The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-07-31

tide of blessing shall drop out OF Slghb
forever? You are the trustee OF Diety
in that ancestral line, and are you go
ing to augment or squander that sol
emn trust fund? Are you going to dis
inherit Your sons and daughters OF
the heirloom which your parents left?
All! that cannot be possible-that you
are going to take such a pos ton 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 to your proper
ty, 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 or grandmOther's
religion? Oh. what a last will and
testament you are making, my brOtherl
I'm the name of God. amen. |, 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 l in
herited | have squandered 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"
On! the power of ancestral piety,
well illustrated by a 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 pillows of life's tempestuous
ocean. Shall / ever go to Heaven?
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 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 l ever shall? My mothers
PRAYERS. Oh! my sweet blessed moth
er's prayers. Did ever boy have such
a mother as had? For % years have
not heard her pray until tonight.
have heard all her prayers over again.
They have had, in fact, terrible resur-
rectiOn. On! how she was won't to
pray. She prayed as they prayed to-
night, so earnest so importunate, so
believing. Shall l ever be Christian?
She was Christian. Oh! how bright,
and pure and happy was her life. She
was a cheerful and happy Christian.
There is my mothers Bible. have.
not opened it for years. Did she be-
lieve / could ever neglect her precious
Bible? She surely thought would read
it much and often. How often has she
read it to me. How did she cause me
to kneel by my little bed and put nv
little hands up in the attitude of
prayer. How has she knelt by me and
over me, and have felt her warm tears
raining down upon my hands and face.
Blessed mother, did you pray in vain
for your boy? 1t shall not be in vain.
All! no, no, it shall not be in vain. 1
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,
trusting of mothers in her Heavenly
Fathers care and grace. She never
doubted; she believed. She always
prayed as if she did. My Bible. nv
mothers Bible, and my conscience
teach what am and what l
have made myself. Ont the Bit
ter pangs of an accusing conscience. l
need a Savior mighty to save. | must
seek him. l will | am on the sea of
existence, and l can never get off from
it. am afloat. No anchor. no rudder.
no compass, no book of instructions,
for have put them all away from me-
Savior of the perishing, save, or per-
ish." Do you wonder that the next
day he arose in prayer meeting and
said: My brethren, l stand before
you a monument of Gods amazing
mercy and goodness, for ever blessed
be his holy name; all have and all
am | consecrate to Jesus, my Savior
and my God" Oh! the power of an
cestral prayer. Hear it, Hear it!
But turn for a moment to those who
had evil parentage, and l want to tell
you that the highest thrones in Heaven
and the mightiest triumphs and the
brightest crowns will be for those who
had evil parentage, but who by the
grace of God cOnquered-cOnquered
AS good, as useful. as splendid gentle
man as l ever knew had for father a
man who died disappearing God until
his neighbors had to put their fingers
in their ears to shut out the horror.
One of the most consecrated and useful
Christian ministers of to-day was the
son of a drunken horse jockey. Tide
of evil tremendous in some families.
1t is like Niagara rapids, and vet men
have chung to rock and been res
cued. There is a family in New York
whose wealth has rolled up into many
millions, that was founded by man
who, after he had vast estate. sent
back a paper of tacks because they
were two cents more than he expected.
Grip and grind and gouge in the fourth
oeneratiOn-I SupDOSe IL will he grin