The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-12-21

Where VIII thoss feet yet walk Toward
what destiny VIII that neve--dylng soul be
take ITSELF Shall those lips be the throne Of
blasuh1my or benedlctiont Come, all We
surveyors Of the earth and bring link and
cham AID measure il you can lis possible
po.se.sions Come. all ye astronomers OF the
earth. with your TELESCOPES, and tell Us II you
can see the range OF its eternal flight Come,
az We chronologists, and calculate the de
cades on decades. TIE centuries on centuries
the cycles on cycles, the eternifies on e.er-
mites Of its lifetime. Oh, 10 save a
child An not right in putting that among
the great exploits. Yes, it beats the other
two. Cor if you save the child you save the
man or you save the woman Get the first
twenty years Of that boy OF girl al right and
guess you have got manhood or womanhood
all right, and their entire earthly and eternal
career all right But what are you going to
do with those children who are wore oil
than II their father or mother had died The
lay they were born There are tens Of
thousands 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 irebriety or disso' uteness Of their parents
they are practically at their birth laid
out on a plank in the middle Of the Atlantic
Ort an in an ecu noctial gale and told 10 MAKE
for shore. The first greeting they get from
the world is TO be called a brat or a ragamuiin
or "A MturL -raE- ~ ltl 70 90 Win AuHl4l j.
the question often asked There is another
question quite rs pertinent an that
j.. what are they gong 70 do with
u.s. They viii ten or eleven years
from now have as many votes as
tn. same number Of wei born children, ami
they will hand this iani over u Huarchy and
rsalifieai damnation Just q sure as we neglect
them. Suppose we each one Of Us save a boy
or a girl You can do it. Win YOU. will
Take cake Of perluined soap ami a line
tooihet comb and New Testament and a
little candy and prayer. and piece Of cake
and faith in God and common sense, and be
gin this afternoon
But how shall we get really FOR one or all
OF these three exploits, We shall fnake a
dead failure if in our own strength we try %
save man or woman or child But my
text suggests where We are 70 get equipment.
The people that do know their God shall be
strong. aud DO exploits" We must know
Him through Jesus Christ in our own saliva
ton. aaI then we shall have His help in the
salvation Of Others. And while YOU are
saving strangers you may save some OF your
own kin. You think your brothers and sis
tiers and children and grandchildren ali saie-
but they are not dead, and no one is safe tih
be is dead. On the English coast there was
Wild storm and wreck in the Oltng, and the
cry was. "Aian the lifeboatn But Harry
the usual leader Of the sailors crew, was
not 20 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. appeared and said; by did
YOU leave thai onef' The answer was; He
could not help himself at all and We could
not get him into the boat Man the
lfeboatn shouted Harry. ''and we
will 90 for that one "NO.n said his aged
mother standing by, you must not 90. /
lost your father N storm like this, and
your brother VIII went of six wears ago and
haze not heard Il word from VIII since he
left. and ] don't know where be IS. and
what has happened to him. poor VIII,
and / cannot let You also 90 for l am
old and dependent on YOU His reply was:
Mother. ! must go ami save that one man,
and II am lost God will take care OF you N
YOUR Old days The lifehoat put out. aud
after an awful struggle with tie sea they
picked the poor fellow out Of the rigging
lust IN lime to save his life, and started
Tor the shore. And As they came within
speaking distance, Harry. Just before he
faiutei from the over exertIon, criel out:
I'VE saved him. and tell mother 1t was
brother WILL Oh, yes. my friends, let
US start out to save some one for time
and for eternity, some man, and some
woman. and some child And who
knows but il may, directly or indirectly, he
the salvation of one OF our own kindred, and
that will be an exploit worthy Of celebration
when the world itself is shipwrecked ana the
sun has gone out like a spark from a smitten
anvil aud ell the stars are dead