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H-i.ience: Be:ij:nin Dungan, Cherry Valley,
MON-ROK COUNTY rA.
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J. Y. SIGAFU-S,
pAPEK HAiSEK,
GLAZIER AND PAINTER,
MONROE STREET,
' ??os'te Kautz's Blacksmith Shop,
Strovdsburq, Pa.
fo'MMi,f!,n,ler'i?"ed wou''l respectfully in
t!"t h C lUf'"'s s,ro"l).irrr iind vicinity
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puruiise or ims puoiK
VOL.
!VjuuajLMHua
From F-irnry's ft'ecUy Pi ess.
A HQNDIIED YEARS AGO.
A CENTENNIAL SONG,
BY A. II. BENEDICT.
V.'hat rafs'd this preat commotion, say? Is awful
B-'dlam loj.so?
I Uncle Sam tide himself? Or what is his excuse
Fur caninj; all the land to hlaie, and all tho bells to
oiau?.
His flass to caper in the air, and his big Runs to bang?
Why ! this grand racket celebrates the falling-out you
know,
With fiery, braTe old Johnny Bull, a hundred years
ago !
Our graudsires from his loins were iprung, uor shamed
tluir p.Hilgreo,
And, to avoid a row at home, they cross'd the raging
sea:
They thrash'd the bears and catamounts, the savages
to boot ;
And, often, at the Meeting-house, their minds were on
the shoot!
A sturdy rac i their offspring were, defying frost and
snow
Who braved the howling wilderness, a hudred rears
The lakes and rivers were so broad, the mountains
were so grand.
As spread the growing colonies, their "notions" would
expand ;
Till, in their latitude of thought, and longitude as
They chafed against John's discipline, yet dreading
to rcbtl.
lie got Taxation on the brain ! b?gan to rave and
blow !
And thought to toss them on his horns, a hundred
years airo!
II j miirht have manaied them, nerhatw. if he had been
content
To oa! as5t for rcTeauc hln thr might rei-resest;
Hiii vil Counsellors prevailed, 'twere u.-wlK-ss now to
name,
Whoic ,lut 3-:ivil-e an'l loyal el his growing ire
in flume,
! Ti";l hj must undertake to send to bring th oflVrn-
diT low
The L;.jn aud the Uuieoru a hundred v-ars ago!
We mos his Stamp Act with a groan he heard across
tuist-a:
Wc "riaid the I'ickcns'' with his trade, and tumbled
out the tea !
Sme "got liuir bucU up," very high.discusiing many
Till l.a!;' the abie-bouit d men were spoiling for a fight ;
Nut ilia they wait so very long, c-xpjcla.u.1 of the loe,
Ee lritaiu'u tiiuudr woke them up, a hundred years
a.-ro !
There was a Thomas JuffeaSon, that knew a thing or
t wo.
A c..in:Ks:tiou rather rough on Johnny Bull, we own,
tlr j-j a wic-liU knack iuJcud at -uking oil" a
Auu;Lcr Xhomas, too, we had, w itli Common' StxsE,
to throw
His firr.-hranls hissing through the land, a hundred
tars u'r .
Dn Fra-.ikiia, an i a plucky host of worthies we could
c:tei
Who wr jte. and voted, speechified, and Iabor'd day and
Li;!u ;
A Patrick lle:ry, forest-boru, who, liki Demos-
tiii-Ili:s,
Couid loiisj his ft llow-couutrymn as tempests rile the
ei.6 !
Couid make the i-ub of anus resound, tho crimson
ru . rent l!ow,
As ioYd lbs torrcat from Li. lips, a hundred years
We had a Gtorgi tot George Th2 Third ! of Con-
tii.etitnl grit !
To organiz.- th.; raw recruits, and marshal armies fit
To tojMi with Kail aud Belzebu'o, with death aud U-rror
r'.'ii:!'! '.
Where oartf ',t rei'iients, in rags, held firm the bloody
groti ii i !
Who fi'ii'i; sad f..U like dtiu?g3 ! and, dying suul'd I
to k
The pi oud inheritance they left, a hundred years ago!
Wide o'er the clou d-envtlopt d plains War's dreadful
eriii.o-s roir
The land's iij mourning for the slain, and delug'.-d with
their gore.
! I!re to ur hnve InviniM.-s the R-yal armies yield,
Or own theia "free and equal born," and masters of the
ndd!
Tl. - - u won Icr not that Uncle Sam is misbehaving to!
'Tis but to celebrate his birth, a hundred ycrs ago!
