The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-08-09

your father was in trouble, who uId he
fiy to? You heard him, in his old days,
tell about some terrible exposure in
snowstorm, or at sea, or in battle. or
among midnight garroters, and how
he escaped. Perhaps twenty years be-
fore 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
that make you think your father was
not a goddess man, but that, on that
dark day when he lay in the back room
diving, he was ready-all ready. But
perhaps your father was bad man
prayerless, and a blasphemer, and you
never think of him without a shudder.
He worshiped the world or his own
appetites. Do not, then, l beg of you,
call upon your fathers God, but call
on your mothers God. l think she
was good. You remember when your
father came home drunk late on
a cold night, how patient your mother
was. You often heard her pray. She
used to sit by the hour meditating, as
though she were thinking of some
good, warm place where it never gets
cold. and where the bread does not
fail, and staggering steps never come.
You remember her now. as she sat, in
cap and spectacles, reading her Bible
Sunday afternoons What good advice
she used to give you. How black and
terrible the hole in the ground looked
to YOU when, with two ropes. they let
her down to rest in the graveyard Ahl
! think from your looks that | am on
the right track. Awake, o sleeper, and
call upon thy mothers God
But perhaps both your father and
mother were depraved- Perhaps your
cradle was rocked by sin and shame,
and it is a wonder from such starting
YOU have come to respeetability. Then
don't call upon the God of either OF
your parents. beg of you
But YOU have children. You know
God kindled those bright eyes, and
rounded those healthy limbs, and set
beating within their breast an immor-
talitv. Perhaps in the belief that
somehow it would be for the best, you
have taught them to say an evening
prayer. and when they kneel beside
you, and fold their little hands, and
look up, their faces all innocence and
love, YOU know that there is a God.
somewhere about the room
| think | am on the right track at
last Awake, o sleeper, and call upon
the God of thy children May he set
these little ones to pulling at thy heart
until they charm thee to the same God
to whom tonight they will say their
little prayers.
But. alas, alasr some Of these men
and women are unwved by the fact
that their father had God, and that
their mother had God, and their
children have God, but they have no
God. All pious example to them for
nothing All the divine goodness for
nothing. All warning for nothing.
They are sound asleep in the side of
the ship, though the sea and the sky
are in mad wrestle.
| Many years ago a man, leaving his
| family in Massachusetts,, sailed from
| Boston to China. to trade there On
the coast of China. in the midst of a
night of storm, he made shipwreck.
| The adventurer was washed up on the
beach senseless-all his money gone.
He had to beg in the streets of Canton
to keep from starving. For two years
there was no communication between
himself and family. They supposed
him dead. He knew not but that his
| family were dead. He had gone out
| as a captain. He was too proud to
come back a private sailor. But after
a while he choked down his pride and
sailed for Boston. Arriving there, he
took an evening train for the
center of the state, where he had left
his family. Taking the stage al
the depot, and riding score of miles
he got home. He says that, going VI
in front of the cottage in the bright
moonlight, the place looked like
Heaven. He raped on the window
and the affrighted servant let him in
He went to the room where his wife
and child were sleeping. He did no
dare to wake them up for fear of the
shock. Bending over to kiss his child!
cheek, tear fell upon the wife's face
and she awakened, and he said
MARY" and she knew his voice, anC
there was an indescribable scene OF
welcome and joy, and Thanksgiving tC
God.
To-day l know that many of you ar,
tossed, and driven by sin in a wors'
storm than that which came down oI
the coast of China, and yet pray Co
that you may, like the sailor, live t.
get home. In the House of Many Man
sions your friends are waiting to NEE
you. They are wondering why yo'
do not come. Escaped from the ship
wrecks of earth, may. you at las
go I'M 1t will be a bright night
very bright night as you put you
thumb on the latch of that door. Ono
in, YOU will find the old family face
sweeter than when you last saw them
and there it will be found that HI
who was your fathers God, and you
mothers God, and your children's Goo
is your own most blessed Redeemer, Il
whom be glory and dominion through
: out all ages, world without end. Amen
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