The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-08

the Housatonic do more WORK
than factory turned by thin
and shallow mountain stream?
Ought not you of great early oppor-
tunity be better than those who had .
cradle unblessed? A father sets his
son up in business He keeps an nc
count of all the expenditures. So
much for store fixtures, SO much for
rent, so much for this, SO much for
that, and all the items aggregated,
and the father expects the son to give
an account Your Heavenly Father
charges against you all the advantage
of a pious ancestry-so many prayers,
so much Christian example, 80 many
kind entreaties-all these gracious
| influences, one tremendous aggre-
gate, and he asks you for an account
of 1t. Ought not you to be better
than those who had no such advan-
tage? Better have been u founding
picked up off the city commons than
with such magnificent inheritance Of
conservation to turn out indifferently.
Ought not you, my brother, to be
better, having had Christian nur-
ture, than the man who can truly
say this morning: THE first word
I-remember nv father speaking to me
was an oath; the first time remember
| my father taking hold of me was in
wrath; never saw Bible till / was
ten years of age, and then Twas told IL
was pack of lies The frst 30 years
of my life I was associated with the
vicious. l seemed to be walled in by
sin and death"
Now. my brother, ought you not-I
leave it as matter of fairness with
you-ought you not to be better than
those who had no early Christian In
fuence? Standing as you do between
the generation that Is past and the
generation that is to come, are you go
ing to pass the blessing on, or are you
going to have your life the gulf in
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 squander that solemn
trust fund? Are you going to disin-
herit your sons and daughters of the
All! that can not be possible that can
not be possible that you are going to
take such position as that. You are
very careful about the life assurances,
and careful about the deeds. and
careful about the mortgage, and care
full about the title to your proper
ty, because when you step off the stage
you want your children to get + all.
Are you making no provision that they
shall get grandfather's or grandmoth-
ers religion? Oh, what last will and
testament you are making, my brother!
"In the name of God, amen. I, being
of sound mind. make this my last will
and testament. bequeath to my
children all the money l ever made
and all the horses own; but
l disinherit them, l rob them of the
ancestral grace and the Christian i'm
fuence that / inherited. have squan-
dered that on my own worldliness.
Share and share alike must they in the
misfortune and the everlasting out
rage. Signed, sealed and delivered in
the presence of God, and men, and an.
gels, and devils, and all the genera.
tions of earth and Heaven and hell,
July, 1895"
We
well illustrated by a young man Of New
York who attended 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 pillows of LIES tenn
pestuous ocean. Shall / ever go to
Heaven? She told me I must meet
her in Heaven. When she took
my 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 l might meet her in
Heaven. I wonder If l ever shallP
My mothers prayers. Oh! my sweet,
blessed mothers prayers. Did ever q
boy have such a mother as had? For
25 years l have not heard her pray
until tonight l have heard all
her prayers over again. They have
had In fact terrible resurrec-
ton. Oh! how she was won't to pray.
She prayed as they prayed tonight
cO S"Ah S'st ~ AhPch sbhotCy ~ DClIcNe
ing Shall ever be Christian? She
was Christian. Oh! how bright and
pure and happy was her life. She was
cheerful and happy Christian There
Is my mothers Bible. l have not
opened 1t 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 1t to me. How did she cause me
to kneel by my little bed and put my
little hands up In the attitude Of
prayer. How has she knelt by me
and over me, and 1 have felt her
warm tears raining down upon my
hands and face. Blessed mother, did
you pray In vain for your boy? II
shall not be In vain. Ali no, no, u
shall not be in vain. will pray for
myself. Who has sinned against SO
much instruction as have? Against
SO many precious prayers put up to
heaven for me by one of the most
lovely, tender, pious, confiding, trust
ing of mothers in her Heavenly
Fathers care and grace. She never