The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-08-04

their garments prayed that tney mAGns
be arrayed in the robe of Saviours
righteousness. When 1 gave them
food 1 prayed that they might De
fed with mama from Heaven.
When 1 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 l put them to sleep l
prayed that they might be EMBODIED in
the Saviour's arms" 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?
In our day most of the boys start out
with no idea higher than the all-encom-
passing dollar. They start in an age
which boasts it can scratch the Lords
Prayer on ten cent piece, and the len
Commandments on a ten cent piece
Children are taught to reduce morals
and religion, time and eternity to vul-
gar fractions 1t seems to be their
chief attainment that ten cents make
a dime, and ten dimes make dollar
How to get money is only equaled oy
the other art, how to keep it.
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
artificialities of society. They are
| indicted into all the hollowness OF
what if called fashionable life. They
are taught to believe that history Is
dry, but that fifty-cent stories of ad-
venturous love are delicious. With
capacity that might have rivaled
Florence Nightingale in heavenly min
istries. or made the fathers house glad
with filial and sisterly demeanor. their
life is a waste their beauty curse,
their eternity demolition.
In the siege of Charleston, during the
civil war. lieutenant of the army
stood on the floor beside the daughter
of the ex-governor of the state of South
Carolina They We're taking the vows
OF marriage. A bombsheu 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 de-
manded that the ceremony be COM
pleted, that she might take the vows
before her departure. and when the
minister said. wilt 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 at thousands of marriage affairs
there are daughters slain for time and
slain for eternity. 1t is not a marriage,
it is sacrifice.
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 llvell
hood, the twain sink into some corner
of society, the husband an idler and a
sot, the wife drudge. a slave and
sacrifice. All! spare your denuncia
, tions from Jephthah's head, and ex
pend them all on this wholesale mod
I ern martyrdom.
p lift up my voice to-day against the
, sacrifice of children. l look out of my
. window on a Sabbath. and l see
Il Oh uh I" ekSASAs 49,
: combed. unchristianized. Who cares
, for them? Who prays for them? Wh'
p utters to them one kind word?
: When the city missionary passing
along the park in New York. saw ;
:, ragged lad and heard him swearing. n
said to him: My son, stop swearing
n You ought to go to the house of Coz
f to-day. You ought to be good; yo'
, ought to be Christian The lac
looked in his face and said: ''Ah. it i
easy for you to talk. weliclothed as vol
! are. and well-fed: but we chaps hahn
:, got no chance" Who lifts them to tn
h altar for baptism? Who goes forth t
r snatch them up from crime and dealt
a and woe? Who to-day will go fort
:. and bring them into schools AM
q churches? No. Heap them up, grea
, | piles of rags and wretchednesS AM
q filth. Put underneath them the fire
of sacrifice. stir up the blaze. put o.
% more fagots. and while we sit in tn
: churches with folded arms and indiffe1
- | ent, crime and disease and death vii
"a 90 on with the agonizing sacrifice
= During the early French revolution
= at Bourges there was a company OF boy
who used to train every day as youn
a soldiers: and they carried flag, an
y ! they had on the flag this Inscription
= .sTremble, tyrants. tremble: we ar
- growing up Nightly suggestive
r. This generation is passing off. and
y miphtier generation is coming on. Wi
A they be the foes of tyranny, the foes c
= sin and the foes of death, or will the
"a be the foes of God? They are comm
e up.
n l congratulate all parents who ar
70 doing their best to keep their childre
n away from the altar of sacrifice. You
~ prayers are going to be answered
10 Your children may wander ava
a from God. but they will come bac
A again. A voice comes from the thron
N to-day, encouraging you: Il will be
~ God to thee. and to thy seed afte
pr thee And though when you lay you
70 head in death there may be some wal
$ dsrer of the family far away from Coz