The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-08-27

a good womanhood is not higher up
than bad womanhood is deep down.
The grander the palace, the more aw-
full the confagration that destroys it.
Now / should not wonder if you trem-
bled little with sense of responsibility
when say there is hardly a person in
this house but may have an opportunity
to save woman.
If, for instance, you find woman In
financial distress and breaking down
in health and spirits trying to support
her children, now that her husband Is
dead or an invalid, doing that very i'm
portant and honorable workout which
is little appreciated-keeping board
ing house, busy yourselves in trying to
| get her more patrons, and tell her
of divine sympathy. Yea, if you see a
woman favored infortune and with all
kindly surroundings, finding in the
hollow batteries of the world her chief
regalement, living for herself and
| for time as if there were no eternity,
strive to bring her into the king
dom of God, as did the other day Sab
bath 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" 80, no." he said,
81 never GO to church." 'Well," said
the daughter, eff / were going to be
married would you not go to see me
married." And he said, 20, yes"
"Well, said she, "this is of more inn
portance than that" So he went and
has gone ever since, and loves to go.
There is another little exploit you
can do, and that is to save a 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 fif-
teen years its opinion on any subject is
absolutely valueless. And then there
are so many Of them. My! what lots
of children! And some people have
contempt for children. They are good
for nothing but to wear out the carpets
and break things and keep you awake
nights crying. WE'LL 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 air
of the mountains, but no help came,
and the brief paragraph of its life is
ended. Suppose that life could be re-
stored by purchase, how much would
that bereaved mother give? | am glad |
that there are those who know some
thing of the value Of child. It's pos
sibilities are tremendous. What will |
those hands yet do? Where will those |
feet yet walk?
Come, chropologists, and calculate |
the decades on decades, the centuries |
on centuries, of its lifetime. o, to save |
a child! Am / not right in putting that |
among the great exploits? But what
are You going to do with those children |
who are worse off than if their fathers
and mothers had died the day they |
were born? There are tens of thou
sands of such. Their parentage was
against them. Their name is against |
them. The structure of their skulls
against them. Their nerves and mus
cles contaminated by the inebriety or
of 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 they are going to do
with us? 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, Suppose
we each one of rs save boy or save Il
girl. You can do it. VIII you2 | will
How shall we get ready for one or all
If these three exploits? We shall make
l dead failure if in our own strength
we try to save man or woman 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" And while you are saving :
strangers you may save some of your
,wn kin.
On the English coast there was
Wild storm, and wreck in the offing,
md the cry was: MAN the lifeboat!"
}ut Harry, the usual leader of the
ailors' crew. was not to be found, and
key went without him, and brought /,
Jack all the shipwrecked people but
ne. BY this time Harry, the leader of
he crew, appeared and said: why did
on leave that one?" The answer was: {
He could not help himself at all, and
We could not get him into the boat"
Man the lifeboat!" shouted Harry, :
and we will go for that one" NO"
aid his aged mother, standing by, you {
aust not go, lost your father in a {
torn like this, and your brother Will :
,cnt off six years ago, and have not
card word from viii since he left, I
nd don't know where he is, poor |
Will, and cannot let you also go, for !
am old and dependent on you" His L
eply was: Mother, | must go and
ave that one man, and if l am lost,
cd will take care of you in your old :
avs" The life boat put out, and after
n awful struggle with the sea they c
icl-ed tho NOR follow ont of the ,-ip-