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li TALMAGE'S SERMON.
is TO BECOME OF OUP.
J CHILDSE.'i?
■ . .■Seein” thnt **“ life is bound up in
HujS hie."—Ocne'is Uiv., 10.
ri ;s were s]H>ken by Judah, a-t do-
, t ths tenderness ami atteet . u
■ r i‘Tacob lelt toward Benjamin, the
■L”. - son ot that pntiiur hal fum.ly. but
" wot ds jus: as appropriate to mane
in tuis Loi e-siuee -his lie hr
i n the lad » life.’ I have know n
.eeni.-d to have but btt.H inter st
hildr.n. A father says: “My son
■T, k out lor himself. If he comes up
rioht if l>e turns out badly I cannot
, lam not responsible for his I ehav
■'Y must t’<ke the same risk in life that
■ As well might the shepherd throw a
BimfiMlenofH hm and th* n say: - Little
Be lock out for yom\-eir.'”
B 1 ’’ n ■ aly the case t hat even th * tieast
B’\jer its young. I have goue through
b on a summer s day, and I have
B?a ‘ r ient outcry in a biru’s nest, ami I
<i up to s>*e what mas the matter.
BJ tout th it the birds were starving and
BJtha mother bird had pjone oIT not to
B : Imi k Again. But that is an exception.
nerallv the ease that the old bird will
B' v >ur eves out rather t han let yo.i come
B,■ I rood. The lion will i-en 1 you in
Bm if vou approach too nearly the
V the fowl in the barnyard,
■“'.’footed and heavy winged, flies fi *rce-
B 0 ?’vol if y°u ccmo too near the little
■pp aud God intended every father and
ykL'tob- the protect mu and tiie help of
jj Jems conns into every dwelling
B’ ’Vs to the father or mother: “You have
Bnkoking alter this child’s body and
Bi I t’e time has co:no w hen you ought to
Ko> l in ,r alter its Lnmortal soul.” 1 stand
■urt! biipdreds of people with whom the
B-tion morning, noon and night is: “What
B*te oiue <-f thechdd? Whut will be its
B t ' r v Will it i house paths of virtue or
’Will it accept Christ or reject Him?
■Cre will it spend eternity?”
■ rea ,l of a vessel that foundered. The
■* . were launched; many of the passengers
Be smuggling in the water. A mother
Btb one band beat the waves, and with the
Ber hand lifted up her little child toward
B i>-boat, crying: “Save my child! Save
K child!’ The impassioned out ry of that
Ether is the prayer of hundreds of Chi is-
Kt) tionle who sit listening this morning
Ble 1 speak. I propose to show some of the
Kses of parental anxiety, and then how
■atanxietv may be alleviated.
■I find tb“’fii>t cause of parental anxiety in
Eineili ’‘ i' y and imperfection of parents
Enwhes. We have a slight hope, ail of us,
B; u children may escape our faults. We
Be our imperfections, and think they will
B i 'ar of them. A la*--, there is a poor
Of that! There is more probability
Kt they will choose our vices than choose
K virtues. There is something like sacred
ly' u j arental import©' tions when the child
■ upon them. The folly of the
Kents is not so repulsive when the
El looks at it. He says: “Father
Bulges in it; mother indulges in
■it can’t be so bad. ’ Yoi.r bey, ton years
■ ,r;e. goes up a back street smoking his ci
■r—an old stump that he found in the
Jet—and a neighbor »<•<*< sts him and says:
■That are you doing th s for? What w’oidd
Kur father say if ho knew it:” The boy
Jv ”0, lath r does that himself!” There
|n it one <>f us this morning that would do-
Krately choose that his c hildren should in
■ things follow’ his example, and it is the
iousness of imperfection on our part as
lie t-s that makes us most anxious for our
|We at c also distressed cn account of the
|wi-d<-ni of our d scii line and instruction.
