Sharp County record., 1888-10-25

IN tbis audience, gathered from an pa. %
90 tbo world. the most cosmopolitan aS.
Oa,nblv in ali the earth-there may 10 a
oolnOn , ,rhnse m behavior toward womannoou
has been perfdious' ostorniece
Repent! Stand up thou masIelP.oUI, ,.o,,
of sin and death, that may c}atE no
As far as possible make repa,atlon. W. ~
not m boast that you have her in your pow
~ ~ and that she can not help herSell,
VTbon that fine collar and craVat anu
that n nlagant suit of clothes come on, anu
uorr ,l,r m covered soul stands in Judgnes9iss ~
and before God, you will Dc O0''0l ' -
Won save that woman. oor
yGT Tbere 9 is another exploit that you can
do and that is to save child "A Jniiu
so,o w, not cnem TO amount to much. IL Is
noor,v a wear old before it can WalA o'
M oil For the first year and hall IL can
"llt nnt sneak n word. For the first ten years
- uorld starve if it had to earn lts own
food For the first fifteen years lVS I,In oPln
ion on any subject is absolutelY VA vaLuo of
less. And then there are so many VI
them, Ny what lots OF children nn'
sonoo noonle have contempt for chlluren'
Thew are good for nothing but to Wea,
Oft the carpets and break things anu
Ieen Won awake nights crying wen,
Iorr nur estimate of child Is qulte
different from that mothers esViiLo.0
who lost her child this summer
Trev took it to the salt air OF the sea-
shove and to the tonic air Of the mount
oins but no help came, and the Drlel
,nra ,,l, oranh of its life is ended. suppose
hat life could be restored by purchaSe'
how much would that bereaved mother
giveY She would take all the Jewels ron
her fingers and neck and bureau ana put
them down. And If told that was NJ,
enough, she would take her mousse anu
make over the deed for it; ana II tla'
we're not enough she would call III all her
Investments and put down all her mort-
cages and bonds; and if told that, "e5o
NOT enough, she would say: VI nave lhaue
over all nv property and If can nave
that child back l will now pledge that l
will toll with my own hands ana carry
with my own shoulders in any KlIu ot
hard work. and live in a cellar and die IN
q oarret. Only give me back that loSt oar
Iinon am glad that there are those VINO
know something of the value OF cnilu.
IFS possibilities are tremendous. NhaV
will those hands yet do? Where will those
feet vet walk? Toward what destiny Will
thatnever dying soul betake itselfE Snail
those lips be the throne OF blasphehy Ut
benediction? Come all ye surveyors 0!
the earth, and bring link and chain ana
measure. if you an its possible posses
sions. Come, all ye astronomers OF the
earth with your telescopes, and tell US II
YOU can see the range OF lis eterhai
fight. Come, all ye chronologists, ana
caiculate the decades on decades, the
centuries on centuries, the cycles on
cvcles, the eternities on eternitleS OF ltS
| lifetime, Oh to save childl Am | not
rioht in putting that among the great ex-
ploits? Yea, it beats the other two, for II
YOU save the child you save the man or
Won save the woman. Get the first twenty
wears of that boy or girl all right and l
1uess YOU have got manhood or woman
| hood all right aud their entire
earthly and eternal career all right But
what are you going to do with those chill
dren who are worse off thanif their father
or mother had died the day they were
borng There are tens Of thousands OF
such. Their parentage was against them.
Their name is against them. The struct-
ure of their skulls is against them. Their
nerves and muscles Contaminated by the
ineBriety or dissplG- mess of their pas
rents, they are practically at their blr tn
laid out on 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 a ragamufhn, or a
wharf rat What to do with them Is the
question often asked. There is another
| question quite as pertinent, and that Isl:
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
we'll. 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 a girl. You can do 1t. Will
you? | will Take a cake Of perfumed
soap and a fine toOthed comb, and New
J6Sldlueul, anu u lllJIo CduuyI anu ~ uyOl' '
and piece Of cake, and faith in Cod 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 q man or woman or child.
| But my text suggests where we are to
get equipment. "The people that do
| 1ypOu, THAR Cod chall he Stronp and do
exploits" 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 a wild storm
and a wreck in the offing and
the cry was: "Man the llfe-boat." But
Harry, the usual leader of the sailors
crew, was not to be found, and they went
without him, and brought back all the
shipwrecked people except one. BY this
time Harry, the leader Of the crew, ap-
peared and said: "Why did you leave
that one ?" The answer was: He could
not help himself at all, and we could not
get him into the boat" "Man the life
boat" shouted Harry, "and we will 90
for that one." "No," said his age d moth
er, standing by 'you must not go. lost
your father in storm like this, an your
brother Will went off six years ago and
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