The Penn's Grove record., 1897-11-12

If should you do not warn them against evil, and You
,cr- DO not invite them to holiness and to God,
" ~ and they wander of into dissipation and
--'i' into infidelity, and at last make shipwreck
on t"rtn Of their immortal soul, on their death-bed
r.suI tell and in their Day OF Judgment they wifi
latr done curse you. Seated by the register or the
stove, what lion the wall should come out
. r.,..f,, the history OF your children? What a his
.r,S tory-the mortal and immortal life Of your
n.., NJ loved ones. Every parent is writing the
.l ,,,a history Of his child. He Is writing it, COM
. ~. "-piav posing it into a song or turning it into a
'D1Ty My mind runs back to one of the best OF
. az. carly homes. Prayer, like a roof, over it.
Peace, like an atmosphere in it. Parents,
III personi1cations OF faith in trial and com
.,hEit fort in darkness. The two pillars Of that
.,,r,,.. earthly home long ago cruutbled to dust.
.aTys. But shah | over forget that early home? Yes,
- ru can when the flower forgets the sun
'P' tL,t gets the star that guided HIM. Yes, when
love has gone out of the hearts altar
, .,H,ant and memory has emptied his urn into forget
,"J fulness. Then, the home of my childhood
t.r. ,he I vii! forget thee! the family altar of Il
.. ~. viii fathers importunity and a mothers tender
l,.rs,nd ness, the voices ofafectfon, the funerals Of
rGnte.5st our dead father and mothe', with inter.
i.,,T5.f in locked arms like INTERVIEWING branches Of
% ,a phil. trees making a perpetual arbor Of love,
1 ,e Fe IL and peace, and kindness-th then l will for.
i'm n skir- get them-then and only then. You know,
n ngad- my brother, that a hundred times you have
,,J in lust been kept out Of sin by the memory
,.r,TyJiy Of such n scene as 1 have been describing.
he .hinny You have often had raging temptations,
ysernI- but you know what has held you with su-
.ofr Int pernatural grasp. l tell you, a man who
T ,m a md has had such a good home as that never
MINT vrilt gets over it, and u man who has had a bad
lTg' early home never gets over it.
around Again ] remark, that home Is a type OF
Home" left His home. Far up and far back in the
BAD, Gf fbaf history of heaven there came a period
4, Al rernnt when its most i%llustrious citizen was about
at tbe to absent Himself, He was not going to
90 .,nIe IN. sail from beach to beach; we have often
u,..nce ot done that. He was not going to put out
p r, him from one hemisphere to another hemis-
md n smile phere; many of us have done that But
IL Vince He was to sail from world to world, the
,bt.r TIF, spaces uneXplored and the immensities uh-
In, ripnies travelled. No world had ever hailed heaven,
re- and so far as we know heaven had never
Is md he hailed any other world. [ think that the
NJ ont of n windows and the balconies were %thronged,
/, nm aud that the pearly beach was crowded
sbiv"ri"g with those who had come to see Him sail
CbiI out the harbor of light into the ocean be
n Gmbrvo yond.
in the out, and out, and out, and on, and on, and
the front. on, and down, and down, and down He
that door sped, until one night, with only one to
dow Of in greet Him, he arrived. His disemharka-
X everlast- ton, so uupretending, so quiet, that it was
pelled with not known on earth until the excitement in
hokes with the cloud gave %intimation that something
-ny OF de- grand and glorious had happened Who
comes there? FFom what port did He sail?
means Why was this the place of his destination?
"Home' in l question the shepherds, L question the
terrific. camel drivers, l question the angels. L
ng of home have found QUIT He was an exile. Butthe
II refuge, world has had plenty OF exiles-Abraham
homo as a an exile from Ur of the Ghaidees; John an
l ny9sa .tner fa5r9 f 'oR@ hS Maszlni an MoS eHiie from np R once
cter, The Emmett au exile from Ireland; Victor
Il gay cos Hugo IN exile from France; Kossuth an
dishabtIle. exile from Hungary. But this one OF whom
ne way on | speak to-day had such resounding. fare
other way we'll and came Into such chilling reception
racter may for not even Il hostler went out with his
character. lantern to help Him in-that He is more to
character be celebrated than any other expatriated
II may re- one Of earth or heaven
gh he were 1t is ninety-nve million miles from here
Z his heart to the sun, and all astronomers agree in
There are saying that our solar system is only one OF
, are mild, the small wheels of the great machinery of
/ good-na- the universe, turning round some one great
miag back center, tho center so far distant it is be
lance, and yond all imagination and calculation, and
III the dam If, ms some think, that great center in the
h in floods distance is heaven, Christ came far from
home when He came here. Have you ever
y their bad thought of the inconsistencies Of Christ?
ley do not Some Of you know what inconsistencies is,
re are men when you have been only u few weeks alb
heir lrrita- sent from the domestic circle, Christ was
lat they do thirty-three years away from home. Some
i. 1t does Of you feel homesickness when you are IA
that they hundred or a thousand miles away from
k company the domestic circle. Christ was more mill
price, lions, of miles away from home than you
Us at some could calculate if all your life you did moth
s~unshiny ing but calculate. You know what it is
Gus night. to be homesick even amid pleasurable
!" net the snrrQupdings; but Christ slept in huts,
M present syVas athirst and He was a-hungered
,,T, ia 1T is extremes, on the way from being born in
10y lfs rad Of con- J eIaarn to being buried in an
Ter ms pei 1 have read how the
no. -Jnsa- up;,,S far away from their
ttfalltY laws, lupus sound of their ne
ral weight Fabri 50 homesickthat they tal in
inenrrnY Qudlltlomesickness. But, oh, the
n"9uisehtS fChrlst! Poverty homesick
DANISH Gov. d very hes. Persecution homesicS
any shift Ono1 ,,Weariness homesiek for rest.
..nrsn. nc hangclic and archGngelinco COM
yrates, had that 'Homeslck to go out Of the
tatestatisticul storm and the worlds exc
ing the states 2llthat homesickness suffered
Ne.
st estate we are only pilgrims
rs here. Heaven is our home.
never knock at the door OF that
nd in ali that country there is
grave. How glad parents are
lines to gather their children
But l have noticed that there
ways a son or q daughter alb
1t from home, perhaps absent
)untry, perhaps absent from the
l. how glad our Heavenly Father
en- He gets all His children home
u heaven! And how delightful
for brothers aud sisters to meet
separation! Once they parted
ROT the tomb; now they meet at
Immortality.
+ pearl, c%apstones OF amethyst,
dominion, do not stir my soul so
he thought OF homo. Once there
= sorrows howl like storms and
AS. Home. Let thrones rot and
'ther. Home. Let the world die
AXE struggle, and he buried
esston Of planets and dirEc OF
Tome. Let everlasting ages roll