The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-30

drlps down on the rock. Then with
your knife make channel this way
and channel that way, and 1t VIII
take it., Come out and stand on the
banks OF your child's life when 1t was
30 or 40 years OF age, or even 20, and
try 10 change the course Of that life.
II is too. late II is too late! Go furth-
er up at the source Of life and nearest
to the mothers heart where the char
acter starts, and try to take 1t in the
right direction. But, oh. my friend, be
careful to make line, distinct line.
between innocent hlarity on the one
hand and vicious proclivity on the
other. Do not think your children are
going to ruin because they make
racket. All healthy children make a
racket. But do not laugh at your
child's sin because 1t is smart. II you
do. you will cry after awhile because it
is malicious. Remember it is what you
do more than what you say that is 60
ing to affect your children. Do you
suppose Noah would have got his fam
lily to go into the ark II he staid out?
No. His sons would have said: 81 am
not going into the boat. There's some
thing wrong. Father won't go in. II
father stays out I'll stay out" An Off
Ger may stand in castle and look off
upon an army fighting, but he cannot
be much of an officer, he cannot excite
much enthusiasm on the part of his
troops standing in castle or on hill
top looking off upon a fight. 1t is a
Garibaldi or a Napoleon |. who leaps
into the stirrups and dashes ahead.
And you stand outside the Christian
life and tell your children to go in.
They will not go. But you dash on
ahead. you enter the kingdom of God.
and they themselves will become good
soldiers of Jesus Christ
A Personal Appeal.
Are your children safe? l know it is
stupendous question to ask, but l
must ask it. Are all your children
safe? A mother when the house was
on fire got out the household goods,
many articles of beautiful furniture,
but forgot to ask until too late, Are
the children safe?" When the ele-
ments are melting with fervent heat
and God shall burn the world up and
the cry of Fire, fret" shall resound
amid the mountains and the valleys,
will your children be safe?
| wonder if the subject strikes a
chord in the heart of any man who had
Christian parentage, but has not lived
as he ought? God brought you here
this morning to have your memory re-
vived. Did you have Christian an
cestry? "Oh. yes" says one man. IF
there ever was good woman, my
mother was good" How she watched
you when you were sick! Others
wearied. If she got weary, she never
theless was wakeful, and the medicine
was given at the right time and when
the pillow was hot she turned it. And,
OH then when you began to go as
tray, what a grief it was to her heart!
All the scene comes back. You re-
member the chairs, you remember the
table, you remember the doorsill where
you played, you remember the tones of
her voice. She seems calling you now.
not by the formal title with which we
address you, saying, Mr." this or
Mr." that, or Honorable" this or
Honorable" that. 1t is just the first
name, your first name she calls you
by this morning. She bids you to a
better life. She says: Forget not all
the counsel l gave you, my wandering
boy. Turn into paths of righteousness.
| am waiting for you at the gate"
Oh, yes. God brought you here this
morning to have that memory revived,
and shout upward the tidings. An
gels of God, send forward the news!
Ring Ring! The dead is alive again,
and the lost is found!