Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-08-05
to be too rough when we discover that
our children have as many.

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our children have as many.
Again there are many who are sacri.
ficing their children to u spirit OF
worldliness. Some one asked mother
whose children had turned out very
well, what was the secret by which she
prepared them for usefulness and for
the Christian life. and she said: This
was tho secret; when, in the morning I
washed the childred prayed that
they might be washed in the fountain
of Saviour's mercy. When put on
their garments prayed that they might
be arrayed In the robe Of n Saviour's
righteousness. When I gave them
food l prayed that they might be
fed with mama from Heaven.
When started them on the
road to school l 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 embodied in
the Saviours arms" 'Oh," you say,
that was very old-fashioned." 1t was
quite old-fashioned. But do you sup
pose that child under such nurture
rs that ever turned out bad?
In our day most of the boys start ont
with no idea higher than the all-encom-
passing dollar. They start in an age
which boasts it can scratch the Lords
Prayer on a ten cent piece, and the Ten
Commandments on a ten cent piece.
Children are taught to reduce morals
and religion, time and eternity to vul-
gar fractions. 1t seems to be their
chief attainment that ten cents make
a dime, and ten dimes make dollar.
How to get money is only equaled by
the other art, how to keep it.
Further on. thousands and tens OF
thousands of the daughters of America
are sacrificed to worldliness. They are
taught to be in sympathy with all the
artificialities of society. They are
inducted into all the hollowness Of
what if called fashionable life. They
are taught to believe that history is
dry. but that fifty-cent stories OF adj.
venturous love are delicious With
capacity that might have rivaled a
Florence Nightingale in heavenly min.
istries, or made the fathers house glad
with filial and sisterly demeanor, their
life is waste, their beauty curse,
their eternity demolition'
Affianced to some one who is only
waiting until his father dies, so he can
get the property; then little while
they swing around in the circles, bril-
liant circles; then the property is gone.
and having no power to earn liveli'
hood, the twain sink into some corner
of society, the husband an idler and a
sot the wife drudge, slave and q
sacrifice. All! spare your denuncia-
tions from Jsphthah's head, and en-
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, unwasiaed, I'M
combed, unchristianized. Who cares
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 a
ragged Lad and heard him swearing. he
said to him: MY son, stop swearing!
You ought to go to the house of God
to-day. Iou ought to be good; YOU
ought to be Christian" The lad
looked in his face and said "Ah, it 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 ths
altar for baptism? Who goes forth to
snatch them mp from crime and death
and woe? Who to-day will go 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. put on
more fagots, and while we sit in the
churches with folded arms and indiffer-
ent. crime and disease and death will
90 on with the agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French revolution,
at Bourges there was company OF boys
who used to train every day as young
soldiers; and they carried flag, and
they had on the flag this inscription:
"Tremble, tyrants. tremble; we are
growing up" Nightly suggestive!
This generation is passing off, and q
mightier generation 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? They are coming
up!
/ congratulate all parents who are
doing their best to keep their children
away from the altar of sacrifice. Your
prayers are going to be answered
Your children may wander away
from God, but 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 wan