Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-04

deSOlate or still ID full bloom With the face
OF wife. mother and daughter, and help m
to define what woman is. But as geograph
ers tell us that the depths OF the sea CORE
spond with the heights OF the mountains
have TO tell you that good womanhOod is
not higher I'D than bad wonanhood is deem
down The grander the palace the mors
awful the confagration that destroys it.
The grander the steamer Oregon the more
terrible her going down just off the coast.
Now I should not wonder il you trem-
blei little with a sense OF response bility
when I say that there is hardly person in
this house but may have an opportunity
to save a woman. It may in your case be
done by good advice or by financial help.
or by trying to bring to bear some one OF
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 or an invalid, doing
I that very important and honorable work
but which is little appreciated-keeping a
| boarding house, where all the guests, accord
| ing as they pay small board, or propose.
without paying any board at all, to decamp,
are critical Of everything and hard to please,
patrons, and tell her Of divine sympathy.
Yea, II you see a woman favored of for
tune and with all kindly surrounding finding
! in the hollow batteries Of the world her chief
regalement, living for herself and for time as
II there were no eternity, strive to bring her
| into the kingdom OF God, as did the other day
Sabbath-school teacher, who was the means
| Of the conversion Of the daughter of a man of
immense wealth, and the daughter re-
solved TO join the church, and she went ho!ns
and said, Father, am going to join the
| church, and / want you to come" "Oh,
oo," he said, Il never go to church"
WELL" said the daughter, ''if We're going
10 be married would you not go to see me
said She ''this is Of more Importance than
that"
so he went and has gone ever since. and
! loves to go. do not know but that faith
/ tul Sabbath-school teacher not only saved
woman but saved a man. There may be
! IN this audience, gathered from all parts Of
the world, there may be q man whose be-
havior toward womanhood has been per.
adious. Repent! Stand up, thou master
piece Of sin and death. that l may charge
| you! As far as possible make reparation.
Do not boast that you have her in your
! bower and that she cannot help herself.
| When that fine collar and cravat, and that
elegant suit Of clothes comes off and your
uncovered soul stands before God you will
be better off If you save that woman.
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 nearly
year old before 1t can walk at all. For the
drst year and half it cannot speak word.
For the first ten years it would starve il it
had to earn its own food. For the first If
zen years its opinion on any subject is alb
solutau val,laIass And then thara ara so
many of them. Ny, what lots OF children!
And some people have contempt for children.
They are good for nothing but to wear cut
she carpets and break things and keep you
awake nights crying.
Well, your estimate of a child is quite
different from that mothers estimate who
ost her child this summer. They took it
% the salt air of the seashore and to the
sonic air of the mountains, but no help
came, and the brief paragraph Of its life is
ended. Suppose that life could be restored
oy purchase, how much would that be-
reaved mother give? She would take all
:he 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: Il have made
over all my property, andif 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 garnet. Only give
me back that lost darling"
am glad that there are those who know
something of value Of child. Its posi-
bilities are tremendous. WHAT will thoss
hands yet do? Where will those feet yet
walk? Toward what destiny will that never
dying soul betake itself? Shall those lips be
the throne of blasphemy or benediction?
Come chronohgists, and calculate the decades
on decades, the centuries on centuries of its
lifetime. On, to save child! Am I not
right in putting that among toe great ex-
ploits?
But what are you going to do with those
children vino are worse off than il 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 is gainst them. Their nerves
and muscles contaminated by the insbriety
or dissouteness of their parents; they are
practically at their birth laid out on
plank in the middle o. the Atlantic Ocean,
in an equinoctial gale, AMI told to make for
shore. What to do with them is the ques-
ton often asked
There IS another question quite peril
nenr, and that is What are they going to
do with US? They will, ten or eleven years
from now, have many votes as the same
number OF well born children, and they will
hand this land over to the anarchy and po-
litical dannaton just as sure as we lie elect
them. Suppose we each one Of US save 4 boy
or save girl. You can do it. Will you:
will
How shall we get ready FOR oae or all
of these three exploits? We shall make a
dead failure if 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 snail have
His help in the salvation of others. And
while you are saving stran yecs YOU may
save some of your own kin. You tnir:k
your brothers and sisters an 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 offing, and the cry was,
MAN the Ifeboatp' But Harry, the usual
leader OF the sailors crew was not to be