The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-08

to 60 I do not know but that faithful
Sabbath school teacher not only saved
woman, but saved man. There may be
in this audience, gathered from all parts
of the world, the most cosmopolitan as
sembly in all the earth-there may be a
man whose behavior toward womanhood
has been per1dious.
Repent! Stand up, thou masterpiece
of sin and DEATH, that may charge you'll
AS far as possible make repatriation. Do
not boast that you have her in your pow
or and that she can not help herself.
When that fine collar and cravat and
that elegant suit of clothes come off, and
your uncovered soul stands in judgment
and before God, you will be better off if
you save that woman.
There is another exploit that you can
do, and that is to save a child. A child
does not seem to amount to much. It is
nearly year old before 1t can walk at
all. For the first year and half it can
not speak word. For the first ten years
it would starve if it had to earn it's own
food. For the first fifteen years it's opin-
ion on any subject is absolutely value-
less. And then there are so many of
them. My what lots of children! And
some people have contempt for children.
They are good for nothing but to wear
out the carpets and break things and
keep you awake nights crying. Well,
your estimate of a child is quite
diffe rent from that mothers estimate
who lost her child this summer.
They took it to the salt air of the sea-
shore and to the tonic air of the mount
aims, but no help came, and the brief
paragraph of its life is ended. Suppose
that life could be restored by purchase,
how much would that bereaved mother
give? She would take all the Jewels from
her fingers and neck and bureau and put
them down. And If told that was not
enough, she would take her house and
make over the deed for lit; and if that
were not enough she would call in all her
investments and put down all her mort
cages and bonds; and If told that were
not enough, she would say: 81 have made
over all my property, and if can have
that child back will now pledge that I
will toll with my own hands and carry
with my own shoulders in any kind OF
hard work, and live in cellar and die in
garrett. Only give me back that lost dar-
ling" Lam glad that there are those who
know something Of the value of child.
Its possibilities are tremendous. What
will those hands yet do? Where will those
feet yet walk? Toward what destiny will
that never dying soul betake itself? Shall
those lips be the throne of blasphemy or
benediction? Come all We surveyors of
the earth, and bring link and chain and
measure, if you C an its possible posses
s1ons. Come, all ye astronomers of the
earth with your telescopes, and tell us if
you can see the range of its eternal
fight Come, all ye chronologists, and
calculate the decades on decades, the
centuries on centuries, the cycles on
cycles, the eternities on eternities of its
lifetime Oh, to save child Am I not
right in putting that among the great ex-
PLOTS? Yea, it beats the other two, for If
you save the child you save the man or
you save the woman. Get the first twenty
years of that boy or girl all right and I
guess you have got manhood or woman
hood all right, and their entire
earthly and eternal career all right. But
what are you going to do with those chill
dren who are worse of thanif their father
or mother had died the day they were
born? There are tens of thousands Of
such. Their percentage was against them.
Their name is against them. The struct.
nerves and muscles contaminated by the
inebriety or dissoluteness of their pa
rents, they are practically at their Dir th
laid out on a plank in the middle of the
Atlantic ocean in an equinoctial gale
and told to make for shore. The first
greeting they get from the world is to
be called brat or ragamufin, or
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 or 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 aud political
damnation just as sure as we neglect
them. Suppose we each one of us save a
boy or save girl. You can do it. Will
you? / will Take cake of perfumed
soap and a fine 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 dead failure If in our strength
we try to save man or woman or child.
But my text suggests where we are to
get equipm emit 1.-THE people that do
know their God shall be strong and do
We must know him through
Jesus Christ in our own salvation and
then we shall have his help in the saliva
ton of others. And while you are saw
ing strangers you may save some of your
own kin. You think your brothers and
sisters and children and grandchil
dren all safe, but they are not dead, and
no one is safe till he is dead. On the
English coast there was wild storm
and wreck in the ofing and /
the cry was: "Man the life -boatn But
Harry. the usual leader of the sailors
crew, was not to be found, and they went
without him. and brought back all the
people except one. By this I
time Harry, the leader of the crew, ap-
peared and said: sWhy did you leave
that one ?" The answer was: He could |
not help himself at all. and We could not /
get him into the boatn "Man the life |
boat " shouted Harry, sand we will go /
for that one.n "No," said his age d moth I
or, standing by, ..you must not go. lost I
your father in a storm like this, an your
brother Will went off six years ago and +
have not heard from Will since he left,
and don't know where he is, and don't T
know what has happened to him. poor [