The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-09-17

BY REV H. A. THOMPSON, D. D., PRESIDENT
OF oTFERBEIN UNIVERSITY.
As you travel along the streets of New
York you will see a venerable looking
man, who is as much praised, and at the
same time perhaps as deeply cursed, as
any other one man in that city. He
does not seem to be very busy man,
and yet he looks after the draymen,
visits the shops of the butchers, keeps an
eye upon the drovers and cattle dealers,
and wherever men least desire his ap-
pearance, there he is certain to be. Every
unclean mouthed drayman hates him;
every hard-hearted drover despises him ;
every short, thick -necked william in New
York alone hates him. every good citi-
zen respects him; around ci ristian al
tars daily prayers go go up for his pro-
lection The OK looks lovingly into his
pure face; the horse neighs his thanks
giving as he passes. and all the brute
creation make the air ring with his
praises. If brutes ever pray, and if their
prayers are heard in heaven, then is
Henry Bergh sure of one of the choicest
seats which that world can furnish.
come to you in the interest of class
that have been as cruelty neglected, if
not as badly treated, as have the brutes
of New York. Their cries have gone
forth, but they have fallen upon heavy
ears, and no response has been given to
their sad wall. All over this land, from
every hill and every valley, from the
crowded city and the sparsely filled viii
lage come up these piteous complaints,
but we have been so occupied with the
smaller matters of the law-with the cup
and the platter; their wants have been
unprovided for, and their wrongs have
not been redressed. The law classes them
as it does the women of the land, with
the idiots of the country, the irresponsi-
l appear to-day. l plead in behalf of
the Rights of the Children" the ten
million irresponsible beings of the land,
who have not power to plead for them
selves. For their sakes ask an atten-
tive hearing, that all who have done
them any injustice may henceforth 'sin
no more"
THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO A FAIR START IN LIFE.
The race of life is sufficiently exacting
when we have no weights to cucumber
us, but with our native vigor and ac-
quired strength we may give ourselves
wholly to the work. The warfare will
tax all our energies when these have had
every advantage they could have. But
what will be the race we run if we are
sent into the arena with broken limbs,
| shattered brain and disordered moral
natures-burdened down with the frail-
ties which others have put upon US, and
for which we are not responsible? How
| inglorious will be the defeat if we must
enter into the struggle shorn of our
strength, through no fault of our own.
| This is no visionary picture-no dream
of the imagination Thousands of youth
all over this land are to-day waging this
| fearful warfare. Some are struggling
with vicio1s, craving appetites; others
with sickly, feeble bodies; and others
still are seeking to arouse sluggish, mac
tive energies, all of which has been en-
tailed upon them by wicked, or thought
| less parents If there be a sad sight on
earth, it is that of child encumbered
with such load-struggling with super
human energy to throw off burden
which never should have been upon it.
1 do not now speak of the waits who are
found in the slums of our cities; who
burrow in sewers and ash-heaps; who fill
to overfowing the tenement houses of
Five Points; who have never heard a
pleasant word; never seen a smiling
face; who have drank in profanity, inde-
cency and defilement of every kind with
| their mothers milk; who have never
seen the pure sky above them, and are
utterly ignorant of the God that governs
in the heavens God knows their pros
poets are dark enough. What to do for
them, how to reach them, is a problem
which is yet unsolved, and is of sufficient
magnitude to tax an angels powers.
need not go there for my clients, although
single bugle blast would cause them to
| troop forth by thousands. 1 need but to
look into families in this goodly State of
| Ohio, may be in your own county, possi-
| bly, in this vast assembly before me, to
find some such helpless ones, whose in
herited loads are almost crushing them
who are bearing burdens that God never
intended they should bear, and are al
most ready to fall beneath them.
In sight of my own quiet study lives a
family whose history illustrates my
theme In this family are two daughters
and some four or five sons. The parents
have had one absorbing idea, the accu.
mutation of money From morn till
noon, from noon till dewy eve, all hands
hard at work for the realization of this
ideal. The father meant to be rich, and
everything must bend to his purpose
Acre has been added to acre, and dollar
to dollar, but the passion only grows by
what it feeds upon. AS a necessary re
sult there have been no books or papers
in the house; no pictures upon the walls
no music to cheer the inmates. DelicacN
of feeling, refinement of manners, chris
tian courtesy, were unheard of terms
Profanity is freely heard, and practicec
by almost all. The children have al
grown up in sight of christian college
and never has single day been spen
| v;tbir ife walls hv a sinola child Per