The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-08-28


than bad vyomanhood Is deep down
The Erander the palace, the more av-
full the condagratiOn that destroys it
Now should not wonder If you trem-
bled a little with a sense of Responsibility /
when say there is hardly a person In |
this house but may have an opportunity /
to save a woman
If, for instance, you find q woman in /
financial distress and breaking down |
in health and spirits trying to support |
her children, now that her husband is /
dead or an invalid, doing that very inn /
/ portant and honorable worlz-but which /
/ Is little appreciated-lEeepiug a board ]
! ing house. busy yourselves in try ing to !
| get he- more patrons, and tell her
/ of divine sympathy. Yea, if you see a /
woman favored in fortune and with all
I kindly surroundings, finding in the
| hollow batteries of the world her chief
regalemeut, living for herself and
| for time as If there were no eternity,
strive to bring her into the king
/ dom Of God, as did the other day Sab
/ bath school teacher who was the means
| of the conversion of the daughter Of a
| man of immense wealth, and the
| daughter resolved to Join the church,
/ and she went home and said; Father,
/ I am going to join the church, and 1
| want You TO come" 30, no" he said.
Il never go to church" ''Weu," said
the daughter, 'if were going to be
/ married would you not go to see me
married?" And he said, 30, yes"
''Wel, said she, ''this is of more im-
l Portanee than that" So he went and
has gone ever since, and loves to go.
| There is another little exploit you
can do, and that is to save a child. A
| child does not seem to amount to much
! 1t is nearly a year old before it can
| walk at all For the first year and
/ half it cannot speak "a word For the
Grst ten years it would starve if it had
I tn ff=f Cd 10 f
teen years its opinion on any subject is
absolutely valueless- And then there
are so many Of them. Ny! what lots
of children! And some people have
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
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, but no help came,
and the brief paragraph of its life is
ended. Suppose that life could be re-
stored by purchase, how much would
that bereaved mother give? I am glad
/ that there are those who know some
thing of the value of child It's pos
sibilities are tremendous. What will
those hands yet do? Where viii those
, | feet yet walk?
Come, chronologists, and calculate
the decades on decades, the centuries
on centuries, of its lifetime. o, to save
a chiIdl Am not right in putting that
among the great exploits? But what
are you going to do with those children
I who are worse off than if their fathers
l and mothers had died the day they
: were born? There are tens of thou
/ sands of such. Their parentage was
against them. Their name is against
! them. The structure of their skulls
l | against them. Their nerves and mus
! eles contaminated by the inebriety or
! dissoIuteness Of their parents; they are
I | practically at their birth laid out on a
{ plank in the middle of the Atlantic
= | ocean, in an equinoctial gale, and told to
a | make for shore. What to do with them
Is the question often asked. There is
: another question quite as pertinent
= and that is what they are going to dc
; with us? They Will, ten or eleven
i years from now, have as many votes as
o the same numbe Of well born children,
y and they wilt hand this land over tc
. anarchy and political damnatiOn just
Z as sure as we neglect them, Suppose
we each one of us save boy or save q
n girl You can do it. VIII you? I Will
q On the English coast there was q
u wild storm, and a wreck in the ofing,
h and the cry was; ''Mau the Itfeboatv
! But Harry, the usual leader of ths
n ! sailors crew, was not to be found, and
a they went without him, and brought
r back all the shipwrecked people but
|" one BY this time Harry, the leader Oi
g the crew, appeared and said: why die
a you leave that one?" The answer was
? He could not help himself at all, and
p we could not get him into the boat 81
IS Man the feboat!' shouted Harry,
e ''and we will go for that one" ''NO,
II / said his aged mother, standing by, styOJ
B; must not go, I lost your father in
storm like this, and your brother VII
II went off six years ago, and have no
t heard a word from VIII since he left
ir and 1 don't know where he is, pool
! win, and 1 cannot let you also go, FOL
y I am old and dependent on you" His
], reply was: Mother, I must go and
e save that one man, and if 1 am lost
r God will take care of You in your ok
r days" The life boat put out, and afte
II an awful struggle with the sea thsl
-e picked the poor fellow out of the rig
ID giug Just in time to save his life, ans
y started for the shore And as the,
lie came within speaking distance Harr1
? cried out; 1--WE saved him, and tel
ID mother it was brother VIII"
Y How shall we get ready for one or al
Is of these three exploits? We shall max
N a dead failure II in our own strengtl
" we try to save a man or woman or child
d But my text suggests where we are t'
ID get equipment THE people that c,
y know their God shall De strong and d,
1t exploits" And while you arc savini
n strangers you may save some of You
a. own kin
I o, yes my friend, let us start out Z
g save someone for time aud eternity
i some man, some woman some child
ID And who knows but IL may, directly o
re indirectly, be the salvation OF one o
ie our own kindred, aud that viii be e.
I exploit worthy Of celebration when th
In world itself is shipwreclzed, and the su
eF has gone out like a spark from srnii
"a ten anvil, and all the stars are desdI
Yielded the FIeid 20 tho Bear.
An Owcgo gentleman, while Quisti
- casting his artificial flies for trout o.
= the Cheisey saltwater on the West Car