New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-17
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! one of q thousand Christian Influences. Yon
/ would nothaVe to go far IT, for instance.
/ you know among your acquaintance d
| young woman vino is apt to appear on the
streeIs about the hour when gentleman re-
/ turn from business and you find her respond
! ing to the smile of entire strangers, hogs that
MT their hat. 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 II, 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,
dong that very important and honorable
work but which is little appreciated, keeping
a boarding-house, where all the guests, ac-
cord1ng as they pay small board, or propose,
| without paying any board at all, to decamp,
are critical of every thing and hard to please,
busy yourself in trying to get her more
/ patrons and tell her of divine sympathy.
Yea, II you see woman favored of fortune
and with all kindly surroundings, finding in
the hollow batteries of the world her chief
regalement, living for herself and for time as
| II there were no eternity, strive to bring her
into the kingdom of God, as did the other
day Sabbath school teacher. who was the
means OF the conversion of the daughter of a
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 want you to come. !" aOh,
no.. ne said, q never go to church .sWell, !"
said the daughter, eff were going to be
married, would you not go
to see me married 2? And
| hesaid "Oh, yes" "Well,' said she, ssthis
IS OF more Importance than that. 7 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 a man. There may be in this audi
| ence gathered from all parts of the world,
| the cosmopolitan assembly in all the earth,
| there may be man whose behavior toward
| womanhood has been perfdious Repent
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 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 Judgment and before God, you will
be better off if 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 a
year old before it can walk at all. For the first
year and a half it cannot speak word. For
the first 10 years it would starYe if it had to
earn it's own food. For the first Is years
its opinion on any subject is absolutely
valueless. And then there are SO many Of
them, Myl 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 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 the mountains, but
no help came and the brief paragraph of its
life is ended Suppose that life could be Sc
cured by purchase, how much would that be
reaved mother give? She would take all the
jewels from her finger 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 it and if
that were not enough she would call in
mortgages and bonds; and if told that
were not enough, she would
say: II have made over all my property,
and if l can have that child back will now
pledge that | will toll with my own hands
and carry with my own shoulders in any kind
ofhard work, and live in a cellar and die in
garnet. Only give me back that lost darling"
| am glad that there are those who know
something of the value of a child. Its posi-
bilities 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?
Solno, OIL ye ouIF0yOIS O1asGue edTGu, dnQ
bring link and chain and measure if you can
its possible possessions. Come, all We
astronomers of the earth, with your tee-
scopes and tell us if you can see the range of
its eternal fight Come, all We chronology
lists, and calculate the decades on
decades. the centuries on centuries,
the cycles, on cycles, the euernities
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. Get the
first 20 years of that boy or girl all right
and guess you have got manhood or wom-
anhood 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 thousands of such. Their parentaee was
against them. The structure of their skulls
against them. Their nerves and muscles con-
terminated by the inebriety or dissolutions
OF their parents, they are practically at their
birth 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 a brat
or ragamuffin or wharf-rat. What to do
with them is the question often asked. There
is another question quite as pertinent.
and that is, what they are going to do with
us! aIney VIII, ten or eleven years from now,
have as many votes as the same number of
of well-born children, and they will hand this
land over to monarchy and political dam
nation just as sure as we neglect them. Sup
pose we each one of us save a boy or save a
girl. You can doit. Will you? will. Take
cake of perf'lmed soap and fne-toothed
comb and New Testament and a little candy
and prayer and a piece OF cake and faith in
God and common sense, and begin this after
noon.
But how shall we get ready for one or all
z of these three exploits? We shall make
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
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
own kin. You think your brothers and sis
tiers and children and grandchildren 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 a wreck in the offing and
the cry was, 'Man the liieboat." 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 ex-
cept one. By this time Harry the leader of