Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-12

"a: JUNE L, 1914.
the instinct Of self preservation that
CAUSES us to shun danger to life.
But the fear that needs cultivation 10
the fear OF doing wrong. because It 10
wrong. and because God has warned US
OF the consequences. has shown us it,
peril.
If the consequences followed so
swiftly that we could not help connect
ing the two. we might shrink oftener
from the temptations to sin that Seem
always lying in wait for the thought
less, fearless ones. But sentence
against an evil work Is not executed
speedily" always. and we refuse to
believe when the punishment follows.
that 1t was our own doing. that in the
act we pronounced Judgment upon
ourselves. and we are reaping in kind
what we have sown. Having no rea-
sonable fear OF the consequences, we
forged ahead only to find later on that
Gods laws stand fast and are never
turned aside to give us fine rein to
follow our own desires whether they
be good or evil. without paying the
price.
Then. too. we come at times to dark
places we know are full OF danger.
Then we are ready to call upon God to
bring us out into the light II we had
only prayed while in the light we would
not be so afraid when the dark shuts
US in, for we would be In touch with
one with whom it Is always safe TO be
In any wilderness any valley or on any
sea, no matter how great the storm
We are always "sore afraid" when we
And ourselves alone and in danger but
the promises for perfect protection are
for all who will keep my command
ments."
Over and over again
God has been sending a solace for pain
Soothing the troubled, attending the
lone,
Keeping unbroken His word with His
own"
For 4 Revival.
The Presbyterian general assembly
has resolved to take steps ito revive
family worship in the home with the
mothers knee as the children's altar"
Very likely 1t would be revival that
would reach farther and count more
than the revivals that are engineered
by the professional revivalists.
Most intelligent people finally think
out their own religion, or form of re.
ligion for themselves but, at whatever
decision they arrive, the influence Of
their childish worship at mothers knee
has It's effect Our Father Who art
in Heaven" and Now lay me down TO
sleep" are remembered by men who
have forgotten most of the other pure
and innocent things Of life. A dear
little kiddie, at mothers knee in her
nightie. asking the Lord to take her
soul II she should die before she wakes,
with all a child's faith that the Lord
will do it. makes picture that all
the years OF life, with their sorrows,
struggles. failures and recklessness do
not erase.
What man among US so sor6id. SO
dead to what God promises and gives
so tried and tired by life struggles but
he wishes he could again worship at,
tina. beloved altar. mothers knee. in
deepest innocence and fullest con-
fidence that what mother teaches about
God, the guardian angels and the beat
tiful heaven is exact truth and are
possible of human attainment?
Wise men OF our times say that
child's character and. hence. largely
its career. is in great degree shaped
by the time 1t is years old. II thtz
is so, the revival Of worship at "the
children's altar" is about the most i'm
portant work that any church can
prosecute. The future depends much
on implanting In the children an hon.
est love OF God and their fellows. For
this. there is no better altar than
mothers knee. It is an altar whose
sanctity can not be impaired by the
erosion OF the years.
"Ra edward, turn backward O Time!
in your flight!
Make me a child again, just for to-
night"
How the tired heart leaps! How
memory stirs your soul! You again
put your face in your folded palms and
rest your head on mothers knee. Her
hand strokes your hair In tenderness.
! Everything is quiet. You are about
| to enter that systery called sleep. You
are about to be helpless. in the dark.
But you have God and mother. lnno-
cence and perfect confidence are with
| YOU as they will not be in the years OF
maturity. but such incense from the
children's altar" never wholly wears
out. To even those who have lost most
of Innocence and faith it comes as an
ennobling memory. Wise the church
| that promotes worship at an altar IN
| the home.-Minneapolis News.