Connecticut western news., 1896-08-27

Dc apt to grow up without1t. Length of days is promised to the righteous. The religion of Christ does not cramp the nerves. There are no malarias floating up from the river of life. The religion of Christ throws over the heart and life of child supernal beauty. Her ways are ways of pleasantneSs, and all her paths are peace.
 MoldinE of Childhood.
 pass on to consider the susceptibility of childhood. Men pride themselves on their unchangeability. They will make an elaborate argument to prove that they think now just as they did 20 years ago It is charged to frailty or fraud when a man changes his senti ments in politics or in religion, and 1t is this determination of soul that so of ten drives back the gospel from a mans heart-it is so hard to make avarico charitable and fraud honest and pride humble and skepticism Christian. The sword of Gods truth seems to glance of from those mailed warriors, and the helmet seems battle proof against Gods
 
 tible to example and to instruction! You are not surprised at the record, Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob" for when religion starts in family it is apt to go all through. Jeze- bel a murderess, you are not surprised to find her son Jehoram attempting as- sassination. Oh. what 0 responsibility upon the parent and the teacher! The musician touches the keys, and the re- sponse of those keys is away of amid the pipes and the chords, and you won- der at the distance between the key and the chord. And so it is in life. If you touch child, the results will come back from manhood or old age, telling just the tune played, whether the djrge of a great sorrow or the anthem of a great joy. The word that the Sabbath school teacher will this afternoon whis- per in the ear of the class will be echoed back from everlasting ages of light or darkness The home and the school de- eide the republic or the despotism, the barbarism or the civilization, the up- building of an empire or the overthrow ing of it. Higher than parliament or ' and the sound of a child's foot may mean more than the tramp of host What, then, are you doing for the pur- pose of bringing your children into the kingdom of Godf If they are so suscep- tible, and if this is the very best time to act upon their eternal interests, what are you doing by way of right impul- sion?
 There were some harvesters in the fields of Scotland one hot day, and Han nah Lemond was helping them gather the hay. She laid her babe under tree. While she was busy in the field there was futter of wings in the air. and a golden eagle clutched the swaddling band of the babe and flew away with it to the mountain eyrie. All the harvest CTS and Hannah Lemond started for the cliffs It was two miles before they came to the foot of the cliffs. Getting there, who dared to mount the cliff? No human foot had ever trod 1t. There were sailors there who had gone up tie mast in the day of terrible tempest They did not dare risk it Hannah Le- mond sat there for awhile and looked up and saw the eagle in the eyrie, and then she leaped to her feet, and she started up where no human foot had ever trod, crag above crag, catching hold of this root or that root, until she reached the eyrie and caught her babe, the eagle sweeping in ferceness all around about her. Fastening the child to her back, she started for her friends and for home. Oh, what dizzy de- scent, sliding from this crag to that orag, catching by that vine and by that root, coming down farther and farther to the most dangerous pass, where she found a goat and some kids She said d: '.Now I'll follow the goat; the goat will know just which is the safest way down." And she was led by the animal down to the plain. When she got there, all the people cried, 'Thank God, thank l GodPi her strength not giving way un- | til the rescue was effected. And they | cried: Stand back now. Give her | airl' Oh, if & woman will do that for the physical life of her child, what will you do for the eternal life of your boy and your girl? Let it not be told in the great day of eternity that Hannah Le- mond put forth more exertion for the I saving of the physical life of her child | than you, O parent, have ever put forth for the eternal life of your little one. God help youl
 Power of Childhood.
 | I pass on to consider the power which | child yields over the parental heart We often talk about the influence of parents upon children. never hear | anything said about the influence of children upon their parents. You go to school to them. You no more educate them than they educate you. With their little hands they have caught hold of | your entire nature, and you cannot | wrench yourself away from their grasp. | You are different men and women from what you were before they gave you the first lesson. They have revolutions ized your soul. There are fountains of | joy in your heart which never would have been discovered had they not dis covered them. Life is to you a more stupendous thing than it was before those little feet started on the pathway | to eternity. Oh. how many hopes, how many joys, how many solicitudes that
 little one has created in your soul! You
 go to school every day, school of sell
 denial, school of patience. in which
 you are getting wiser day by day. and
 that influence of the child over you will
 increase and increase, and, though you
 children may die, from the very throne
 of God they will reach down ap infiu.
 ence to your soul, leading you on ant
 leading you up until you mingle with
 their voices and sit beside their thrones
 The grasp which the child has ovel
 the parents heart is seen in what tn,
 parent will do for the child. Storm ant
 darkness and heat and cold are nothing
 to you if they stand between you ant
 your child's welfare. A great lawyer