Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-08-11

were taking the VOWS OF marriage A oomo-
shell struck the roof, dropped into the group
and nine were wounded and slain anone
the woun led % death, the bride. Wnile TUG
bridegroom knst on the carpet trying W
stanch the wounds the bride demanoeu tna.
the ceremony be completed, thar sae
might take the VOWS before ner MI no.
parture, and when the minister said, VIM
! thou be faithful unto delthY with ner uyins
| lips she said, 'I will, and In two noulS SUI
| had departed. That was the accidental
slaughter and the sacrifice OF the body, out
at thousands OF marriage affairs there are
daughters slain for time and slain Tor etern-
| ity. II is not marriage it Is massacre:
Afianced to some one who is only waiting
until his father dies so he can get the prop
erty. Then little wlile they swing arouo1
in the circles, brilliant circles. linen tae
property Is gone, AMI having no power 20
earn livelihood the twain sink into soI3
corner OF sosiety-the hus5ant an ldler an l
sot, the wife Drudge, a slave ana sacrl,
| dee. Alb. spare your denunciatlonS irou
Jerhthah's head and expend them all on
this Wholesale modern martyrdom!
lift up my voice to-day against the sacri'
ice OF children. I look out OF my window on
q Sabbath and see u group Of children--en-
washed, unconbed. un-Cnristianlzed: Mno
cares for them? Who prays for them? VINO
utters to them one Kind word!
When the city missionary passing along
the park in New York saw ragged lad AMI
heard him swearing, he said to him My
SON. stop swearing You ought to 60 to the
house of God to-day. You ought to be good;;
I You ought to be a Christian" The lad looked
in his face and said. "Ah, it Is easy for you
to talk. we'll clothed as you are ana well leo,
but we chaps hain't got no chance !! MO
lifts them to the altar for baptlsmE VINO
goes forth to snatch them up from crime
and death and woe? Who to-day Will go
| forth and bring them into schools ana ana
| churches? No. Heap them up, great piles
| of rags and Indebtedness and filth. Put
| underneath them the fires OF sacrifice, STIR
uu the blazs. put on more fagots, and wnile
we sit in the churches with folded arms ana
| Indifferent crime and disease and dsath Will
90 on with the agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French Revolution at
| Rour1es there was company OF boys VINO
used to train every day as young soldiers,
| and they carried flag, and they nad on the
| flag this inscription: "Tremble, tyrants,
| tremblel We are growing up" Migntly
suggestive This generation IS passing on,
will they be the foes OF tyranny, the foes OF
sin, and the foes Of death, or Will they DO the
foes OF Col? They are coming up
| congratulate all parents VINO are DONG
their best to keep their children away
from the altar OF sacrifice. Your prayers
are going 10 bs answered. Your chill
dren may wander away from Goa, out
they will come back again: voice CONES
| from tho throne to-day encouraging
YOU. "I will be God to thee, and y
| fhy seed after thee" And though wheA
Won Law YOUR head in death there may Do
some wanderer OF the family far away IRON
God. and YOU may be 20 years in heaven be-
fore salvation shall come to his heart, ne
will he brought into the kingdom, and pc
FORE the throne Of God you will rejoice tnat
YOU were faithful. Come at last, althousn
20 long postponed his coming. come al
last
I congratulate all those who are tolling Tor
the outcast and wandering Your work VIII
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 lnnu-
ence will 90 on and help to people heaven
with bright inhabitants.
Which would you rather see-whicn scene
would YOU rather mingle in in the last great
| dav-being able to say, ~ added house to
hoI,se and land to land and mandatory to
mandatory L owned half the CITY wnat,
ever my eyes saw had, whatever wanted
I got, :" or on that day to have Christ looS
YOU full in the face and say, II was hungry
and We fed Me was naked, and ye clothec
Me was sick and in prison, and ye visited
Me inasmuch as We did it to the least OF MI
| hrathren We did il to MeY"