The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-08-11

brighter and brighter to the perfect
day. When 1 put them to sleep |
prayed that they might be embodied in
the Saviour's arms" ''Oh," you say,
shat 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 Ten
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 by
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 adj
venturous love are delicious. With
capacity that might have rivaled a
Florence Nightingale in heavenly min
istries. or made the fathers house glad
with tilial 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
Carolina. They We're 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 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 marriage,
il is a sacrifice.
Affianced to some one who is only
waiting until his father dies, so he can
get the property: then n little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-
liant circles: then the property is gone,
and having no power to earn a liveli-
hood, the twain sink into some corner
of society, the husband an idler and a
sot, the wife drudge, slave and a
sacrifice. All. spare your denuncia-
tions from Jephthah's head, and ex-
pend them all on this wholesale mod
ern martyrdom.
lift up my voice to-day against the
sacrifice of children. | look out of my
window on Sabbath, and l see a
group OF children, unwashed, I'M
combed, unchristianized. Who cares
for them? Who prays 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 so 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 wretchedness and
filth. Put underneath them the fires
of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put on
msre fagots, and while we sit in the
churches with folded arms and indiffer-
ent, crime and disease and death will
go on with the agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French revolution,
at Bourges there was 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, tyrants. tremble: we are
growing up" Nightly suggestive!
This generation is passing OF, and a
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.
| 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, encouraging you: Il will be
God to thee. and TO thy seed after
thee" And though when you lay your
head in death there may be some wan
derer of the family far away from God,
and YOU may he twenty years in
Heaven befC IL salvation shall come to
his heart. he will be brought into the
kingdom, and before the throne of God
you will rejoice that you were faithful.
Come at last, although so long post
DOueu lis NtaiiC db Adob.
congratulate all those who are toll
for the outcast and the wandering.
Your work will soon be over. but the
influence you are setting in motion
will never stop. Long after you have
been garnered for the skies your
prayers, your teachings and your Chris
tian influence will go on and help to
people Heaven with bright inhabit-
ants
Which would you rather see?-whic h
scene would you rather mingle in in
the last day-being able to say, Il
added house to house, and land to
land, and mandatory to mandatory;
/ owned half the city; whatever my
eyes saw l had; whatever l wanted l
GOT" or, on that day to have Christ
II s.,