The Monitor-register., 1896-08-28
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unelr uncrtangeability. They will make
an elaborate argument to prove that
they think now just as thew did 90
years ago. 1t is charged to frailtv ~.
fraud when a man changes his senti-
ments III politics or in religion, and if
is this determination of soul that SO If.
ten drives back the gospel from a mans
heart-lt is SO hard to make avarica
charitable and fraud honest and nride
humble and skepticism Christian. The
SWORD I Gods truth seems to glance off
from those mailed warriors. and the
helmet seems battle proof against Gods
battleax. But childhood-bow snsoan
tlole to example and to instruction
You are not surprised at the record.
Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac heoat
Jacob" for when religion starts in a
family it is apt to go ali through. .Jeze-
bel a murderess, you are not SURPRISED
to lind her son Jehoram attempting as
sasslnation. Oh, what a responsibilitv
upon the parent and the teacher! The
musician touches the keys, and the re-
spouse OF those keys is away off amid
the pipes and the chords, and YOU won
der at the distance between the kew and
the chord. And so it is in life. If Won
touch a child, the results will come
back from manhood or old age, telling
just the tune played, whether the dirge
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 M.
building OF an empire or the overthrow
ing of it. Higher than parliament or
congress are the school and the family.
and the sound of a child's foot NAV
mean more than the tramp of "a host.
What, then, are you doing for the pur-
pose OF bringing your children into the
kingdom of God? 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 a tree.
While she was busy in the field there
was a 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
ers and Hannah Lemond started for the
cliffs. 1t 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 it. There
were sailors there who had gone up the
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 eyre, 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 swooping in fierceness all
around about her. Fastening the child
to her back, she started for her friends
and for home. Oh, what a dizzy de-
scent, sliding from this crag to that
crag, 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:
"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
Godl' her strength not giving way un-
til the rescue was effected. And they
cried: "Stand back nov. Give her
air!" Oh, if a I'M 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 Lee
mond put forth more exertion for the
saving of the physical life of her child
han you, o parent, have even put forth
for the eternal life of your little me-.
God help you'll
Power of Childhood.
I pass on to consider the power which
a 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
FOUR 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 revolution
lied 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
s~tupendous thing han 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, a school of self
denial, a school of patience, in which
you are getting wiser day by day, and
hat influence of the child oven you will
increase and increase, and, though your
children may die, from the very throne
of God they will reach down an infu-
ence to your soul. leading you on and
leading you up until you mingle with
their voices and sit beside their thrones.
The grasp which the child has over
the parents heart is seen in what the
parent will do for the child. Storm and
Darkness and heat and cold are nothing
to you if they stand between you and
your child's welfare. A great lawyer,
when yet unknown, IL day stood in
the courtroom and made an eloquent
plea before some men of great attain
ments, and a gentleman said to him
afterward, "How could you be so calm
standing in that august ~presence?''
"Oh," said Erskine, ''Ifelt my children
pulling at my skirts crying for bread"
What stream will you not swim, what
cavern will you not enter, what battle
will you not fight, what hunger will
you not endure for your children? Your
children must have bread though you
starve. Your children must be well
clothed though you go in rags. You
say, "My children shall be educated,
though 1 never had any chance" What
to you are weary limbs and aching head
and hands hardened and callous if only
the welfare of your children can be
wrought out by it? Their sorrow is your
sorrow, their joy your joy, their adj
vancement your victory. And, oh. when
the last sickness comes, how you fight
back the march of disease, and it is
only after a tremendous struggle that
you surrender. And then when the
spirit has fed the great deep is broken
III and Rachel will not be comforted