Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-08-11

arms. oh" you say. "that Was very old
/ fashioned. 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
4 idea higher than the all eneompassing dol
/ lar. They start IN an ago which boasts IL can
Z scratch the Lords Prayer on 10 cent piece
and the Ten Commandments on a 10 cent
piece. Children are taught to reduce morals
ani religion, time and eternity. TO vulgar
i fractions. II seems to be their chief attain
I ment that 10 cents make a dime, and 10 dimes
make dollar. How to get money u only
/ equalsd by the other art. how TO keep it,
/ Tell me. We who know, what chance there is
/ for those who start out in life with such
\ perverted s-ntiments2 The money market
resOunds again and again with the downfall
| OF such people. II had a drop 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 sacri-
iiced to wordliness. They are taught to De in
sympathy with all the artihcialities OF society.
They are induced into all the hollownsss OF
what Is called fashionable life They are
taught to believe that history Is dry, but that
50-cent stories OF adventurous love are deli
cious. With capacity that might have rivaled
a Florence Nightingale in heavenly minis
tries, or made the fathers house glad with
tilial and sisterly demeanOr their life is a
waste, their beauty curse their eternity a
demolition.
In tho siege OF Charleston. during the
Civil War q Lieutenant OF the army stood on
the floor beside the daughter OF the ex- Gov
ernor OF the State OF south Carolina. They
were taking the vows OF marriage bomb
shell 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 demanded that
the ceremony be completed, that she
might take the vows before her Lie
parture. and when the minister said, ''Wlt
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 altars there are
daughters slain for time and slain for etern-
ity. II Is not marriage II Is q massacre.
Aifianced to some one who Is only waiting
until his father dies so he can get the prop
erty. Then Il little while they swing around
IN the circles, brilliant circles Then the
property il gone, and having no power 10
earn livelihood the twain sink into some
corner OF society-the husband an idler and
a sot, the wife drudge, slave and a sacri-
flee All. spare your denuncisiions from
Jephthah's head and eIpend them all on
this wholesale modern mart yrdom
lift up my voice to-day against the sacri-
Ace OF children look out Of my window on
a Sabbath and see a group OF children-un-
washed, uncombed. un-Christianized. Who
cares for them? Who prays for them? Who
utters 10 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 10 him. my
son, stop swearing You ought TO go 10 the
house OF God to-day. You ought 10 be good.
You ought To be Christian" The Lad looked
in his face and said. "Ah, It Is easy for you
10 talk, well clothed as you are and well fed,
hut we chaps halnt 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 20
forth and bring them into schools and
chur'hesE No. Heap them up, great piles
Of rags and wretchedness and filth Put
underneath them the fres of sacrifice, stir
up the blaze, put on more fagots, and while
We sit in the churches with toldei arms and
Indifferent crime and disease and death will
20 on with the agonlzing sacrifice.
During the early French Revolution at
Bour Srs there was n 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: "Trembe, tyrants,
tremble We are growing up" Nightly
suggestive This generation Is passing on,
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 God2 They are coming up
l congratulate all parents who are doing
their best to keep their children away
from the altar Of sacrifice. Your prayers
are going to b. answered. Your chill
dren may wander away from God, bur
they will come back again. A voice comes
from the throne to-day encouraging
you, II will be God to thee, and to
thy seed after thee" And though when
you lay your head in death there may be
some wanierer OF the family far away from
God, and you may be 20 years in heaven be-
fore salvation shall come to his heart, no
will bt. brought into the kingdom, and be-
fore the throne OF God you will rejoice that
you were faithful Come at last, although
50 long postponed his coming. Come at
last
congratulate all those who ara toiling for
the outcast and 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 pray
ers, your teachings and your Christian intiu-
ence will go on and help to people heaven
with bright inhabitants.
Which would you rather see-which scene
would you rather mingle in in the last great
day-being able to say, II added house TO
house and land 10 land and mahufactory TO
manufactory | owned half the city what
ever my eyes saw had. whatever wanted
| got or on that day TO have Christ look
you full in the face and say, II was hungry.
and ye fed Me was naked, and ye clothed
Ne ; I was sick and in prison, and ye visited
Me ; inasmuch as ye did it to the least OF My
brethren, ye did 1t to Me2'