Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-09-10


sword o. Gods truth seems 10 glance off
from those mailed warriors. and the h.lma,
seems battle-proof against Gods na,,le-sx.
hAt chiidhood: how susceptible to examnle
and TO Instruction. You are not surnrisaa
at the record: Abraham besat Isaac and
isaac oeSat Jacob, for when religion starts
IN family. il is apt to 80 all through. Je,.-
nei; murderess. You are not surprised to
Hnd her son JehOram ATTEMPTING assassina
hoh. On, what a responsibility upon the
parent and the teacher, The musician
touches the keys, and the response of those
Keys Is away of amid the pipes and the
chords, and YOU wonder a, the distance be-
tween The key and the chord. And 40 i, is
III ne: II you touch child. the result will
come back from manhood or old age, telling
Just the tune played. whether the dirge os n
great sorrow or the anthem of a great ioy.
Inc word that the Sabhath-schooI teacher
VIII this afternoon whisper in the ear OF the
class, Will be echoed back from everlasting
ages OF light or darkness The home AMI
| the school decide the republic or the desno..
Ism; the barbarism or the civilization; the
uppuildlng OF an empire. or the overthrow
ing OF II. Higher than Parliamen, or Con
Sress are the school and the. family. and th.,
sound OF child's foot NAV mean more than
the tramp OF host. What, then. are Won
dong Tor the purpose Of bringing your chill
dren into the Kingdom of God. II they are
50 susceptible. and If this is the very best
tlme 20 act upon their eternal interests. what
are you doing by way OF right impulsion?
There were some harvesterS in the fields of
Scotland one hot day: and Hannah Lemoud
was helping them gather the bay She laid
her babe under q tree. While she was busy
IN the field, there was a fluttar OF wings in
the air. and golden eagle cluched the swad-
diinS band OF the babe, and flew away with
1t to the mountain eyrie. All the harvesters
and Hannah Lemond started for the cliffs.
IT was two miles before they came to the
loot OF the cliffs. Getting there. who dared
10 mount the cliffs? No human foot had
ever trod it. There were sailors there who
mad gone up the mast in the day Of terrible
tempest: they did not dare risk it, Hannah
Lemond sat there for while and looked up
and saw the eagle in the eyrie, and then
she leaped to her feet, and she
started up where no human foot had ever
trod. crag above crag catching hold of this
root or that root. until she reached the
eyrle and caught her babe, the eagle swoop-
ing in fferceness all around about her
Fastening the chill TO her back. she started
Tor her friends and for home. Oh what a
dizzy descent! sliding from this crag 20 that
crag. catching bv that vine and bythat root
coming down further and further, to the
most dangerous pass, where she found n
goat and some kids. She said: Now II
follow the goat the goat will know Just
which is the safest way down. and she was
led by the animal down to the plain. When
she got there, all the people cried: "Thank
God! thank God" her strength not giving
way until the rescue was effected And they
| cried: "Stand back, now. Give her air.
Oh, If woman will do that for the physical
e,erna, H. I:. child. what will you do for the
it not be- ',e ,,5 OF your boy and your girl? Let
that tf,!t Aannae saving of the physical life OF
her child than you, o parent. have ever put
| forth for the eternal life Of your little one.
| God help you!
pass on to consider the power which a
| child Wields over the parental heart. We
! often talk about the influence of parents up
| on children. l never heard anything said
| about the influence Of children upon their
| parents. You go to school to them. You no
! more educate them than they educate you
With their little hands they have caught
| hold Of your entire nature and you cannot
wrench YOU rself away ftom their grasp. You
| are different men and women from what you
| were before they gave you the first lesson.
They have revOlutionized your soul. There
are fountains of JOY in your heart which
fncver would have been discovered had they
not discovered them. Life is to you more
| stupendous thing than IT was before those
| little feet started on the pathway to eternity.
| Oh. how many hopes how many Joys, how
many solitudes that little one has created in
your soul YOu 90 10 school every day-a
school Of self-denia, a school Of patience in
which you are getting wiser day by day. and
that influence OF the child over you will in
crease and increase; and though your chill
dren may die. from the very throne OF God
| they will reach down an influence to your
soul, leading you on and leading yon up un-
Til you mingle with their voices and cit be-
side their thrones.
The grasp which the child has over the
/ PARENTS heart is seen in what the parent
will do for the child Storm and darkness
n . b,
stand between you and your chiids welfare.
A great lawyer when yet unknown, one day
stood in the court room and made an elo-
| uuent plea before some men Of great lega
attainments: and gentleman said 20 him
afterward: How could YOU be SO calm
standing in that august presencef ION,
said Erskine Il felt my children pulling al
nv skirts CRYING for bread" What stream
Will vou not swim. what cavern will you not
enter, what battle will you not fight. whai
hunger will you not endure for youi chill
dren? Your children! Your children mus
have bread though you starve. Your chil
| dren must De we'll clothed though you 60 IL
rags. You say: my children shall be edu
Gated though l never had any chance.
What 70 you are weary limbs. and achini
head and hands hardened and callous I
only the welfare or your children can b:
wrought out by ii? Their sorrow Is your
, sorrow. their Joy your Joy. their advance
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sickness comes. how you fight back III
I march Of disease. and il .s only after tre
rrendous struggle that you surrender Auf
then when the spirit has fed. the great ds<,i
I j. brokcn up. and Rachel will rot be corr
iorted because her children are not, al
2 David goee up the palace stairs. crying
'tOh. Atsalon. ny son. my SON would Go
| had died tor thee oh, AbsaloD, ny son
e my son.
n There is not a large family, or hardly
9 large family that ha, not bent over such
I treasure aad lo-t i. IL the family foi9 !
. there no deaf ianlb2 | have seer many -ne
i | ca ..,s Of sorrow. There i one rre-~rrlsnet
: in M memory a. pastor-scoy!ile Hayne
/. MeCo!lum TIE s.ory n: bis death hs
r hrouch. hundreds unto God. he belonge
8 70 nv parish II :he West thorough ~,
V nine or ten years ot age. Nothing norblr
9 nothing GuIi about him His voice loudes
( ani his foot sEi.test 6n the playground
> Often he has come into C.y house asd throw
. himself down q the soor IL an exhaus.fc
A Of boisteroua 1-irth. and get be Wa Il Chr.
= .ian. eouseeratef % God. keeping HIS COZ
4 Ean4rn@rts. Tha. !. TIE Kind u chi!cis
: piety believe n. when the DAYS = sici
> ness came suddenly and ~ was told thai
q could not g-t wall. ne sal! Jesus al
. can save ne. Jesus VAL save I.s- h@ q
:. saved -r-. Don't cry. nAI-a- saa4t !
. right straight Up 20 beaver Ani Us
). Trey gave him a glass = -aie- - cool
-. I shall fE