Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-10-19

But what are You going to do with those
children who are worse off than if thell
father and mother had died the day they
we're born? There are tens of thousand dis
Of such. Their parentage was against
them. Their name is against them. The
structure of their skulls against them;
Their nerves and muscles contaminated
by the inebriety OF dissolutencss of
their parents, they are practically at
birth laid out on plank in the middle
Of the Atlantic Ocean in an equinoctlal
gale and told to make for shore. The
:irst greeting they get from the world is
to be called brat or ragamnftin or q
wharf rat. What to do with them is the
question often asked. There is another
/ question quite as pertinent, and that is,
what are they going to do with us?
They will, ten OF eleven years from now,
have as many votes as the same number
of well-born children, and they will
hand this land over to anarchy and
political damnation just as sure as We
neglect them. Suppose we each one of
do it. Will you? will. Take cake
of perfumed soap and fne-toothed
comb and New Testament and a little
candy and prayer and piece of cake
and faith in God and common sense, and
begin this afternoon.
But how shall we get ready for one or
all of these three exploits? We shall
make a dead failure if in our own
strength we try to save man or woman
or child. But my text suggests where
we are to get equipment. The people
that do know their God shall be strong,
and do exploits" We must know Him
through Jesus Christ in our own saliva
ton and then we shall have His help in
the salvation of others. And while you
are saving strangers you may save some
and sisters and children and grand
children all safe, but they are not dead,
and no one is safe till he is dead. On
the English coast there was a wild storm
and a wreck in the offing, and the cry
was, Man the lifeboat!" But Harry, the
usual leader of the sailors crew, was
not to be found, and they went without
him and brought back all the ship
wrecked people except one. By this
time Harry, the leader of the crew,
appeared and said: why did you
leave that one?" The answer was:
He could not help himself ut
all, and we could not get him into the
boat" Man the lifeboat!" shouted
Harry, and we will go for that one"
"No,' said his aged mother standing by,
you muSI not go. lost your 1atnef III
a ST. pm like this, and your Brother Will
went off six years ago and 1 have not
heard a word from Will since he left.
and ! don't know where he is, and
don't know what has happened to him,
poor Will. and cannot let you also go.
for I am old and dependent on you
His reply was: Mother. must go and
save that one man, and if am lost God
will take care of you i'll your old days
The lifeboat put out, and after an awful
struggle with the sea they picked the
poor fellow out of the rigging just in
time to save his life, and started for the
shore. And as they came within speaking
distance, Harry, just before he tainted
from over eNertion. cried out? "We saved
him. and tell mother it was Brother
Will" Oh, yes, my friends, let us start
ont to save some one for time and for
eternity-some man, some woman, some
child. And who knows but it may, di-
rectly or Indirectly, be the salvation of
one of our own kindred, and that will
be an exploit worthy of celebration
when the world itself is shipwrecked
and the sun has gone ont like spark
from smitten anviland all the stars are
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