The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-10-13
The other Train That is Coming.

As train was passing over New
| England railroad II struck broken
rail. The conductor felt the shock.
! lie knew car was oil the track and
sprang for brake. 1t was his last
brave service. The crash came, and he
was picked up poor, mangled wreck !;
| his skull had been broken. lie was
heard, however, tn utter these words
| the last uttcrancc of Il faithful, loyal
soul-"Put out the signal for the other
train!" Somewhere down the line he
knew another train was coming, thnn-
dering, crashing along, dashing faster,
faster, foster, and there was his train
on the linel Out with the signal, out
with the signal .anothcr train is c)m-
| Ing! That was his last Injunction.
That other train, tile generation that
is following us, the boys and girls that
are coming along, Just ahead of whom
we are, perhaps TO he in their way, a
Jhindrnnrn. aud, pnssihiy tho neoasion
of their ruin hat need of vigilance,
for their sake, in speech, act, look. II
we are on the track, blocking il, let us
take ourselves cut OF the way rs soon
as possible.
| "What will you takcW was the quest
ion asked an observant boy at the table
81 will take what father takes" The
father had received from the waiter a
| glass OF Intoxicating drink, but hearing
the boys remark, set aside his glass and
called the waiter. lie saw the other
train coming and cleared the track at
once.
think the saddest of all experience
| is the consciousness that an opportunity
| q ~, 1Ds, l,oe lNet 10 l.
| sad look into n mans face TO know
| that he has set an bad example in itself,
and followed by others to their ruin.
We heard of an empty train that
came to Il stop on grade, the static n
having been reached. In the absence
Of the conductor the train got loose,
and went down the line 10 meet the
steamboat express. Some one chased
| the runaway train but could not over
take it. The opportunity fox TIE 22EggeN
collision that night.
Oh,souls on the track! fathers, moth
ers, teachers! your opportunity in be-
half of your boys and girls is now .
Don't let it slip from YOU.
We are not only TO have a clear track
for the next train, but ill every way we
are TO make and keep it well prepared
for the travel of the next generation.
Here comes the work of the Sunday
school teacher, TO get the uneasy, ramb-
ling feet of childhood over into the
roadway of the very best life.
| passed recently a large rabblc OF
boys in vacant building plot. They
we're noisy and rough. What more
important work, asked myself than
to labor for that age and class OF the
coming generation? Through the Sun
day-school, the Bible, the church, and
through Temperance agencies in the
Sunday-school, especially, we are to
open SIRE, stcadtast, blessed way for
their feet.
81. Our opportunity il to-day: Voltalre
which character substantially is sciilccd'
AT any rate, that limit cannot be set
with safely very far ahead. | don't
want TO be SO absorbed in the cares and
pursuits If my generation as to forget
the next. | want 10 think of and plan
Tor and work for the generation com
ing The other train on The track. The
Lord helping me, will think more OF
the interests of the childrcn-thc other
train that is coming.