The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-11

kingdom, is the dignity of that father that sees within the child a approximation of his name, and the continuance of the blessedness of his memory in the world. You, my dear friends, all love your faith, and you love your country, because you expect great things of your country. and you know that the doctrines of our faith make better citizens for your country. And some day you will be passing away from this world You will grow old and you will feel that you are approaching that horizon where the daylight of life is swallowed up in the darkness of death and you will feel that there will come to you a recounting of the past when you have gone to another world but before you leave this world as your children gather about you to bid you the last sad farewell what will you think at that moment? Will it not be of their future hopes, will 1t not be of that time when they shall come to meet you in another and a better world? When you are praying over them will it not be your best and highest consolation, the erowning glory of your declining lives, to know that you implanted in their young souls the prin- ciples that will bring them to the eI
 joyment of happiness. the prospect of which now lies out before you? An. my friends, if you want to be there at that moment, and have your children come to you, lay the foundation of that surety now; labor that upon their lives you may impress those truths that are a GydSe of a meeting in the next world Jesus Christ, my friends, has given us the truth.
 Not Individual.
 You did not manufacture them your selves, they are not your own individual opinions-they are not what your minds have thought out, but they are the truths that have been given to you by the Savior of mankind, and He expects that you shall take them, and carry them through your lives and through your words to your children, and that therefore there shall be a union between you and your children, which no power can break, be- cause 1t is the union of souls in truth; 1t is the grating of the souls on the parent vine, which is Jesus Christ He says, "I am the vine, and ye are the branches.". Now my friends, in order that the sap of the parent vine may go out into the branches and bring forth fruit in beauty and a hundred-fold, fruit for the next world mperishable fruit 1t is your duty that you graft those souls on that parent vine. just as your soul. by your ancestors, has been grafted on that vine. Take it upon yourselves, therefore, as great responsibility, but at the same time as great honor. and a great dignity. Take it upon yourselves as a surety and a pledge of future re- ward. Then. when you pass away from this world. you will know that you have left goodness and truth in the souls of your children. You will know that you have trained them up well in the principles of morality which, indeed. are the best principles of life. Now just a word. l would say to you. that in rear ing your children, rear them up to use fitness and thrift. because if there is anything that thwarts the principles Of life, because If there is anything that endangers the goodness of life, it is idle ness No matter what they are, no matter what the fortune you may be prepared to give them, no matter what you can bestow upon them train them up, accord ing to their state. in usefulness, so they will be able to work Work for the wei fare of society, work for their individual welfare, work for honor. In the begin ming, God laid the command on every human being coming into this world that he should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and there is no exception Riches, my friends, cannot counteract that command of God neither can social distinction We all have to work, wheth- CT it be with brain or brawn-still we have to work because we are under the command and secondly, we have no right to the blessings of society," we have no right to the protection of heaven, unless we earn our bread by the sweat of our brow, and therefore, you Snoulu teach your children to be useful; useful about inc home. useful to society, and useful to their country-then, they will grow up and be an honor to you and you can look upon them as members which you have trained for the good of society, for the good of the state, and for the good of the church, and you can say that you have done your duty well; you have kept the faith in yourselves, you have given if to your children, and you have trained them up to be practical in that faith. and