re juiies a great deal of ingenuity to build
r,use or fashion a ship; but more ingenuity
Lui! d the temple of a child’s character,
• ■ launch it on the great c< ean of time and
inky. Where there is one parent that
81> qualified for the work, there seem to
twenty parents who miserably fail. Here
a father who says: “Jly child j-hail know
thing but religion: ho shall hear nothing
it relit i >n; he shall seo nothing but religion.”
ie boy is aroused at 6 o’vl ?ok in the morning
recite the Ten Commandments. He is
rakened off the sofa on Sunday night to seo
av much he knows of the Westminster Cat
l.i*ui. It is religion morning, noon and
ght. I assages of Scripture are plastered
ith?bed-room wa 1. lie looks fortheday
the month iu a religious almanac. Every
ir.i-ter that comes to the house is told t >
ke the boy arid©, and talk to him, and
11 him what a great sinner he is.
iter a while the boy comes to that
iriol of life when he is too old
r chastisement, and too young to know
id feel the force of moral principle,
ithcr and mother are sitting u > for the boy
come home It is nine o'clot kat night—
n o’clock—it is twelve o’clock—it is half
ist twelve, and tbev hear the night key
a;le in the door. They say he is coming,
euigo goes very softly through the ball,
)■ ing to get up stair 4 before he is accosted,
he lathin’ says: “George, where have
iu beens” “Been out!” Yes, he has
sen cut. and he has teen down, and he
n the broad road to destruction, for this
fe and the life to c une. Father says:
Th“ie is no use in the Ten Commandments;
ifeCat? hism seems to me to le an utter
lilbre/’ Ah. my friend, you ma’ o aver y
i-it mistake. You stuffed that child with
ik ion until he could not digest it: you
that whi h is a joy in many households
n abhorrence in yours! A man in mid-life
ml to me:, “I can't become a Christian. In
•y father’s home I got such a prejudice
gfiinst re i.’ion I doi’t want any of it. My
ftth-r was one of the best men that ever
ved. but he had such severe notions about
lings, and he anime I religion down my
[■' at. until I < .n t want any of it, f ir.”
b re have been some who have erred in that
lirection.
There are households whore mother pulls
'i- way and fat!.er [ ulls the other. Father
a . v> ’3ly son, I told you the first time I
au“ht you in a falsehood I would chastise
r ui. an i nnw Ia u g-ing to do it.” Mother
®yi: "Lon’t; let him off this time.” Insome
amilies it is allscol ling an 1 fretfulness with
b 'iiiiii: from Monday mo: ning to Satur
la ■ -igbt it is that style of culture. The
p’ ' s J i ked at, and picked at, and picke 1
t Now you might better give one sound
Li t.yement and have done with it. than to
3( *ii!ge in the perpetual sc >ldingand fretful
e * There is mo» e health in one good tliun
"m than in three or four days us cold
‘‘‘•r i ; a parent who says: “1 will not err
in ta H p. tb a t parent Las erre lin being too
lr - : ’’.itb his children. I will let mine do
1 ’ ’plea*?. If they want to coin *in to
>ra -'' e - s -they can: if they want to play at
a ”l-. tey < an; they can do anything they
—there shall le no hindran e. Go it!
