He at once went to see if he could
not yet save some one who might be still alive. The first body that came
floating toward the shore was, to his great grief and surprise, the body
of his own boy! He had been watching for that boy for many days, and he
had been gone for three years. Now the boy had at last come in sight of
home and had perished because his father had let his light go out! I
thought, what an illustration of fathers and mothers to-day that have
let their lights go out! You are not training your children for God and
eternity. You do not live as though there were anything beyond this life
at all. You keep your affections set upon things on the earth instead of
on things above, and the result is that the children do not believe
there is anything in it. Perhaps the very next step they take may take
them into eternity: the next day they may die without God and without
hope.
A Defaulter's Confession.
One week ago I preached on the text, "Christ came to heal the
broken-hearted." I told you just before I came down that I had received
a letter from a broken-hearted wife. Her husband one night came in, to
her surprise, and said he was a defaulter and must flee, and he went,
she knew not where.
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