West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-18

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There is another exploit that you can do,
and that is TO save a child. a child does not
seem 70 amount 70 much. IL Is nearly a year
old before IL can walk at all. For the first
year and a half IL cannot speak a word. For
the first ten years IL would starve IL Il had 20
earn It's Nj food. For the first fifteen
years its opinion on any subject Is ALSO
lutely valueless. And then there are so
many OF them. Ny what lots OF childrenl
and some people have contempt for cht-
dren. They are good for nothing but 20
wear out tho carpets and break things and
keep you awake nights crying. Well, your
estimate OF a child is quito different
from that mothers estimate VITO lost
her child this summer. They took IL 70
the salt air OF the seashore and 70
the tonic air OF the mountains. but
no help came, and the brief paragraph OF its
life Is ended. Suppose that fife could be re-
stored by purchase. how much would that
b%ereaved mother givef Sho would take all
the jewels from her fingers and neck and
bureau and put them down. And e told that
that was not enough, she would take her
house and make over the deed for IL, and II
that were not enough she would call in all
her investments and put down all her mort
cages and bonds; and IL told that wero not
enough, she would say: 81 nave made over
all my property, and IL / can have that child
back Will now pledge that i will toll with
my " hands and carry with my own shoul-
ders in any kind of hard work., and live
in a cellar and die in a garnet. Only give
me back that lost d~arling.p lam glad that
there are those who know something OF the
value of a child. It's possibilities arc
tremendous. What will those hands yet dot
Where will those feet yet walki Toward
what destiny will that never-dying soul be-
take itselfi Shall those lips be the throne Of
blaspbemy or benedictiOnf Come, all ye
surveyors of the earth, and bring link and
chain and measure IL you can its possible
possessions. Come. all ye astronomers Of the
earth, with your Telescopes, and tell ms IL you
can see the range OF its eternal flight. Come,
all ye chrohologists, and calculate the de-
cados on decades, the centuries on centuries,
the cycles on cycles, the eternities on eter-
mites OF it's lifetime. Oh, 10 save a
childl Am L not right in putting that among
the great exploitsf Yes, it beats the Other
two, for il you save the child you save the
nan 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 tho
day they were bornf There are tens of
thousands of such. Their parentage was
against them. Their name is against them.
Tho structure of their skulls against them.
Their nerves and muscles contaminated by
the inebriety or dissoluteness OF their parents,
they are practically at their birth laid
out on a plank in the middle OF the Atlantic
Ocean in an oquinoctial gale and told 10 make
" AH1 hAtN kAN.Aifh VIZ hNN
the world is to be called a brat or n ragamufin
or a wharf-rat. What Co do with them is
the question often asked. There is another
question quite as pertinent, and that
usl They will ten or eleven years
from now have as many votes "a
the same number of well-born children, and
they will hand this land over TO anarchy and
political EXAMINATION just as sure as we neglect
them. Suppose we each one OF US save a boy
or a girl. You can do it. VIII youl / will.
Take n cake Of perfumed soap AMI q fine
toothed comb, and a New Testament and q
little. candy and prayer, and a piece OF cake
and faith in God and common sense, and be-
gin this afternoon.
But how shall we got ready for one or all
OF these three exploitSi We shall make q
dead failure III in our W strength we try to
save n man or woman or hid 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 nave His help in the
salvation of others. And while YOU are
saving strangers you may saw some of your
ownkin. You think your brothers and sis
ters and children and grandchildren all safe,
but they are not dead, and no one is safe till
he rs dead. On the English coast there was
wild storm and n wreck in the ofling, and the
cry was: "Man the lifeboat.n But Harry.
tho usual leader 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 leader
of the crew, appeared and said: "Why did
you leave that oneF' The answer was: He
could not help himself at all and we coulc
not get him into the boat" Man the
lifeboat,n shouted Harry, land VIC
will go for that one" mo" said his aged
mother standing by, 'you must not 60. /
lost your father in q storm like this, and
your brother Will went off six years ago and
/ nave not heard "A word from Will since no
left, and / don't know where he Is. and
what has happened to him, poor VIII,
and | cannot let you also 60 for / am
old end dependent on your His reply was:
Mother, / must so and save that one man,
and IL j am lost God will take care of you in
your old days. The lifeboat put out, and
after an awful struggle with tie sen they
picked tho poor fellow out OF the rigging
Just in Zine to save his life, and started
for the shore. And as they came within
speaking distance, Harry, just before he
faintel from tho Over-e1ortion, criel out:
1--WE saved him, and tell mother it was
brother WIZ Oh, yes. my friends, let
us start out TO save some ono for time
and for eternity, some man, and some
woman, sand sonfe child. And who
knows but it may, directly or indirectly, be
the salvat on OF one Of our own kindred, and
that will DO an exploit worthy Of celebration
when the world itself IS shipwrecked and tho
sun has gone out like a spark from a sInitten
anvil and all tho stars are dcadl