Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-09-02


in hundreds of the schools and families
of this country to-day children who love
God and keep His commandments, and
who are foremost among the Christians
and the philanthropists and the re-
formers of the next century. The
grace of God never kills any one. A
child will bc more apt To grow up with
religion than il will be apt to grow up
without it. Length of days is prom
ised to the righteous. The religion of
Christ does not cramp the chest or curve
the spine or weaken the nerves
There are no malarias floating up from
the river of life. The religion of Christ
throws over the heart and life of a
child "A supernal beauty. Her ways
are ways of pleasantncss, and all her
paths are peace"
pass on to consider the susceptible
ity 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. 1t is charged to frailty or
fraud when man changes his senti-
mentS in politics or religion, and il is
this determination of soul that so often
heart. 1t is so hard to make avarice
charitable, and fraud honest, and pride
humble, and skepticism Christian.
The sword of Gods truth seems To
glance off from those mailed warriors,
and the helmet seems battle-proof
against Gods battle-ax. But child
hood: how susceptible to example and
to instruction! You are not surprised
at the record: abraham begat Isaac.
and Isaac begat jacob" for when re-
hgion starts in n family it is apt to go
all through. .Iezebel, a murderess. YOU
are not surprised to find her son Jeho-
ram attempting assassination. Oh.
what responsibility upon the
parent and the teacher, The
musician touches the KEYS, and
the response of those keys is away
off amid the pipes and the chords. and
you wonder 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, tolling just the tune played,
whether the dirg of great sorrow or
the anthem of a great joy. The word
that the Sabbath school teacher will
this afternoon whisper in the ear of the
class will be echoed back from ever
lasting ages of light or darkness The
nome and the school decide the republic
or the despotism; the barbarism or the
civilization; the upbuilding of an en-
pire or the overthrowing of it, Higher
than parliament or congress are the
school and the family, and the sound
of childs foot may mean more than
the tramp of a host. What, then, are
you doing for the purpose of bringing
your children into the Kingdom of
God? If they are so susceptible, and If
this is the very best time to act upon
their eternal interests, what are YOU
doing by way of right impulsion?
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 a tree.
While she was busy in the field there
was fiutter of wings in the air, and n
golden eagle clutched the swaddling
band of the babe and flew away with
it to the mountain eyrie. All the
harvesters and Hannah Lemond started
for the cliffs. 1t was two miles before
they came to the foot of the cliffs. Get
ting there, who dared to mount the cliff?
No human foot had ever trod it. There
were sailors there who had gone up the
mast in the day of terrible tempest; they
Gid not dare risk it. Hannah Lemond
sat there for awhile, and looked up and
saw the eagle in the eyrie, and then she
leaped to her feet, and then 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
swooping in tierceness all around about
her. Fastening the child to her back
she started for her friends and for home.
o, what dizzy descent. sliding from
this crag to that crag, catching by that
vine and by that root, coming down
further and further, to the m ost dan
gerous pass, where she found goat
and some kids. She said: Now I'll
follow the goat; the goat will know lust
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 God.r
her strength not giving way until the
rescue was effected. And they cried:
stand back. now. Give her air." O..
II woman will do that for the phvsi-
cal 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 Lemond
put forth more exertion for the 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 you.
pass on to consider the power
which child yields over the parental
/ heart We often talk about the infiu-
ence o parents upon children. Inever
hear anything said about the influence
of children upon their parents. You 90
TO school 10 them. You no more edu-
cate them than they educate you.
With their little hands they have
caught hold of your entire nature and
you can not 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 revolutionized your soul.
There are fountains Of ioy in
your heart which never would have
been discovered had they not discov.
cred them Life is 90 you "a more stu.
pendous thing than it was before those
little feet started on the pathway "a
eternity. o, how many hopes. how
many joys, how many solicitudes that
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