Connecticut western news., 1891-08-27

StttueTeO lTO.u all parts O1 the WOrl0- there may be a man whose behavior to
 ward womanhood has been perfidious
 Repentl Stand up, thou masterpiece of sin and death, that l may charge youl AS far as possible make repara- tion. Do not boast that you have her in your power, and that she cannot help herself When that fine collar and cravat and that elegant suit of clothes comes off and your uncovered soul stands before God. you will be bet ter off if you save that woman.
 SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN"
 There is another exploit you can do, and that is to save child A child does not seem to amount to much. It is nearly year old before 1t can walk at all. For the first year and half it cannot speak word, For the first ten years it would starve if it had to earn its own food. For the first fifteen years it's opinion on any subject is ab aolutely valueless And then there are so many of them. Myi what lots of childrenl And some people have con tempt for children. They are good for nothing but to wear out the caA,ets and break things and keep you awake nights crying.
 We'll, your estimate of child is quite different from that mothers estimate who lost her child this summer. They took it to the salt air of the seashore and to the tonic air of the mountains, but no help came, and the brief para graph of it's life is ended. Suppose that life could be restored by purchase, how much would that bereaved mother giveP She would take all the jewels from her fingers and neck and bureau and put them down.
 And if told that that was not enough, she would take her house and make over the deed for 1t, and if that were not enough she would call in all her in. vestments and put down all her mortgages and bonds, and if told that were not enough she would say: Fl have made over all my property, and if 1 can have that child back l will now pledge that will toll with my own hands and carry with my own shoul- ders in any kind of hard work, and live in 8 cellar and die in garret. Only give me back that lost darlingi"
 am glad that there are those who know something of the value of child. Its possibilities are tremendous. What will those hands yet doY Where will those feet yet walk9 Toward what destiny will that never dying soul be- take itself9 Shall those lips be the throne of blasphemy or benedictionl Come, chronologists, and calculate the decades on decades, the centuries on centuries, of it's lifetime Oh, to save a childl Am not right in putting that among the great exploits9
 But what are you going to do with those children who are worse off than if their father and mother had died the day they were born7 There are tens of thousands such. Their parentage was against them. Their name is against them. The structure of their skulls Is against them. Their nerves and mus cles contaminated by the inebriety or dissoluteness or their parents, they are practically at their birth laid out on 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 quite as pertinent, and that is, what are they going to do with usY They will, ten or eleven years from now, have as many votes as the same number of we'll born children, and they will hand this land over to anarchy and political damnation just as sure as we neglect them. Sup pose we each one of us save boy or cave girl. You can do it. Will you7 will
 GOD WILL GIVE STRENGTH.
 How shall we get ready for one or all of these three exploitsH We shall make dead failure if in our own strength we try to save man or wom- an 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 salvation and then we shall have his help in the salvation of others. And while you are saving strangers you may save some of your own kin. Tor think your brothers and sisters and children and grandchildren 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 wreck in the ofilng, and the cry was, Man the lifeboatl" But Harry, the usual leader of the sailors crew, was not to be found, md they went without him. and brought back all the shipwrecked people but one By this time Harry, the leader of the. crew, appeared and said, Why did you leave that one9" The answer was, s"He could not help himself at all and we could not get him into the boat. Man the lifeboatl" shouted Harry. land we will go for that one"
 'No." said his aged mother. stand ing by, you must not go. lost your father in a storm like this, and your brother Will went off six years ago, and have not heard word from Will since he left, and l don't know where he is, poor Will, and l cannot let you slso go, for am old and dependent OF you" His reply was, Mother, I must 90 and save that one man, and if am ost God will take care of you in yonr old days"
 The lifeboat put out. and after an awful struggle with the sea they picked he poor fellow out of the rigging just n time to save his life and started for he shore, and as they came wi;iii:i speaking distance Harry cried out, We 'aved him, and tell mother it was brother Will" Oh, yes, my friends,