Y s Tit.M is what's the matter, men ! aud why the bells
Lave rung !
Why Yaakce L'o.jdl.-V in tho veins, huzzas upon the
tougae !
Tislittinrf wo should "jubilate," aud make a joyful
uoi.e,
For Sam's a.hiev'd an honored place amongthe masttr
boys ;
Although thfehap has oaly had a century to grow,
Was rotk'd iu fire aud brimstone, too, a hundred years
ago!
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famous pla,-e
! Where ev'rybo)y s welcome to a reasonaot? space;
Where Princes, Pools, Potentates, Lords, Ladies Quid
nuncs, (.Juecus,
May figure, frolic, fulminate, aud show their new
m ichines !
Them come aaid help us carry on this most prodigious
Show.
Of which no R'p Van Wiukle drcam.d, a hundred
years ago !
Our fathers had blow coaches then, and not the Light
ning Train,
No iron horse with thurfder clothed, no steamship
ploug'a'd the main !
They had no Ocean Telegraph that nerve beneath
the brine,
That vibrates wiih the price of Gold, or movements on
th Rhine ;
Th-y had no Crystal Palaces, no nice machines to sew ;
No big power prcase shook the world, a hundred years
Ego!
But yvtthy wrought the Uuion out with force and
skill sublime
That aye has wclcom'd to iu shores th' opprossd of
rv'ry clime ;
That, in this glad Centennial Year, with temples vast
and prand,
Uascall'd the nations ofthegiobe to tIcw the goodly
Laud ;
Where men are brave, aud women fair; where milk
and honey flow :
Where Indians whoop'd and panthers bowl'd, a hun
dred years ago!
O come in crowds, in caravans, our wonden to explore !
To sec our lordly rlrera roll, and hear our cataracts
roar !
The freedom of the Continent we tender you to-day :
Our mountains, mines, our monster trots, and grimly
pets survey !
Scale thf Sierras' ' wg"d edire ;" hunt eagles, buiTa'.o .
Blaze round ! as did tho pioneers, a hundred years ago '.
O come, O come great Johnny Ball I-there's music in
thy roar !
W harbor no "unpleasaotneW for the affairs of yorct
W talk one common Unnotfe-, John tti idefc
Royal Topgue
STROUDSBURG, MONROE
That Pickens wrote, that Chuthara spoke, and Eilly
Shakspeare sun?:
So join us in our Jubilee, nor cause of discord know
Things arc not as they used to be, a hundred years
ago.
Let Frenchmen by the million come; our bosoms
tingle yet
At mention of our old Ally the Land of Lafayette !
Let Germans, In unnumber'd throngs aud clouds of
smoke, appear,
Attack our bonnyclabbcr, krant, and fjree our lager
beer !
Let Rome, and Egypt, Greece, Japan, help keep the
"Juhilo."
Nor scorn our brief career, begun a hundred years
ago.
Let Russia's, India's tribes, advene, to crowd our
Temple Gates;
Let South America uphold the honor of her States;
Let every nation, kindred, tongue, be represented
here,
For Uncle Sam has room enough somewhere upon the
Sphere !
Ware; China! all thy pigtails! waTet and make
Ccdestial show!
But mark what bravo "Barbarians" wrought a hundred
years ago !
Let all the Sovereigns, Powers, cngago, mankind to
unify,
And, miugl.-d with our Stripes and Stars, their playful
standards fly ;
Let war and bloodshed be no more, ambition, conquest,
cease ;
A Congress of the Nations rise to make perpetual
peace ;
Then shall the plough, aud pruninghook, ths reaper,
and the hoe
Displace the deadly tools in usg a hundred years ago !
BY REQUEST.
MOODY AND SANKEY.
PiiiLADELrniA, Dec. 2Gth, 1S75.
I want to call your attention to a verse
that you will find in the seventh chapter
of Genesis, tirst versa : "And the Lord
said unto Noah : Cume thou and all thy
house into the ark." You that heard last
Thursday s sermon will remember I was
speaking from the text "liehold I brinir
you irood tidings of frreat joy"; and many
of you that wore here lust Sunday after
noon remember that I have also been speak
ing on the Lord's invitation to you to beat
the marriajre .'upper of the Lamb. Xow I
just want to follow riht aloiif on that line,
and I have c.t another invitation for you
thi afternoon : ''Come thou and all thy
house into the ark." As I said the last
time, I brought you jootl tidings ; to-day I
brin you jrood tidings. It is a loving in
vitation from a loving God, and it is a per
sonal invitation to every one in this con
gregation. To b'i sure that text was ad
dressed to Noah ; but to-da' the Gospel is
to be proclaimed to even' creature, and the
ark has been provided, and all can go iu if
they will. l'JO years before this commu
nication came to Noah he had received
word from God ; and it was really the most
awful tidings that ever caruj from Heaven
to earth. It was the most awful commuta
tion ever received by an' man in this world,
fie told him that he was going to sweep
the earth of its iniijuity ; that all men upon
the face of tins earth should perish ; that
his Spirit should not always strive with
men ; that at the end of 120 years God
woti'.d sweep away these workers of iniquity.
