The Penn's Grove record., 1893-08-04

sympathy With all the artinciniffias of society.
\ They are induced into all the hollowness oil
| what Is called fashionable life. They are
! taught to believe that history Is dry, but that
| 5O-cent stories OF adventurous love are deli
| ciouA With capacity that might have rfvaled
a Florence Nightingale in heavenly minis
! tries, or made the fathers house glad with
flial and sisterly demeanor, their life is a
waste, their beauty a 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-Gov-
ernor of the State OF South Carolina. They
were taking the VOWS OF marriage. A bomb
| shell 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
parture, and when the minister said, "Wilt
thou be faithful unto de1th2" with her dying
| lips she said, ~ will" and In two our 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-
Ity. 1t is not n marriage It Is a massacre.
Afianced to some one who is only waiting
until his father dies 80 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, a slave and a sacr-
fce. All, spare your denuneiatfons from
lJephthah's head and expend them all on
| this wholesale modern martyrdom.
l lift up my voice to-day against the saeri-
fee of children. 1 look out OF my window on
\ Sabbath and / see a group OF c~hildren-un-
washed, uncombed, un-Christlanizod. Who
cares for them? who prays for'them2 Who
| utters to them one kind word?
When the city missionary passing along
he 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. You ought to be good.
You ouShtto be a Christian" Thu lad looked
in his face and said, "Ah, 1t is easy for you
10 talk, well clothed as you are and well fed,
out we chaps hain't got NJ chanoe!' 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
| If rags and wretchedness and filth. Put
underneath them the fires Of sacrifice, stir
ap the blaze, put on more fagots, and while
We sit in the churches with folded arms and
Indifferent crime and disease and death will
90 on with the agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French Revolution at
Bourges there was o company OF boys who
lsed to train every day as young soldiers,
and they carried a flag, and they had on the
lag this inscription: "Tremble, tyrants,
remble! We are growing up" Nightly
mggestivel This generation Is passing of,
and a mightier generation Is coming on.
Will they be the foes of tyranny, the foes OF
ain, and the foes of death, or will they be the
Toes 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 chill
liren may wander away from God, but
hey will come back again. A voice m
from the throne to-day encouraging
lyou, az will be a God to thee, and to
Thy seed after thee" And though when
lyou lay your head in death there may be
some wHnderer of the family far away from
God, and you may be 20 years in heaven be-
lore salvation shall come to his heart, he
will be brought into the kingdom, and be-
Tore the throne of God you will rejoice that
you were faithful. Come at last, although
70 long postponed his coming. Come at
last.
l congratulate all those VINO are toiling for
the outcast and wandering. Your work will
soon be over. but the influence you are setting
lin motion will never stop. Long after you
nave been garnered for the skies your pray
srs, your teachings and your Christian infiu-
ence will go on and help to people heaven
with bright inhabitants.
Which would you rather see-which scene
would you rather mingle in in the last great
iay-being able to say, II added house to
house and lane to land and mandatory to
mandatory I owned half the city what
sver my eyes saw l had, whatever l wanted
IL got, " or on that day to have Christ look
you full In the face and say, ~ was hungry,
and ye fed Me ; I was naked, and We clothed
Ne l was sick and in prison, and We visited
Me inasmuch as ye did 1t to the least of My
,rethren, We did 1t to Me2"