I’ieare tii k.*ts for the opera and thea'rc,
lake \our friends with you. Dowhat
' you desire.” One day a gentleman comes
L ■ the tank to his father s ofit e, and
i}S:
ic-y want tn sei you over at the bank a
u ’ Father gees into the Laux. Th •
; iu says; ‘ls tha" y- ur che kr” Fath r
’ at it and says: ‘‘No. I never gave that
k; 1 never • r ss a -t’ in that way; I
i. ake the rnrl to a *v' in that ’vav I*
•• tmy rhe?- -, that’s a forgery. Send for
> I ce: ’ “Ah,” says the cashier, ‘ don’t
- your son did that!’’ The fact
•' that the boy hal been out in dissipating
• r ‘ s . and ten and fifty dollars went
uit direction, and he had been
I and he hat to treat others, and the
! -it he must have $7 0 to keep himself
■ ’ at <h- -le. That night the father sits up
-on to come heme. It is 1 o’clock be
he-omes into the hall. He comes in
. hfiushel, his eyes glaring and hi<
o ’r-nsive. Father fays: “My son,
7 a . you do so? I ba-e ziven you every
-/•'”} wanted and everything to make you
stable and hap« y, and now I find in
‘I a:e. that you area spendthrift, a
tue and a drunkard. The snn savs:
"J v. La s the u-e of your talking
•a*, way You told me I might have a
pood t le and to go it. 1 have acting
on y< ur >u that's all.” And so
ha pa ir am on ant side, Mid another
1 a ent errs on the other, and how to str ke
n haopv medium between severity and too
grext leniency, and train our sons ami
du ’.I ters fot* r.sefnlress on earth and bliss
*u heaven, is a <i:iestiou which agitates every
h-u »h id in my congregation. Where sb
many good men a»*d wonie i have fa led. is
it strange tl a* we should somot ' ies doubt
the pro rioty of ourthou’vand the accuracy
of our Lind of government?
A win. rnr nt •! anxiety often arisen from
mon Iv exl i '«i. in of siiif.ilne s int> e < hil 1.
The m »-ning-g’<*rie< Ido m for a litth wh le
• u ’er the h in. nn I then th *v >Jmt up as the
brat comes on: but there ar* fioweis along
the Amazon that bl»'o their beautv fur
weeks at a time: but the short-lived morn
ing-glory fulfills its mission as well as the Vic-
I . 1 er *u e u v. mu iuKij
f *tv 1' tv or *ixty vnars to develop.
Then there nr? little children who
fi lie their beautv on the vision and
vn is’.i. 4 hey are tnorning-g ories that can
not stand the g’aro of th» hot noon sun of
trial You have all known such little chil
dren. They were pale: they were ethereal;
there wiw something very wonderfully deep
in the eve: they had a gentle foot and
band, and something almost supernatural in
lli?ir t>ei'avior—reauy to t>e wafted away.
You ha 1 suc|i a one in your yousehold. Gone
row It was too delicate a plant for this
rough world. The heavealv gardener *aw it
and took it in. We make splend’d Sun
day-school books out of such children,
but thev almost always die. 1 have
noticed that for the most part, the children
that live sometimes get cross, and pick up
bad words in the street, and quarrel with
orocner and sister, and prove unmist ikabiy
that they are wicked—as the Bible says, go
ing astray from the womb, shaking lies.
See the little ones in the Sabbath class, so
sunshiny and beautiful, you woul I think
they were always so, but mother, seated a
liltle way off, looks over at these children
and thinks of the awful time she had to get
them reatly.
After the boy and girl come a little further
on in life, the murk of sin upon them is still
more evident. The son comes in from a
pugilistic encounter in the streets, bearing
the marks of a defeat. The daughter prae
ti ex ]>ositive decention, and the parent says:
“What shall 1 do? I can’t always be
corre-ting and scolding, and yet these
things must be stopr.ed.” It is espe
cially sad if the parent sees his own faults
co pied by th i child. It is very hard
work to pull up a nettle that we our
selves planted. We remember that the
greatest fraud that ever .‘■hook the banking
houses of the country, started from a boy's
de ept inn a good many years ago; and the
gleaming blade of the murderer is only
another made of the knife with which the
boy struck at his comrade. The cedar of
1 ebauon, that wrestles with the blast started
from seed lodged iu the side of the mountain,
and the most tremendous dishonesty's of the
world once toddled out from the era lie. Ail
these things mnk<* , arents anxious.
