The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09

ChurcIl' Wen, saiQ tne daughter, III
were going to be married, would you not go to
see me married?' And he said: ooh, yes"
We'll, said she, ''this is of more Importance
than that" So he went and has gone ever
since, and loves to go. I do not know but that
faithful Sabbath-sohool teacher not only
There may be in this audience gath.
cred from all parts of the world, the most
cosmopolitan assembly in all the earth, there
may be a man whose behavior toward woman
hood has been perfidious Repent Stand up.
thou masterpiece of sin and death, that l may
charge you! AS far as possible, make separa-
ton. DO not boast that you have her in your
power and that she cannot help herself. When
that fine collar and cravat and the elegant suit
OF clothes comes Oft, and your uncovered soul
stands in Judgment and before God, you will
be better OFF if You save that woman.
There is an exploit that you can do, and that
is to save a child. A child does not seem to
amount to much. 1T is nearly a year old be-
a half it cannot speak word. For the first
ten years it would starve if it had to earn its
own food. For the first fifteen years
its opinion on any subject, is absolute
ly valueleSs. 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 estimates of child
is quite different 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 mountains, but no help came, and
the brief paragraph of its life is ended. Sup.
pose 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 that was not enough, she
would take her house and make over the deed
forit, and if that were not enough she would
call in all her Investments and put down all
her mortgages and bonds; and if told that
were not enough, she would say: 81 have
made over all my property, and If l can have
that child back will now pledge that l 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 garnet. Only give
me back that lost darling" am glfd that
there are those who know something of the
value of a child. Its possibilities are tremen-
deus. What will those hands yet do?
Where will those feet yet walk? Toward
what destiny will that never dying soul be-
take itself? Shall. those lips be the throne of
blasphemy or benediction? Come, all We sur
yeyors of the earth, and bring link and chain
and measure if you can its possible possessions,
Come, all ye astronomers of the earth, with
your telescopes and tell us if you can see the
range of its eternal flight. Come, all
We chronologists, and calculate the decade
on decades, the centuries on centuriess
mites on eternities of its lifetime Oh, to
save a child Am not right in putting that
among the great exploits? Yea, it beats the
other two, for if you save the child you save
the man or you save the woman. Got the
first twenty years of that boy or girl all right
and 1 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 children who are worse
Off than if their father and mother had died
the day they were born? There arc 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
inebriety and dissoluteness of their parents,
they are practically at their birth laid out on q
plank in the middle of the Atlantic ocean in
an equinoetial gale and told to make for shore.
The first greeting they get from the world is to
be called a brat or a ragamuffin or wharf-rat
What to do with them is the question often
asked. There is another question quite as per-
tnent, 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 win hand this
land over to anarchy and political damnation
lust as sure as we neglect them. Suppose we
can do it. WIN you? | will. Take n cake
of perfumed soap and fine-toothed comb and
anew Testament and little candy and prayer
and piece of cake and faith in God and COM
mon 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 own
strength we try 10 save a man
or woman or child. But my text suggests
where we are to get equipment. "The peo-
pie that do know their God shall be strong
and do exploits" We must know him through
Jesus Christ in our own salvation and 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 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 wreck IN
tho offlng and the cry was: MAN the life
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 OK
cept one. BY this time Harry, the leader Of the
crew, appeared and said: why did you leave
that one" The answer was: 'sIIe could not
help himself at all and we could not get him
into the boat" ''BIan the lifeboat," shouted
Harry, "and we viii 90 for that QUE" "No,"
said his aged mother standing by, ''you must
not go. ! lost your father in a storm ike this,
and your brother VIII went off sil. years ago
and have not heard word from viii since
he left and | don't known what has happened
to him. poor VIII, and / cannot let you also 20
for am old and dependent on you"
His reply was mother, |
must 90 and save that one man, and IL am
lost God viii take care of you in your old days"
The lifebcat put out, and after an awful strug-
gle 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 rs they came
within speaking distance, Harry, just before he
tainted from the over exertien, cried out: 1--WE
saved him, and tell mother it was brother
Will" Oh, yes, my FRIENDS, let as start out 80
save some che Tor time and for eternity, some
man, some woman, some child. And who
knows but Ii may, directly or Indirectly, be tho
salvation Of one of our own kindred, and that
viii he an exploit worthy Of celebration when
the world itself Is shipwrecked and the san has
gone out like spark from q smittcn anvil and
all tho stars are dead
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Powder Magazine Explodes.
RoAEoKE, Va, October 7.--John Brown,
farm hand, was killed BY powder magazine
pi0siOn near here last night. This morning fray
men's Of B.O1ns body were fund, sJlGe over three
hundred yards from where tie magazine stood.
revolver with iwo chambers exploded also
found. and 1t is supposal that own shot at the
Magazine Jnd caussd the explosion. Houses here
erenuy DANA ed, and the shock ieit fifteen
miles away.
Now Ready.