Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-24

I thousand Christian influences If, for
instance you fnd woman in financial
distress and breaking down in health
and spirits trying to support her chill
dren, now that her husband is dead or
an invalid, doing that very important
and honorable work but which is lit
tie appreciated--keeping boarding
house, where all the guests, according
rs they pay small board, or propose,
without paying any board at all, to de
camp. 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. il you see woman favored of
fortune and with all kindly surround
ings. finding in the hollow batteries of
the world her chief regalement, living
for herself and for time as IL there
were no eternity. strive to bring her
into the kingdom of God, as did the
other day a Sabbath school teacher,
WHO was the means of the conversion
OF the daughter of a man of immense
wealth, and the daughter resolved to
Join the church, and she went home
and said, Father, | am going to join
the church and | want you to come.
"Oh, no. he said, II never go to
church. " We'll" said the daughter,
''if were going to be married would
you not go to see me marriedT And
he said, "Oh, yes" We'll, 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 a woman, but saved a
man. There may be in this audience
gathered fron all parts OF the world
there may be a man whose behavior to
ward womanhood has been perfldious
Repent Stand up, thou masterpiece
of sin and death, that | may charge
you 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 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. 1t
is nearly year old before it 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 its opinion on any subject is alb
solutely valueless. And then there are
so many of them Ny 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
Well 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 its life is ended Suppose that
life could be restored by purchase, how
much would that bereaved mother
givel 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: 81 !
have made over all my property, and
If | can have that child back 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 cellar and die in a garret. 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 dog Where will
those feet yet walk2 Toward what
destiny will that never dying soul be-
take itselfl Shall those lips be the
throne of blasphemy or benediction2
Come, chronoogists, 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 eAploitsl
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 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
or their parents. they are
nc their birch laid out on
plank in the middle oi tho Atlantic
ocean in an equinoctial gale and told
To make for shore What 70 do with
them is the question often asked
There is another question quite as
pertinent, and that is. what are they
going 20 do with usl They will, ten or
eleven years from now. have as many
votes as the same number of well born
children, and they wit 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
save girl You can do it, VIII youi
| will.
GoD Will GIvE STRENGTH.
How shall we get ready for one or