The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-27

make your sons and daughters The snow
] -sE 100 -raf above fIrlr graves. uIM treN
] shook on She white blankets and min-.ei
Z iE rlr holiday festiVlries-t1e same win
] kl-- The So me- st10p OF shoulder under the
I ua--lt Ct age. the same old style 0f dress
/ o- coat the same smile, the same tones oi
I fH - ! hops sou remember them o. Lure
tl-F went away. II not ] hope there are
those who have recireI o. sou what they
/ were. ana thar There may be iu your house
] some article % dress or furniture with
I which you associate tlelr memories 4
J want 90 arouse the most sacred memories
I of your heart while J. make the impas-
] stoned IuferroGatCry iu regard % your ped
T ilre-- ~ hose son ART tnou. thou young
/ MANI"
/ First. Iaccost an those who are descend
/ ed % ~ Chr 7ti1n ancestry ] do not ask
| Dc your parents were perfect There are
/ no perfect people now and / DO not sup
/ pose there were any perfect people fhen-
/ Perhaps there was sometimes 100 much
! blood in their eye when they chaStised you
I Elt from what know OF YOU you got no
| more than you deserved. and perhaps "a
! little more chasti-ement would have been
i sai.utarF. But sou are willing % achuoNl-
edge. I think. that they wanted 10 do right
/ From what you overheard In converse
uous. and from what you saw at the lam
| ily altar and 40 ueighhOrh0Od obsequles,
sou know that they had invited God into
| their heart and their life. There was some
thing that sustained those Old people SUI
pernaturally. You have no doubt about
their destiny. You expect II you ever get
TO heaven TO meet them as you expect TO
meet the Lord Jesus Christ. That early
association has been "a charm Tor you.
| There was "a time when you got right UP
| from house Of iniquity and
/ walked ont into the fresh air because you
| thought your mother was looking al you.
| You have never been very happy IN sin
because Of "A sweet old face that would
/ present itself. TremuOus voices from the
past accosted you until they were seem
lngly audible, and you looked around 10
see who spoke There was an estate not
mentioned in the last viii and testament.
vast estate Of prayer and holy example
and Christian entreaty and glorious mem
ory. The survivors of the family gather
ed 10 hear the viii read, and this was 10
/ be kept and that was 10 be sold. and IL
was share and share alike" But there
was an unwritten viii that read some
thing like this: In the name Of God.
amen. ] being OF sound mind bequeath
to my children all my prayers for their
salvation I bequeath to them all the re-
suits OF a lifetme's toll; l bequeath to
them the Christian religion, which has
been so much comfort to me, and ! hope
may Doc soiace for them; j bequeath TO
them "A hope Of reunion when the partings
OF life are over. Share and share alike
may they inherit eternal riches. ! be-
queath to 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 re-
| deemed me, and the Holy Ghost who sane
titles me. ] make this my last will and
testament. witness all you hosts of
heaven Witness time. witness eternity
Signed, sealed and delivered in this our
dying hour. Father and mother" You
did not get that Will proved at the sur
rogates office but / take 10 out to-day
and I read It TO You. take 1t out Of the
alcoves Of your heart. ] shake the dust
off it. ] ask If you will accept that in
heritance, or viii you break the wing
Oh, We of Christian ancestry, You
have responsibility vast beyond an meas
urement. God viii not let you of with
just being as good as ordinary people
when you had such extraordinary advan-
tage. ought not "A flower planted in
dollhouse be more thrifty than a flower
planted outside i'm the storm? Ought not
factory turned by the Housa tonic do
more work than a factory turned by a
thin and shallow mountain stream2 Ought
not you of great early opportunity be bet
ter than those who had cradle unbless-
edE A father sets his son up in business.
| He keeps an account of all the expendi-
/ lures. 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 10 give an ar
/ count. Your Heavenly Father charges
/ against you all the advantage of a pious
aneestry-so many prayers. so much Chris
4 tan example, so many kind entreaties-
1 all these gracious influences, one bremen
| dous aggregate. and he asks YOU for an
/ account of It. Ought not you to be better
4 than those who had no such advantage?
I Better have been a founding picked up
\ OF the city commons than with such mag
/ nitcent Inheritance OF conservation to turn
out indimerently. Ought not YOU, my
/ brother, to be better, having had Chris
/ tan nurture, than the man who can truly
| say this morning: The first word / re-
/ member my father speaking to me was an
! oath; the first time / remember my father
| taking hold of me was In wrath: I never
| saw Bible till ] was ten years of age
and then / was told it was a pack of lies.
| The first twenty years OF my life 1 was
| associated with the vicious. I seemed be
be walled in by sin and death
Now. my brother, ought you not-I
| leave il as a matter of fairness with You
| ought you not 20 be better than those
who had no early Christian influence?
| Standing as you do between the genera
ton that is past and the generation that
| IS to come, are you going to pass the
| blessing on or are you going to have your
| life the gulf in which that tide of bless
| ing 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 par
ents left you2 Ali that cannot be posi-
BILE that cannot be possible that you are
| going to take such a position as that
| You are very careful about the life in
| surances, and careful about the deeds and
careful about the mortgage and carefm
about the title of your property because
when you step off the stage you want
| your chlldfen 10 get IL all. Are you max
ing no provision that they shall get grand
| father or grandmother's religion? Oh
what a last will and testament YOU are
making, my brotheri In the name OF
God, amen. 1, being of sound mind. make
this my last will and testament l be.
| queath to my children all the money ever
made and all the houses l own but dis.
inherit them, l rob them of the ancestral
grace and the Christian influence that
| inherited. l have sQuandered that on my
own worldliness. Share and share alike
must they in the misfortune and the ever,
lasting outrage. Signed, sealed and de.
| livered in the presence of God, and men
and angels. and devils and all the genera
tons of earth and heaven and hell. july
1885,
oh. We of highly-favored ancestry. wax,
up this morning to a sense of your oppor
tunity and responsibility ! think Their,
must be an old cradle, or fragment of ;
cradle somewhere that could tell a stor~,
} of midnight supplcation in your behalf
Where is the OLD rocking-cha.r in which
you were sung TO sleep with the holy nur
| sery rhyme2 Where is the old clock tina
licked away the moments of that sick
ness on that awful night when there wer,
but three of you awake-you and God an,
mother? Is there not an old stan in som,
! ] he's yO11 RI INN,