Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-08-29

terrible her going down just on the
coast. Now should not wonder II you
tremble little with sense OF respon-
sibility when say that there Is hardly
a person in this house but may have an
opportunity TO save woman. IL may
In your case be done BY good advice, or
by financial help, or BY trying 10 Dring
To bear some one OF thousand Chrls-
tian influences. ~
There Is another little exploit you
can do. and that Is to savea child. A
child does not seem TO amount To much.
II Is nearly year old before 1t can
walk ut all. For the first year and a
half IL can not speak word. For the
first ten years it would starve II II had
to earn It's own food. For the first fifteen
Years its opinion on any subject Is valu.
less. And then there are so many OF
them. My. what lots Of children. And
some people have contempt Tor chli'
dren. They are good for nothing hut
10 wear out the carpets and break things
and keep YOU awake nights crying.
Well, your estimate OF a child Is qulte
different from that mothers estimate
who lost her child this summer. they
took it to the salt air OF the seashore
and to the tonic air OF the mountains.
but no help came, and the brief
paragraph Of its life. Is ended;
Suppose that life could be restored
By purchase. 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 il told that that was not
enough, she would take her Louise and
make over the deed for 1t, and II that
were not enough. she would call in all
her investments, and put down all her
mortgages and bonds, and II told that
were not enough she would say: Il
have made over all my property anu II
| can have that child back | will now
pledge that | will toll with my own
hands and carry with my own shout
ders in any kind OF hard work, and live
in q cellar and die in garnet. Only
give me back that lost darling" / am
glad there are those who know some
thing OF the value OF child. Its posi-
bilities are tremendous. What will
those hands yet do? Where will those
feet vet walk? Toward what destiny
will that never dying soul betake itself:
Shall those lips be the throne OF bias
phemy or benedictiOn.?
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 q man, woman or child. But
my text suggests where we are to get
equipment. "The people that do know
their God shall be strong and do ex-
ploits." We must know Him through
Jesus Christ in our own salvation and
then we shall have His help in the sal
walton of others. And while you are
saving strangers you NAV save some OF
your 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.
o, yes, my friends, let us start out to
save someone for time and eternity,
some man, some woman, some child.
And who knows but it may, directly or
Indirectly, be the salvation OF one OF
our kindred, and that will be an ex-
plot worthy OF celebration when the
world itself is shipwrecked, and the sun
has gone out like spark from smit-
ten anvil, and all the stars are dead!