Anxiety on th > part of parents also arises
from the consciousness that there are so
many temptations thrown ail around our
youne people. It may be almost impossible
to take a castle by siegx-straightforward
sie?e—but suppose in thi night there is a
traitor within, and he geos down and draws
the bolt and swin is open the great door, and
then th * castle fa.ls immediatly. That is the
trouble with th» hearts of the young: they
have foes without an I foes within. There
are a great many who try to make our
young people believe that it is a sign of
weakness to bo pure. The ma*i will
toss his head aud t ike dramatic attitudes,
and tell of h s own indiscretious. andasklho
young iran if l e would not like to d > the
same. And they « all him verdant, and they
say he is green and unsophisticate 1. and won
der how ha can bear the Puritanical strait
jacket. Th y tell him ho ought to break
from his mother's apron strings, and they
say: “I will slmw you all about town.
Come with me. You ought to see the world.
It won't hurt you. Do as you please; it will
be the making of you.” After awhile the
young man says: “I don’t want to be odd.
nor can 1 ass ord to sacrifice those friends, and
111 go and >ee for my.-elt.” From the gates
of hell there goes a shout of victory. Fare
well t > all innocence—farewell to all early
restraints favorable to that innocen o which
once gone, never comes back. I heard one
of the best men 1 ever knew, seventy-five
years of age. siy: “Sir. God has forgiven me
for ali the sins of my lifetime, I know’ that;
but there is one sin I committed at twenty
years of age that 1 never wid forgive myself
for. It s m times comes over me over
xvbelminglv, ami it absolutely’ blots out my
hopo of hea en ’
Young man, hear it. How many traps
there are set for our young people! That is
what makes parents so an xioui Here are
temptations for every form of dissipation
and every stage of it. The young man. when
be fir>t goes into dissipation, is very particu
lar where he goes. It must be a fashionable
hotel. He cculd not be tempted into these
corner nuisances, with red-stained glass
acd a mug of beer painted on the sign
board. A’ou ask the young man to go
int) that pla e and ho would say :
“Do you mean t > insult me?” No; it must be
a marble-floored barroom. There must be
no lustful pictures behind the counter: there
must le no dru ikard hiccoughing while he
tak-shis gins;. It must be a place whe-cele
gant gentleu on come in and click their cut
glass and drink to the announcement of
flattering sentiment. lut the young
man cannot always find tha‘< kii d of a
place; yet he has a thirst and it must
no gratified. The down-grade is s eepu
now, aud he is a! ro tat the bAt nn. Here
thev sit in an oyster ce’lar around a card
table, wheezing, bloated and bloodsh t. with
cards so grea-v you can hardly tell who lias
the b?st hand. " But never inind:lh*y arc
only play in o, f< r drink, bhu r e aw >v! shuf
fle away! T..e landlord stand’; in his shirt
sleeves with hands on Ins hips, wat hing
the game aud waiting for another
call to fill up the
the hot breath or' eternal wot* that
Hushes that vou.ng man's < heek. In he jets
of gaslight. I seethe shooting out of the fiery
tongue of the worm that n *ver die -. The
clock strikes 12; it is th -lollingof the bell • f
eternity at the bur a! of a soul. Two
hours pass on. and they are all sound
asleep in their (bars. Luadlorl says:
“Come, now’, wakeup; it’-; time to shut u:>. '
They look up and ray: “Wh it.' 1 ‘.t .stime
t > shut up.’ Push them • m into the air.
Titoy are going h nr. let the w ; fe n.u'-h
in the < orn r, and the '-Liluren hi l -under
the Fed. Tl '-v arc ■/ in h me! What is
the history <fth it yo ing man' He !; * n i
j.,--o-o - - •’ I’ * Ven—
and complete'! his damnation in th© worst
grog-shop iu Navy street.
