The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-08-16

we're taking the vows of marriage. A bomb
she'll struck the roof, dropped into the group
and nine we're 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
:be ceremony be completed. that she
might take the VOWS before her de-
parture, and when the minister said, wilt
thou be faithful unto de2th?' with her dying
Iips she said, II 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 etern-
lty. It is not marriage; it is q massacre.
Afflanced to some one who is only waiting
until his father dies 80 he can get the prop
erty. Then little while they swing around
in the circles, brilliant circles Then the
property 10 gone, and having no power to
earn a livelihood the twain sink into some
corner OF society-the husband an tdler and
sot, the wife 4 drudge, slave and sacrl-
fee. Ah, spare your denunciations from
Jephthah's head and e1pend them all on
this wholesale modern martyrdom!
lift up my voice to-day against the sacri.
flce OF children. T look out OF my window on
a Sabbath and see group of children-un-
washed, uncombed. un-Christianized: Who
cares for them? Who prays for them2 Who
utters to them one kind word2
When the city missionary passing along
the park in New York saw ragged lad and
beard 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:
You ought to be a Christian" The lad looked
In his face and said, "Ah, 1t is easy for you
to talk. we'll clothed aa you are and well fed,
but we CHAPS haint; gof. no chancew Who
lifts them to the altar for baptism2 Who
goes forth to snatch them up from crime
and death and woe2 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 !agots, 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 as young soldiers,
and they carried a flag, and they had on the
flag this inscription: "Tremble, tyrants,
tremble! We are growing up" Nightly
suggestive. This generation Is passing on,
and q mightier generation Is coming on.
Will they bethe foes Of tyran n.y. the foes OF
sin and the foes Of death, or will they be the
foes OF God2 They are coming up
I congratulate all parents who are doing
their best to keep their children away
from the altar Of sacrifice. Your prayers
ara going to be answered. Your chill
dren may wander away frorI 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 Law 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 o; God you will rejoice that
you were faithful. Come at last, although
so long postponed his coming. Come at
last -.
I congratulate all those who are totling for
the outcast and wandering. Your work will
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 lnhu-
ence will 60 on and help to people heaven
with bright inhabitants.
Which would you rather see-which scene
would you rather mingle In III the last great
day-being able to say, II added house TO
house and land to land and mandatory 10
manufsctory I owned half the city what-
ever nv eyes saw I had, whatever wanted
l got" or on that day to have Christ look
YOU iull in the face and say, Il was hungry,
and We fed Me I was naked, and ye clothed
Ne was sick and in prison. and sc visited
Me inasmuch as ys did 1t to the least Oh 3.y
brethren, ye did it to Me?"