El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-18
Jews will be given another chance to

Jews will be given another chance to
accept the Messiah.
Then Christ and the church will en-
! Joy the millennium in the holy city, the
Jews will accept Christ, and more PEG
pie will be converted to the Lord than
at any previous time in the worlds his
| tory. Then the devil will be loOsed for
a short season. The speaker closed
with the great white throne of judg-
ment as his last thought.
| The large congregation appeared
! very much Interested, and Mr.. French
! spoke with power and earnestness. Not
| few of his listeners were soldiers
who wears we'll, and the longer he is
| here, the more he is thought of.
| AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
! Rev. II. w. Moore preached yester-
, day morning from the text, When my
children were about me, - Job XXIX:5.
! The speaker said, let US make the text
read, when our children are about
u.s." the occasion being an infant bap-
tism. One of the hardest things to
bear in this life is to see the grave
close over the once laughing eyes and
curly head of a little child. Such an
event in the home has often changed
the whole course of parents life.
When child dies, what hopes are
buried in that little grave, what d
vacancy is made in the little home.
Some things come to US only once in
this life. Youth is one of those things.
Stamp some beauty on it quickly for
your children are simply growing
away from it. While your children
are about you, make your home happy.
There is no grander heritage to be-
queth TO your children than the
memory of apure, good and happy home.
Cowper used to say the memory of
his mother hung over him all his life
like the soft beauty of a summer
sky When Henry Clay was dying at
the age of 76 in Washington, he kept
repeating over and over again, "Moth-
err! Mother" Fill the home with
tenderness, usefulness. Let it have
about it the fragrance of the summer
fields. -Four walls make a house. not a
home. Home is place to grow in
refinement, knowledge, patience,
strength. Fill it with music, books,
laughter. The children must have
their amusements, there or elsewhere
Be a good mother to your children
of womanhood is motherhood. Dedicate |
your children to God. Pray for them, |
with them tenderly, encourage |
them. Do not give your children en-
tirely over to nurses. The true mother
will fathom that charactar herself.
be goOd tather TO your children.
Socrates used to say he wondered how
some men who were so careful in train
ng colt were so neglectful in training
heir children. The father has his
luty in the home no less than the moth
n. Every father should learn to romp
md play with his children few NOM
,nts every day. This interest in chill
lren is one of the purest elements in
rue manhood. Does God give angels
grander work than the parent to mold
he character of your babe? In it are
covers that will live forever. These
hildren will soon leave you, they will
Don be fathers and mothers. They
Don will go into the world to do for =
hemselv,s. Remember they do not 90 =,
nto pure world. Let nothing into !;
our home that will drag them down. !
)h, the blessings of children. Rob the :
yorld of its birds, it's flowers, its music.
ut not of the children. May the homes :
I our church be guarded by angels and
oofed with the very wings of God.
ZONES makes patriots. From the pure 4
ONES of America have come her Y
randest men and women. The homes u
our country are her strongest bull I
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