The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-10-15

you remember the great Dig lump tnat
stuck In your throat. You remember
how between your sobs you said: The
reason want to be a Christian Is be-
cause my father and mother and broth
crs and sisters are all Christians.
want their Saviour to be mine. AS we
rave a united family here l want az
unbroken family circle in heaven"
Aged, gray haired man, that WIS
beautiful path over which you went 70
church for the first time. That was a
holy drive you took on the morning
you went to take your first communion.
There is still another path which You
once trod. This path is fragrant with
blossoms. Like the tabled trees of old,
the heavy bfanChes which line it are
laden with silver bells. 1t is tie path
which once led up TO your marriage al
tar. II is the path over which tie fall
IN rice is strcwn and where the merry
laughter of the bridesmaids IS trying
% drown the joyful salutations of the
wedding chimes. Tie blossoms which
i.un this pathway are orange blossoms.
he silver bells are those which
once played Mendclssohn's wedding
March," Where did that path which
ended at the marriage altar first lead
YOU: oh you answer, lit led me
first among the briers and over the
stony grounds. My cOurtship days
were not all sunshine. For long time
I'D not know whether | could win
The hand of my heart love. In the first
place, was not socially her equal.
Then | was penniless and had nothing
to offer but my two hands and will
ing heart. Then my life was not what
II ought to have been But she had
faith in me. promised her to reform.
| went to church with her. gave up
drinking, and | promised her | would
surrender my heart to Christ. And. do
YOU know. the night she gave herself
| To me she made me kneel with her and
| we both made a prayer that God would
| hear and help me keep my vows" All,
yes, my brother. know just how you
feel when you think Of that old path
which led up to your marriage altar,
When you took the trembling hand of
that young girl in yours you truly felt
| that you wanted to be good. You
promised God, then and there, for her
| sake rs well as your own, to live n
good true, pure. noble. Christian life
| Have you kept your VOW? Are you
| willing to so to church with her now
| ms you did when you We're engaged to
her? Are you helping her to set the
right example before your children
| your children and hers? Remember,
man, you made "A promise to her and to
God on the night OF your wedding.
| VIII you seek the old path of conSe
Grated love, which wound through the
| days Of your courtship and ended on
the night you took your heart love as
a bride from her fathers home?
But there is still one more path
want you to seek. That is the one
which led down by the cradle of your
children. When your first child was
born. il You had the least spark of
manhood in your makeup, you wanted
to be good man for your baby's sake.
EVEN .ie lowest iorhi Vi huiii'h pt'hE
leeiS 'Ae uplil'liiS power wien ch!iu
II porh 10 hili''
Besides that, my brother, nave you
also lrlcd 10 loiIoW out mat pi"uEe YOU
MAD" to God III IN" nlght when your
Nahy was Yer! SICK You wei rlA'm-
Der TIE gray" faces OF the nhy .riaNS.
You wei remember low NoA A.'t 'I
'A" Grin .nt sad. go God. II VA VIII
make my l"hI well | pIed&" 10 You
"E iutUre me. You well remember
| 'hv pIru-r You Hlauc 10 H"u 'h t"'
H'-'lt your hlhN dird. Nearly every
ne Of Us las had chlidS death
II "'" ."t ~. liave YOU Kept ina,
~. o.: Have you Kept the pIr. l"u
t,u' To Fod on TIE old pain W'l"I
''i'' .yd down TO the cradles OF I'"i
.N.hS children ana now also leads
Gown to III" graves OF your d'Ad ba-
o''S:
But Low are you going to find your
way back TO these old paths! Some OF
| won l.,Nn hppn 4 l\EDy from those llf -