The Red Cloud chief., 1893-08-11

food ] prayed that they might 10
fed with mama from Heaven
When I started them on tho
road to school I prayed hat thei,
path might be as the shining light,
brighter and brighter to the pcrfcc
day. When | put them to sleep I
prayed that they might be EMBODIED in
the S%aviour's arms" 'Oh,' you say,
that was very old-fashioned." II was
quite old-fashioped. But do o sup
pose that u child under such nurture
as that ever turned out bad?
In our day most Of the boys start ont
with no idea higher than the all.cncom-
passing dollar. They start in an age
which boasts it car scratch the Lords
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 vul-
gar fractions. II seems to be their
chief attainment that ten cents make
a dime, and ten dimes make u dollar.
How To get money is only equalcd 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
artiticialitics 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 tifty-ccnt stories of ad.
%vent,rous love are delicious. With
capacity that might have rivalcd a
Florence Nightingale in heavenly min
~istries, or made the fathers house glad
with tilial and s~istcrly dcmeanor, their
life is a waste, their beauty n curse,
their eternity a demolition.
In the siege of Charleston, during the
civil war, a lieutenant Of the army
stood 81 the floor beside the daughter
OF the ex-governor of the state of South
Carolina. They were taking the vows
OF marriage. A bombshcll struck the
roof, dropped into the group, and nine
were wounded and slain; among the
wounded to death, the bride. While the
bridegroom knclt on the carpet trying
tn 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
ihlIilSttT Sdlu, VIII JIOu Dc IiltlIuk
unto DEATH" with her dying lips She
said, 81 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 IA marriage,
it is a sacrifice.
Affianced to some one who is only
waiting until his father dies, so he can
get the property; then a little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-.
liant circles; then the property is gone,
and having no power to carr a livcli.
hood, the twain sink into some corner
of society, the husband an idlcr and u
sot, the wife Il drudge, IL slave and q
sacrifice. All! spare your %denuncia.
tions from J%cphthah's head, and ex.
pend them all on this Wholesale mod.
ern martyrdom.
lit up my voice to-day against the
sacrifice Of children. | look out of my
window on II Sabbath, and | sec u
group of children, unwashcd, un.
combcd, unchristianized. Who cares
for them? Who prays for them? Who
uttcrs To them one kind word?
When the city missionary passing
along tho park in New York, saw a
ragged lad and heard him swearing, he
said to him: My son, stop swcaringI
You ought to &C to the house of God
to-day. You ought to be good; you
ought to be Il Christian" The lad
looked in his face and said: "Ah, 1t 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 tc
snatch them up from crime and death
and woe? Who to-day will go fortl
and bring them into schools an,
churches? No. Heap them up, great
piles Of rags and wrctchcdness and
filth. Put underneath them the fires
of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put ON
more fagots, and while we sit in the
churches with folded arms and indiffcr'
cnt, crime and disease and death will
go ON with the agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French revolution,
at Bourgcs there was n company of boys
who used To train every day as young
soldiers; and they carried Il flag, and
they had on the flag this inscription.
"Trcmblc, tyrants. tremble; we are
growing up" Nightly suggestive
This generation is passing of, and Il
mightier generation is coming on. vii
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. ioui
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; II will be q
/, God to thee, and to thy seed after
thee" And though when you lay YOU
head in death there may be some wan
dcrer of the family far away from God
and you may be twenty years in
Heaven before salvation shall come tC
his heart, he will be brought into the
kingdom, and before the throne of God
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