The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-10-17

| the everlasting outrage. Signed,
sealed and delivered in the presence of
God, and men, and angels. and devils,
and all the generations of earth and
Heaven and hell, July, 1896"
Oh! the power of ancestral piety,
well illustrated by II young man of
New York who attended q prayer
meeting one night and asked for prayer,
and then went home and wrote down
these words: '"Twcnty-fivc years ago
| tonight my mother went to Heaven,
my beautiful. blessed mother, and 1
| have been alone. tossed up and down
upon the pillows of life's tempestuous
ocean. Shall l ever go to Heaven?
| She told me must meet her in Heaven.
| When she took my hand in hers
and turned her gentle, loving eyes
on me, and gazed earnestly and long
| into my face, and then lifted them to
| Heaven in that last prayer, she prayed
| that l might meet her in Heaven. l
wonder if | ever shall? My mothers
prayers Oh! my sweet blessed moth
er's prayers. Did ever a boy have such
n mother as I had? For % years l have
not heard her pray until tonight. l
have heard all her prayers over again.
| They have had, in fact, terrible rcsur-
~
pray. She prayed as they prayed to-
night, so eGrnc t. so importunIte, so
believing Snail ever be a Christian?
She was Christian. Oh, how bright,
| and pure and happy was her fe. She
was n cheerful and happy Christ an.
There is my mothers Bible. l have
not opened it for years. Did she be-
lieve 1 could ever neglect her precious
Ia I Il
it much and often. How often has she
read it to me. How did she cause me
to l1necl by my little bed and put my
little hands up in the attitude of
prayer. How has she l<nelt by me and
over me, and have felt her warm tears
raining down upon my hands and face.
Blessed mother, did you pray in vain
for your boy? 1t shall not be in vain.
All! no, no, it shall not be in vain.
will pray for myself. Who has sinned
against so much instruction as I have?
Against so many precious prayers put
up to Heaven for me by one of the
most lovely, tender, pious, eonfiding,
trusting of mothers in her Heavenly
Fathers care and grace. She never
doubted; she believed. She always
prayed as if she did. Ny Bible, my
mothers Bible, and my conscience
teach what l am and what 1
have made myself. Oil the bit
ter pangs of an accu ling conscience. l
need Savior might to save. l must
seek him. l viii. | am on the sea of
existence, and | can never get off from
it. / am afloat. No anchor, no rudder.
no compass, no book of instructions,
fer have put them all away from me.
Savior of the per 'shipg, save, or l per-
ish." Do you wonder that the next
day he arose in prayer meeting and
said: ''My brethren, l stand before
you n monument of Gods amazing
mercy and goodness, for ever blessed
be his holy name; all have and all l
AM | consecrate to Jesus, my Savior
and my God" Oh! the power of an.
cestral prayer. Hear it! Hear it!
But l turn for moment to those who
had evil parentage, and l want to tell
you that the highest thrones in Heaven
and the mightiest triumphs and the
brightest crowns will be for those who
had evil parentage, but who by the
grace of God conquered-conquere
AS good, as useful, as splendid gentle
man as / ever knew had for father
man who died disappearing God until
his neighbors had to put their fingers
in their ears to shut out the horror.
One of the most consecrated and useful
Christian ministers of to-day was the
son of a drunken horse jockey. Tide
of evil tremendous in some families.
IT is like Niagara rapids, and vet men
have clung to rock and been res
cued. There is 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 n paper of taciIs because they
were two cents more than he expected.
Grip and grind and gOuge in the fourth
generation-I suppose it will be grip
and grind and gouge in the Goth gen
Grafton. The thirst of intoXicants has
burned down through the arteries of
150 years. Pugnacity or combative-
ness characterize other families. Some
times one form of evil, sometimes an
other form of evil. But it may be resist
ed, it has been resisted. If the family
frailty be avarice, cultivate unselfsh-
ness and charity; teach yonr children
never to eat an apple without offering
somebody else half of it. Is the family
frailty combativeness, keep out of the
company of quiclI-tempered people,
and never answer an important ques-
ton until you have counted 100 both
ways, and after you have written an
angry letter, keep it week before
you send it, and then burn it up. Is
the family frailty timidity and coward
ice, cultivate backbone; read the biog-
raphy of brave men like Joshua or
Paul and see if you cannot get a little
iron in your blood Find out what the
family frailty is, and set body, mind
and soul in battle array. Conquer you
viii. Son of God! Heir of immortality!
Take your inherit4nce! Whose son
art thou, thou young man?'