Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-31

tie Safnuels, and our parents were not fear
ful lest they could not raise US because Of
our prem allure goodness.
You cannot scold or pound your children
into nobility Of character. The bloom Of
ehlld's heart can never be seen under cold
driHzle. Above all, avoid fretting and scold-
ing in the household. Better than 10 years
OF fretting at your children is one good,
round, old fashioned application OF the
alipperi That minister Of the gospel Of
whom we read IN the newspapers that he
whipped his child to death because he
would not say his prayers will never come
~ canOnization. The srithmeiics cannot
calculate how many thousands Of children
have been ruined forever either through
too great rigor or too great leniency The
heavens and the earth are filled with the
groan OF the sacrificed. In this important
matter. seek divine direction. o father, o
mother. Some one asked the mother Of
Lord Chief Justice Mansfield II she was not
proud to have three such eminent sons, and
all Of them so good. NO. she said, lit is
nothing to be proud Of, bat something for
which to be very grateful"
Again, there are many who are sacrific-
ing their children to a spirit ofworldlincss.
Some one asked mother whose children
had turned out very well what was the Sc
cret by which she prepared them for use
fulness and for the Christian life, and she
said; This was the secret: When 10 tie
morning washed my children, prayed
that they might be washed in the fountain
Of Suyiours mercy. When put on their
garments. prayed that they might be ar.
rayed in the robe Of 5aviours righteous.
ness. When | gave them food, prayed
that they might be fed with mama from
heaven. When | started them on the road
70 school, | prayed that their path might
be as the shining light, brighter and
brighter to the perfect day. When | put
them to sleep, prayed that they might be
iniolded Ia the Saviouv's arms" oh
you say, "that was very old fashioned" It
was quite old fashioned. But do you sup
pose that child under such nurture rs
that ever turned out bad?
In our day most boys start out with no
idea higher than the all encompassing dol
lar. They start in an age which boasts it
can scratch the Lord Prayer on 10 cent
piece and the Ten Commandments on 10
cent piece. Children are taught TO reduce
morals and religion, tipe and eternity 10
vulgar fractions II seems to be their chief
attainment that 10 cents make inc aud 10
dimes make udollur How to make money
is only equaled by the other art--how 10
keep IL. Tell me, ye who know, what
chance there IL for those who start out ia
life with such perverted sentimcntsi Tho
money market rrsounds again and again
with the downfall Of such people II ! had
drop Of blood on the tip Of a pcu, would
tell you by what awful tragedy many Of
the youth Of this country are ruined.
RUINED ~ wORLDLGEss.
Further on thousands and tens Of thou.
sands Of the daughters OF America are sac
riGced to worldliuess They are taught to
be 10 sympathy with gll the artihcialities
Of society. They ure indicted into all the
hOllownes, Of what is called fashionable
life. They are taught to believe that his.
tory is dry, but that 30 cent stories of nd
yenturous lee are delicious With ca
pacity that might have riyuled a Florence
Nightingale ia heavenly ministries or made
the fathers house glad with fllial and sis.
tcrly demeahor, their life IA "a 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 intd
| the group, and nine were wounded and
slain among the wounded to death, the
! bride, While the bridegroom knelt on the
carpet trying To stHnCh the wounds the
| bride demanded that the ceremony b. com.
| peted that she might take the VOWS be.
| forc her departure, and when the minister
said, witt thou be faithful unto death ~
with her dying lips she said, Il will, - and
| In two hours she had departed. That was
the accidental slaughter and the sacrifice
OF the body, but ut thousands of marriage
affairs there are daughters slain for time
and slain for eternity. II is not mar.
riagu; 1t Is u massacre.
Aflanced to some one who is only wait.
ing until his father dies so he eau get tho
property; then little while they swing
around In the circles brilliant circles; then
the property is gone, and having no powef
to earn a livelihood the twain sink into
some corner Of society, the husband an idlcf
and u sot, the wife a drudge, II slave and a
sacrifice, All, spAN your denunCiatOns
from Jephthah's head and eNpcnd them all
on this wholesale modern martyrdom.
! lit up my voice today against the sac.
rilice OF children. look out OF my window
on Sabbath, and see group OF children
unwashed uncombed, un-Chrstiunizcd
Who cares for thcmi Who prays for themi
Who utterS to them one kind wordg
When the city missionary passing along
the park in New York saw ragged lad
aud heard him swearing, he said 10 him
MY son, stop swealiugl You ought TO ~
to the house Of God today You ought q
be good. You ought To be Christian
The lad looked In his face and said; "Ah
II Is easy for you to talk, we'll clothed As
you are, aud well fed But we chaps hiin'i
got no chance Who lifts them to til,
altar for baptism? Who goes forth e
snatch them up from crime and death and
woe' Who today will ~ forth and bring
them into schools md churches' No, Heal
thvm up, lSrat piles OF rags aud wretched
ness and filth Put underneath them III,
fires OF sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put OF
more fago;s and while we SIT in til,
churches, with folded arms and indifferent
crime and disease and death will go OF
with the agonizing sacrifice
AWFUL POSSIBILITIES or BoYHooD
During the onrly French revolution al
Bourges there was u company of boys WI,
used Ia train every day as young soldiers
and they carried dag and had on the lal
this inscription, "lrYmble, tyrants, trem
plc, we are growing up" Nightly sug.
gestivel This generation is passing OF,
and a mightier generation is coming ON.
WIN they bo the foes OF tyranny, tho foes
Of sin and the foes OF death or will they be
the foes % Godi They are coming upl
congratulate all parents who are doing
their best TO keep their children away from
the altar Of sacrifice. Your prayers are go
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