Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-01-05
FORCEFUl WORDS
BY baskerville
Tells Parents of Duties
They Owe Their
Children.
Men Worship the Almighty Dollar and
Women Society, While Sons and
Daughters Are Left to Take
Care Of Themselves.

Last night the largest week-night
congregation of any was seen at the
First NJ. E. church in attendance at the
revival services. After the singing, Mr..
Baskerville took for his subject: How
to raise the children to life when they
are dead" His theme was founded UP.
on the resurrection OF the son of the
Shunnamite woman. He said in part:
III we would hold our boys and our
girls and not see them drift away from
God and down into perdition having
here life without honor and hereafter
a life without hope. we must realize our
responsibility and do our part. We
cannot delegate our work nor our ~.
sponsibility to others. The preacher,
the Sunday school teacher nor the day
school teacher can take our part. The
boys and girls must realise that father
and mother are their very best friends
anad that the parent sympathises with
all that interests the boy and the girl,
and that the parent sympathises with
can be encouraged that are for the
beneflt Of the boy.
Why Opposed to the 62 Cards.
mo father has any business allow.
ing his boy to play with the tools Of
the devil, and this association Of ideas
that will ruin any soul has much to
do with the gambling mania, for the
things used universally In gambling
dens. saloons and the house of shame,
ought forever to be banished from good
society, and really good society will
have nothing to do with them. for this
IL the reason why we are against the
50 cards in the pack. not because they
are filled with the devil. but they are
universally used by the devil for the
ruination of souls and OF lives here
upon earth.
Society ought to have sense enough
to see this. It should have heart
enough to abstain from It for the good
of others. but healthy sports are diff
ferent thing. ! play ping pong with
my boy whenever get home and have
a little time to spare from my work. !
try to beat him every time for he II IS
years Of age now, and when can beat
him It gives him a better idea of his
father Make a chum OF your boy.
"A man said one day in relation to
attending the services Of Conwell In the
east the he could not remember any,
thing the preacher said nor could ne
recall anything he had heard from any
one but he did recall and would forever
remember that man and his boy came
into the meeting, and they sang out OF
the same book, talked over the SER
vices in a chummy and familiar man.
ner and were as thick with each other
as two chums could be. and I made up
my mind then that II the Lord would
let me live until could get back home
that l would act in a different manner
with my boy.
Duties to Sons and Daughters.
mo man has a right to spend his
time in heaping up the cold and al
mighty dollar while his boy is going to
hell at home and in the street. No
mother has any right taking all her
time in society and social functions
while her girl is sowing to the fesn
and to the devil all over the town and
running her spiritual appetite and hard
ening her heart against God and
against his kingdom.
How many girls are going the down
ward way with senseless and giddy
feet. not seeing the precipice ahead OF
her and the mother just dotes upon her
darling because she is getting into so
ciety and showing her hand a little
o my, what will not these senselesa
society dudeses do? Better have good
sense and build up character that
stand the storm OF time and the test
| OF the actual world.
1--WE have wrecks all about us. They
come because there Is no real charac-
ter building at home. We allow the
most precious treasure God ever gave
to a husband to go to ruin while We
imagine we are smart piling up few
dollars, and then we leave these and
find our boys and our girls ruined fol
all eternity and we are beggars In thif
universe Of God and have lost all.
| 20, how sad is this! Better awaken
and see what God demands OF you, fol
we shall all see what We might have
been and what we might have done
when 1t will be forever too late to az
anything or to change the eternal past.
| Important Subject Tonight.
Tonight, the preacher will consider
a subject Of greatest importance for al
who are interested in Lewiston beint
one OF the cleanest and most mora
places in the west and place where
because Of educational and moral ant
religious conditions the best families
will desire to come and raise theil
children for the coming years. Satur'
day afternoon the meeting for ladies
only, promises to fill the entire audi