The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-12-17

and dominion and power, for thou vast
slain. Then the seals are opened, and
a remarkable judgment is described
Men say: The great day of His wrath
IS come, and who shall be able to stand?
And they cry to the rocks and to the
hills to fall upon them and to hide them
from His face because the day of wrath
is come. Then the second text is given:
And | heard the number Of them that
were sealed, and the names of the son
of Jacob are mentioned again, only one
is missing.
If | treat these two texts as they
should be treated I must 90 back to
Israel for little while, and Israel
stands before US like a great family.
picture of home life, with lights and
shadows intermingled There has never
been home without light and shadows.
Your home has had both. / can never
| understand father, who would lay
| down his life for the mother of his
children, yet who realizes that the
greatest JOY would come to his house
| hold If he were member of Christ s
| church, and fails to take that step.
Not infrequently the shadows are
caused by men. The father becomes
fatigued and stays home from church
and loses his interest in religions
things. And the sad thing about it is
that when the father is wrong, the
chances are that the sons will be- The
/ lights generally are cast by the mother.
except the modern mother who finds
| hfe $ chief pleasure at the card table
- A Sunday school teacher asked her
class to tell her of some one who was
always kind, who was always loving,
who was always forgiving, and one lit
tie boy eagerly lifted up his hand and
said, 1 know, that s my mother Oh,
the lights that are cast by mothers who
stand for the Lord
THE Bible family of which ! am
speaking was a family with an event
full history. But all the way God kept
them, and never forgot them. I should
think you would trust a God like that
know that you fathers want the best
of your boys. l do. I will tell you
what is best for your boys and girls
Put them in the keeping of Jesus. He
will never forget them, never. Fathers
forget sometimes, even mothers do, but
God does not. When my father and
my mother forsake me, the Lord viii
take me up.
, ''If this is the story of q great
family then itais the story Of family
that was sharply marked by sin. Yor
have only 10 turn over the pages of thu
Old Testament, and you will find thi:
true again and again. sThey did evi
in the sight Of the Lord. All along
the journey marked them, overthrev
some of them, and caused one of then
to be missing when the day of sealing
r came. I would not go to sleep tonight
if | were YOU without saying, / vii
give myself to God for my children !
sake.
"Somehow there seem to be man,
, in Brattleboro who think they can ge
along without what our fathers ant
] mothers thought was a necessity-th,
E training of their children for God.
\ United States congressman sen
r to New York TO the Salvation Army
saying: :" Search the city; my daugh
ter is missing He described hi
I daughter He said she was all that
t Southern girl could be; fair of fac
= and form; but gone in sin. One da,
5 he got telegram from New YORK.
saying, Come as quickly as YOU can
! we have found your daughter He hun
1 ried away to New York. They took hir
! into o room at the Salvation Arm
y headquarters, and there was girl, he
: face bearing the marks of her sin, an
: her clothing in rags, and they said t
: the congressman: This is your daugl
:. ter He looked at her and began t
tremble, and then he said: oh, M
It that is not my Nina. My Nina had tn
t CLINT of gold in her hair, the blue o
+. the skies in her eyes. Ny Nina had a
e the blush of the rose in her cheeks
/ That is not my Nina. Yes, they sale
it is your Nina He went ava
u broken-hearted, not believing it. Blu
. they sent for him again and he CAM
= The CLINT of gold was there again, an
the blue of the skies in her eyes one
more and the blush of the rose in he
is cheeks. She had found Jesus.
D. - He is here tonight in the hush c
n this audience. He is here tonight. An
f when the names of the sealed are rea
@ how about your name? Will you /
10 among the missing?'