The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-08
THINGS TO DO.
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'~snd carry with my own shoulders in any
kind OF hard work, and live in cellar and
n die in garrett. Only give me back that
lost darling" l am glad that there are
those who know something OF the value of
child. It's possibilities are tremendous.
What will those hands yet do? Where
destiny will that never dying soul betake
itselfP 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 can its possible
possessions Come, all We astronomers of
the earth, with your telescopes, and tell us
If yon can the range OF its eternal fight.
Come, We chronologists, and calculate the
decades on decades, the centuries on CEN
turtles, the cycles on cycles, the etcr-
mites on eternities of its lifetime. Oh, TO
save child! Am not right in putting
that among the great eXpoits2 Yea, il
beats the other two, for il 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 | 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 worse Off than If
their father or mother had died the day
they were born? There are tens OF thous-
ands OF such. Their parantage was against
them. Their name is against them. The
structure OF their skulls against them
Their nerves and muscles contaminated
by the inebrcty or dissoluteness Of their
parents, they are practically at their birth
laid out on Il plank in the middle OF the
Atlantic ocean in an equinoctal gale and
told TO make for shore. The first greeting
they get from the world Is to
= be called Il brat or a ragamutlin or n wharf
rat What TO do with them is the Ques.
ton often asked. There is another ques-
ton quite rs pertinent, and that is, what
are they going to do with us? They will,
ten or e.even years from now, have us
many votes as the same number OF we'll
born children, and they will hand this
land over tU anarchy and political damna-
ton just as sure as we neglect them. Sup.
pose we each one OF us save boy or save
girl. You can do it, Will your ! will.
Take q cake of periumed soap and fine
toothed comb and New Testament and q
little candy and prayer and q 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
q dead failure ii 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 ex-
plolts." 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 chill
dren and grandchildren all safe, but they
are not dead and no one is safe till he is
dead. On the English coast there was n
wild storm and wreck in the olling and
the cry was: "AIan the liiehoatl But
Harry, the usual leader of the sailors
crew, was not 10 be found, and they went
without him and brought back all the
shipwrecked people but one. BY this time
Harry, the leader Of thecrew appeared and
said: "Why did you leave that one2" The
answer was: Gle could not help himself NJ
oil nd we could not get him into the boat.
"Nan the liie-boat, shouted Harry, "and
We will 90 for that one" mo" said his
aged mother, standing by "you must not
/. 80. i lost your father in storm like
This, and your brother Will went of six
years ago and 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 viii, and cannot
let YOU also 10 for am old and dependent
on you" Ills rep.y was "Mother must
go and save that one man, and II / am lost
God will take care Of you Ia your old
days" The liie-boat was 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 the oyer-excrtion, cried out
1--WE saved him. and tell mother Il was
brother Will" Oh. yes, my friends, let
us start out to save some one for time and
for eternity, some man, some woman,
some child. And who knows but Il may,
directly 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 shipwreckcd and the sun
has gone out like a spark from n smiticn
anvil and all the stars are dcadl