Although L!,()!0 years only had rolled away,
these men had torn from God, their crea
tor. They did not known him. God was
in none of their thoughts and in none of
th.-ir deeds. As he looked down from
Heaven, he could see every conceivable
wicked thing done by man. They had for
gotten their God ; they had forgotten their
Creator. They had turned away from him,
and now he caused this warning to be given;
and wherever ou find a judgment you will
find before the judgment there is always a
warning. These antediluvians had a warn
ing. He told Noah to build this ark ; and
all these 120 years while the ark was being
built it was a warning to them. And you
will find that, if you will read the Bible
carefully, warnings always precede the judg
ment. God comes to men first and calls
them to himself. If they will not come,
then the blood of their souls must be re
quired of their own hands. There will be
no one to blame but themselves. You will
find that when Christ was on the earth he
came in grace and offered mercy. Forty
years afterward destruction came upon Je
rusalem. He wept over Jerusalem ; he
plead with them ; lie legged of them to
come to him. Vt"e have had iu this coun
try a, great and mighty revival. Haifa
million of pciple were brought into the
Church of God in 1S57, and 1S.V.I.
A wave of blessings came over the land.
Some people mocked at the meetings ; some
caviled at them ; others laughed at them ;
many took up their pens snd wrote against
the work. But it was not long before the
nation was baqtized in blood; and half a
million of men most of them young men,
the flower of the land laid themselves
down iu soldiers' graves, most of them in
untimely graves. It was God calling the
nation in mercy first; and then came the
judgment. Ami 1 begin really to believe
that we are on the eve of some great crisis
in this country. I Jo not know what it is;
but a feeling comes over me now and then
that we are on the eve of a great crisis.
God is calling his own to himself all over
the land. There is great interest iu re
liion now. More people are talking about
religion at this period of the world's his
tory than ever before. All the mission
aries tell us that there b an interest spring
ing up in foreign lands. I cannot help be
lieving that it is God calling in mercy, just
as he came to these antediluvians and gave
them 120 vears warning 120 years before,
this loving Fattier came to Noau' and told
him to build the ark. It was to be'500
fdet long, about 80 feet wide, and about 50
feet high. Or, in other words, it would be
high enough so that they couid make three
utories of it ; r if it were put on -one levul,
COUNTY, PA., FEBRUARY 24, 1876.
it would be about 1,500 feet long. This
building would be nothing to it. You could
put five or six buildings like this in it. If
on one level, it would be 1,500 feet long, 240
feet wide, and 1G or 17 feet high. No
small undertaking in those days. Every
nail Noah drove into that ark was a warn
ing to them. Every time he took up his
hammer to use it on that ark it was a warn
ing that God was going to appear in judg
ment. At that time the world ridiculed
Noah, undoubtedly. When he received
that communication he knew how he was
to be put to ridicule ; how men were to
scoff at him. lean imagine him walking
down the streets, and their calling him,
"That lunatic !" I suppose it was a com
mon thing for Noah during those 1 20 years;
and, if there had been insane asylums at
that time, no doul t they w ould have put
him in one, if God had not protected him.
No duubt they thought him mad. The
great men of that time their statesmen,
their astronomers, their mighty men all
prophesied against Noah. There was no
sign of the coming deluge. I can imagine
some of them said : 4Tf it was true, why
did not Methusaleh, who died a few 'ears
ago, tell us of it ? Why did not our fore
fathers tell us of it? How did this man
come to know so much of it ?" It was the
same way with the men who worked on the
ark Noah's carpenters. They were jert
ing and laughing at him. They would say:
"lie pays good money, he pays us prompt
ly, we are just as willing to work for him
as for anybody. But we do not believe in
the lunatic ; we do not believe in the com
ing deluge." No doubt many of them
knew as much about that ark as Noah did.