But sin even does not stop here. It comes
to the dour of the drawing room. There are
men of leprous heart; that go into the very
best classes of so .net y. They are bo fascinat
ing—they have such a bewitching way of
offering their arm. Yet th • poison of asps is
under the tongue, and th ir heart is hell. At
first their sinful devices are hi Id n. but after
a while they begin to put forth their talons
of death. Now they begin to show
real’.y what they ar-. Suddenly—al
though you could not have expected
it, they were so charming in their man
ner, and so fascinating in their address -sud
denly a cloud, blacker than was ever woven
of midnight or hurri ane, drops upon some
domestic circle. There is agony in the pa
rental bosom that none but toe Lord God
Almighty can measure—an agony that
wi.-hes that the children of the household
had been swallowed by the grave, when it
would be only a F>ss of body instea I of a
Joss of soul. What is the matter with that
household? They have not had the front
windows open in -i:: month' or a year. The
mother’s hair suddenly turned white; father,
hollow-cheeked and bent over prematurely,
goes down the strte:. There Las been no
de th in that family—no loss of pr .party.
Has madness seize I upon the n? No! n<! A
villain, kid-gloved, j atent-leathered, with
gold cha n an i graceful manner, took thnt
cup of domestic bl.s.s, elevated it high in
the air until the sunlight struck it, and
all the rainbow’s dinced about the
brim, and ih' n dashed it down in desola
tion and wre, until all t ' harpie- < f darkness
clapp d their hands with g ee. and all the
voices of bell uttered a loud ha! ba! Oh.
there are scores aud hum I reds of homes that
have been blnstel. ami if the awful stat sties
could lx) fully sot l»eforo vou. your blood
would freeze into a solid caka of ice at the
heart. Do you wonder that fathers and
mothers are anxious about their children.and
that they ask themselves the questions day
and nigl.t: What is to become of them?
What willbetlieir destiny?
I shall devote the rest of my remarks to
alleviation of parental anxiety. L< tme say
you. as parents, that a great deal of that
anxi *t y will be lifted if you will early
with your children. Tom Paine sat I: “The
flrd five yo u-s of my life 1 became an in
fidel.” A vesi l goes out to sea; it l.as been
five da vs out. A storm comotion it; it snrings
| a leak; tl o helm will not work; overvthing is
: out of order. What is the matter* The ship is
| not sea wort h v and never was. It isa]»oor
, time to find it oat now. Fnde • the fury of
| the storm th© vessel goes down, with two
hundred and fifty passengers, to a watery
i grave. Tho time to make the ship seaworthy
I was in the dry d >ck, lio'ore it started. Alas
for us, if we wait until our children get out
into the world beroixs we try t * bring upon
them the influence of Christ s re
li lion! 1 tell yon the dry dock cf
the Christian home i< the place where
we are to fit them for usefuln»»ss and
for heaven. In this worl I, under the storm
of vi. e and temptation, it will Ik* too late.
In the domestic circle vou decide whether
your < liild shall bo truthful or false—whether
it. shall Im* gone ous or penurious. You can
tell by the way a child divides an anpl© just
what its future history will be. You ought
to oversee the pro ess. If the child take nine
tenths of the apple.giving the other tenth to his
sister, if he should live to lw* one hundred he
wiil be grasping and want the biggest piece
of everything. 1 stood in n Imus • in one ot
the Long Island village-, and I s.iw n beau
tiful tree, ami I said to th‘» owner: “That i<
a very fine tree, but what a curious crook
there is in it!” “Vos.” said he, “I planted
that tree, and when it was a year old. I
went to New York and worke 1 a- a me
chanic for a venr or two. and xvlien I ca n©
back I found that they had allowed some
thing to stand against the tree' r» it his
always had that crook " And so I thou 'ht it
was with th»* influence upon children. If you
allow anything to staml m the way of moral
influence against a child on this side or that
side, to the latest <’ay of its li o on earth and
through all eternity it will show the pres
sure. No wonder Lor i Bvron was bad. Do
you know his mother said to him, when she
saw him one day limping across the floor
with his unsound foot: “Get out of my way.
you lame brat! 1 ’ What chance for a boy like
that?
