The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-03

arms" "oh." you say. ''tbat was very old
fashioned" II was quite old fashioned. But
do you suppose that child under such
nurture M that eve turned out bad?
In our day most boys start out with no
idca higher than the all encompnssinc dol-
lar. They start In an axe which boasts II can
scratch the Lords Prayer on 10cent piece.
and the Ten Commandments on 10 cent
piece. Children are taught to reduce morals
aud religion. time and eternity. TO vulgar
| fractions. II seems TO be their chief attain
ment that 10 cents make dime, and 10 dimes
make dollar. How T.. get money II only
| equsled by the other art. how to keep ~.
Tell ne, ye who know. what chance there Is
/ for those who start out In life with such
perverted sentlments2 Tho money market
resounds again and again with the downfall
Of such people. II had drop OF blood on
the tip OF q pom, l 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 ths daughters Of America are sacri-
| feed to wordliness. They are taught TO be In
sympathy with all the artifcialities OF society.
| They are induced into all the hollowness OF
what IL called fashionable life. They arc
taught to believe that history is dry. but that
50-cent stories OF adventurous love ara deli-
cious. With capacity that might have rivaled
\ Florence nightingale In heavenly minis
| tries, or made the fathers house glad with
nlial and slsterly dcmeanor their life ~
waste. their beauty n curse their eternity
demolition.
In the siege of Charleston. during the
| Civil War, n lieutenant OF the army stood on
| the floor beside the daughter OF the ex-Cioy-
ernor OF the State OF South Carolina They
were taking the vows OF marriage. bomb
she'll 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 20
stanch the wounds the bride demanded that
| the ceremony be completed. that she
| might take the VOWS before her de-
| parture. and whom the minister said. "Wilt
| thou be faithful unto dcathG' with her dying
/ lips che said ~ will - aud In two hours She
| had departed. That was the accidental
slaughter and the sacrifice ot the body, but
! at thousands of marriage altars there are
daughters slain for time and slain for ejern-
/ ity. II Is not a marriage II Is IA massacre.
! Afllanced to some one who II only waiting
until his father dies so ho can Get the prop
orty Then little while they swing around
In tho circles. brilliant circles. Then the
| property IL gone. and having no power to
earn u livelihood tho twain sink into somc
corner OF socicty-the husband AN idler am
n sot, tho wife "A drudge. slave and n sacri-
| flee. All. spare your denuncintions from
Jephthah's head and expend them nil on
this wholesale modern martyrdom!
liit up my voice today against the sacri-
flco Of children. look out OF my window on
a Sabbath and see "a group Of children
washed. uncombcd, un-Christlanized. Who
cares for themY Who prays for them? Who
uttcrs TO thom 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 20 To the
house Of God to-day. You ought to be good.
You ouehtto be a Christian The lad looked
In HIS face and said. "Ah, " ~ sslsy for ypu
In tul yv.llf fslO hpI ng IL a.
but we chaps hain't got no chance" Who
lifts them To the altnr for baptism? Who
goes forth to snatch them up from crime
and death and woey Who to-day will go
forth and bring them into schools and
| churchesl No. Heap them up, great piles
OF rags and wretchsdness and Nth. 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 agonisny sacrifice.
During the early French Revolution at
Bourges there was company OF boys who
used to train every day N young soldiers.
and they carried "A flag. and they had on the
flag this inscription "Tremble, tyrants,
trembe! We ARE growing up Nightly
suggoStiye! This generatiop. tS- passing on,
and mtghtier gensration,is coming on.
VIII they be the foes OF tyrnny, the foes OF
TsiSi and the foes OF death -or will they be the
fo'es at tGSd7~> ThSy. are coming up
+ congratulate nll parents who are doing
their best to keep their children away
from the altar OF sacrifice. Your prayers
are going TO bs answered. Your chill
dren may wander away from God, but
they will come back again. voice comes
from the throne to-day Encouraging
you. II will be God to thee, and 10
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 10 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
80 long postponed his coming. Come NJ
last
| congratulate al those who are toiling for
the outcast and wandering. Your work will
soon be over. but the influence you are settling
in motion will never stop. Long after you
have been garnered for the skies your pray
ers your teachings and your Christian inhu-
ence will 20 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
day--being able to say, 81 added house TO
house and land 10 land and manuactory to
manufactory / owned half the city what
ever my eyes saw | had, whatever wanted
| got, =" or on that day TO have Christ look
you full in the face and say, II was hungry,
aud ye fed Me | was naked, and ye clothed
Me | was sick and In prison, and ye visited
Ne inasmuch rs ye did Il 10 the least OF My
brethren, ye did 1t 10 Me-
The Hermi; of the Bowery.