The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-09-01

blasphemy or benediction? Come,
chronOlOgists, and calculate the decades
on decades, tho centuries on centuries,
Of its lifetime. Oh, to save child Am
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 day
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 aud mus
cles contaminated by tie inebriety or
dissoluteness of their parents; they are
practically ut their birth LAID out on a
plank in the middle of the Atlantic
ocean, in an equinoctial gale, and told to
make for shore. What to do with Item
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 number of we'll born
children, and they will 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 a girl. You can do it. Will YOU?
1 will.
KNOW GOD AND BE STRONG.
How shall we get ready for one or all
of these three exploits? We shall make
a dead failure ii incur own strength
we try to save man Or woman
or child. But my text suggests where
we are IT, get equipment. "The people
that do know their God seall be strOuy
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 ofliing, and theory
was: "Man the lifeboatv' 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,
''He could not help himself at all, and
we could not get him into the boat"
MAN the lifeboat!" shouted Harry,
land we will go for that one." NO"
said his aged mother, standing by, "you
must not go. lost your father in
storm like this, and your brother Will
went of six years ago. and 1 have not
heard a word from Will since he left,
and don'tknow where he is, poor Will.
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 ifI am lost God will take
care of you In your old days"
The lifeboat put out, and after an aw-
full 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, "We saved hun,
and tell mother 1t was brother Will.
Oh, yes, my friends, let ;,s start out to
save some one for time and for eternity,
some man, some woman, some child.
And who knows but 1t may, directly OF 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 smitten an.
viii and all the stars pro flpadt