And at the present day many know about
Christ and know that Christ can save. So
Noah's carpenters knew all about the ark
and what its purpose was, and yet did not
avail themselves of its protection. So the
3'ears went on. I can imagine that once
in a while the work upon the ark ceased ;
and he called upon them, and plead with
them, and urged thorn to fee from the
wrath to come. Iut they mocked on.
They sneered on. The' did not believe it.
Just as it is in the present day. Som peo
ple say now; "Why, Mr. Moody, you do
not believe there was ever such a thing as
a flood ; do you ? I thought we had out
grown all this. That is something that
used to terrify your forefathers ; but we
have got wiser and more intelligent. Ve
do not believe it." Don't you know that
there are sonic people now who don't be
lieve the first five books of the Bible? But
if you take that Book and tear one book
out of it you destroy the whole of it. There
is no one part of it but what is endorsed by
another part. If you take out the flood
you must take Chri.st out of the world.
The moment you take out the flood, you
make out Christ a deceiver. For he said :
"As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it
he at the coming of the Son of Man." He
put his divine seal upon it. "We all believe
it. I believe it just as much as I believe
anypart of it. 1 believe the flood came up
on them sud lenl3" and took them ail by
surprise. Because they did not believe the
flood was coming did not change the fact
that the flood did come. Undoubtedly if
it had been in these days we would have
been against Noah. We would have gone
with the popular current, and thought that
there was no delege coming. But bear in
mind, if you take up this Bible you must
believe every word of it. Never mind what
others fay. I can imagine the philosophers
and great men of that day said: "It is
contrary to reason. There is no sign of
it." The astronomers who were reading
the heavens did not see any signs of the
coming storm. I hey simply said it was
impossible that God was going to drown
the world. Many of them, I think, b
lieved there was no God that was going to
judge the world. The wickedness kept go
ing on ; it was triumphant. But that did
not change the fact. The flood was still to
come. A nunureu years nau roiieu away
and now see their merriment. It increases.
They make more sport of Noah and his ark
than ever. It is nearly done. His con
tract is drawing to a close. Within twenty
years every contract will be closed on that
ark. lhe work will he LuislieU. Aoali be
came more and more earnest. He pleads
with his relatives and he pleads with his
friends. He tells them it is a truth. God
has revealed it to him, and God is surely
going to destroy the world. The old men
and the young laugh on. They do not be
lieve it, aud they ask him where is the sign
of its coming. I can see the ridicule keep
increasing. Now, just when they were fix
ing up this building a great many came
around to look at it, and wondered what
they were doing, and why they were mak
ing provision for so many people. They
laughed at the idea of people coming out
to hear the Gospel. Many people said it
was dead. It died 400 years ago. and we
had outgrown it. Thanks be to God it has
the same power to-day as it ever had. We
can never outgrow it. Thank God there
are more saved every day than there has
been for hundreds of years past. I mean
more saved every day than iu any day in the
past, putting all lhe years together. Men
arc becoming nioro and more earnest. I
am one of these who believe we arc living in
perilous times "when men are living in
places and are lovers of pleasure more than
lovers of God." And the skeptics now
s:iy ; Where is the sign of His coming ?
Tney laugh and cavil if we talk about God
coming to judge the world. The Word, of
God tells us "the world is to be destoryed."
It was destroyed once by water. It will be
destroyed again by fire. The apostle tells
us to live spiritually and righteously aud
I keep cur lew girded to be wutfchiog far
we do not know when He shall return.
But now the ark is done. The 120 years
have expired. And now Noah moves into
the ar!
Ah !" they say now, "truly he
is gone mad. It may have been 1:1 the
spring of the year that he moved in ; when
his neighbors were planting, plowing, and
sowing. Noah don't plant any this spring.
He tells them the world is going to perish.
This is the last spring. The day of grace
is closing. 1 can imagine some of his neigh
bors asking him "what he is going to do
with his house." He says: "Any of you
can have it, if you wan it." And if his
ark had been put up at auction, it would
not have brought, as much as it was worth
for kindling wood. What a change soon
cann ovor the people. It was not long be
fore it was worth more than the whole
earth. Aud the time is coining when Christ
will be worth more than 10,000 worlds like
this. These scoffing infidels are now try
ing to keep you out of the ark. Oh ! may
God open your eyes to-day and make you
wise:: Noah moves in. lean imagine the
first thing that alarms and arouses them,
although they had made great sport of it
he had made it so large. When he had
only three sons, with their wives only
eight souls what did he want such a big
building for ? He tells them there were
going to come into that ark all kinds of
animals and fowls of the air and the creep
ing things of the earth. I can imagine the
skeptics wanting to know how he was go
ing to get them in how he was going to
get the wild beasts of the forest, the lion
and the tiger, into that ark. But that he
has nothing to do with. He has simply to
make room for them. God is going to do
that. I can imagine the first thing that
arouses them. One morning they rise ;
and lo and behold ! the heavens are black
with the fowls of the air. They are flying
into the ark. two hv ter T!wv como frnin
the mountain. They come from the four
corners of the earth. There they are go- j
ing into the ark. It must have been a cur- j
ious sight. I can hear them say ; "Great j
God!
