Milford chronicle., 1895-04-05

Z | Child's nose and force down a dose Of rilii
, burb and calGmel You cannot drive You
: children into the ark You can draw you
children to Christ, but you cannot cocrc
them The cross was lifted not to drive
but to draw. II ! be lifted up, / vii
draw all men unto me. As the SUI
draws up the drops of morning dew so th,
sun of righteousness exhales the tears o.
repentance.
BE sure that You bring your husband
and wife with you. How would Nuaf
have folt if whon he heard the rain pat
tering on the roof Of the ark he knew that
his wife was outside in the storm? No;
she went with him And vet some of You
are on the ship outward bound foi
heaven, but your companion is unshelter-
ed. You remember the day when tho
marriage ring was set Nothing has yet
been able to break it. Sickness came, and
the finger shrank, but the ring staid on
The twain stood alone above a ehilds
grave, and the dark mouth Of the tomb
swallowed up a thousand hopes, but the
ring dropped not into the open grave
Days Of poverty came, and the hand did
many a hard days work, but the rubbing
Of the work against the ring only made it
shine brighter. Shall that ring ever be
lostp VIII the iron clang Of the sepulohre
1 gate crush it foreverf / pray God that
/ you who have been married on earth may
/ be together in heaven. Oh by the qAiet
/ bliss Of your earthly home by the babes
cradle by all the vows of that day when
you started life together, beg you to see
to it that you both get into the ark.
Bring Your Loved Ones.
Come I'm and bring your wife or your
husband with you-not by fretting about
religion or dingdunging them about re-
ligion, but by consistent life and by
compelling PRAYER that shall bring the
throne of God down into your room. 60
home, and take up the Bible, and read it
together, and then kneel down and com
mend your souls to him who has watched
you all these years, and before you rise
there will be o Auttering Of wings over
yoor head, angel crying to angel, Be
hold, they prayr
But this does not include all your fam
ily Bring the children too God bless
the dear childreni What would our homes
be without them9 We may have done
much for them They have done more for
us. What a salye for wounded heart
there is in the soft palm Of a child's handl
Did harp or 1uto ever have such music
as there is in a child's good night"
From our coarse, rough life the angels Of
God are often driy II back. But who
comes into the nursery without feeling
that angels are lowering around? They
who die in infancy go straight into glory,
but you are expecting your children to
grow up in this world Is it not ques-
tion, then, that rings through all the cor I
ridors and Windings and hei~ i~hts aud 4
depths of your soul, what is to become of
your sons and daughters for time and for
eternity? "Oh, you say, II mean to see
that they have good mannersl' Very
we'll 4 mean to dress them well, if
have myself to go shabby" Very good.
] shall give them an education I shall
leave them a fortune. Very we'll But
is that all? Don't you mean to take them
into the ark: Don't you 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 yourself
If Noah had staid out, do you not suppose
that his sons-Shem, Ham and Japheth
would have staid outY Your sons and
daughters viii be apt TO do just as you do
Reject Christ yourself, and the probable
ty is that your children viii reject him,
An account was taken Of the religious
of families in certain district
thirds of the children were Christians In
5he families where the parents were un-
yodly only one-twelfth of the children were
Christians. Which way will you take your
,hildren? Out into the deluge or into {
be arkg Have you ever made one earnest
Irayer for their immortal soulsf What ]
will you say in the judgment when God
sks; Where is George or henry or Frank
T Mary or Anna? Where are those .5- J
ious souls whose interests committed
nto your hands?"
How TO Die.
A dying son said to his father, Father,
on gave mean education, and good man
ers, and everything that the world could
o for me; cut father, you never told me
ow to die, and now my soul is going out a
a the darkness "
Oh, ye who have taught your children S
ow TO live, have you also taught them q
ow to diet Life here is not so important s
S the great hereafter It is not so much J.
le few furlongs this side of the grave as "
is the unending leagues beyond o D
ernity, eternity Thy locks white with &
10 agosl Thy voice announcing stupen- Il
ous destiDyl Thy arms reaching across {,
] the past and all the future o eterni-
2, eternity e.
Go home and erect a family ALTAR You p
ay break down in your prayer. But g
3ver mind, God will take what you mean,
neither you express It intelligibly or not. II
ring all your house into the ark. Is there 81
ie son whom you have given upg Is he st
dissipated chat you have stopped coun- lC
ling and prayingf Give him upY How lc
re you give him upf Did Sod ever give lo
IL up? While you have a single artiou
nnFf 20. To- H.
e return of that prodigal. He may even b,
W be standing on the beach at Hong of
ng or Madras meditating a return to az
fathers house. Give him up' Novel,
Te him upl Has God promised to hear To
y prayer only to mock theef It is not
J lato, 81
In St. Paul's, London, there is a whis- Y
ling gallery A voice uttered most fee
: at one side of the gallery is heard dis
city at the opposite side great dis
zee of. So every word of earnest pray a.
goes all around the earth and makes ~ y.
lyen a whispering gallery. Go into the ~ ~
mot to sit down, but TO stand in the p -
lr and call until all the family come - -
Aged Noah, where is Japheth? David, 81.
ereis Absalom? Hannah, where is Sam ~ ~
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"A FAttink Siinlle.
IN one Of the lake steamers there were ~
ather and two daughters journeying. -,
ey seemed extremely poor. A benevolent ~, ~.
ltleman stepped up to the poor man to W. ea'
fer some form of relief and said, You ~ ~
m to be very poor, sir. Poor sir, - ~ ~
lied the man. If there a poorer man .
n me a-troubling the world, God pity
b Of us. !" " will take one Of your
ldren and adopt it If you say so, 1
nix 1t would be a great relief to you"
whatg' said the poor man. A relief
uld it be a relief to have the hands
pped of from the body or the heart
o from the beast2 A relief indeedl God
good to usl What do you mean, STRIP I
yever many children we have, we have cou
le to give up. Which of our families con
we afford to spare out of heaven? bea
] ir be the oldestY VIII it be the apt
ii=- y @ill it be that one that was ane
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