Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-07-30

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careful about the mortgage and careful
about the title Of your property because
when you step of the stage you want your
children to get ID all Are you making no
provision that they shall get grandfather's
or grandmother's religionS Oh, what o
last will and testament you are making,
my brotherl I'm the name Of God, amen.
l. being of sound mind, make this my last
will and testament bequeath to my
children all the money ever made and all
the houses own, but disinherit them,
rob them of the ancestral grace and the
Christian influence that Inherited have
lquandersd that on my own worldliness
Share and share alike must they in the
misfortune and 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"
The Blessed Mother.
oh, ye of highly favored ancestry, wake
up this morning to sense of your oppor-
tunity and responsibility think there
must be an old cradle or fragment of a
cradle somewhere that could tell story of
midnight supplication In your behalf.
Where is the old rocking chair in which
you were sung to sleep with the holy
nursery rhymeS Where Is the old clock
that licked away the moments Of that sick
ness on that awful night when there were
but three of you awalle-you and God and
mother9 Is there not an old staff in some
closet? We beg you to turn over new
leaf this very day.
| Oh, the power of ancestral piety, we'll
illustrated by 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
have been alone, tossed up and down
upon the billows of life's tempestuous
ocean. Shall I ever go to heavenp 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 ear
nestly and long into my face, and then
lifted them to heaven in that last prayer,
she prayed that might meet her in heav-
en-. wonder if I ever shalR My moth
er's prayersl Oh, my sweet blessed
mothers prayersl Did ever boy have
such mother as had? For 25 years I
have not heard her pray until uonight
have heard all her prayers over again.
They have had, in fact, terrible resur-
rection. Oh, how she was wont to pray!
She prayed as they prayed tonight-so
earnest, so importunate, so believing. Shall
I ever be q Christian? She was Chris
t1an. Oh, how bright and pure and happy
was her lifel She was cheerful and happy
| Christian There is my mothers Bible.
have not opened it for years Did she be-
lieve could ever neglect her precious
Bible2 She surely thought would read ii
much and often. How often has she read
it to mel How did she cause me to kneel
by my little bed and put my little hands
up in the attitude of prayerl How has she
knelt by me and over me, and have felt
her warm tears raining down upon my
hands and facel
Blessed mother, did you pray in vair
for your boy9 1t shall not be In vain. All
no, no; it shall not be in vainl 1 will pray
for myself. Who has sinned against Sc
much instruction as I have-against sc
many precious prayers put up to HEAVIER
for me by one of the most lovely tender
pious, coniding, trusting of mothers il
her heavenly Fathers care and grace? She
never doubted She believed. She always
prayed as If she did. My Bible, my moth
er's Bible and my conscience teach what
am and what have made myself. Oh, the
bitter pangs of an accusing conscience!
need Saviour mighty to save. 1 must
seek him.. will am on the sea of ex
istence, and can never get off from 1t.
am afloat No anchor, no rudder, no com
pass, no book of instructions, for have
put them all away from me. Saviour o.
the perishing, save or perish" Do yor
wonder that the next day he arose in prayer
meeting and said: My brethren, I stant
before you monument of Gods amazing
mercy and goodness. Forever blessed b
his holy namel All have and allI am
consecrate to Jesus, my Saviour and N,
God" Oh, the power Of ancestral prayer
Hear It'll Hear It'll
Heirs of Immortality.