The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-28

over the deed for 1t, and II that were
not enough she would call in all her In
vestments and put down all her
mortgages and bonds, and II told that
were not enough she would say; 81
have made over all my property, and
II | can have that child back will
now pledge that will toll with my own
hands and carry with my own Shout
des in any kind of hard work, and live
in cellar and die In garrett Only
give me back that lost darlingw
am glad that there are those who
know something of the value of child.
Its possibilities are tremendous. What
will those hands yet do2 Where will
those feet yet waikiki Toward what
destiny will that never dying soul be-
take itself2 Shall those lips be the
throne of blasphemy or benediction3
Come, chronologists and calculate the
decades on decades, the centuries on
centuries, of its lifetime. Oh, to save
a child Am | not right in putting
that among the great exploitsi
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 bornl 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 us2 They will, ten or
eleven years from now, have as many
votes as the same number of well 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 a boy or
save girl. You can do it. Will you
| will.
GOD WILL GIVE STRENGTH.
How shall we get ready for one or
all of these three exploits2 We shall
make a dead failure if in our own
strength we try to save a man or wom-
an or child. But my text suggests
where we are to get equipment. 1.-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. You
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 offing and
the cry was Man the lleboat!" But
Harry, the usual leader of the sailors
crew, was not to be found, and 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 one2" The answer was,
''He could not help himself at all, and
we could not get him into the boat.
'Man the lifeboatl" shouted Harry,
"and we will go for that one"
mo" said his aged mother, stand
ing by, you must not go. lost your
father in storm like this, and your
brother Will went off six years ago,
and l have not heard a word from Will
I since he left, and | don't know where
he is, poor Will and cannot let you
also go, for l ain old ard 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 after 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 cried out, "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, some
woman, some child. And who knows
but it may, directly or indirectly, be
! the salvation of one of our own kin
dred, and that will be an exploit worthy
of celebration when the world itself is
shipwrecked, and the sun has gone out
like spark from smitten anvil, and
all the stars are dead