what does this mean ? Merciful God!
what doe.s this mean ?'' And they look
down on the earth, and with great alarm
and surprise they see little insects crawling
into the ark, two by two coming from all
parts of the world. Audio and behold!
there come the elephant, the lion, and tiger;
and they eoma from the different parts of
the world. They move in two by two. The !
liou and the lamb walk in together. "What !
does, it mean ?" cry the people. I can J
imagine some of them get a little alarmed. !
They go to the wise men, and say : "What j
do-s this mean The wise men sav : "We j
can t account for it. It is a strange freak
of Nature. We do not understand it. We
know it is contrary to reason : but we
are not going to believe that there is gc- !
ing to be a deluge. We are not. boinir to !
c - j
be guided by this insane man. We do not
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of a coming storm. What has made these
insects and these wild l-e-tsts of I ho f .i est
go into the ark we do not know We can
not understand it we cannot exj lain it ; but
there is no danger. Don't you see the sun
shines as bright as it has ever done? Don't
you see that business is better than is has
been for hundreds of years ? We never were
more prosperous. If God was going to de
stroy this world, he would not let us go on
and have such procperity. But the lambs are
skipping upon the hillside and everything
moves mi as it has been moving. You
can hear the children playing in the
street, you can hear the voice of the
bride and bridegroom in the land,
and all is merry as ever." They are
not alarmed. Or, if they are alarmed,
when they see all these animals moving in
the ark, they soon get over it. They go
on again with their iniquity. But now the
door is shut. Did you ever read that, my
friend? God shut that door. Mr. Sankey
lias been singing about the gate ajar; but
the time is coming when the Master of the
house will rise up and shut to the door, and
you may knock and knock for admittance,
and it will b too late.
The door is shut. So the door of the
ark is shut. They mock on. They are
not alarmed. They laugh 011 ; but God
gives them seven days' grace. After all is
done to that ark, there is no sign of a com
ing storm. I can imagine one night, as
they retired as usual, the sun goes down
behind the mountait s, and they will never
see it again. They have seen that sun for
the last time. The last month has gone. The
last week has gone. The last dav has gone.
Yea, the last hour is fast rolling away.
Solemn thought ! Did you ever stop and
think, dear friends, that the last week is
coining to you ; and the last day is coming;
and the last hour ; yea, the last minute ? It
was coming to them, lhat night 1 can
seethe mothers putting their children to
bed, as usual. Perhaps sonic of them were
mocking and laughing at the thought that
Noah was shut up in that old ark. "But
at midnight," we read in the New Testa
ment, "behold ! the bridegroom cometh."
It may be that to-night death will come to
you. But this change don't come gradual
ly. It is one shock after another. Instead
of one flash of lightning after anot her, it is
one blinding sheet of lightning. The earth
is beginning to roll aud rock. The founda
tions "of tiro deep are breaking up. The
great sea breaks its borders and leaps over
its walls. The great river's begin to swell.
Those living in the lowlands begin to es
cape to the mountains and to flee up on the
hillsides. Undoubtedly the great men of
that day said : "We have had great floods
like this before. We have had storms like
this. It will soon be over." But some of
them said : "Noah told us it was to last
fyrtydaya eod forty irighte." And tnoy
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say: "If this lasts forty days and forty
nights, what shall become i f us?" I seem
to see them under the ark. They leavo
their palace, they leave their homes now.
They come to th.it ark. Hear them cry I
Hear them' pound on that ark ! "Noah !
Noah ! Noah ! Let us in !" There comes
a voice from within : "God has shut tho
door. I cannot open it." Ah ! God shut
that door. It lisd been open one hundred
and twenty years. God had plead with
them. God had invited them. They mocked
at the invitation. They scoffed and ridi
culed the idea of a deluge. Now it is too
iate. Now they would enter ; but they can
not. My d'ar friends, have you read your
Bibles? If you have, you have read in tha
New Testament a scene like this. "As it
was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in
the days when the Sun of Man cometh."
