Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-08-09
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY. AUGUST 9 Is95.

God?" Then you had better call upoi
your fathers God. When your fathe
was in trouble, whom did he fly to? Yol
heard him in his old days tell abou
some terrible exposure in snowstorm
or at sea, or in battle, or among mid
night gaTroters, and how he escaped
Perhaps 20 years before You were borl
your father made sweet Acquaintance,
with God There is something in th,
worn pages Of the Bible he used to reaC
which makes you think your father huC
a God. In the old religious books lying
around the house. here are passage.
marked with lead poacil-passage,
that make you think your father wa,
not a goddess man, Int that, on that
dark day when he lay in the hack room
dying he was ready--all ready. Bnt
perhaps your father was a bad man
prayerless and a blas hemer-and you
never think of him move without shud-
der. He worshiped the world or his
own appetites Do not then, 1 beg Of
you, call upon your fathers God, but
call ON your mothers tod / think she
was good Yoaremember when your IA
Their came home drum K late on cold
night, how patient " ur mother was.
You often heard her pay. 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 Dot fail, and stag
Der her now as she sat in cap and spec
tacles reading her Bible Sunday after
noon. 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 All, 1 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 wonder that from such
starting you have come to respectable
ity. Then don't call upon the God Of
either Of your parents, beg of you.
The God Of Thy Children.
But you have children. You know
God kipdled those bright eyes and
rounded those healthy limbs and set
beating within their breast an immor-
tally Perhaps in the belief that some
how it would be for the best you have
taught them to say an evening prayer,
and when they lmeel 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 in the room.
I think I am ON tho right track at
last Awake, o sleeper, ana 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 lit
tie prayers
But, alas, alas, some Of these men
and women arc unmoved by the fact
that their father had a God, that their |
mother had a God, and their children |
have a God, but they have no God. All |
the divine goodness for nothing All |
warning for nothing. They are sound |
asleep in the side Of the ship, though |
the sea and sky are in mad wrestle.
Many years ago man, leaving his |
family in Massachusetts, sailed from
Boston to China to trade there On the
coast Of China in the midst of night of
storm he made shipwreck. The adven-
turer was washed up on the beach sense
less-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 captain. He was
too proud to come back as private sail
Or. But after awhile he choked down
his pride and sailed for Boston. Arriv-
ing there, he took an evening train for
The center of the state, where he had
left his family. Taking the stage from
he depot and riding a score Of miles, he
got home He says that, going up in
front Of the cottage in the bright moon
light, the place looked to him like heav-
N. He raped on the window, and the
lffrighted servant let him In. He went
o the room where his wife and child
we're sleeping. He did not dare to wake
hem for fear Of the shock. Bending
,ver to kiss his child's cheek, tear fell
lpon the wife's face, and she Weakened,
md he said, MARY % and she knew his
-oice, and there was an indescribable
Gene Of welcome and joy and thanksgiV-
ng TO God.
Today / know that many of you are
ca tossed and driven by sin in a worse
torn than that which came down on
be coast Of China, and yet pray God
hat you may, like the sailor, live to get
ONE, In the house of many mansions
our friends are waiting to meet you.
hey are wondering why you do not
ONE. Escaped from the shipwrecks Of
lrth, may you at last go in It will be {
bright night-a very bright night as
on put your thumb on the latch of that !
COR. Once in you will find the old fam t
" faces sweeter than when you last
iw them, and there it will be found
nat he who was your fathers God. and
our mothers God, and your children's
Tod, is Your own most blessed Redeem I
r, to whom be glory and dominion s
all ages, world without end h
men. v