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In days not very long gone by wreckers used sometimes to set up false lights on the shore, or perhaps fasten a lantern on a horse and let him move along the beach, and thus deceive vessels and lure them on the rocks to be wrecked, so that they might plunder them. There is a story of an old man whose son was at sea, and had not been home for years. The old man was a wrecker and one dark night he had lured a vessel on the rocks by false lights. When the vessel struck and broke to pieces, he went down to the shore to gather up the booty that might be washed up by the waves. Soon a body was cast on the sands at his feet. He held his lantern to the face, when, oh horror! It was his own son.
I fear it will be so with the fathers and mothers who are not living right, who are not guiding their children aright. You are setting up false lights for them, and when you come to gather up the wreckage and booty of your lives, washed up on the eternal shores, your dim, lurid lights will reveal to you the upturned faces of your own children – lost. Oh, beware how you lead one of God’s little ones astray!