The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-08-26

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things and keep you awake nights cry.
Ing Well, your estimate Of q child Is
quite different from that mothers esti-
mate who lost her. child this summer.
They took It TO the salt air Of the sea-
shore and to the tonic air Of the noun
tains, but no help came, and the brief
paragraph OF It's life Is ended Suppose
that life could be restored by purchase,
how much would that bcreaved mother
| give? She would take all the Jewels
from her fingers, and neck, and bureau,
and put them down. Andi told that
that was not enough, she would take
| her house and make over the deed for It.
and II that were not enough, she would
call In all her Investments, and put
down all her mortgages and bonds, and
II told that were not enough, she would
say: Il have made over all my prop
erty, and II can have the child back
will now pledge that I will
toll with my own hands, and carry with
my own shoulders in any kind Of hard
work, and live in cellar and die In
garrett Only give me back that lost
darlingp am glad that there are
those who know something Of tho value
OF child. It's possibilities are tremen-
dous 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 ben
ediction? Come, chronologists, and
calculate the decades on decades, the
centuries on centuries Of its lifetime
0, to save child! Am not right in
| putting that among the great exploits?
But what are you going TO do with
those children who are worse off than
II their father and 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 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 equinoctial gale,
and told to make for shore. What to
do with them is the question often
asked There is another question quito
AZ nertinent ana that is what are thew
going to do with uso They will ten or
i eleven wears from now. have as many
votes as the sayne number NJ we'll. horn
children, and they will hand this land
over to anarchy and political damnation
nose we each one Of ms save n how or
save n o;rl you can do a. WIN yonp
I will
How shall we get readv for one or
ali ~ these three exnloitsp We shall
malxe n dead fanure n In our own
strength we trv 10 save a man or woman
or child But INV tent sug0ests where
we are 10 get eouipment The people
that do know their God shall be strong
and do .exnloits.s We must xnov Him
throuoh .Iesps Christ IN our own saliva
tion and then I'VE sbaIl have His helm In
tbe salvation OF others. And while
Won are saving strangers won NAV save
some. of vour own kin. you 'tbinl,
vour brotbers and sisters and chill.
4 Sren ana crandchildren All safe
4 but thew are not dead. and NO one is
s.fe All be "a .dead On the Enolisb
coast there was a wild storm. and a
wreck m the offino. and the crv was.
.Man the lifeboatp But Harry. the
usual leader OF the sailors crew was
not 10 he found. and they went without
him. and broncbt hack ali the shin.
wrecked neonle Init one. Nv this time
Harry. the leader Of the crew anneared
and said. "Wbv did won leave that
one?v The answer was: "He could
mot helm himself NJ ALI. and we
eould not get him into the boat.
.Man the lifeboatrp shouted Harry.
"and we win 90 FOR that one, "No'p
said his AGED mother. standing NV. ,'vou
must not 90. lost your father In a
storm like this. and your brother WIN
went of six wears a9o. and have not