Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-09-12

requirement, living for herself aud for time a.
il there were no eternity, strive to bring her
into the kingdom food. asdid the o.her dav
q Sabbath-schooi teacher. who was the means
o. the conversion Of the daughter Of man Of
immense wealth, and the daughter re-
solved TO join the church, and she went bone
aul said, Father. | am going 10 join the
church. and l want you 10 come" oh.
no be said, 4 never go to church
~ ell" said the daughter, If I were going
t. oe married would You not 90 TO see ms
marriedF' And be said. "Oh, yes Well"
sail she, this Is Of more Importance than
that
% he went AMI has gone ever since. and
loves TO 60. do no. know but that faith
ful >abbath-school teacher not only saved
Il woman, but saved a man. There may be
III this audience, gathered from all parts OF
the world, there may be a man whose be-
hay!or toward womanhood has been per-
tidl3ls. Repent Stand Up, thou master
piece OF sin and death. that | may charge
you As far a. possible make reparation.
Do not boast that you have her IN your
power aud that she cannot Ielp herself.
When that fine collar AMI cravat. and that
elegant suit of clothes comes off aud your
uncovered soul stands before TOD. You Will
IL better of If You save that woman.
here Is another exploit you can 10, ani
traits to save a child. A Guild does not
s-eia 10 amount to much. 1t is nearly a
var old before it can walk a. all. For the
1irS5 year and a half it cannot speak a word.
Per the first ten years it would starve If It
itt u earn its own fooi. For the first If
teen years its opinion on any subject is alb
so!ute!y valueless. Ann then there are 50
many % them. My, what lots or cniidreni
Ana some people have contempt for children.
Thy are good for nothing but To wear cut
tile Glrpets AMI break thing AMI keep you
awake nights crying.
NJ. your estimate or a enid Is quite
dHf rent from that mothers estimate who
lost her child this summer. They took 1t
to the salt air of the SeaShora and 10 tue
TOM air of the mountains, but no help
canle, and the brief paragraph Of its hfe IS
ended. Suppose that life could be restored
b. purchase, how much would that be-
rtaved mother give? She would take all
the Jewels from her fingers and neck and
bureau and put them down. And II told
that that was not enough she would take
her house and make over the deed for 1t,
AMI ii that were not enough she would call
mall her investments and put down all her
MORTGAGES aud bonds, and if told that We're
not enough sne woulu say: u nave mate
over all my property, andif | can have that
child back | will now pledge that | will toll
with my own hands and carry with my own
shoulders in any kind Of hard work and live
III = cellar and die in a garnet. Only give
M back that lost darling"
avn glad that there are those who know
something of a value Of a child. Its posi-
IllitieS are tremendous. What will those
HAAS vet do Where will those feet yet
vai!ss Toward what destiny will that never
! dH ~ soul Detake itself? Shall those lips be
tie throne of blasphemy or benedictlon?
Come chronoligists, and calculate the decades
on s.acades, the centuries on centuries, OF its
l~ltall!ne. Oh, to save a child. Am | not
right III putting that among the great ex-
p,a15.,
out what are you going to do with those
children vino are worse Off than il their
father and mother had die1 the day they
wereborn? There are tens of thousands OF
such. Their parentage was against them.
Their name is against them. The structure
Of their skulls is against them. Their nerves
aud muscles contaminated by the iuebriety
or dissoluteness of their parents, they are
practically at their birth laid out on q
plank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,
in an equinoctial gale, ana told to make for
shore. What to do with them is the ques.
ton often asked.
There is another question quite as perth
nent, and that is, What are they going to
do with uss 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 the anarchy and pc.
litical damnation just as sure as we neglect
them. Suppose We each one OF us save q boy
or save a girl. You can do it. VIII your
will.
How shall we get ready for one or all
Of these three exploits? We shall make d
dead failure If in our own strength We try
to save a man or wolna or child. But my
text suggests where we are to get equip
ment The people that do know 1neir
God shall be strong and do exploits We
must know Him through Jesus Christ 1n
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
x 49, a-t t-fnr on1 l1 on1
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 a wreck in the offing. and the cry was,
Man the lifeboatr' But Harry, the usual
leader of the sailors crew, was not to be-
found. and they went without him, ana
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 life
boat shouted Harry. and We will go for
that one No" said his aged mother.
standing by, you must not go. | lost
your father in a storm like this, and your
brother Will went Off six Years ago, and [
have not heard a word from Will since he
left. and | don't know where he is. poor Will,
and | cannot let yon also go, for am old
and dependent on you His reply was,
Mother, | must go and save that one man,
and If | ara lost God will take care of you i'll
your old days"
The lifeboat put out, and after an 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.
As they came within speaking distance.
Harry cried out, " saved him, and
tell mother it was brother Will" Oh,
yes. my friends, let us start out to save s,:Qs
one for time aud for eternity, some mau,
some woman, some child. And who knows
but 1t may. directly: or indirectly. be the
salvation OF one of our own kindred. and
that will be an exploit w~orthy'of celebration
when the world itself is >hlpwrecked, and
the sun has gone out like a spark rom 9