The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

with Your own had temper We must not
. be too minute iu our Inspection We
cannot expect our children 10 be perfect
. We must not see everything since we
. have two or three faults OF our own, we
. ought not TO be too rough when we dis
cover that our children have as many. If
tradition be true. when we We're children
. we were not all little SamuelS, and our
parents were not fearful lest they could
not raise US because of our premature
+ goodness.
You cannot scold or pound your chill
dren into nobility of character. The
bloom OF "a child's heart can never be seen
. under "a cold drizzle Above all. avoid
frettiug and scOldiug in the household.
Better than ten years of fretting at your
I children is one good. round, Old-fashiOned
/ application of the slipper! That minister
/ of the gospel of whom we read in the
/ newspapers that he whipped his child 10
/ death because he would not say his pray
I ers, will never come to CanonizatiOn. The
] arithmeties cannot calculate how many
I thousands Of children have been ruined
/ forever either through too great rigOr or
. too great leuienCy. The heavens and the
earth are filed with the groan of the sac
ritced. in this important matter. seek
/ divine direction, 0 father, O mother
/ Some one asked the mother of Lord Chief
/ Justice Mansfield if she was nO5 proud to
I have three such eminent 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 saCri-
ficing their children to spirit Of world
illness Some one asked a mother
whose children had turned ont very well,
what was the secret by which she pre-
pared them for usefulness and for the
| Christian life, and she said, This was
the secret: When in the morning,
washed my children, / prayed that they
might be washed in the fountain of a Say
ior's mercy. When l put on their gar
ments, I prayed that they might be ar
rayed in the robe Of a Saviour's righteous
ness. When ! gave them food, ! prayed
that they might be fed with mama 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 perfect day. When
put them to sleep, ] prayed that they
might be EMBODIED in the Saviour's arms. ~
oh" you say, shat was very old-fash
toned. - II was quite old-fashioned. But
do YOU suppose that a child under such
nurture as that ever turned out bad2
In our day most boys start out with no
idea higher than the all-encompassing
dollar. They start in an age which boasts
il can scratch the Lord 8 Prayer on a ten
cent piece, and the Ten Commandments
on a ten-cent piece. Children are taught
to reduce morals and religion time and
eternity, to vulgar fractions. 1t seems to
be their chief attainment that ten cents
make a dime, and ten dimes make a
dollar How 10 get money is only equaled
by the other art, how to keep IT, Tell
Inc. We who know, what chance there is
for those who start out in life with such
perverted scntiments2 The money mar
ket resounds again aud again with the
\ Fs,1 - Tg
of blood on the tip Of pen, 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
sacrificed to worldliness. They are taught
to be in sympathy with all the artificial
ties of society. They are indicted into
all the hollOwness of what is called fash
ionable life. They are taught to believe
that history is dry, but that 5O-cent stories
of adventurous love are delicious With
capacity that might have rivaled Flor
ence Nightingale in heavenly ministries
or made the fathers house glad with filial
and sisterly demeanor their life is a
waste, their beauty curse, their eternity
a 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 Caro-
lima. They were taking the vows of mar
rage. A bombshell struck the roof,
dropped into the group, and nine were
wounded and slain; among the wounded
to death, the bride. While the bride
groom lnelt on the carpet trying to stanch
the wounds, the bride demanded that the
ceremony be completed, that she might
take the vows before her departure; and
when the minister said, wilt thou be
faithful unto deathl" with her dying lips
she said, II will" and in two hours she
had departed That was the accidental
slaughter and the sacrifice of the body;
but at thousands of marriage-altars there
are daughters slain for time and slain for
eternity. 1t is not n marriage; it is
massacre.
Affianced to some one who is only wait
ing until his father dies, so he can get the
property; then little while they swing
around in the circles, brilliant circles;
then the property is gone, and having no
power to earn a livelihood, the twain
sink into some corner of society, the hus-
band an idler and a sot, the wife
drudge, a slave and sacrifice. All spare
your denunciations from Jephthah's
head, and eXpend them all on this whole
sale modern martyrdom.
l lift up my voice to-day against the
sacrifice of children. | look out of my
window on a Sabbath day, and | see a
group of children, unwashed, uncombed
unchristanized Who cares for them?
Who utters to them one kind word
When the city missionary, passing
along the park in New York, saw a
ragged 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 baptism2
Who goes forth 10 snatch them up from
crime ana death and woe2 Who to-day
will go forth and bring them into schools
and churches3 No. Heap them up great
piles of rags and wretchedness and filth.
Put underneath them the fires of sacri-
fee, stir up the blaze, put on more fag-
OTIS, and while we sit in the churches
with folded arms and Indifferent, crime
and disease and death will go on with the
agOniZing sacrifice.
During the early French revolution at
BOurgeS there was a company of bows
who used TO train every day as young
soldiers and they carried flag, and
they had on the flag this inscriptions
"Tremble tYrants, trCmble; we are grow
up Nightly suggestivei This gen
GRAFTON is passing OF, and mightier gen
GRAFTON is coming on. VIII they be the
foes of tyranny, the foes of sin and the
foes of death. or will they be the foes of