Milford chronicle., 1893-08-04

round, old fashioned application of thl
slipperi That minister Of the gospel o
whom we read in the newspapers that b,
whipped his child to death because b,
would not say his prayers will never come
to canonization. The arithmetics cannot
calculate how many thousands OF children
have been ruined forever either through
too great rigor or too great lenieney. The
heavens and the earth are filed with the
groan Of the sacrificed. In this important
matter, seek divine direction, o father, O
mother Some one asked the mother OF
Lord Chief Justice Mansfield if she was not
proud to have three such eminent sons, and
all of them so good. mo" she said, ''it is
l nothing to be proud bat something for
! which to be very gr l."
Again, there are = who are sacrifc-
ing their children to isit of worldliness.
/ Some one asked III tr whose children
had turned out very Il what was the Sc
| cret by which she p- ired them for use
/ fulness and for the 2ristian life, and she
said This was the secret: When in the
morning / washed ily children, prayed
that they might be washed in the fountain
of a Saviour's mercy. When Iput on Their
garments, prayed that they might be ar
rayed in the robe of Saviour's righteous
ness. When l gave them food, prayed
that they might be fed with mama from
heaven. When / started them on the road
to school, I prayed that their path might
be as the shining light, brighter and
brighter to the perfect day. When 1 put
them to sleep, prayed that they might be
infolded in the Saviour's arms" "Oh,n
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 boys start ont with no
idea higher than the all encompassing dol
lar. They start in an age which boasts it
can scratch the Lord Prayer on a 10 cent
piece and the Ten Commandments on a Il
cent piece. Children are taught to reduce
morals and religion, time and eternity t0l
vulgar fractions. 1t seems to be their chief
attainment that 10 cents make dime and 1C
dimes make adollar, How to make money
is only equaled by the other art-how to
keep it. Tell me, ye who know, what
chance there is for those who start out in
life with such perverted sentiments? The
money market resounds again and again
with the downfall Of such people Ii l had
a drop of blood on the tip of a pen, would
tell you by what awful tragedy many OF
the youth of this country are ruined.
RUINED BY wORLDLINEss.
Further on thousands and tens of thou.
sands of the daughters of America are sac
rifced to wor!dliness. They are taught to
be in sympathy with all the artincialities |
of society. They are inducted into all the |
hollowness of what is called fashionable |
life. They are taught to believe that his
tory is dry, but that 80 cent stories Of ad /
venturous love are delicious. With ca
pacity that might have rivaled Florence /
Nightingale in heavenly ministries or made |
the fathers house glad with filial and sis
terly demeanOF, their life is a waste, THEN /
beauty a curse, their eternity 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 were 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 demanded that the ceremony be com
pleted that she might take the VOWS be
fore her departure, and when the minister
said, wilt thou be faithful unto deathT
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 mar
riage; it is a massacre.
Afiianced to some one who is only wait
ing until his father dies so he can get the
then a little while they swing
around in the circles, brilliant circles; then
the property is gone, and having no power
to earn a livelihood the twain sink intel
some corner Of society, the husband an idlei
and "a sot, the wife a drudge, slave and q
sacrifice. All, spare your denunciations
from Jephthah's bead and eXpend them All
on this wholesale modern martyrdom
lift up my voice today against the sac
rihce of children. 1 look out of my window
on a Sabbath, and 1 see a group Of children
uneombed, -ChristianizCd
Who cares for them? Who prays Tor them
Who utters to them one kind wordg
When the city missionary passing along
the park in New York saw ragged lad
and heard him swearing, he said to him
MY son, stop swearingl You ought to 60
10 the house Of God today, You ought {.
be good. You ought to be a Christian
The lad looked in his face and said; All
it is easy for you to talk, well clothed as
you are, and well fed. But we chaps haint
got no chance" Who lifts them to the
altar for baptism? Who gees forth t.
snatch them up from crime and death and ,
yoeg Who today will go forth and bring
hem into schools and churches? No HeGpl ,
hem up, great piles of rags and wretclicd
less and filth. Put underneath them the /
Tres Of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put on /
more fagots, and while we sit in the /
.hurches, with folded arms and Indifferent. J
rhine and disease and death will go on I
With the agOnizing sacrifice. /
AWFUL POSSIBILITIES OF BOYHOOD. ]
During the early French reyolutSn at
3ourges there was company Of boys who
lsed to train every day as young soldiers.
nd they carried flag and had ON the lae G
his inscription, "Tremble, tyrants, trem G
lie: we are growing up" Nightly sug-
estivel- This generation is passing off,
nd a mightier generation is coming on.
Will they be the foes Of tyranny, the foes /;
sin and the foes of death, or will they be !
he foes of God? They are coming upi
/ congratulate all parents who are doing :
heir best to keep their children away from =
be altar of sacrifice. Your prayers are go l.
X to be answered. Your children may .
lander away from God, but they will come :
ack again. A voice comes from the throne I
1day encouraging you, Il will be a God to I
lee, and to thy seed after thee" And :
nough when you lay your head in death !,
here may be some wanderer of the family !,
ar away from God, and you may be 20 ,
ears in heaven before salvation shall come s,
} his heart, he will be brought into the :
ingdom, and before the throne Of God you =
ill rejoice that you were faithful. Come n
t last, although so long postponed his !,
oming. Come at lastl j
I congratulate ali those who are toiling n
Z Al !. w. IL
rorlk will soon be over, but the influence !,
on are setting in motion will never stop. h
,ong after you have been garnered for the 4
xies your prayers, your teachings and a
our Christian influence will go on and =
elp to people heaven with bright inhab- =,
ants. g
Which would you rather see-which q.
,eue would you rather mingle in in the q
ist great day-being able to say; Il added y
ouse to house and land to land and manu-
sctory to mandatory. I owned half the