Two young men come to the door of sin.
They consult whether they- will go in. Th©
one young man goes in and the other re treats
O, you say. the last had better resolution.
No, that was not it. The first young man
! had no earlv good influence: the last had
| been piously trained, and when he stood at
| the door of sin discussing the matter, he
j looked around as if to see some one, and
be felt an invisible hand on his shoul
der, jenying: “Don’t go iu; don't go
1 In.” Whose hand was it? A m the ’>
band, fifteen vears ago gone to dust. A gen
tieman was telling me of the fact that some
years ago there were two young men who
stopped at the door of the Park Theatre, in
New York. The question was whether they
should go in. That night there wa- to Im* a
very immoral play enacted in the Park Thea
tre. Ono man went in: the other stayed out.
’the young man who went in, went on
from sin to sin. and through a
I crowd of ininiities, and diet! in the
i hospital, of d' lirium tremens. The other
j young man xvho retreated, chosa Christ,
went into tha Gospel, and is now one of the
! most enrnent ministers of Christ in this
> country. And the man who retreated gave as
; his reason for turningback from the Thea
tre that night, tha’ there was an early
I voice within him, saying: “Don't go in!
| don’t go in!’’ And lor that reason, my
friends, 1 believe so much in Bible
I classes. But there is something bettor than
; the Bible cla-s, and that is the Sunday-school
i class. I like it lierau-e it takes children ut
an earlier point: and the infant class I like
still better be/ause it takes children before
they begin to walk or to talk straight, and
puts them on the roa Ito heaven. You < an
not begin too early. Yon stand on the bank
j of a river flowing by. You cannot
stop that river, but you travel days
• and days toward the source of it,
1 and you find after awhile where it
comes down dropping from the rock, and
with your knife you make a course in this or
that dire tion for the dropping to take, an 1
you decide the course of the river. Yo i
stand and seo your children’s characters roll
ing on with great impetuosity and passion,
and you cannot affect them. Go up toward
the source where the chara-ter first starts.
i and decide that it shall t ike the right direc
tion, and it will follow the path you give it.
But T want you to remember, oh father!
I oh mother! that it is what you do thnt is
I going t» affect your children, and u >t what
; you .‘•ay. You tell yourchilren to Income
Christians whiio you are not, and they will
! not. Do you think Noah's family would
[ nave gmo Into the ark if he had not gone
, in? They would say: “No. there is
I something about that boat that is not
right; father his not gone in. \'ou can
not push children into the kingdom of
I God; you have got to pull them in. There
j has been many a general in a tower or ca2le
; looking at his army fighting, b it t hat is not
> the Lind of a man io arouse enthusiasm
1 among his troops. It is a Garibaldi or Na
' poieou I. who leaps into the stirrups, and
i dashes into the conflict, and has his troops
following him with will huz/a. So you
I cannot stand off in your imijonitent
1 state, an 1 tell your < hildren to
go ahead into the Chris'ian life, and
. have them go. Yon must yourself da h Lit >
the Christim conflict; you mn-t lead them
| and not tell them to go. Do you know that
' all the instructions yon give to your chil
dren in a religious direction goes for n ffhing
I tmle-syou illustrate it in your own life? The
j teacher at t.hd sihool takes a copy book,
writes a specimen of good wilting a toss th©
top of t ie page but he makes a mi.-.cu.m in o o
letter of the copy. The boy comes along on
| the next line, copies th© top lin *, and makes
th© mistake, ana if there be fifteen lines on
: that j ago they will have the mistake there
I was in the copy on the t »p. The fattier has
an error in his life—a very great error. The
son comes along and copies it now. to ni>r
■' row, next year, copies it to the day of his
j death. It is what you are, not so much what
' you teach.
