The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-08-27

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There Is another exploit you can do,
and that IL 20 save a cfdld A child
dos not seem to amount 10 much It
l. nearly year old before it can walk
at all For the first year end half it
cannot speaA "a word For the first ten
years 1t would starve If 1t had 10 earn
Us own food For the first fifteen
years its opinion on any subject is alb
soiutely valueless And then there are
20 many of them Ny what Iots of
ehildrenl And some people have con
tempt for children. They are good for
nothing but TO wear out the carpets
and break things and keep you awake
nights crying
Well, your estimate Of q child Is quite
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,
bat 90 help came, and the brief para
graph of Its life Is ended. Suppose that
life could be restored by purchase, how
much would that bereaved mother
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 In
vestments and put down all her
mortgages and bonds, and if told that
were not enough she would say: II
have made over all my property, and
If can have that child back win
now pledge that will toll with my own
hands and carry with my own shout
ders in any kind of hard work, and i've
tn cellar and die In a garnet. Only
give Inc back that lost darling!"
DIN glad that there are those who
know something of the value of child
Its possibilities are tremendous What
win those hands yet do2 Where viii
those feet yet waAh2 Toward what
destiny viii that never dying soul be-
take itself Shall those lips be the
throne of blasphemy or benedictiona
Come, chronological, ADD calculate the
decades on decides, the centuries on
centuries of its lifetime. Oh, to save
child Am not right in putting
that among the great exploits1
But what are you going to do with
those children who are worse off than
| If their father and mother had died the
day they were born9 There are tens of
thousands such. Their parentage was
against them. Their name is against
them. The structure of their skulls is
against them Their nerves and mus
cles contaminated by the inebfiety or
dissoluteness or their parents, they are
practically at 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
them Is the question often asked.
There Is another question quite as
| pertinent, and that is, what are they
going to do with us2 They will, ten or
eleven years from now, have as many
votes as the same number of well 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 girl. You can do It, VIII you2
| I VIII.
GOD WILL GIVE STRENGTH.
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 wom-
an or child. But my text suggests
where We are to get equipment. '"rhe
people thai do know their God shall be
strong and do exploits" We mst
know him through Jesus Christ in our
own salvation and then we shall have
his help Ii the salvation Of others.
And wkile you are saving strangers you
may save some of your own kin. You
think your brothers and sisters ADD
children aod grandchildren all safe,
but they axe not dead, and no one 10
safe TIL he Is decd
On the English coast there was a wild
storm and wreck In the oflng, and
the cgy was, Man the Meboatr But
Harry, the usual leader of the sailors
crew, was not to be found, apd they
went without him, and brought back
an the shipwrecked people but one.
By this time Harry, the leader OF the
crew. appeared and said, why dA
you leave that oneg' The answer was,
He could not help himself at oil, and
we could not get him into the boat. n
Man the lifeboatl" shouted Harry,
"and we win go for that one"
No" said bis aged mother, stand
ing by, you must not go. / lost your
father in q storm like this, and your
brother VIII went off six years ago,
and have not heard word from win
since he left, and I don't know where
he b, poor VIII, and cannot let you
also go, for am Old and dependent on
You" His reply was, Mother, must
60 and save that ooe na<n, and If am
lost God win take care of you in your
old days"
The afeboat 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, and as they came within
speaking distance Harry cried out, I'VE
saved him, and tell mother it was
brother Will" Oh, yes, my friends,
let us start out to save some one for
time end for eternity-some man, some
woman, some child And who knows
but it may, directly or indirectly, be
the salvation of one of our own kin
dred, and that will be an exploit worthy
of celebration when the world itself is
shpwrecked, and the sun has gone ont
like spark from smitten anvil, and
an the stars are dead
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