Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-08-05

ton that is to come, are you going TO
pass the blessing on, or are you going
20 have your life the gulf in whic h
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 squander that solemn trust
fund.- Are you going TO disinherit
your sons and daughters of the heirloom
which your parents left you? All! that
can not be possible-that can not be
possible that you are going to take
such n position as that. You are very
careful about the life assurances, and
careful about the deeds, and careful
about the mortgage, and careful about
the title of your property, because
when you step Off the stage you want
your children to get it all Are you
making no provision that they shall
get grandfather's or grandmother's re-
ligion? Oh. what last will and testa-
ment you are making, my brotherl
I'm the name of God, amen. !. being
of sound mind, make this my last will
and testament. l bequeath to INV chill
dren all the money ever made and all
the houses | own, but | disinherit
grace and the Christian influence that
L inherited / have squan dered that
on my own worldliness. Share and
share alike must they in the mis- for
tune and the everlasting outrage.
Signed, scaled 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, We of highly favored ancestry.
wake up this morning to n sense of
your opportunity and responsibility. l
think there must be an old cradle or
fragment of cradle somewhere that
could tell story of midnight supplies
ton in your behalf. Where is the oil.
rocking chair in which YOU were SUM
to sleep with the holy nursery rhymei
Where is the old clock that licked away
the moments of that sickness on that
awful night when there were but three
of you awake-you and sGod and
mother? 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 pietv. we'll
illustrated by young man OF New
York who attended n prayer meeting
one night and asked for PRAYER. and
then went home and wrote down these
words: "Twenty-five years ago this
night my mother went TO Heaven-my
beautiful. blessed mother-and | have
been alone, tossed up and down upon
the pillows of life's tempcstuous ocean.
Shall ever go TO Heaven? She
told me / must meet her in
heaven. When she took nv
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 | might meet her in
Heaven. | wonder if | ever shall. NV
mothers prayers. Oh! my sweet,
blessed mothers prayers! Did ever a
boy have such a mother as had? For
% years ! have not heard her pray
until tonight. l have heard all her
prayers over again. They have had
in fact terrible resurrection. Oh!
how she was wont to pray. She prayed
as they prayed to-Iright. so earnest.
so importunate, so believing Shall I
ever be "A Christian? She was n Chris
tan. On. how bright, and pure, and
happy was her life She was "A cheer
full and happy Christian. There is nv
mothers Bible. l have not opened it
for years Did She believe could ever
neglect her precious Bible? She
surely thought / would read il
much and often. How often has
she read it to me. How did she
cause me to kneel by my little bed and
put my little hands up in the atti
tude of prayer. How has she l<nelt b,
me and over me, and / have felt her
warm tears raining down upon nv
hands and face. Blessed mother. did
you pray in vain for your boy? II shall
not be in vain. All. no, no. it shall
not be in vain. l will pray for myself
Who has sinned against so much in
struction as have? Against so many
precious prayers put mp to Heaven
| for me by one Of the most love.
ly, tender. pious, confiding. trust
ing 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 | am and what / have made my
self Oh! the bitter pangs of an accus-
! ing conscience. | need Savior mighty
TO save. l must seek Him. will. /
am on the sea of existence and can
J never get off from it. | am afloat.
No anchor, no ruddcr, no com
! pass, no book OF instructions.
| for have put them all away
| from me. Savior OF the perishinp.
save, or / perish. Do you wonder that
/ the nest day he arose in prayer meet
ing and said: My brethren. stand
| before you a monument of Gods amaz.
ing mercy and goodness, for ever
| blessed be His holy name; all I have
\ and all ! am / consecratc 20 Jesus. nv
/ Saviour and my God" OH the power
OF ancestral prayer. Hear IL. Hear i'll
| But / turn for moment TO those
/ who had evil parentarc. and want "a
\ tell you that the highest thrones in
/ Heaven and the mighticst triumph.
I and the brightest crowns will be for
I those who had evil parcntage. but vino
I by the grace OF God conquered CON
. quercd. As good, as useful. as splcu.
/ did gentleman rs ] ever knew nod
FOR father q man who died bias.
pheming God until the nrighb,rs
had put their fingers in their car.
90 shut ont the horror. one %.
the most consccratcd and useful
Christian ministers Of to-day wa, the
son OF "a drunken hor.D f,,olxry .fsJ.. 81