The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-03-31
of parents these temptations become

| But now Tor the alterations. FIRST
of all, you save yourself "A great deal of
trouble, o parent, IL you can early
watch the children and educate them
| for God and Heaven. "The first five
| years of my life made me an infdel,"
said Tom Paine. A vessel puts out to
sea, and after il has been five days out
| there comes cyclone. The vessel
| springs n leak. The helm will not work.
| What is the matter? Ia il not sea-
WORTHY? Can you mend * now? 1t is
| too late. Down she goes With $50 pas
sengers into watery grave. What was
| the time to fix that vessel? What was
| the time to prepare it for the storm?
In the drydock. All, my friends, do
not wait until your children get out into
the world, beyond the Narrows and out
on the great voyage of life. II is too
late then to mend their morals and
| their manners. The drydock of the
Christian home is the place. Correct
| the sin now, correct the evil now.
Begin early with your. children.
| You stand on the banks of river and
you try to change its course II has
cannot change it. But just go to the
source of that river, go to where the
water just drips down on the rock.
Then with your knife make channel
this way and channel that way, and
il will take it. Come out and stand
on the banks of your child's life when
it was 30 or 40 years of age. or even
frx - oh ho If
that life 1t is too late! 1t is too
late! Go farther up at the source Of
life and nearest to the mothers heart
where the character starts, and try to
take it in the right direction. But,
oh, my friend, be careful to make a
line, distinct line. between innocent
hilarity on the one hand and vicious
procliyity on the other. Do not think
your children are going to ruin he
cause they make n racket. All healthy
children make n racket. But do not
laugh at your child's sin because il is
smart. If you do. you will cry after
awhile because ii is malicious Re-
member it is what you do more than
what you say that is going to affect
your children. Do you suppose Noah
would have got his family to &c into
the ark if he staid out? No. His sons
would have said; IL am not going
into the boat. There's something
wrong. Father won't go in, If ia
thor stays ont. III stay out" An ofli-
Ger may stand in castle and look Off
upon an army Fighting, but he can
not be much of an officer. he cannot
excite much enthusiasm on the part
Of his troops standing in castle or
on a hilltop looking off upon the fight.
1t is a Garibaldi or Napoleon I.,who
leaps into the stirrups and dashes
ahead. And YOU stand outside the
Christian life and tell your children
70 70 in. They win not go. Dut You
dash on ahead. you enter the king
dom of God. and they themselves will
become good soldiers Of Jesus Christ
Load if You would have them follow
Have Family altar. Do not with
long prayers wear out your childrcn's
knees. DO not have the PRAYER re-
pulsion. II Won have piano or an
organ or q melOlcon in the house
have il open while YOU are having
prayers. II ypn say: 81 cannot con-
s'ruct u prayer: am slow Of speech
and never could construct q prayer"
then take Matthew Nenry's prayers.
Or take The Episcopal church prayer
book There is nothing batter than
that Put il down on the chair.
gather your children about you and
commend them 70 GOD You say il
viii not amount TO anything. lt.will,
long after you are under the soil
! HAT son VIII remember father aud
mother al morning and evening
prayers. and j., WI bc = mighty hcIp
10 him. and above al, ia private
cDmmcud your children 10 God. say:
Herr. Lprd / AN all my iHpariec-
tiqn8 If discipline and qoycruncnt-
! here are these inmOita!s make them
thine forever The angel that re-
dceHetb ua from all evil, bless the
| lads"
Are your children safe? ! know IL
| Is Il htupcndOu5 question 20 ask, but
| ] must ask il. Are all your children
safe? \ mother when the house was
on fire got out the household goods,
many articles Of beautiful furniture,
! but forgot 10 ask until too late: Are
| the children safe?" When the clc-
mcnts are melting with fervent heat
and God shall burn the world up and
the cry of Fire, fre!" shall rcsound
amid the mountains and the valleys
will your children be safe?
wonder if the subject strikes q
chord in the heart Of any man who
had Christian parcntagc. but has not
lived ms he ought? God brought you
here this morning 10 have your mem
DRY revived. Did you have a Christian
ancestry? "Oh yes says one man
III there ever was good woman. my
mother was good" How she watched
you when you were sick! Others
wcaricd. IF she got weary, she never
thclcss was wakcful, and the mcdi
cine was given III the right time, ant
when the pillow was hot she turned
it. And, oh. then when you began tt
go astrny what grief il was TO hcl
heart!
All the scene comes back. You re-
member the chairs, you remember The
table. you remember. the doorsl
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