The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-07-30

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pedigree, "whose son art thou, thou young
MANI"
First accos. all those who are descended
Ola Christian ancestry. do not ask II your
parents were perfect. There are no perfect
people now. and do not suppose there wsre
any perfect people then. Perhaps there was
sometimes too much blood In their eve when
they chastised you. But, from what know
otyou, you got no more than you deserved
and perhaps little more chastisement
would have been salutary. But you are
willing to acknowledge. think. that they
wanted to do right. From what you over
heard In conversations and from what you
saw Mt the family altar and at neighborhood
cbse1uies you know that they had invited
God into their heart and their life. There
was something that sustained those old
people supernaturally. You have no doubt
about their destiny. You expect you ever get
| 70 heaven 10 meet them as you expect to meet
the Lord Jesus Christ.
That early asso ;iation has been charm
| Tor YOU. There was a time when you got
right up from house OF iniqui,y aud walked
out into the fresh mir because you thought
! your mother was looking nj you. You have
never been very happy in sin because OF u
sweet old face that would present itself.
| Iremulous voices from the past accostel YOU
| until they were seemingly audible, and you
looked around to see who spoke. There was
an estate not mentioned in the last will and
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example and christian entreaty and glorious
| memory. The survivors OF the family gath
cred to hear the will read, and this was TO
be kept and that was TO be sold. aud IL was
share aud share alike" But there was an
| unwritten will that read something like this,
In the name OF God. amen. being of sound
| mind, bequeaih to my children all my pray
| ers for their salvation; I bcqueath to them
ali the results OF ifetime's toil bequeath
TO them the Christian religion. which has
Desn so much comfortto me, and hope may
| be solace for them; bequeath TO them "A
] hope OF reunion when the partings OF life are
over. Share and share alike may they in-
| herit eternal riches. | bequeath 90 them the
wish that they may avoid my errors and
| copy anything that may have been worthy.
In the name OF God who made me. and the
Christ who redeemed me. aud the Hoiy
! Ghost who sacrifices me. make this nv last
Will and testament. Witness all You hosts
OF hetven. witness time, witness eternity
Signed, sealed and delivered in this our
dying hour, Father aud Mother" You did
not get that will proved at the surrogate
of1ice, but take IL out to-day aud read IL
to you. take 1t out OF the alcoves Of vour
heart. shake the dust of II. 4 ask If you
will accept that Inheritance. or will you
break the willY
o ye OF Christian ancestry. you have q
responsibility vast beyond all measurement.
God Will not let you on with lust being rs
good "a ordinary people when YOU had sucA
extraordinary advantage. Ought not
Hover planted In hothOusc be more thrifty
than Hover planted outside ~ a storm?
Ought not factory turned by the Housa.
tonic do more work than a factory TUNED by
"a thin and shallow mountain stream? Ought
not you OF great early opportunity be better
than those who had a cradle unblessrdY A
father sets his son up in business. He
keeps an account OF all the expenditures, so |
much Tor store fixture. 50 much for rent. so
much Tor this, so much for that, and all the
items aggregated and the father expects the !
son 20 give an account. Your Heavenly |
Father charges against you all the advan- |
tages OF pious ancestry-so many prayers
50 much Christian example, SO many kind |
entreaties-all these gracious influences, one |
tremendous aggregate, and be asks you tor !
an account Of IT, Ought not YOU 10 be- better |
than those who had no such advantage? Bet. |
ter have been n foundling picked up on the |
city commons than with such magnificent /
inheritance OF conservation to turn out in |
differently. Ought not you. my brother. 60 l
be better, having had Christian nuture. than I
the man who can truly say this morning; |
'ttfae hrst WORD Ieh.rpoer la! ialiit' sIeui,- |
ing to me was an OATH the first time re-
member my father taking hold Of me was IN |
wrath; l never saw Bible Till | was ten |
years OF age, and then l was told 1t was a |
pack OF lies. The ilrsttwenty years OF my
life was asso lated with the'vicious seemed |
TO be walled i 10y sin and death
Now, my brother, ought you not-I leave |
1t as matter OF fairness with YOU ought YOU /
not to be Deitcr than those who had no early I
CEristianin'aence Standing as you do be- !
tween the generation that j. past and the |
generation that Is to como. are you going TO .
pass the blessing on, or are you going to .
have your life the gulf iG which that tide OF .
blessing shall drop out OF sight forever You .
are the trustee OF piety in that ancestral line, !
and are you going TO augment or sluauder
that solemn trust fund.- Are you going 10
disinherit your sons and daughter, Of the
heirloom which your parents left you? All.
that cannot be possibie-it cannot be possible
that You are going 10 take such position a.
thht You are very careful about life insur-
ances, and careful about the deeds. and
careful about the mortgage. aud careful
about the title of your property, because
when YOU step on the stage you want your
children TO get il all Are YOU making no
provision that they shall get grandfathors
or grandmother's religion? Oh, what a last
VIII aud testament You are making, NY
brother! "ln the name Of God, amen. /.
being OF sound mind, make this my last will
and testament. bequsath TO my children
all the money ever made an all the houses
own, but disinherit them. ron them of
the ancestral grace ani the Christian in
nuence that inherited. have squandered
that on my own wor dliness. Snare and
share alike must they in the misfortune and
Nuo eNtIldHtIuG 'utTHst. Olgnel, sealed ana |
delivered in the presence OF God and men
and angels aud devils aud all the genera
tlons of earth and heaven and hell, July,
1896"
o We OF highly favored ancestry wake up
this morning to II sense OF your opportunity
and responsibility. think there must be an
old cradle or u fr lgment of u cradle some
where that could tell story Of midnight
supplcGtion in your behalf. Where is the
Old rocking chair IN which you were sung 70
s'eep with tue holy nursery rhyme? Where
is the old clock that licked away the mo.
ments OF that sickness on that awful night
when there were nut three oi you awake
you and Go aud mother? Is there not an
old stan in some closet? We beg you 10 turn
over u new leaf this very day
Oh, the power Of ancestral piety well H.
lustrated by q young man Of New York who
attended II prayer meeting one night and
asked for prayers and then went home and
wrote down these words "fwenty-hve years
ago tonight my mother went to heaven my
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