The Brookhaven leader., 1888-10-18

I I wers going 10 be married, would you
not 90 to see me marriedw And he said,
"Oh, yes" "welL1 said she. 'this II
OF more Importance than that" So be
went, and has gone ever since, and loves
to go. I do not know but that faithful
Sabbath school teacher not only saved q
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
man whose behavior toward womanhood
has been perfidious.
Repenti Stand up, thou masterpiece
OF sin and DEATH. that may charge youI
As far as possible make reparation. Do
not boast that You have her in your pow.
er and that she can not help herself.
When that fuo collar and cravat and
that elegant suit Of clothes come of, aud
| your uncovered soul stands in Judgment
and before God, you will be better of II
| 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 il can walk at
! ALL For the first year and half 1t can
| not speak word. For the first ten years
| II would starve il it had TO earn its own
| food For the first fl ftceu years its opin-
ion on any subject is absolutely value-
! less. And then there are so many OF
| them. My! what lots OF childrenl Ana
| some people have contempt for children.
| They are good for nothing but to wear
| ont the carpets and break things and
! keep Won awake nights crying. Well,
| Your estimate OF child Is quite
diffe rent from that mothers estimate
who lost her child this summer.
| They took IL to the salt air OF the sea-
shore and to the tonic air Of the mount
aims, but no help came, and the briet
| paragraph Of it's life is ended. suppose
that life Could be restored by purchase.
how much would that bereaved mother
| givcs She would take all the jewels from
her fingers and neck aud bureau and put
them down. And II 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: al have made
over all my properly, and If can have
that child back l will now pledge that l
will toll with my own hands and carry
with my own shoulders in any kind of
hard work, and live in q cellar and die In
garnet. Only give me back that lost dar-
ling" l 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 desttnJ will
that never dying soul betake itself? Shall
those lips be the throne Of blaSphe'ny or
benediction? Come all ye surveyors Of
the earth, and bring link and chain and
measure, if you an its possible podseD-
Sions. Come, all We astronomers OF the
earth with your telescopes, and tell us II
YOU can see the range of its eternal
flight Come, all ye chrOnologists, and
calculate the decades on decades, the
centuries on centuries, the cycles ON
cycles, the eternitieS on cternities of its
lifetime Oh to save childl Am I not
right in putting that among the great ex-
ploits? Yea, it beats the other two, for if
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 70 do with those chill
dren who are worse off thauif their father
or mother had died the day they were
born? There are tens Of thousands OF
such. Their parentage was against them.
Their name is against them. The struot-
ure of their skulls is against them. Their
nerves and muscles contaminated by the
ineUriety or disturbances Of their pa.
rents, they are practically at their Dir tt
laid out on plank ID the middle of the
Atlantic ocean in an equinoCtial gale
and told to nuke for shore. The first
greeting they get from the world is to
be called a brat or ragamuftin, or
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 t. do with usf They
! will, ten or eleven y ars from now, have
rs many votes as the same number Of
we'll born children, and they will hand
| this land over to anarchy and political
| damuation Just as sure as we neglect
them. Suppose we each one of us save
boy or save girl You can do it. Will
your l will. Take cake of perfumed
soap, and fine toOthel comb, and a New
! Testament, and little candy, audprayer,
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 exploits? We shall
make dead failure If in our strength
| we try to save man or woman or child.
But my text suggests where we are to
| get equipm emit 1.-The people that do
know their Go d shall be strong and do
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. And 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 TIL he IS dead. On the
English coast there was wild storm
and wreck III the Offing and
the cry was: MAN the life boat" But
Harry, the usual lea ter 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 lea der of the crew, ap-
peared and said: "Why did you leave
that one Z" The answer was: He could
not help himself at all, and we could not
get him into the boat" "Man the life
boat" shouted Harry, "and we will go
for that one" "NO," said his age d moth
er, standing by you must not go. lost
your father in a storm like this, an your
! brother Will went of six years ago and
have not heard from Will since he left,
and don't know where he is, and don't
know what has happened to him. poor
Will, and can not let you also go, for
| am old and dependent on YOU"
His reply was: Mother, I must go
| aud save that one man, and if | am
lost God will take care of you in your old
| days" The life boat put out, and after