The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-25

Where will those feet yet walk, Toward
what destiny viii that never-dying soul be.
take tselfi Shall those lips be the throne Of
blasphsmy or benedlotioni Come, all ye
surveyors OF the earth, and bring link and
chain and measure II you can its possible
possessions. Come, all ye astronomers of ths
earth. with your Telescopes, and tell us II : II
can see the range OF its eternal flight CONS,
all We chronologists, and calculate the de-
cades ON decades, the centuries on centuries,
the cycles on cycles, the eternities ON eter-
mites Of its lifetime. Oh, to save a
child Am not right in putting that among
the great exploitss Yes, II beats the other
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
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 IL their father or mother had died the
day they were borni There are tens of
thousands of such. Their parentage was
against them. Their name is against them.
The structure Of their skulls against them.
Their nerves and muscles contaminated by
the inebriety or disso,uteness of their parents,
they are practically at their birth laid
out on plank In the middle OF the Atlantic
Ocean in an equnoctial gale and told to make
for shore. The first greeting they get from
the world Is to be called brat or ragamufiin
or a 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 as many votes as
the same number Of well-bon children. and
they will hand this Ian over to anarchy and
political damnation just as sure as we neglect
them. Suppose we each one Of us save a boy
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Take a cake Of perfumed soap AMI 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 be-
gin this afternoon.
But how shall we get ready for one or all
of these three expoitsl We shall make a
dead failure if in our own strength we try to
save a 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
own kin. You think your brothers and sis
tiers and children and grandchildrep all safe,
but they are not dead, and no one is safe till
he is dead On the English coast there was
wild storm and a wreck in the olng, and the
cry was: "Man the lifeboat." But Harry,
the usual leader of the sailors crew, was
not to be found, and they went without him
and brought back all tn shipwrecked people
except one. By this time Harry the leader
of the crew, appeared and said: "Why did
You leave that oneH' The answer was: He
could not hep himself at all and we could
not get him into the boat" ''Man the
lifeboat," shouted Harry, tand we
will go fer that one." mo" said his aged
mother standing by, 'you must not go.
lost your father in storm like this, and
your brother Win went off six years ago and
have not heard d word from Will since he
left, and j don't know where he is, and
what has happened to him. poor Win,
and | cannot let you also so for l am
old and dependent on YOU" His reply was:
Mother. | must go and save that one man,
and if am lost God will take care OF you in
your Old days" The lifeboat put out, and
liter an awful struggle with the sea they
picked the poor fellow out 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
tainted from the over-exertion, cried out:
1--WE saved him, and tell mother it was
brother Will" Oh, yes, my friends, let
us start out to save some one for time
and for eternity, some man, and soma
woman, and some child. And who
knows but it may, directly or indirectly, bs
the salvation of one of our own kindred, and
that will be an exploit worthy of celebration
when the world itself is shipwrecked and the
sun he's gone out like spark from smitten
anvil and all the stars are dead!