They were eating and drinking. The flood
came and took them all away. So shall it
be in the coming of tha Son of Man. I
can't tell you how I have felt fur the last
few days. I don't know how you can livo
on in sin when the old year is passing away.
The last few days of the year arc very sol
emn to me. I have been looking over the
j ast year of 1ST"), and I can hardly keep
back the tears when I think what a year
of grace it has been how God has permit
ted me to preach to multitudes and to in
vite people into the ark. And one thing
has come over me. How few have accep
ted the invitation ! Thank God 1 many
have. But there might have been thous
ands more if I had only plead with them
as a ding man to dying men. I am come
here not so much to reacli a srnien to
you as to plead with you and to beg of -ou
to come to Christ. Come into, the ark whilo
it is yet open. This lust Sabbath of 1 875 may
be the last Sabbath you will' peiid in tho
world. La it be the last Sabbath you will
stay from Christ. Let it be the Sabbath
011 v.hieh you will seek the Kingdom of
God. Do you know why God put but one
window ir. to the ark, and not one out of
which he could look upon the drowning
world? It was put in the! top of the ark.
He could not look out and see the judg
ment of God on the world. There was no
one left to tell of the destruction that came;
upon the world. There was 110 one left to
tell what destruction came upon his pro
perty. There was" no one left to tell what
happened. There was not one solitary one
left to tell us the sad ending of thes'j an
tediluvians. I do not believe any man can
jicture those scenes. I think I got a
glimpse of it in imagination. When Chi
cago was on fire I saw a mother with eight
or ten children gathered around her and
orying with fear. I think I got a little,
idea of it when I saw a man running
through the st eets tearing the hair off his
head. He told me his wife and children
had burned up before him. Ah ! what a
scene is that. At that time hundreds and
thousands of parents saw their children
perishing before their eyes and had noway
of helping them. Their mockery is gone
now. Their scoffing is all ended. Thev are
crying for mercy ; but it is too late. 'The
day of grace has passed. There was a time
when Christ would have saved them if thev
had called upon him ; but they have neg
lected salvation! They have neglected that
open door in the ark. You can see then
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c:i.uoi;ig up toe uat K. mountains, leu can
can see them swept away as the waves dash
up agaitist them. You can s:-e the father
parted from his loved child. You can cce
the wild beasts going up the mountains to
save their lives. I can imagine I see them,
going up on the top of the house ; and by
and by the foundation gives away, and
down goes the wlu,le family. Others climb
upon the trees; and the waves come up
nearer and neater, :ti:d at last they are
dashed off. Did ymi will ever think what
would have been Noah's feelings if he had
left out any one of Ids children ? There is
one prayer I make every day, and that is"
that the children that God has given mo
may be wiih me in Heaven. That seems
to be the burden of my prayer. Mothers,
just for a few minutes think what wou'aT
have been Noah's feelings in that ark, a3
as those judgment waves rose higher and
higher, and bore that ark safely upon its
bosom, if one of his children had been left
out. What a terrible blow. This one he
loved so in that dark day. But these child
ren'had confidence in him, and when God
said "Go thou and ail thy house into the
ark" they followed him. Every' member of
his family went in. There was rot 0112 left
out. Now I w.mt to ail; you : V on't you
come into the ark, and invito your ti ildrcu
in? Won't you accept of the invitation'
and come into the ark, and let your child
ren follow you ? llight down here last Sun
day afternoon sat a mother and her daugh
ter at the close of the meeting. The daugh
ter said : "Mother, 1 want to go into that
inquiry-room. Will you go in with me?"
The mother was not a Christian. She said :
"No n. I will not go. You go."
She said : "No, I will not go with
out you." The mother began to think :
"Shall I stand 1:1 tho Way uf my child ?"
She arose and went into the inquiry-room
with' her daughter. The next day she
came to me. I was talking with her. She
told me how she was brought under convic
tiou. She said the sermon made no im
pression. She had no feeling about tha
matter until tho daughter , said : "Mother,
will you go into that inquiry-room?.' I
asked Iter where her daughter was, and she
pointed her cut. A fiiend was talking
with the daughter. At last the mother
received Christ, and I 7?nt over to the
daughter and talked wiih her. I found
she had received Christ. She went up and
told her' mother. What a meeting it was !
! Tbcy usjItjcoJ tmoh other. They wept to-