The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-10-18

her and plainly tell her that Aesriy nil
the destroyed wemanhood of the world
began the downward path with that very
kind OF behavior.
0rff. for instance, you find a woman In
financial distress and breaking down In
health and spirits trying to support her
children now that her husband is dead or
an invalid, doing that very important and
honorable work, hut which is little APP
preciated. keeping a boarding-h house,
where. all the guests, according as they
pay small board, or purpose, without
payingany board at all to decam p, are
critical Of every thing and hard to please.
busy yourselves In trying to get her more
patrons aud tell her of Divine sympathy.
Yet II you see q woman favored Of fort
une and with all kindly surroundings
finding in the hollow batteries OF the
world her chief regalement, living for
herself and for time as If there we're no
eternity, 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 OF the daughter
of man of immense wealth, and the
daughter resolved to join the church, and
she went home aud said: ''Father, l
uin kVing w JOIN lAo OhuLD WI
l want you to come" "Oh,
no,n he said, II never go to
church." 'Well,r said the daughter, 'ff
/ were going to be married, would you
not go to see me marriedW And he said,
"Oh, yes.u "Well," said she, s'this is
of more Importance than that" So he
went, and has gone ever since, and loves
to go. / do not know but that faithful
Sabbath-school teacher not only saved a
woman, but saved q man. There may be
in this audience, gathered from all parts
of the world, the most cosmopolitan as
sembly in all the earth-there may be a
man whose behavior toward womanhood
has been perfidious.
Repenti Stand up, thou masterpiece
of sin and DEATH, that may charge you
AS far as possible make reparation. Do
not boast that you have her in your pow
or and that she can not help herself.
When that fine collar and cravat and
that elegant suit of clothes come off, and
your uncovered soul stands in judgment
and before God, you will be better off IL
you save that woman.
There Is another exploit that you can
| do, and that is to save a child. "A child
does not seem to amount to much. 1t is
nearly year old before it can walk at
all. For the first year and half it can
not speak word. For the first ten years
| it would starve il it had to earn its own
| food. For the first fifteen years its opin-
| ion on any subject is absolutely value
| less. 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 estimate of a child is quite
| diffe rent 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 mount
aims, but no help came, and the brief
| paragraph of its life is ended. Suppose
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 was not
| enough, she would take her house and
| make over the deed for it; and IL that
| were not enough she would call in all her
| investments and put down all her mort
| cages and bonds; and If told that were
not enough, she would say: 81 have made
| over all my property, and If l can have
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will toll with my own hands and carry
| with my own shoulders in any kind of
hard work, and livein a cellar and die In
| a garrett. Only give me back that lost dar-
| ling" / am glad that there are those 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 never dying soul betake itself? Shall
| those lips be the throne of blasphemy or
| benediction? Come all ye surveyors OF
| the earth and bring link and chain and
measure, if you c an its possible posses
| sions. Come, all ye astronomers of the
earth with your telescopes, and tell us il
you can see the range Of its eternal
| fight Come, all we chronologists, and
calculate the decades on decades, the
| centuries on centuries, the cycles on
| cycles, the eternities on eternities of its
| lifetime. Oh to save child! Am l not
right in putting that among the great ex-
| ploits? Yea, 1t 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 woman
hood all right and their entire
earthly and eternal career all right. But
what are you going to do with those chill
| dren who are worse off THANH IL their father
or mother had died the day they we're
| born? There are tens Of thousands OF
| such. Their parentage was against them,
| Their name is against them. The struct-
| ure of their skulls is against them. Their
| nerves and muscles contaminated by the
inebriety or dissoluteness Of their pa
rents, they are practically at their Dir Ii
| laid out on plank in the middle OF the
| Atlantic ocean in an equinoctial gale
and told to make for shore. The first
| greeting they get from the world is to
| be called brat or ragamuffin, OF 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 us? They
| will, ten or eleven years from now, have
as many votes as the same number OF
we'll born children, and they will hand
| this land over to anarchy and political
| damnation just as sure as we neglect
| them. Suppose we each one of us save q
| boy or save girl. You can do it. Will
| your | will. Take cake of perfumed
soap, and fine toothed comb, and New
| Testament and little candy, and prayer,
| and q piece of cake, and faith in God, and
common sense aud begin this afternoon.
But how shall we get ready for one OF
all OF these three exploits? We shall
make dead failure II in our strength
we try to save a man or woman or child.
But my text suggests where we are to
get equipment. "The people that dc
know their God shall be strong and dc
| exploits" We must know him through
Jesus Christ in our own salvation and
then we shall have his help in the saliva
| ton of others. Aud while you are saw
| ing strangers you may save some OF your
own kin. You think your brothers and
sisters and children and grandchil =
dren all safe, but they are not dead, and
| no one is safe till he Is dead. On the
| En- nlish coast thara was q wild storm