The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-08-11

iACeAcS can not calculate now many
thousands of children have been ruined
forever either through too great rlgor
or too great leniency. The Heavens
and the earth are filed with the groan
OF the sacrificed. In this important
matter. seek Divine direction. father,
. mother. Some one asked the mother
OF Lord Chief-Justice Mansfield IL she
was not proud to have three such emf
nent sons, and all of them SO good.
NO" she said, 1T is nothing to be
proud of, but something for which to
be very grateful"
Again, there are many who are sac
rificing their children to spirit OF
worldliness- Someone asked mother
whose children had turned out very
well, what was the secret by which she
prepared them for usefulness and for
the Christian life, and she said: '"This
was the secret: When in the morning |
washed the children prayed that they
might be washed in the fountain of a
Saviour's mercy, When put on their
garments prayed that they might be
arrayed in the robe of a Saviour's
Righteousness. When / gave them food
prayed that they might be fed with
mamma from Heaven. When / started
them on the road to school | prayed
that their path might be as the shining
light, brighter and brighter to the per-
feet day. When I put them to sleep I
prayed that they might be EMBODIED in
the Saviour's arms" s.Oh," you say,
that was very old-fashioned. 1t was
quite old-fashioned. But do you sup
pose that child under such nurture as
that ever turned out bad?
Further on, thousands and tens of
thousands of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They are
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artifcialities of society. They are in
Quoted into all the hollowness of what
is called fashionable life. They are
taught to believe that history is dry,
but that fifty-cent stories of adventur-
Gus love are delicious. With capacity
that might have rivaled Florence
Nightingale in Heavenly ministries, or
made the fathers house glad with
filial and sisterly demeanor, their life is
waste, their beauty curse, their
eternity demolition.
In the siege of Charleston, during
the civil war, a lieutenant of the army
stood on the floor beside the daughter
of the ex-governor of the state of South
Carolina. They were taking the vows
of marriage. A bombshell struck the
roof, dropped into the group, and nine
were wounded and slain; among the
wounded to death, the bride, while
the bridegroom knelt on the car
pet trying Stanch the wounds,
the bride demanded that the
ceremony be completed, that she
might take the vows before her de-
parture, and when the minister said:
"Wilt thou be faithful unto death?"
with her dying lips she said, 81 will"
and in two hours she had departed.
That was the accidental slaughter and
the sacrifice of the body, but at thou
sands of marriage affairs slain for time
and slain for eternity. 1t is not mar
riage, it is a massacre.
Affianced to some one who is only
waiting until his father dies, so he can
get the property: then little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-
liant circles; then the property is gone,
and having no power to earn liveli-
hood, the twain sink into some corner
of Society the husband an idler and a
sot, the wife a drudge, a slave and a
sacrifice. ALI spare your denuncia-
tons from Jephthah's head, and expend
them all on this wholesale modern
martyrdom.
When the city missionary passing
ged lad and heard him swearing, he
said to him: my son, stop swearing!
You ought to go to the house of God
to-day. You ought to be good; you
ought to be Christian" The lad
looked in his face and said: ''Ah, it is
easy for you to talk, well clothed as
you are, and well fed; but we chaps
hain't got no chance" Who lifts them
to the altar for baptism? Who goes
forth to snatch them up from crime
and death and woe? Who to-day will
go forth and bring them into schools
and churches? No. Heap them up,
great piles of rags and Indebtedness
and filth. Put underneath them the !
fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put |
on more fagots, and while we sit in the |
churches with folded arms and indif-
ferent, crime and disease and death |
will go on with the agonizing sacrifice. |
q During the early French revolution,
at Bourges there was a company of boys |
who used to train every day as young
soldiers; and they carried a flag, and |
they had on the flag this inscription: |
''Tremble tryants, tremble, we are
growing up" Nightly suggestivef |
This generation is passing off, and |
mightier generation is coming on. Will |
they be the foes of tyranny, the foes of |
sin and the foes of death, or will they |
be the foes of God? They are coming |
up!
l congratulate all parents who are |
doing their best to keep their children |
away from the altar of sacrifice. Your |
prayers are going to be answered. |
Your children may wander away from |
God, but they will come back again. A |
voice comes from the throne to-day, en-
couraging you: 81 will be a God to thee, |
and to thy seed after thee" And |
though when you lay your head in death
there may be some wanderer of the /
family far away from God, and you
may be twenty years in Heaven before
salvation shall come to his heart, he |
will be brought into the kingdom and
before the throne of God you will re-
ioice that you were faithful. Come at
last, although so long postponed his
coming. Come at last!
congratulate all those who are toll
ing for the outcast and the wandering. |
Your work will soon be over, but the
influence you are setting in motion will
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