Have a family altar. Let it be a cheerful
place, the bright st rom in your house. Do
n t wear your c.iildren's knees out with long
prayer . Have the whole ex r *ise spirited,
if you have a include hi, or an organ, or a
piano in the hou •.<*, have it opt n. Then lea I
in prayers. If you < annot make a jir.iye.’ of
your own, take Matthew Henry's Prayers
or the i<»is •v ai Prayer li » :. None
lietter than that. J neel down with
1 your little <m mo-.cog and night,
and commend tuem to G...L D > you
think they will ever tret over it? Neve--!
> Alter you are unaer tua wri n go many
years, there will be some p rverful tempta
tion around that son, but the memory of
father and mother at morning and evening
prayers will have its efieit upon him: it will
bring him back from the path of sin aud
death.
Bat I want you to make a strict mark, a
I sharp, plain line between innocent hilarity
oath* part o l your cbildrm and a vicious
I proclivity. !) > not think your boys will go
to ruin because they make a ra ke‘. A glum,
unresponsive child mak -s the worst form of
a villain. Children, when they are h'-alt hy,al
ways make a ra' ket. Iwantyou. at the very
firstsignof d pravity in the child, to correct
it. Dodo laugh because it is smart. If you
do. you will live to cry br-ause it is mali
cious. Do not talk of your ch.l Iren’s frail
ties lightly in their pn*senee, thinking th y
do not understan 1 you: they do under land,
i Do not talk di-paragingiy of your child,
making h:in feel that he is a reprobate. Do
not say to your little • ne: “ You’re the worst
child I ever knew.” If you do, hi will be the
worst man you ever knew.
Are vour children safe for heaven? xou
can te'l better than any one else. I put to
you the question: “Are your children safe
for heavenf’ I heard of a mother who,
when the nouse was a fire, in the ex' itcmmit
of the occa ion. got out a great many of the
valuable thing —many choic? articles of fur-
niture—but did not t hink to ask until too late:
“Is my child safe.'" It was too lat* then.
The flames had encircled all; the child was
gone! O, my dear friend, when sea aud land
shall burn m the final conflagration, will
your children b» safe?
1 wonder if wha’ I hax ©said this morning I
has not struck a chord in some one in thoau- i
dience who his a good father nn I intther, !
but who is not yet a Christian? Is that your !
history?
Do you know why you cam* here this
morning? God sent yo ito h:i\«* that inem- !
ory revived. our d ar Christ a i mother,
how she luyed yo.i! Vou remember, when ■
you were sick, how kindly she attended you;
the night wa-not t. o loug, and you never
asked hertoturn the pillow but she did it! j
A’ou remember her also; you re- ,
member how s rue of you—l do not know
where the man is in the audience—h hv
some one here broke his mother's heart You
remember her sorrow over your wayward
ness; you remomlier the oil place where she
did you so many kindnesses; the chairs, the ,
table, the door s II where you played; the '
t »nes of her voi •<*. Why. you can think them •
back now. Though th *\ w.*reborne long ago |
on the air, they come ringing through your •
soul to-day, calling you by the first name. .
You are not “Mr? to her: it is just your j
plain, first name. Is not this the time wh *n I
her prayers will be answered? Do you not !
think that Go I sent vou in t » day to have [
that memory of her rex iv<s 1‘ If you should ■
come to Christ this morning, amid all the I
throngs of heaven th * gladdast of them j
would be your Christ an pa-ent.s who a-e in i
rlorv waiting for vonr ro.iem »tii»ii Angels
of God, shout the tidings the List has come
back a<ain: the dea 1i- alive! Ring all the
nellsof heaven nt the j ibib*.*! Ring! Ring!
A Kai her Finbrtri-assing Mistake.
A sombre looking wagon, bearing a
long and high white box. was driven up
to a Fourth avenue residence a few dny<
ago. Just as the man and the boy
in attendance lifted the box from the
wagon and < arried it slowly up the steps,
two elderly ladies of the kind that fairly
dole up.m funerals, moved up to the
stoop in procession.
