Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1912 — SORROW THAT BROUGHT JOY [ARTICLE]

SORROW THAT BROUGHT JOY

God’s Lesson Necessarily Severe on Those Who Will Not Hear His Voles. ■’« ’ Certain parents had very adverse views concerning the education c* , their children. The mother was quiet and God-fearing, the father, however, was light-hearted and inaccessible to any serious consideration. “Children," he would say, “beware lest you be- ' come like mother ” But the oldest son became ill and soon the evidences pointed toward his end. The patient wanted only his mother to be around' him, who knew how to fill his heart - with consolation and readiness for his approaching death. The father was all broken down and when he once happened to stand at the bed of the hopelessly sick son the young man said to him : "Father, l know that 1 will aeon /lie; now, now, do yon want me to die in your or in mother’s .faitt*?" At first the father could not say anything, but after a while he said' “Rather in the faith of mother." From that time on there was a differ6nt spirit in tne House. Tins ioBB nad brought gain. Oh, how often must God deal severely with men before tffev hear his voice.-The Lutheran