Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-16

~ sympathy with all the artiaciaiitIes of society.
10y 10y are mauced into all the hollowness OF
what Is called fashionable life They ara
,augnt to believe that history is dry, but that
oo-cent stories OF adventurous love are delft
cious- With capacity that might have rfyaled
Florence Nightingale In heavenly minis
srieS' aI1' or made the fathers house glad with
hllal and sisteriy demeanor. their life ts a
waste, their beauty a curse, their eternity
demolition.
In the siege OF Charleston, during the
Civll war, lieutenant of the army stood on
the moor beside the daughter OF the ex-Goy-
ernor Of the State OF South Carolina They
we're taking the VOWS of marriage. bomb.
smell struck the roof, dropped into the group
anu nine were wounded and slain among
.he wounded to death, the bride. While the
bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying to
stanch the wounds the bride demanded that
she ceremony be completed, that she
might take the VOWS before her de-
parture, and when the minister said, "Wilt
tnou be faithful unto deathr with her dying
ups she said, 81 will, ," and In two hors she
nad 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 etern-
ity. 1t Is not a marriage; 1t Is a massacre.
Afhanced to some one who is only waiting
until his father dies so he can get the prop
erty- Then little while they swing around
property is gone, and having no power to
earn livelihood the twain sink into some
corner OF society-the husband an idler and
sot, the wife u drudge, a slave and a sacri-
hce All, spare your denunciations from
Jephthah's head and expend them all on
this wholesale modern martyrdom'
lift up my voice to-day against the sacri-
toe OF children. Look out OF my window on
Sabbath and see group of children-un-
washed, uncombed. un-Chrlstianized. Who
,ares 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 ragged lad and
heard him swearing, he said to him. my
son. stop swearing You ought to 20 to the
louse OF Goo to-day. You ought TO De good.
You ought to be a Christian" The lad looked
IL mis- face and said, "Ah, it Is easy for you
- talk, well clothed as you are and well fed,
Out We chaps hain't got no chancer Who
lifts them to the altar for baptism2 Who
goes forth to snatch them up from crime
md death and woe? Who to-day will go
'orth and bring them into schools and
churches? No. Heap them up, great piles
1i rags and wretchedness and filth. Put
Underneath them the fires of sacrifice, stir
lp the blaze, put on more fagots, and while
We sit in the churches with folded arms and
Indifferent crime and disease and death will
90 on with the agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French Revolution at
Bourges there was q company OF boys who
lSed to train every day young soldiers,
md they carried flag, and they had on ths
lag this inscription: ''Tremble, tyrants,
remble! We are growing up" Nightly
JugSestiyei This generation is passing of,
and mightier generation is coming on.
Will they be the foes of tyranny, the foes OF
i'm, anu the foes OF death, or will they be the
'oas OF GOi2 They are coming up!
l congratulate all parents who are doing
heir best TO keep their children away
hrp,-n no1f Of f.a rNra
are going TO be answered. Your chill
iren may wander away from God, but
they Will come back again. A voice comes
rom the throne to-day encouraging
Tou, "I will be God to thee, and to
Thy seed after thee" And though when
you lay your head In death there may be
some wanderer OF the family far away from
God, and you may be 20 years In heaven be-
shall come to his heart, he
he kingdom I'D be-
tore the throne OF God you Will rejoice that
Tog were faithful. Come at last, although
20 long postponed his coming. Come at
last
l congratulate all those who are toiling for
the oHcast and wandering. Your work will
'oon be over. but the influence you are setting
n motion will never stop. Long after you
have been garnered for the skies your pray
srs, your teachings and your Christian fnfiu-
snce 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
iay-being able to say, 81 added house to
house and land TO land and manufactory to
nanuiactory L owned half the city what
over my eyes saw had, whatever wanted
got," or on that day to have Christ look
rou full in the face and say, 'I was hungry,
and ye fed Me 1 was naked, and ye clothed
Ne I was sick and in prison, and ye visited
he inasmuch as ye did It to the least of My
rethren, ye did it 10 Me!'