The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-02

are sacrificed to worldlines1 They FIRE
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artificialties of society. They are in
Quoted into all the hollowness OF what
is called fashionable life. They are
taught to believe that history is dry,
but that fifty-cent stories OF adventur-
GUS love are delicious. With capacity
that might have rivaled Florence
Nightingale in heavenly ministries' or
made the fathers house glad with 1ilial
and sisterly demeanor, their life Is
waste, their beauty curse, their eter-
nifty demolition.
In the siege of Charleston, during the
civil war, lieutenant of the u'ny
stood on the floor beside the dauf hter
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
before her departure; and when the
minister said, "Wut thou be faithful
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 altars
there are daughters slain for time and
slain for eternity. 1t is not marriage;
it is massacre.
Affianced to some one who is only
waiting until after his father dies, so
he can get the property; then a little
while they swing around the circles,
brilliant circles; then the property is
gone, and having no power to earn a
livelihood, the twain sink into some
corner of society, the husband an idler
and sot, the wife a drudge, a slave
and sacrifice. Ali spare your denun-
Citations from Jephthah's head and ex-
pend them all on this wholesale mod
ern martyrdom.
lift up my voice to-day against the
sacrifice of children. look out Of my
window on Sabbath, and l see a
group of children, unwashed, un-
combed, unc christianized. Who cares
for them? Who prays for themP Who
utters to them one kind word?
When the city missionary passing
along the park in New York, saw 4
ragged lad and heard him swearing, he
said to him: "My son, stop swearingl
You ought to go to the house of God
to-day. You ought to be good; you
ought to be a 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 to snatch them up from crime,
and death and woe? Who to-day will
90 forth and bring them into schools
and churches? No. Heap them up
great piles of rags, and wretchedness
and filth. Put underneath them the
fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, pu'
on more faggots, and while we sit II
the churches with folded ar ms and in
different, crime and disease and deatl
!. will go on with the agonizing sacrifice
During the early French Revolution
at Bourges there was company o
! boys who used to train eve ry day a
, young soldiers; and they carried flag
and they had on the flag this inscrip
ton: "Tremble tyrants, tremble; W,
are growing up" Mig htily suggest
ivel This generation is passing on
and mightier genera ton is coming
on. VIII they be the foes of tyranny
> the foes of sin, and the foes of death
= or will they be the foes of God? The.
are coming up!
: congratulate all parents who ar
. doing their best TO keep their children
= away from the altar Of sacrifice. You
= prayers are going to be answered. You
: children may wander away from God
= but they will come back again. A voic
comes from the throne to-day, encouI
y aging you: 81 will be God TO thee
and to thy seed after thee" An
I, ! though when you lay your head Il
:, death there may be some wandere
= of the family far away from God, an
you may be twenty years in Heave
. before salvation shall come to hi
heart, he will be brought into tn
: kingdom, and before the throne G
God you will rejoice that you wer
/ faithful. Come at last, although S
long postponed his coming. Come a
last!
congratulate all those who are tot
ing for the outcast and the wa nderinl
Your work will soon be over, but tn
y. . influence you are setting in motto
!, will never stop. Long after you hay
v been garnered for the skies, you
prayers, your teachings and your Chri
= : tian influence will go on, and help
y y people Heaven with bright inhabitant
y Which would you rather see? whic
scene would you rather mingle in, |
: the last great day-being able TO sa!
y 81 added house TO house, and land
,. land, and manufactory 10 manufactorl
y l owned half the city; whatever my ey
u saw had, whatever / wanted / got;
= !, or, on that day to have Christ look yo
u full in the face and say: II was hui
y cry, and ye fed Me. was naked, an
u We clothed Me; was sick and in prison
y and We visited Me; inasmuch as ye di
IL to the least of my brethren, ye did
, TO Me2"