Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-08-28

LnAI IOEht4 you anu AlI dAAANua AteSl7 AAt@N
lowered over youi Speak out, ye nurseries
of all Chrstendom, and ye homes, whether
desolate or still in full bloom with The
faces of wife, mother and daughter, ano
help me to define what woman is. But as
geographers tell us that the depths of the
sea correspond with the heights OF the
mountains have TO tell you that good
womanhood Is not higher up than bad
womanhood is deep down. The grandei
the palace the more awful the cOntagrR
ton that destroys it. The grander the
steamer Oregon the more terrible her go
ing down just off the coast.
Now | should not wonder if you trem
bled a little with sense of responsibility
when / say that there Is hardly person il
this house but may have an opportunity
to save "A woman. 1t may in your case be
done by good advice, or by financial help
or by trying to bring to bear some one OF E
thousand Christian influences. II, for in
stance, you find a woman in financial dis
tress and breaking down in health and
spirits trying to support her children, now
that her husband is dead OF an invalid, do
ing that very important and honorable
workout which is little appreciated
keeping a boarding house, where all the
guests, according as they pay small board,
or propose, without paying any board at
all, to deeamp, 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 Il woman favored OF for
tune and with all kindly surroundings
fnding in the hollow batteries Of the
world her chief regalement, living for her
self and for time as If there were no eter
nifty. strive to bring her into the kingdom
OF Cod as did the other day a Sabbath
school teacher, who was the means Of the
conversion OF the daughter Of man OF
immense wealth, and the daughter no
solved to join the church, and she went
home and said, Father, / am going tC
Join the church, and want you to come. "
''Oh, no." he said, 81 never go to church.
"Well," said the daughter, "if were going
to be married would you not go to see me
married." And he said, ooh, yes. "
"Well," said she, this is of more impor-
lance than that"
So he went and has gone ever since, and
loves to 90. l do not know but that faith
full Sabbath school teacher not only saved
a woman, but saved a man. There may be
in this audience, gathered from all parts OF
the world, there may be a man whose be
havior toward womanhood has been per
fidious. Repent Stand up, thou master.
piece of sin and death, that / may charge
you'll As far as possible make reparation.
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 God, you will
be better off if you save that woman.
YOU MAY SAVE A CHILD.
There Is another exploit you can do, anG
that is to save child A child does not
seem to amount to much. 1t is nearly q
year old before it can walk at all. For the
first year and half it cannot speak a word.
For the first ten years it would starve if il
had to earn its own food. For the first
fifteen years its opinion on any subject is
absolutely valueless. And then there are
so many Of them. My, what lots Of chill.
drenl And some people have contempt fol
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 a child Is quite
different from that mothers estimate who
lost her child this summer. They took II
TO the salt air of the seashore and to the
tonic air of the mountains, but no help
came, and the brief paragraph of its life Is
ended. Suppose that life could he restored
by purchase, how much would that be
reaved 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 investments 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 if l can
have that child back | will now pledge that
| will - with my own hands and carry
with -, own shoulders in any kind Of
hard work and live in a cellar and die in
garrett. Only give me back that lost dar-
lingr
am glad that there are those who know
something Of value of child. Its posi-
bilities are tremendous. What will those
hands vet do? Where will those feet yet
walk? Toward what destiny will that
never dying soul betake itselfg Shall
those lips be the throne Of blasphemy or
benediction? Come, chronolOgists, and
calculate the decades on decades, the CEN
turtles on centuries, of its lifetime Oh, to
save child Am not right In putting
that among the great exploitss
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 Of
such. Their parentage was against them.
Their name is against them. The structure
of their skulls is against them. Their
nerves and muscles contaminated by the
inebriety or dissoluteness OF their par
ents; they are practically at their birth laid
out on a plank in the middle Of the Allan
tic ocean, in an eQuinoctial gale and told
%, bot r,r. CHI NIhuf n do with them
Is the question often asked.
There is another question quite as peril
nent, 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 neg
Iect them. suppose we each one or us save
a boy OF save a girl. You can do It. VIII
your / will.
KNOW GOD AND RE STRONG.
How shall we get ready for one or all
Of these three explOitsf We shall make a
dead failureif in our own strength we try
to save a man or woman or child. But my
text suggests where we are to get equip
ment. "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 a wild storm
and wreck In the ofing, and the cry was,
'Man the lifeboatf' But Harry, the usual
d Al. -. or IN hn
found, and they went without him, and
brought back all the shipwreeked people
but one.
BY this time Harry, the leader Of the
crew, appeared and said, ''Why did you
leave that onef The answer was, He
could not help himself at all, and we could
not get him into the boat" MAN the life
boatp' shouted Harry, "and we will go for
that one" mo" said his aged mother,
standing by, you must not 60 lost
your father in a storm like this, and your