Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-11-12

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Above al. ny friends. take Into vo,-
homes Christian principle. Can ID be'tbst
Ia any o. the comfortable homes Of M con.
gregatlon thevolce % prayer l. never lift.is
What No application AZ night Tor protes.-
ti0nf What, No thanksg giving In the morn
Ing FOR cAres How. my brother. my sister.
viii you answer God In the Day % Julg.
ment, with reference 20 your children II
4 plain question, and Therefore | ask it.
In the tenth chapter 81 JEREMIAH God says
He will pour out His fairy upon the families
that call not upon His name. parents.
when you are dead and gone. AMI the moss
q covering the inscription % the tombstone.
will your children look back aud think Of
father and mother at family prayer VIII
they take the old family Bible and open il
aud see the mark Of tear Of coutrition and
tears Of consoling promise wepi by eyes
long before gone out INTO darSnessf
Oh, II you do not inculcate Christian prln-
ciple In the hearts Of your children, and
you do not warn them against evil. and YOU
do not Invite them to holiness and 20 God.
and they wander on into dissipation and
into inndelity, and at last make shipwr-ck
Of their immortal soul. on their death-bed
and In their Day OF Judgment they will
curse you. Seated By the register or the
stove, what Hon the wall should come out
the history OF your children What his
tory-the mortal and immortal lie OF Your
loved ones. Every parent T. writing the
history Of HIS child. He Is writing II, com
posing il into a song or turning It into a
grOan.
Ny mind runs back to one Of the hes, Of
early homes. Prayer, like roof, over IL.
Peace, ike an atmosphere, in il. Parents,
personlicatiOns OF faith ia trial aud com
fort In darkness. The two pillars Of that
earthly home long ago crumbled to dust.
But shall ever forget that early home? Yes,
when the flower forgets the sun
that warns 1t. Yes, when the mariner for
gets the star that guided him. Yes, when
love has gone out OF the hearts altar
and memory has emptied his urn into forget
tulness. Then, the home OF my childhood,
l vii! forget theel the family altar OF a
fathers importantly and mothers tender
ness, the voices ofaffectiOn, the funerals OF
our dead father and mother, with inter.
locked arms like INTERVENING branches OF
trees making perpetual arbor of love,
and peace, and kindness-then / will for
get them-then and only then. You know.
my brother, that a hundred times you have
been kept out of sin by the memory
oil such scene as | have been describing
You have often had raging temptations,
but you know what has held you with SUI
pernatural grasp, | tell you, n man who
has had such n good home as that never
gets over II, and n man who has had q bad
early home never gets over It,.
Again, | remark, that home Is a type Of
heaven. To bring us to that homo Christ
left His home. Far up and far back ia the
history NJ heaven there came q period
when It, most iIlustrious citizen was about
to absent Himself. lie was not going to
| sail from beach to beach; we have often
done that He was not going to put out
from one hemisphere TO another hemis-
phere; many Of us have done that. But
He was 10 sail from world to world, the
spaces uneNplOred and the immenslties un.
Travelled. No world had ever hailed heaven.
| and so far as we know heaven had never
hailed any other world. / think that tho
windows and the balconies were thronged,
and that the pearly beach was crowded
with those who had come to see Him sail
out the harbor Of light into the ocean be-
yond.
Out, and out, and out, and on, and on, and
on, and down, and down, and down He
sped, until one night, with only one to
greet Him, he arrived. His disembarka-
ton, so unpretendng, so quiet, that II was
not known on earth until the excitement in
the cloud gave intimation that something
| grand and glorious had happened Who
comes there2 From what port did He sail?
Why was this the place vi his destination?
question the shepherds, l question the
camel drivers, | question the angels.
| have found out! He was an exile But the
world has had plenty Of exiles-Abraham
an exile from Ur OF the Chaldees; John an
exile from EphCsus; Kosclusko an exile
from Poland; Mazzini an exile from Rome:
| Emmett an exile from Ireland Victor
| Hugo an exile from France; Kossuth an
| exile from Hungary. But this one OF whom
] speak to-day had such resembling fare
! well and came into such chilling reception
for not even hostler went out with his
! lantern to help Him in--that He IL more to
! be celebrated than any other expat rated
one Of earth or heaven
II Il nlnety-ilve million miles from here
| to the sun, and all astronomers agree in
saying that our solar system Is only one OF
the small wheels OF the great machinery OF
the universe, turning round some one great
center the center so far distant it Is be-
yOnd all imagination and calculation, and
| II, as some think, that great center in the
distance Is heaven, Christ came far from
| home when He came here. Have you ever
thought OF the homesickness OF Christ?
Some OF you know what inconsistencies is,
when you have been only few weeks alb
sent from the domestic circle. Christ was
thirty-three years away from home. Some
OF you feel homesickness when you are a
hundred or thousand miles away from
|
| lions OF miles away from home than YOU
could calculate II all your life you did moth
Ing but calculate. You know what 1t Is
| to be homeslck even amid pleasurabe
surroundings; but Christ slept In huts
and He was athirst, and He was a-huDgered
| and He was on the way from being born In
another mans barn to being buried In an.
other mans grave. l have read how the
Swiss, when they are far away from Their
native country, at the sound Of their ma
tional air get 50 homesick that they fall in
to melancholy, and sometimes they die
under the inconsistencies. But, oh, the
homesickness Of Christi Poverty homesicb
for celestial riches. Persecution homesicA
for hosanna. WEAKNESS homesick for rest
Homesick for angelic and archangelic com
| partnership. Homesick to 20 out OF the
night and the storm and the worlds exc,
Grafton, and all that bomesickness suffered
to get us home.
At our best estate we are only pilgrim.
and strangers here. "Heaven is our home.
Death will never knock at the door OF tha
mansion, and in all that country there Il
not single grave. How glad parents are
In holiday times to gather their children
home again. But have noticed that there
Is almost always "a son or q daughter alb
sent-absent from home, perhaps absen
from the country perhaps absent from thu
world. Oh, how glad our Heavenly Fathe
will be when He gets all His children hom'
with Him in heaven! And how delightful
1t will be for brothers and sisters to NEE
after long separation Once they parteC
at the door Of the tomb; now they meet q
the door Of Immortality.
Gates OF pearl, capstoncs OF amethyst
thrones OF dominion, do not stir my soul 81
much ms the thought OF home. Once Their
let earthly sorrows howl like storms an,
roll like seas. Home. Let thrones rot AM
empires wither. Home. Let tho world di
In earthquake struggle, and be burie'
amid procession of planets and dirge 9
spheres. Home. Let everlasting ages rol
! Irresistible sweep. Home. No sorrow, n
crying, no tears, no death. But home