Milford chronicle., 1888-10-12

trembled q little with a sense Of responsible
ity when say that there is hardly person
in this house but may have an opportunity TO
save woman. 1t may in your case be
done by good advice, or by financial
help, or by trying to bring TO bear some
one Of a thousand Christian influences. You
would not have far to go. II, for instance,
you know among your acquaintance a
young woman who is apt to appear on the
streets about the hour when gentlemen re-
turn from business, and you find her respond
ing to the smile Of entire strangers, hogs
that lift their hats, go to her and plainly tell
her that nearly all the destroyed womanhood
of the world began the downward path with
that very kind Of behavior.
Or IT, for instance, you find a woman in
financial distress and breaking down in
health and spirits trying to support her chill
dren, now that her husband is dead or an in
valid, doing that very important and honora-
Bile work, but which is little appreciated, keep
ing boarding house, where nll the guests,
according as they pay small board, or pro
pose, without paying any board at all, to de
camp, are critical Of everything and hard to
please, busy yourselves in trying to get her
more patrons and tell her Of divine synpa-
thy Yea, If you see woman favored OF
fortune and with all kindly surround
ings finding in the hollow batteries Of
tho world her chief regalement, living for
herself and for time as If there wero no eter-
nifty, strive to bring her into the kingdom Of
God, as did the other day a Sabbath school
teacher who was the means Of the conversion
the daughter Of man Of immense wealth,
and the daughter resolved to join the church,
and she went home and said: Father, / am
going to Join the church and l want you to
Gomez ''Oh, no." he said. II never go to
church" "Well,n said the daughter, If 1
were going TO be married would you not go
to sec me marriedF' And he said: "Oh, yes.
''Well, n said she, this Is Of more importance
than that" So he went, and has gono ever
since, and loves to go. 1 do not know but
that faithful Sabbath school teacher
not only saved a woman but saved
a man. There may be in this audience
gathered from all parts Of the world, the
most cosmopolitan assembly in all the earth,
thero may be a man whose behavior toward
womanhood has been peridious. Repenti
Stand up, thou masterpiece Of sin and death,
that may charge youl As far as possible,
make reparation. Do not boast that you
have her in your power and that she cannot
help herself When that fine collar and
cravat and that elegant suit Of clothes comes
OFF and your uncovered soul stands in judg-
ment and before God, you will be better of
if 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. 1t is nearly a
year old before it can walk at ALL For the
first year and half it cannot speak word
For the first ten years it would starve if it
had to earn its own food. For the first If
teen years its opinions on any subject are
absolutely valueless. And then there are so
many Of them Myl what lots Of childreni
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 esti-
mate Of a child is quite different from
that mothers estimate who lost her child
this summer. They took it to the salt air Of
the seashore and to the tonic air of themoun-
tains, but no help came, and the brief para
graph Of its life is ended Suppose that
life could be restored by purchase, how much
would that bereaved mother givei 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 for 1t, and il that were not enough she
would call in all her investments and put
down all her mortgages and bonds; and II
told that were not enough she would say: 81
have made over all my property, and il
can have that child back will now pledge
that I viii toll with my own hands
and carry with my own shoulders in
any kind Of hard work, and live in
a cellar and die in a garrett Only
give me back that lost darling" am glad
that there are those who know something of
the value Of a child. Its possibilities are
tremendous. What will those hands yet dol
Where will those feet yet walkl Toward
what destiny will that never dying soul be-
take itselfl Shall those lips be the throne of
blasphemy or benedictioni Come, ,Iall ye sur
veyors Of the earth, and bring link and chain
and measure if you can its possible posses
sions. 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 ye chronologists, and calculate
the decades on decades, the centuriesS on
centuries, the cycles on cycles, the eteV-
mites on eternities Of its lifetime, Oh, to
save a chiidl Am not right in putting that
among the great exploitsl Yea, 1t beats the
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 oil right, and their entire earthly
md eternal career all right. But what are
you going to do with those children who
are worse off than il their father or
mother had died the day they were bornI
There are tens Of thousands of such.
] nj
name Is against them. Tho structure Of their
skulls against them. Their nerves and
muscles contaminated by the inebriety or
dissoluteness of their parents, they are prac-
tically at their birth laid out on plank in
the middle Of the Atlantic ocean in an equi-
noctial gale and told to make for shore. The
first greeting they get from the world is to
be called brat or a ragamuffin or q wharf
rat What to do with them is the question
often asked. There is another question quite
as pertinent, and that is, what are they going
to do with usl They will, ten or eleven
years from now, have rs many votes as
1 the same number Of well born children, and
they will hand this land over to anarchy and
political damnation just as sure as we neg
| lect them. Suppose we each one Of US save a
] boy or save a girl. You can do it. VIII youi
I will. Take a cake Of perfumed soap and a
fine toothed comb and New Testament and
a little candy and prayer and 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 exploitsl We shall make q
/ dead failure IL in our own strength We try tc
ssve a man or woman or child Butmy text
suggests where we nre to get equipment
ssThe people that do know their God shall bC
strong. and do exploits We must know
him through Jesus Christ in our own saliva
ton and then we shall have his help in the
salvation Of others. And while you are saw
ing strangers you may save some Of your owe
kin. You think your brothers and sister
and children and grandchildren al
safe, but they are not dead, and
no one is safe till he is dead. On the
English coast there was wild storm and q
wreck in the ofing, and the cT -'s, Mar
the Hfeboati But Harry, the sdel
! - Nl,a - fIo,.ef ,4iayv WAS not to nc