The Penn's Grove record., 1891-09-04

power and that abe cannot help herself.
When that fine collar and cravat, and that
elegant suit Of clothes CONTEST of and your
uncovered soul stands before God, you will
be better on II you ave that woman.
There ID another exploit you can do, and
that Il to save = child. A child does not
seem to amount to much. Il 10 nearly q
year old before II can walk at all. For the
brat year and Q half It cannot speak q word.
For the first ten years 1t would starve II ID
had TO earn Its own food. For the first hf-
teen years its opinion on any subject is alb
many OF them. Ny, what lots Of childreni
And some people . contempt 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 o child u quite
different from that mothers estimate who
lost her child this summer. They took it
ionic air Of the mountains, but no help
same, and the brief paragraph OF its life II
pnded. Suppose that life could be restored
BY purchasa, how much would that be-
rsavsd mother etvei She would take all
the jewels from her ingsrs and neck and
bureau and put them down. And II told
that that wa not enough she would take
and II that were not enough she would call
m-orteaess and honda and Il told that were
not enough she would say: II rave made
,ver all my property, andf oan ave that
child back ! win now pledge that / will toll
with my own hands and carry with my own
.houldsrs in any Kind Of hard work and live
me back that lost darlngr
I am glad that there are those who know
pomsthing Of . value Of . child. Its posi-
bdlities are tremendous. What will those
hands yet dor Where Will those feet yet
walki Toward what destiny will that never
lying soul betaks ftselff Shall those lips be
the throne of ~blasphemy or benedictionf
on decades, tie centuries on centuries, Of its
lifetime. On, to nave Q child Am I not
right in putting that among the great ex-
ploitsf
But what are you going to do with those
children who are worse of than ii their
father and mother had died the day they
we're borns There are tens Of thousands Of
such. Their parentage was against them.
Their name 10 against them. The structure
Of their skulls Is against them. Their nerves
and muscles contaminated by the inehriety
or ~dissoluteness Of their parents; they are
practically at their birth laid out on q
plank in tho middle OF the Atlantic Ocean,
In an equiuoctial gale, and told to make for
shore. What to do with thsmis the ques-
ton often asked.
There Is another question quite as perth
do with usf They will, ten or eleven years
from now, have as many votes az the same
number Of well born children, n they will
hand this land over to the anarchy and po-
litical damnation just a. sure a. we neglect
them. Suppose we each n Of rs rave 9 boy
Or q W . girl. You can do 1t. VIII youf
I will.
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Of these three exploitsf We shall make q
dead failure II In our " strength we Try
TO save . man or woman or child. But my
text suggests where we are to get equip
ment. .Ths people that do know their
God shall be strong and do exploits" We
must know Him through Jesus Christ In
bur own salvation, and then we shall have
His help In the salvation of others And
while you are saving strangers you may
ave some OF your own kin You think
your brothers and sisters and children and
grandchildren ali safe, but they are not
lead, and NO one Il safe till he 10 dead. On
the English coast there was . wild storm
and . wreck In the oflng, and the cry was,
..Man the lifsboatf' But Harry. the usual
found. and they went without him, and
brought back all the shipwrecked people but
By this time Harry, the leader of the
crew, appeared and said, "Why did you
leave that oner' The answer was, "He
could not help himself 1t all, and we could
not get him into the boat Man the life
boatf' shouted Harry, and we will go for
that one." '.No," said his aged mother,
standing by, you must not 60. / lost
your father In . storm liks this, and your
brother win went Oh six years ago, and l
have not heard q word from Will since he
left, and / don't know where he is poor VII,
and 1 cannot let you also GO. for l am old
and dependent on you" His reply was,
mother, I must go and save that one man,
and II / am lost God will a k care Of you in
your old days.
The lifeboat put out, and after an awful
struggle with the SEA they picked thu poor
fellow out Of the rigging just in time to
ave his life, and started for the shore.
As they came within speaking distance,
Harry cried out. 1--WE saved him, and
mother 1t was brother Will" Oh,
yes. my friends, let us start out to q v aome
one for time and for eternity, some mao,
some woman, some child. And who knows
but It may, directly or indirectly, be the
salvation Of one Of u own kindred, and
that will be an exploit worthy of celebration
when the world itself Il ~shipwrecked, and
the sun has gone out like a spark from a
smitten anvil, and all the stars are deadi