News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-08-03
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culate now many thousands oe S''i!io u GU
have been ruined forever ait, Vi chllareH
too great rigor or too o an'ner through
The heavens and the earth nth a lenlf ai1od
with the groan of the sacrif in are nIie :
important matter seek d iv;nou l. IN tnlS
o father, . mother. SOM mo ulrectl I3
the mother of Lord Chief Jns one t askea
field if she was not proud - @I % MANS
such eminent sons and all Of % +hon onle 60
good. NO, she said, sit is notbin ne 10 6 b
proud of, but something for whia 70 b be
very grateful" "nicn 10 10
Again, there are manv who
ficing their children to a sni iE are sacrI-
illness. Some one asked a moth VI "olIu-
children had turned out very wei, w what
was the secret by which she wei. a, mnaS
them for usefulness and for tb ba1 T%,.iS
tan life, and she said: seTbis 'ne onl lis
secret. When in the mornina, was a, 'n1
nv children, I prayed that a. wa a.lat
be washed in the fountain of SS, lnign
mercy. When put on their garments rr 1er,t :
l prayed that they might be aTr 49, ir
the robe of a Saviour's rightao',a ~ g,
When I gave them food, I praTod tisa+
they might be fed with manna -" e rn,o'
heaven. When started them -'' - II az a.,
road to school, I prayed that tbo; un ~ otG
might be as the shining light, BRIGHTER p
and brighter to the perfect day When
I put them to sleep, I prayed that +h how
might be EMBODIED in the Saviour'g arms :,
ooh" you say, "that was very old fash
;oned." 1t was quite old fashioned D.: Pn+
do YOU suppose that child under such
nurture as that ever turned out bad9
TOO MUCH wORLDIINEss
In our day most boys start out will, no
idea higher than the all encomnassino
dollar. They start in an age which
boasts it can scratch the Lords praynr
on a 10 cent piece, and the Ten Com-
mandments on 10 cent piece. Children
are taught to reduce morals and religion
time and eternity, to vulgar fractions
1t seems to be their chief attainment
that 10 cents make dime, and 10 dimes
make a dollar. How to get money is
only eoualed by the other art, how TO
keep it. Tell me, ye who know, what
chance there is for those who start ont
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 tin of a
pen, l would tell you by what awful
tragedy many of the youth of this coun-
try are ruined.
Further on thousands and tens of thou
sands of the daughters of America are
sacrifeed to worldliness. They are taught
to be in sympathy with all the artifciali-
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 so cent sto-
ries of adventurous 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 waste, their beauty a curse, their
eternity demolition.
SLAIN AT THE ALTAR.
In the siege of Charleston, during the
civil war, lieutenant of the army stood
ex-governor of the state of South Caro-
lima. They were taking the VOWS of
marriage. A bombshell struck the roof
dropped into the group, and nine were
wounded and slain; among the wounded
10 death, the bride. While the bride,
groom 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 thou be faithful unto death?" with
her dying lips she said, 81 WILL" and in
two hours she had departed. That was
the accidental slaughter and the sac.
rifce of the body, but at thousands Of
marriage affairs there are daughters slain
for time and slain for eternity. 1t is moi
marriage; it is massacre.
Affianced to some one who is only
waiting until his father dies SO he car
get the property. Then little while
they swing around iDutbe circles, bril-
llalfs-s = - so4',
and having no power to earn a liveli
hood the twain sink into some corner d
society-the husband an idler and sot
the wife drudge, slave and a sacrifice
All, spare your denunciations from Jeph.
thah's head and expend them all on this
wholesale modern martyrdom!
1 lift up my voice today against the
sacrifice of children. I look out of my
window on Sabbath and l see a grour
of children-unwashed, uncombed, IN.
Christianized. Who cares for them
Who prays for them? Who utters tc
them one kind word?
THE STREET ARAB.
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 swearingl You ought tc
go to the house of God today. Youought
to be good. You ought to be Chris
tian." The lad looked in his face andsaid
"Ah, it is easy for you to talk well
clothed as you are and well fed, bot we
chaps hain't got no CHANGER Who lifts
them to Tic altar for baptismi Who
goes forth to snatch them up from crime
and death aE woe? Who today will &c
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 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 al
Bourges there was company of bows
who used to train every day as youna
soldiers, and they carried a FLAG. and tbeI
had on the flag this inscription: "Trem
BILE, tyrants, tremblel We are GROWING
up" Nightly suggestive! This pen.
Grafton is passing off, and a miehtie,
generation is coming ON. Will thew he
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!
I congratulate all parents who are do
ing their best to keep their children
away from the altar of sacrifice. Won,
prayers are going to be answered Won,
children may wander away from God
but they will come back again. Avoicf
comes from the throne today encourage
ing you, Il will be a-God to thee. and f.
thy seed after thee" And though wher
you lay your head in death there NAV he
some wanderer of the family far away
from God, and you may be 20 years II
heaven before salvation shall como r.
his heart, he will be brought into tbf
kingdom, and before the throne of Cod
you will rejoice that you were faithful
Come at last, although SO long post.
poned his coming. Come at lastI
CHEER FOR THE ToILFRs
congratulate all those who oro toll
ing for the outcast and the wando,.;,,C,
Your work will soon be over. bnt the i1.
fuence you are setting in mot;on vii
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