The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-08-28

thousand ChriGtian influences. II. f0S
Instance you And 8 woman II financial
distress and breaking down. In health
and spirits trying TO suppot her chill
dren, now that h. husband is dead OF
an invalid, dolnS hat very important
and honorahls ork--but which ID lit
tie appreciated keeping a boarding
house, where allsths guests, according
a. they pay small board, or propose,
Wifhout paying any board at al, to de-
emp, are critical of everything and
hard to please. busy yourselves In try
ing to get her more patrons and tell
her of divine sympathy.
Yea. II you see woman favored OF
fortune and with all kindly surround
ings, finding in the hollow batteries Of
the world her chief regaleinent, living
for herself and for time as i there
were no eternity, strive to bring her
into the kingdom OF God, as did the
other day Sabbath school teacher.
who was the means Of the conversion
Of the daughter Of man of immense
wealth, and the daughter resolved to
Join the church, and she went home
and said. Father, l am going to join
the church and want you to come. F"
''Oh, no." he said, II never go to
church" WELL" said the daughter,
IF l were going to be married, would
you not go to see me married." And
he said, "Oh, yes" WELL" she said,
this is of more Importance than that. +"
So he went and has gone ever since,
and loves to go. do not know but
that faithful Sabbath school teacher
not only saved woman, but saved a
man. There may be in this audience
gathered from all parts Of the world
there may be man whose-behavior to-
ward womanhood has been perfidious.
Repent! Stand up, thou masterpiece
of sin and death, that / may charge
you'll As far as possible make repara-
ton. 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 of and your uncovered
soul stands before Gcd. you will be bet
ter of If you save that woman.
..sUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN"
There is another exploit you can do,
and that is to save a child. A child
does not seem to amount to much. It
is nearly year old before it can walk
at all. For the first year and q half it
cannot speak a word. For the first ten
years it would starve If It had to earn
its own food. For the first fifteen
years its opinion on any subject is alb
solutely valueless. And then there are
80 many of them. Myl what lots of
childrenl And some people have con-
tempt for children. They are good for
nothing but to wear out the carpets
and break things and keep you awake
nights crying. I'M.
Well, your estimate of a 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 ar Of thu mountains,
but no help came, and the brief para
graph of its life is ended. Suppose that
life could be restored by purchase, how
much would that bereaved mother
give? 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 it. 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: II
have made over all my property, and
# l can have that child back l will
now pledge that will toll with my own
hands and carry with my own shout
1ers in any kind of hard work, and live
IN cellar and die in garnet. Only
give me back that lost darling"
l am glad that there are those who
know something Of the value of child. |
It's possibilities are tremendous. What
will those hands yet dos Where will |
hose feet yet Wake Toward what
iestiny will that never dying soul be-
AXE itselfa Shall those lips be the
hrone of blasphemy or benedictions
Come, chronoIogists, and calculate the
decades on decades, the centuries on +
centuries, of it's lifetime. Oh, to save
! child! Am not right in putting
hat among the great exploitss
But what are you going to do with
hose children who are worse off than
f their father and mother had died the
lay they were born? There are tens OF
thousands such. Their parentage was
4gainst them. Their name is against
hem. The structure of their skulls is
gainst them. Their nerves and mus
les contaminated by the inebriety or
or their parents, they are
practically at their birth laid out on a
flank in the middle of the Atlantic
cean in an equinoctial gale and told
o make for shore. What to do with
hem is the question often asked.
There is another question quite as
ertinent. and that is, what are they