Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-08-11

culate how nanv thousands of children
have been ruined forever either through too
great rigOr or too great leniency. The heav-
ems and the earth ara filed with the groan OF
the sacrificed. III this important matter seek
divine direction, father, . 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.
NO" she said, ''it is nothing TO be proud of,
but something for which to be very grateful"
Again, there are many who are sacrificing
their children 10 q spirit OF vorldliness-
Some one asked a 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 the secret. When in the morning
I washed my children, | prayed that they
might be washed in the fountain of a
Saviour's mercy. When I put on their gar
ments. prayed that they might be arrayed
In the robe of a Saviour righteousness.
When 1 gave them food, l prayed that
they might be fed with mama from heaven
When started them on the road to school.
prayed that their path might be as the shin
ing light, brighter and brighter to the per-
feet day. When l put them to sleep, prayed
that they might be EMBODIED in the Saviour's
arms" ooh" you say that was very old
fashioned" It was quite old fashioned. But
do you suppose that a child under such
nurture as that ever turned out bad?
In our day most boys start out with no
idea higher than the all encOmpassing dol
lar. 1n6y start an age W1lcQ boasts II can
scratch the Lords Prayer on a 10 cent piece.
and the Ten Commandments on a 10 cent
piece Children are taught to reduce morals
and religion, time and eternity, to vulgar
fractions. 1t seems to be their chief attain
ment that 10 cents make dime. and 10 dimes
make dollar. How to get 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
dc fOl1
of such people. If had drop of blood on
the tip of pen, I would tell you by what
awful tragedy many of the youth Of this
country are ruined.
Further on thousands and tens Of thou
sands Of the daughters of America are sacri-
feed to wordliness They are taught to be in
sympathy with all the artiticialities of society
They are induced into all the hollowness of
what is called fashionable life. They are
taught to believe that history is dry, but that
50-cent stories OF adventurous love are deli
cious. With capacity that might have rivaled
a Florence Nightingale in heavenly minis
tries, or made the fathers house glad with
tlIal and sisterly demeanOr, their life is a
waste. their beauty curse their eternity a
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-Goy-
ernOr OF the State Of South Carolina. They
were taking the VOWS Of marriage A bomb
smell 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 completed, that she
might take the VOWS before her de-
parture and when the minister said, wilt
thou be faithful unto death?" with her dying
lips she said, ~ will, - and in two hours she
had departed. That was the accidental
slaughter and the sacrifice of the body. but
dc Of i&or fhnr
daughters slain for time and slain for etern-
ty. 1t is not marriage; it is a massacre.
Af1anced to some one who is only waiting
until his father dies SO he can get the prop
erty. 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 into some
corner Of society-the husband an idler and
sot, the wife a drudge, slave and sacri-
fee. All, spare your denunciations from
Jephthahs head and expend them all on
this wholesale modern martyrdOm
lift up my voice to-day against the sacr1-
dce of children [ look out. of my window on
Sa6oatn and I So : gros7' g c:15iaren--un-
washed. uncombed. un-Christianized. 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 ragged lad and
heard him swearing, he said to him My
son. stop swearing! You ought to go to the
You ought to be Christian" The lad looked
in his face and said. 'Ah. it is easy for you
to talk, we'll clothed as you are and we'll red,
but we chaps haint got no chancet' 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 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
Indifferent crime and disease and death will
go on with the agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French Revolution at
Bourges there was company Of boys who
used to train every day young soldiers,
and they carried a flag, and they had on the
tremble! We are growing up" Nightly
suggestive This generation is passing off,
and a mightier generation is coming on.
Will 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
are going to be answered. Your chill
dren may wander away from God, but
they will come back again. A voice comes
from the throne to-day encouraging
yO1, II will be a 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-
fore salvation shall come to his heart, he
will be brought into the kingdom, and be-
fore the throne of God you will rejoice that
you were faithful. Come at last, although
so long postponed his coming. Come at
last