They gazed at the box.
“Samantha? said one, as she glanced
over her spoctm Icr, “Im afraid that
your eyesight is getting poor. You
murt have missed this death when you
hunted through the newspapers this
morning.'’
“I’m afraid I must have, Jane.”
ooks like a very respectable resi
dence. and there II probab y Be plenty of
carriages. hat’s that name on the
loor-nlate?”
“Binks.”
“Wonder if the corpse was a man or a
woman? ’
“So do I.”
“Os course well haveto be present!”
“To be sure.”
Just then the boy,after he had dropped
his end of the box in the hal I way, walked
slowly down the steps, proceeded to the
wagon and took out a force, pump to
which was a small rubber tube.
“Samantha, that’s a stomach pump!”
“So ’tis, .lane.”
•‘Must ha' been a case of poisonin’,
and there must be more wot's poisoned.
They wouldn’t have any use for a stom
ach-pump on a (orpse.”
“jane, th re's a mystery here, and 1
wculd’t miss that funeral for the
world.”
“No«l I, Samantha. We must know
al! about it.”
“Surely. We'll find oit when the ob«
scquicA is to take p ace.’’
At this point in the interview the man
and I he boy came down the steps.
“Would you kindly toll us when the
funeral is to take place?”asks Samantha
of the boy.
“Wot funeral?’’
“The funeral that that coflin belongs
to.”
“Wot co Jin ■’
“Th; one you just carried up the
steps ’’
'Thon the boy smiled until he looked
as if his whole head had suddenly been
blown off.
‘•Ah! wot yer givin’ us? Don’t yer
know a comng fruin a bath-tub?”
And then >anianthu and Jane moved
pa t the reviewing stand of howling
hoodlums that had gathered round and
didn’t move an eyelash.—Ad/o York J)ii
patch.
The Judge and the Bandbox.
Tiw‘ famous English Chief justice, Lord
Ellcnboiongh, wui on oneoc asion about
to s it oil < r nit, when his wife ex
pres-'-ii a desire to acco npnny him. “ \ cry
w» ll,’ said he, “bet remember there aro
to be no bandboxes tucked under the
scat oi the < a: riage. as 1 have too often
so m<l when honored before by yo.ir lady
ship’- >rrij any.” Fhe promised to m- ct
his wishes, and they set out together.
They h . I not gone very fur when the
judg . s’retc ling out his legs under the
sent in front of him, kicked again t one
of the flim'-v le cptacles which lie had
expo ly forbidden, i own the window
xvcntuilhn bung, and out went th'*
bandbox into the ditch The Startled
coa iran at once pulled up. “Drive
on. ''id the .’ud/c, ‘ternly. “and lot
the ti 'g lie v,he eit is. ’ Tli y rea died
the a ./e town in du * course, and his
lord -e.p pr >: ceded to r • f-.r the court.
“Anu n 1 v where’s my wig •.’.here'' my
wii he *1 minded, when ev<rvthiiig
el-i indb rn found. ‘ Yer ig, my
Lo;d. .'Wcred the servant, trcinu
ion . ‘was in the bandbox your lord
ship i: ■ ‘Alt of th ■ wind >w as we c ua«
along
\ ery Li lie Lis P:i.
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ini' had no lik.ng for anything
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re. . 1 insignia of dudedo.n. The
(, <1 ■/ ntlem in surve. <d him critically
w <■ i • appeared in the office and then
bl it douti
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~ ' - '.a' mo .oust, and before the
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irpi’.. a friend w;.lkc 1 in :
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ti •' he asked. “Dear me, how
mi Aires?* .old- your fat icr. ’
■ ■ ) h'j has ius: been tiling me,” ri
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id vou pass the civil-service exam
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“Ah ch ones were those?”
“I answered all right when they asked
rm* what my name was and what State I
wa born in.”
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