The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-10-18

board. or propose, without paying
any board at all. TO decamp. are
busy yourselves in trying TO get her more
patrons and tell her OF divine sympathy.
Yea, II you are woman favored of fortune
and all kindly surroundings, finding in the
hollow batteries of the world her chief re-
galement, living for herself and for time as
IL there were no eternity, strive to
bring her into the kingdom of God, as did
the othe n day n Sabbath-school teacher who
was the means of the conversion Of the
daughter of q man of immense wealth, and
the daughter resolved to Join the church,
and she went home and said: Father, 1
am going to Join the church and / want you
to come' "Oh, no." he said, II never go to
church"
married, would you not go to see me mar
riedr And he said: "Oh, yes" "Well,"
said She "this Is of more impor tance than
that" So he went and has gone ever since,
and loves to go. i do not know but that
faithful Sabbath. school teacher not only
saved woman but saved man. There may
be in this audience gathering from all parts
of tho world, the most cosmopolitan assembly
in all the earth, there may be n man whoss
behavior toward womanhood has been
perfidious. Repent! Stand up, thou mas
terpece of sin and death, that may charge
you! As far as possible, make reparation
DO not boast that YOU have her i'm your pow.
er and that she cannot help herself When
that fine collar and cravat and that elegant
suit OF clothes comes OIL and your uncoveref
soul stands in Judgment and bsfore God, you
will b. better OH II you save that woman.
There Is another exploit that you can do,
and that is To save child. a child does not
seem to amount To much IL IS nearly year
old before it can walk at all For the first
year and half IL cannot speak word. For
the first ten years il would starve II u had to
earn its own food. For the first fifteen
years It's opinion on any subject il abso-
lutely valuel,ss. And then there are 80
many of them Ny what lots OF chiliren
And some people have contempt Tor chill
dran. They are good for nothing but to
wear out the carpets and break things and
Keep you awake mghts crying. Wen. your
estimate of child - quite different
from that mothers estimate who lost
her child this summer. They took IL to
tue salt air OF the setshoro and TO
the tonic air of the mountains. bus
no help came, and the brief paragraph Of its
life is ended. Suppose that life could be re-
stored by purchase. how much would TINT
bercaved mother give Shc would take all
the Jewels FROM tier Fingers and neck and
bureau and put them down. And It tcld that
that was not enough, She would take her
house aud make over the decd for It, and IT
that were not enough she would call in all
her investments aud put down all her mort
cages and bonds, and If told that were not
enough. she would say: al have made over
all my property, and II can have that child
back will now pledge that will toll with
my own hands and carry with my own Shuul-
ders IN any KIM of hard work, and live
in "A cellar and die in garret. Only give
me back that lost darling | am glad that
there are thos, 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 nevcr-dylng soul be-
take tselfi Shall those lips be the throne of
blasphemy or beuedictlon! Come, all ye
surveyors of the earth. and bring link and
chain and measure if you can its possible
possessions. Come all yc astronomers of the
earth, with your telescopes, and tell us IL you
can see the range Of its eternal flight. Come,
all We ChronClogi>ts, and calculate the de-
cadcs on decades, the centuries on centuries,
the cycles on cycles, tho etcrnties on eter-
mites of its lifetime. oh, TO save n
child! Am not right IN putting that nrons,
the great exploits; Yes, II hcats the otn""
two for il YOU save the child you save tine
-'"" or Won -"v' the woman. Get the first
twenty ears OF that Toy or girl all right and
| guess YOU have got manhuod o. wOmunhool
all right, ana their entire earthiy anG etrrnu.
career all right. But what are you going to
do with those cSllircn who are wore OIL
than IL their father or mother had died tho
day they were horn There are tens of
thousands of such. THOR parentage was
against them. Their name is against them.
The structure of thor skulls against them.
Their nerves and muscles contaminated by
the iuebrety or dssoutcness of their parents.
they are practically at their birth laid
out on plank in the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean in an equ'noctal gale and told To mako
for shore. The tir't greeting they get from
the world i to be ca led brat o. ragamu,lin
or II wharfrat. What to do with them is
the question often asked There Is another
question quite rs pertinent. AMI that
is, what are they gong TO do with
u.s. 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 Ian over 10 anarchy and
political damnatiOn Just as sure as we neglect
them. Suppose we each one OF uS save u boy
or girl. You can do IL. viii you. | will.
Take n cake of periumed soap AMI "a fine
toothcd comb, and n New Testament and II
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 ren y for one or all
of these three exploits We shall sake a
dead failure If 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 exploits We must know
Him through Jesus Christ in our own saliva
tion, aud then we shall have His help i'm the
salvation of Others. And while you are
shNlnE stfalSefH y on may save some or Your
own kin You think your brothers and sis.
ters and children ard grandchildren all safe.
hut 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 oiling. and the
cry was: MAN the lifeboat." But Harry.
thu 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, appeared and said: "Why did
You leave that onelh The answer was: He
could not help himself at all and we could
not get him into the boat" MAN tho
lifeboatn shouted Harry. ''and we
will go for that onc.n "No," said his aged
mother standing by, "you must not go. l
lost your father in n storm like this, and
your brother win went of six years ago and
! have not heard "A word from win since he
left, and l don't know whero he is and
what has happened to him, poor viii,
and cannot let you also go for ! am
old and dependent on you." His reply was:
Mother, | must 90 ana save that one man,
and il am lost God will take care OF you in
your old days The lifeboat put out, and
after an awful struggle with the sea they
picked the poor fellow out of tho rigging
tust in time to save his life and storted