Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24

| would take all the Jewels liOH
gers and neck and bureau ana put 'lou,
down. And If told that that was nv
enough. she would take her house anu
make over the deed for it, and II Una,
we're not enough, she would call IN al
her investments, and put down all nel
mortgages and bonds, and II told th INA.
were not enough, she would say: =
have made over all my property, ana II
7 can have that child back l will no"
nledge that will toll with my OWE
hands and carry with my own
shoulders in any kind OF hard
work. and live in ceHar
and die in a garrett. Only give me back
that lost darling" am glad that there
are those who know something OF tne
value of child. Its possibilities are
tremendous. What will those hands yee
do? Where will those feet yet Walk
Toward what destiny will that never
diving soul betake itself? Shall those
Inns be the throne OF blasphemy or pen
ediction? Come, chronologists, and cal
culate the decades on decades, the CEN
turtles on centuries, of its lifetime. On,
to save a child Am l not right In put
ting that among the great explolts|
But what are you going to do with
those children who are worse OIL than
II their father and mother had died the
day they were born? There are tens OF
thousands of such. Their parentage
was against them. Their name IS
against them. The structure OF their
skulls against them. Their nerves and
muscles contaminated by the inebrlety
or dissoluteness of their parents;
they are practically at their birth
laid out on plank in the middle OF
the Atlantic Ocean, in an eQuinoctlal
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 us? They
will, ten or eleven years from now,
have as many votes as the same num-
Der of we'll 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
us save boy or girl. You can do it.
viii you? l will.
How shall we get ready for one or
all Of these three exploits. We shall
make dead failure IL in our own
strength we try TO save man or woman
or child. But my text suggest where
we are to get equipment. 1.-The peo-
pie 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 ofilng and the cry was: "Man the
life-boat" 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 one?" The answer was: Gle
could not help himself at all and we
could not get him into the boat"
"Man the life-boat" shouted Harry.
land we will go for that one" NO"
said his aged mother, standing by,
''yon must not go. l lost your father
in a storm like this and your brother
viii went off six years ago and have
not heard word from VIII since he
eft and I don't know where he is
poor Will, and l cannot let you also
go, for l am old and dependent on you"
His reply was: Mother, l must go and
save that one man, and if am lost God |
will take care of Won In .vnnr old douS-n
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:
1--WE saved him, and tell mother IL was
brother WILL" Oh, yes, my friends, let
us start out to save some one for time
and for eternity, some man, some wo-
man, some child. AND Tho knows but
it may, directly or indirectly, be the sal
walton of one of our own kindred, and
that will be an exploit worthy OF cele-
bration when the world itself is ship
wrecked, and the sun has gone out like
a spark from smtten anvil, and all the
stars are dead!