Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-08

NY chic, give ChaG ~ cent piece ia
that lame boy" the result may DO seen
on the other side of the following CEN
fury in some George Muller building a
whole village of orphanages. If mothel
sit almost every evening by the trundle
bed of child and teach it lessons Of q
Saviour's love and Saviour's example,
Of the Importance of truth and the hor-
ror of lie and the virtues of industry
and kindness and sympathy and self sac.
rlfice long after the mother has gone
and the child has gone and the letter.
ing on both the tombstones shall have
been washed out by the storms of innu-
merable winters, there may be standing,
as result Of those trundle bed lessons,
flaming evangels world moving reform
ers, seraphic Summerfelds, weeping
Paysons, laundering Whitefields, eman -.
cipating Washingtons.
Nature Never Skips.
Good or lad influence may skip one
generation or two generations, but it
will be sure to land in the third or
fourth generation, just as the Ten Com
mandments, speaking of the visitation
of God on families, says nothing about
the second generation, but entirely skips
the second and speaks of the third and
fourth generation-"vi visiting the in.
Equities of the fathers upon the third
and fourth generation of them that hate
me. -" Parental influence, right and
wrong, may jump over a generation,
but it will come down further on as
sure as you sit there and I stand here.
Timothy's ministry was projected by
his grandmother, Lois. There are men
and women here, the sons and daugh-
tiers of the Christian church, who arc
such as a result of the conservation of
great-great- grandmothers. Why. who
do you think the Lord is? You talk as
though his memory was weak. He can
as easily remember prayer offered five
centuries ago as a prayer offered five
minutes ago. This explains what we
often see-some man or woman distin-
guished for benevolence when the IA
Their and mother were distinguished for
penuriousness, or you see some young
man or woman with bad father and q
hard mother como out gloriously for
Christ and make the church sob and
shout and sing under their exhortations.
We stand in corners of the vestry and
whisper over the matter and say, "How
is this, such great piety in SONS and
daughters of such parental worldliness
and sin?" I will explain it to you if
you will fetch me the old family Bible
conta.. ling the full record. Let some
septuagenarian look with me clear upon
the page Of births and marriages and
tell me who that woman was with the
old fashioned name of Jemima or Betsy
or Mehitabel. All, there she is, the old
grandmother or great grandmother, who
had enough religion to saturate cen.
fury.
Why Some Men Win.
There she is, the dear old soul,
Grandmother Lois. In beautiful Green.
wood cemetery there is the resting place
of George w. Bethune, once minister
of Brooklyn Heights his name never
spoken among intelligent Americans
without suggesting two things-elo-
quence and evangelism. In the same
tomb sleeps his grandmother, Isabella
Graham, who was the chief inspiration
Of his ministry. You are not surprised
at the poetry and pathos and pulpit
power Of the grandson when you read
Of the faith and devotion of his wonder
full ancestress. When you read this let
ter, in which she poured out her wild
oxuo1 soul II, 1o,,uinro fr,,, n Is o1ryo
ton, you will not wonder that succeed
ing generations have been blessed:
"NEw YORK, May 20, 1901.
"This day my only son left me in Bit
ter wringings Of heart. He is again
launched on the ocean-God's ocean.
The Lord saved him from shipwreck,
brought him to my home and allowed
me once more to indulge my affections
over him. He has been with me but
short time, and ill have improved it;
he is gone from my sight, and my heart
bursts with tumultuous grief. Lord,
have mercy on the widows son, the
only son Of his mother.
II ask nothing in all this world for
him; I repeat my petition, Save his
soul alive, give him salvation from sin.
1t is not the danger Of the seas that dis
tresses me; it is not the hardships he
must undergo; it is not the dread Of
never seeing him more in this world;
it is because cannot discern the fulfill
ment Of the promise in bin. l cannot
discern the lew birth nor it's fruit, but
every symptom of captivity to satan,
the world and self will. This, this is
what distresses me, and in connection
with this his being shut out from ordi-
nances at distance from Christians;
shut up with those who forget God,
profane his name and break his Sab
baths; men who often live and die like
beasts, yet are accountable creatures,
who must answer for every moment Of
time and every word, thought and ao-
ton. o Lord, many wonders hast thou
shown me! Thy ways Of dealing with
me and mine have not been common
ones. Add this wonder to the rest. Call,
convert, regenerate and establish sail.
or in the faith. Lord, all things are
possible with thee. Glorify thy Son and
extend his kingdom by sea and land;
take the prey from the strong. l roll
him over upon thee. Many friends try
to comfort me; miserable comforters
are they all. Thou art the God of con-
ISOLATION. Only confirm to ME thy pre-
cious word, on which thou causedst me
to hope in the day when they saidst to
me, Leave thy fatherless children; !
will preserve them alive Only let this
life be spiritual life, and I put blank