out 10 admit
u. And It j. not the hoarscncss OF a stormy
blast that you hear. bUt the voice Of loyinl;
and patient God that addresses you, saving,
Come. thou and all thy house, into the
ark. And there may the Lord shut Us in!