Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-31
MILFORD. DEL, FRIDAY, JULY 81. 1896

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4 Oh, the power of ancestral piety, well
, illustrated 10y young man Of New York
, who attended "A prayer meeting one night
and asked for prayer and then went home
and wrote down these words: Twenty
five years ago tonight my mother went to
heaven, my beautiful, blessed mother, and
I have been alone, tossed up and down
upon the pillows of life's tcmpestuous
ocean. Shall 1 ever so TO heaven? Sine
told me / must meet her in heaven. When
she took my hand in hers and turned her
gentle, loving eyes ON me, and gazcd ear
nestly and long into my face, and then
lifted them to heaven in that Inst prayer,
she prayed that might meet her in hcav
en-. l wonder If / ever slialh My moth
er's prayers Oh, MY sweet blessed
mothers prayers Did ever "a boy have
such mother as l hadg For - years /
have not leslrd her pray until tonight. /
have heard all her prayers over again.
They have had, in fact, a terrible resUr-
rection. Oh, how she wns wont TO Tray
She prayed as they prayed tonight-s0
earnest, 50 imPortunatc, so believing. Shall
ever be a Christian She was Chris
tian. Oh, how bright and pure and happy
wa her lifcl She was a cheerful and happy
have not oloned it for years. Did she be-
lieve l could ever neglect her precious
Bible? She surely Thought would read IL
much and often. How often has she read
1t to met How did she cause inc to kncel
by my little led and put NY little hands
up in the attitude OF prayer! How has she
knelt by me and over lie, ard have felt
her warm tears raining down upon my
hands and facel
blessed mother did you pray in vain
for your boy? 1t shall not be in vain. All,
no, no; it shall not be in yain l will pray
for myself Who has sinned against so
much instruction rs / haye-ag3linst 50
many precious prayers put up TO heaven
for me by enc OF the most lovely, tender
pious, confding, trusting Of mothers in
her heavenly Fathers care ard grace She
never doubted - c believed. She always
prayed as if she did. My Bible, my moth
er's Bible ard my conscience teach what l
am and what l have made myself. Oh, the
bitter panGs OF an accusing conscience! 1 /
need Saviour mighty to save. l must
seek him. will. am on the sea Of cx !
istoncc, and L can never get of from it. l |
am ailOat. No anchor, no rCuder, no COM !
pass no book Of Instructions, for l have /
put them all away from me. Saviour Of /
the perishing, save or l perish' Do you /
wonder that tho next day lac arose in prayer |
meeting and said: My brethren, l stand !
before you "a monument of God amazing !
mercy and goodness Forever blessed ho |
his holy name All have and all am ! /
consecrate to Jesus, my Saviour and my |
God" Oh, the power Of ancestral prayer
Hear it, Hear IL!
Heirs of Immortality.
But turn for nlomeLt to those who
had evil percentage and / want to tell you
that the highest thrones in heaven and the
mighticst triulnphs and the brightest
crowns Will be icr those who had evil pa
rentagc, but who by tho grace OF God con
quered- conquered. As good, as useful,
as splendid "a gentleman as l ever knew
had for a father a man who died blasphom
ing God until the neighbors had to put
their fingers in their ears to shut out the
horror One of the NEST cOnsecrated and
useful Christian ministers Of today was
the son Of Il drunken horse jockey. Tide
of evil is Tremendous in some families. 1t
is like niagara rapids, and yet men have
chung to II rock and bcen rescued.
There is a family in New York, whose
wealth has rolled up into many millions,
that was founded by man who, after he
had vast estate, sent back Il paper OF tacks
because they were cents more than he
expected. Grip and grind and gOuge in
the fourth generation, l suppose it will be
grip and grind and Eouge in the twentieth
generation. The thirst of intoXicants has
burned down through the arteries Of n
hundred and fifty years. Pugnacity or
cOmbativcness charactcrizes other families
Sometimes one form of evil, sometimes
another form of evil But it may be re
sisted; it has been resisted Ii the family
hf,
and charity and teach your children never
to eat an apple without offering somebody /
else half of it. Is the family frailty COM
bativeness, keep out OF the company Of {
quick tempered people and never answer !
an impertinent question until you have :
counted a hundred both ways, and after {
you have written an angry letter keep it a ,
week before you seLd it, and then burn 1t i
up. Is the family frailty timidity and I
cOwardice, cultivate backbone. Read the r
biography of brave men like Joshua or 1
Paul and see if you cannot get a little iron q
In your blood. Find out " hat the family \
frailty is and set body, mind and soul in q
battle array. Conquer your viii. think {
the genealogical table was put in the first I
chapter Of the New Testament not only to =
show our Lords pedigree, but to snow .
that man may rise up in an ancestral e
AuG anu DCtAl Itttk nAiNNtooA al AAlC
1uenccs Of bad hercdity. See in that gene
Illogical table that good King Asa was born
Of vile King Abia. See in that gcnealocic-
Al table that Joseph and Mary and the o
most illustrious Being that ever touched II
our world. Oc ever will touch it, had in i
their ancestral line scandHlOus RehOboam v
and Rahab and ThamAr and Bathsheba. II
If this world is ever to be Edenized-and Il
It will be-all the infected families of the 1
,arth are to be regeneratcd, and there will a
ome one arise in each family line and Ii
,pen new genealogical table. Il
There will be- some Joseph to arise in the
inc and reverse the evil influence Of Re 81
loboam and there will be some Mary TO Il
.-ise in the line and reverse the evil in Il
luen,e or Batnsheba. Perhaps the scar OF n
lope may point down to your manager. y
Perhaps you are to be the hero or the N
Jerome that is to put down the brakes and =
top that long line Of genealogical ten ID
encies and switch it off on another track ~
rom that on which 1t has been running NJ
or IA century You do that, and l will +,
romise you as fine palace as the archi- n,
Gets of heaven can build, the archway in n,
cribed with the words g More than con 81
ueror But whatever your heredity, let r.
ne say you may be SONS and daughters Of
he Lord God Almighty. Estfanged chill d,
rem from the homestead come back nj
Trough the open gate Of adoption. There on
81 ogal blood in our veins. There are crowns w
II our escutchcon. Our Father is king; our "a,
brother is king; we may be kings and q,
ueens unto God forever. Come and sit so
own on the ivory bench Of the palace. r
]ome and wash in the fountains that fall
nto the basins of crystal and alabaster.
ONE and look out of the upholstered win
ow upon gardens of azalea and amaranth. -
car .iie iuti " YIN. 49,
IN, when the text sweeps backward let it - -
OF stop at the cradle that rocked your in :,
lncy, but at the crude that rocked the =, ~
rst worldl And when the text sweeps for p
ard lot it not stop at your grave, but at -
he throne on which you may reign forever :, =