The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-03
YOU MAY SAVE A CHILD.

YOU MAY SAVE A CHILD.
There Is another exploit you can do,
and that is TO save a child. A child
does not seem to amount to much. 1t
Is yearly year old before it can walk
at all. For the first year and halfit
cannot speak word. For the first ten
years it would starve if it had to earn its
own food. For the first fifteen years It's
opinion OH any subject is absolutely
valuelesS. And then there are 80 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 cry
ing.
Well, your estimate Of child is quite
different from that 4arether's estimate
who lost her child tins summer. They
took it to the salt air OF the seashorc and
to the tonic air Of I e mountains, bat no
he p came, and the brief paragraph of
Its life is ended. Suppose that lilc could
be restored by purcl ase, how much
would that bereaved mother give? She
would take all the jewels from her fin
gers 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 ii 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: IL have
| made over all my property. and If | can
have that child back l will now pledge
that | will toll with my own hands and
carry with my own shoulders in any kind
Of hard work and live IN cellar and die
IN a garret. Only give me back that
lost darling!"
l am glad that there are those who
know something Of a value of a child.
Its possibilities are tremendous. What
will those hands yet do? Where will
those feet yet walk? Toward what
| de- stinY will that never dying soul betake
ltself? Shall those lips be the throne of
basphemy or benediction? Come,
| chronologists, and calculate the decades
on decades, the centuries on centuries,
of its lifetime. Oh, to save a child! Am
l not right in putting that among the
great exploits?
But what are you going to do with
those children who are worse OF than if
their father and mother had died the dav
they were born? There are tens of thous-
ands of such. Their parentage was
against them. Their name is against
them. The structure Of their skulls is
against them. Their nerves and mus.
clcs contaminated by tie incbriety or
dlssoluteness OF their parents; they are
| practically at their birth lald out on a
plank in the middle of the Atlantic
ocean, in an equinoctal gale, and told to
| lnE n I'm oh@ l>t Il
is the question often asked.
| There is another question quite as
pertinent, and that is. What arc they
gong to do with u.s. They will, ten OF
eleven years from now, have as many
votes rs the same number of well born
children, and they will hand this land
over to 'narchy and political damnation
Just as sure as we neglect them. Sup
| pose We each one Of us save q bov or
save girl. You can do it. Will You?
| will.
KNOW GOD AND BE STRONG.
How shall we get ready for one or all
of these three exploits? We shall make
dead failure ii in our own strength
we try to save man or woman
or child. But my text suggests where
we are IT, get equipment. 1.-THE people
that do know their God scall be strong
and do exploits" We must know him
through Jesus Christ in our own saliva
tion, and then we shall have his help in
the salvation OF others. And while YOU
are saving strangers you may save some
OF yonr own kin. You think your broth
ers and sisters and children and grand
children 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 olliing, and the cry
was: Man the lilebonl!" But Harry,
the usual leader Of the sailors crew.
was not TO be found, and they went
without him, amt brought back all tue
shlp"rcckcd people but one.
by this time larry, the leader of the
crew, appeared and said, "Why did you
leave that onc?" The answer was,
"lle could not help himself at all, and
we could not get him into the boat. -
Man the litcboat!" shouted Harry.
land We will go for that one." mo-"
| SAID his aged mother, Standing by. '.y0u
must not go. lost your father in a
storm like this. aud your brother will
went OIL six years ago. and | have not
heard word from win since he left, =,
ohu uol klOW WncrC ne lS, poor VIII.
and cannot let you also go, for am
Old and dependent on YOU" His reply
was, Mother, must go and save that
one man, and if | am .o3t God will take
care OF you IN your old days"
The liteboat put out, and after an aw-
iul 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 dis
tance, Harry cried out, "Wc saved hlm,
and tell mother il was brother Will."
on, yes, my friends, let Is start out to
save some one for time and for eternity,
some man. some woman, some child.
And who knows but 1t may directly on in
directly, be the salvation of one OF our
own kindred, and that will be an exploit
worthy Of celebration when the world
Itself is shipwrecked, and the sun has
gone out like spark from il smitlcn an.
wi, and all the stars ere dead.
Favor StiI Hunt.
DANVILLE, Va, August 2O.-A po-