Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-20

your estimate Of a child is dtite digeren
from that mother estimate who lost .>et
child Ibis ummer They cook it TO Tia,
SAT- air OF the seashorG 2od to the TOME
air OF Tao mountains, bu. no help came
and the brief paragraph of it's life is cad
ed. Suppose thut life could be rcstoreG
ny purchase. how much would tAal
Dcreayed mother giveY She would take
all the Jewels from her fingers and neck
and b4reau and put them down. ANi il
Old That that was not enough, she would
take 1er house and make over the deed
Tor 1t, and If that were not enough she
would call IN all her investments and put
down all her mortgages and bends; and if
toid That were not enough, she would say:
II have made over all my property, and
II | can have that child back | VIII now
pledge that will toll withmv own hands
and carry with my own shoulders in any
kind Of hard WORT, and live in u cellar
and die In a garret. Only give Ire back
that lost darling | am glad iha. there
are those who know something OF
VALUE OF CHILD.
Is possibilities are tremendous. What
will those hands yet DO? Where will
those feet yet walk? Toward what des-
tiny vii! that never dying s0ul letake it.
self? Shall those lips be the throne OF
b~lasphemy o bonediction? Come, all we
survey 0rs Of The earth, and bring link
and chain, and measure II YOU can lis
possible possessions. Come, al ye as
tron0mc1s of the earth, with your telc.
scopes. and tell rs if yoa can see the
range of its eternal flight. Come. all we
chronologisis, and calculate the decades
on decades, the centuries oil centuries,
the cycles on cycles, the cternities on
etcrnities OF It's lifetime. Oh, 10 save a
child, Am | not right in putting that
among the great exploits? Yea, ii beats
the other two, for if you save the child
you save the mar or you save the woman.
Get the first twenty years of that boy or
girl al right and ! guess you have got
minho0d or wOmanA0Od all right, and
their entire earthly and eternal career all
right. But what are you going TO do with
those children who are worse OIL than if
their father or mother had died the day
they were born? There are teus of thou
sands 0f snch. Their parcntage was
against them. Their name is against
them. Their nerves and muscles CON
taminated by the incbriety or dissolute-
ness OF their parents, they are practically
their birth laid oIt on a plank in the
middle Of the Atlantic ocean IN an equi.
noctial gale and told 10 make for shore.
Thc first greeting they get from the world
IS 10 be called a brat OF a ragamutfin or a
rat. What to do with them is "a
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
rs many votes az the same number Of
well born children, and they will hand
his land over to anarchy and political
!amnatiOn just as sure as we neglect
Suppose we each one Of us save a
BOY or save a girl. You can DO it. Will
your will. Take a cake Of perfumed
and a iinc-toothed comb and Il New
and "A little candy and prayer
a piece of cake and faith in God and
common sense, and begin this afternoon.
RELIANCE IN DIVINE POWER.
But how shall we get ready for one or
of these three exploits? We shall
make a dcai failureif III our own strength
try TO save a man or woman or child.
But my text suggests where we are TO
~ 1Ihitbittt II IhpttS thaN 'o
know their God shall be strong and DO
exploits" We must know Him through
Jesus Christ in our own salvation and
hen we shall have His help IN the saliva
lion Of others. And while You are saw
.ng strangers you may save some OF your
own kin. You think your brothers, and
and children, and grandchildren
safe, but they arc not dead, and no
Dnc is safe till he is dead. On the En-
5lish coast there was
A WILD TORN
md a wreck in the ofing and the cry was:
Man the lifeboat." But Harry, the
usual leader Of the sailors crew, was not
be found, and they went without him
and brought back all the shipwrecked
people except one. BY this time Harry,
he leader Of the crew appeared and said
Why did you leave that one?" The
answer was: Gle could not help himself
It all and we could not get him into the
Man the lifeboat," shouted
"and we will go for that one"
No" said his aged mother standing by,
you must not 60. ! lost your father in
/ storm like this, and your brother win
vent off six years ago and ! have not
heard a word from Will since he left, and
don't know where he is, and | don't
,now what has happened to him, poor
viii, and cannot let you also go for ]
I'M old and dependent on YOU His
'eply was: Mother, ] must 90 and save
hat one man. and if | am lost
God will take care OF you in your ola
The lifeboat put out. and after
an awful struggle with the sea they
the poor fellow 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
from the over eXertion, cried
,ut; We saved him, and tell mother it
brother VIII" Oh, yes, my friends,
let us start ont to save some II for time
and for eternity, some man, some woman,
some child. And who knows BUTT may,
or indirectly, be the salvation of
)nc Of sur own kindred, and that will he
an exploit worthy of celebration when
the world itself is shipwrecked and the
has gOnc out like q spark from a
anvil and all the stars arc dead!
Horse Sagacity.
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