The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-08-17

arms" ooh" you say, 'that was very old
fashioned" It was quite old fashioned. But
do you suppose that child under sucn
| nurture as that ever turned out bad2
In our day most boys start out with no
| idea higher than the all encompassing dol
lar. They start in an age which boasts 1t can
scratch the Lords Prayer on 10 cent piece,
and the Ten Commandments on 10 cent
piece Children are taught to reduce morals
and religion time and eternity, to vulgar
fractions. 1t seems to be their chief attain
nent that 10 cents make adime, and 10 dimes
make dollar. How to get money is only
equaled by the other art, how to keep it,
Tell me, ye who know, what chance there is
for those who start out in life with such
perverted sentiments? The money market
resounds again and again with the downfall
of such people. If / had drop OF blood on
the tip of pen, l would tell you by what
awful tragedy many of the youth of this
country are ruined.
Further on thousands and tens of thou
sands of the daughters OF America are sacrl-
feed to wordliness. They are taught to be IN
sympathy with all the artificialitles OF society.
They are induced into all the hollowness OF
what is called fashionable LIE. Ihey are
taught to believe that history is dry, but that
50-cent stories OF adventurous love are deli
cious With capacity that might have rivaled
A Florence Nightingale in heavenly minis
tries, or made the fathers house glad with
flial and sisterly demeanor, their life IS
waste. their beauty a 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-Gov-
ernor of the State of South Carolina. They
were taking the vows of marriage. bomb
shell 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 carpet trying TO
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
,hou be faithful unto DEATH" with her dying
pips she said II will" and in two hours she
aad departed. That was the accidental
daughter and the sacrifice OF the BODY, but
1t thousands of marriage affairs there are
daughters slain for time and slain for etern-
ty. 1t is not marriage it is massacre:
Affianced to some one who is only waiting
lntil his father dies so he can get the prop
,rty Then a little while they swing around
IN the circles brilliant circles. Then the
property is gone. and having no power to
earn livelihood the twain sink INTO some
corner of society-the husband an ldler and
sot. the wife a drudge, slave and sacrl-
fee All. spare your denunciations from
Jephthah's head and expend them all on
this wholesale modern martyrdom
lift up my voice to-day against the sacri-
fee OF children. | look out OF my window on
a Sabbath and see a group of children--un-
washed uncombed un-Christianized. VINO
cares for them? Who prays for them! VINO
utters to them one kind word?
When the city missionary passing along
the park in New York saw q ragged lad ana
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 a 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 haint got no chance :. VINO
lifts them 10 the altar for baptism? Who
goes forth to snatch them up from crime
md death and woe? Who today Will go
forth and bring them into schools and
churches? No. Heap them up. great plies
of rags and Indebtedness and filth. Put
underneath them the fires OF sacrifice, str
up the blaze, put on more fagots, and while
we sit in the churches with folded arms and
Indifferent crime and disease and death Will
20 on with the agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French Revolution at
Bourges there was company OF boys VINO
nsed TO train every day as young soldiers,
and thew carried a flag, and they had on the
lag this inscription ''Irembie, tyrahts,
lrembe We are growing up" Nightly
suegestivel This generation is passing OH,
and a mightier generation is coming on.
Will they be the foes of tyranny. the Toes OF
sin. and the foes of death, or will they be the
[oes of God? They are coming up
I congratulate all parents who are DONG
heir best TO keep their children away
rom the altar of sacrifice. Your prayers
ire going to be answered. Your chill
iren may wander away from God, but
;hey will come back again. voice comes
rom the throne to-day encouraging
you. II will be God to thee, and to
Inv seed after thee" And though when
you Law your head in death there may be
some wanderer OF the family far away from
God and you may be 90 years in heaven be-
lore salvation shall come to his heart. he
will be brought into the kingdom, and be-
fore the throne of God you will rejoice that
YOU were faithful. Come at last, although
so long postponed his coming. Come at
last
| congratulate all those who are toiling Tor
the outcast and wandering. Your work VIII
soon be over but the influence you are setting
in motion will never stop. Long after you
have been garnersd for the skies your pray
ers, your teachings and your Christian lntiu-
ence will go ON and help to people heaven
with bright inhabitants.
Which would you rather see-whlch scene
would you rather mingle i'll in the last great
day-being able to say, II added mousse 10
house and land to land and mandatory TO
mandatory Il owned half the city what
ever nv eyes saw had, whatever l wanted
| got ;" or on that day 10 have Christ look
YOU full in the face and say, 81 was hungry,
and We fed Me :; 1 was naked, and ye clothed
Me; / was sick and in prison, and ye visited
Me inasmuch as ye did it to the least OF My
brethren. We did it to Me?'