The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-24


or lu religion. and DO IS rris d-terIni nation
of s0u that So often drives back the Cos
pel from man heart IL is 50 hard 20
make avarice charitable. and fraud hon
f esq. and pride humble. and sceptici7Tn
/ Christian. The sword az Gods truth seems
90 glance Of from those mailed warriors
I and the helmet seems ba-tie-pro0f against
I Gods ba--le-aN. But childhood how sus-
] c-u-ihl- 10 -Na nipple and 10 instruction
/ on are not surprised at the record
I Abraham ueeat Isaac. and Isaac bcgat
. Jacob for when religion starts Do a fam
/ ily it is apt 20 20 all through. Jczebel
murieress. you are not surprised to find
. h-r son Jeho-lm attempting assassina-
I ton. Oh what responsibility upon the
I parent and The teacher, The musician
I touches che keys. and the response Of
/ those keys IS away Of amid The pipes and
/ cha chords and you wonder ~ the distance
/ between the key and the chord. And 50 10
/ i- in if-. 10 YOU touch a child. the results
VIII come back from manhood OF Old age,
4 telling just the tune played. whether the
dirEe cf great SORROW or the anthem Of a
great joy. The word that the sabbath
school teacher viii this afternoon whisper
/ In the ear of the class. viii be echoed back
/ from everlasting ages OF light or dark
ness. The home and the school decide the
republic or the despOusm, the barbarism
or the civilization. the upbuicing OF an
empire. or the OVerthrowing OF IT, Higher
than parliament or congress are the school
and the family. and the sound OF a Child's
foot may mean more than the tramp Of a
host What. then. are you doing for the
purpose of bringing your children into the
kingdom OF God2 III they are so suscepu-
BILE and If this Is the very best time TO
act upon their eternal interests. what are
YOU doing by way OF right impulsion2
There were some harvesters in the fields
Of Scotland one hot day; and Hannah Le-
mond was helping them gather the hay
She laid her babe under a
tree While she was busy in the field.
there was a futter Of wings In the air, and
"A golden eagle clutched the swaddlng
band of the babe, and flew away with II
to the mountain eyrie. All the harVesters
and Hannah Lemond started for the cliffs.
1t was two miles before they came to the
foot of the cliffs. Getting there, who
dared to mount the clin2 No human foot
had ever trod IL. There were sailors there
who had gone up the mast In the day Of
terrible tempest; that did not dare risk it,.
Hannah Lemoud sat there for awhile and
looked mp and saw the eagle in the eyre,
and then she leaped 10 her feet, and she
started mp where no human foot had ever
trOd crag above crag, catching hold OF
this root or that root, until she reached
the eyrie and caught her babe, the eagle
swooping In nerceness all around about
her Fastening the child to her back. she
what dizzy descent sliding from this
crag to that crag, catching by that vine
and by that root, coming down further
and further. TO the most dangerous pass,
where she found goat and some kids.
She said: Now I'll follow the goat; the
goat will know just which is the safest
way down." and she was led by the ami
NAL down to the plain. When she got
there. all the people cried: THANK God.
thank God" her strength not giving way
until the rescue was effected. And they
cried: stand back, now. Give her air!'
O. II a woman will do that for the physi-
cal life Of her child what will you do
for the eternal life Of your boy and
your girl? Let it not be told in the great
day Of eternity that Hannah Lemond put
forth more eXertion for the saving of the
physical life Of her child than you, o par
ent, have ever put forth for the eternal
life Of your little one. God help youi
I pass on to consider the power which a
child wields over the parental heart. We
often talk about the influence Of parents
upon children. l never hear anything said
about the influence of children upon their
parents. You go to school to them. You
no more educate them than they educate
you. With their little hands they have
caught hold OF your entire nature and you
cannot wrench yourself away from their
grasp You are different men and women
from what YOU were before they gave you
the first lesson. They have revolutioniz-
ed your soul. There are fountains of joy
in your heart which never would have
been discovered had they not discovered
them. Life is to you a more stupendous
thing than IL was before those little feet
started on the pathway to eternity. on,
how many hopes. how many joys. how
many solcitudes that little one has Great
ed in your soul. You 20 to school every
day-a school of self-denial school of
patience. in which you are getting wiser
| day by day: and that influence of the
| child over you will increase and increase;
| and though your children may die from
/ the very throne OF God they will reach
/ down, an influence to your soul, leading
| you on and leading you up until you min
4 gle with their voices and sit beside their
/ thrones.
! The grasp which the child has over the
1 parents heart is seen in what the parent
will do for the child. Storm and darkness
! and heat and cold are nothing to you II
they stand between you and your child S
| welfare, A great lawyer, when Yet UNI
| known, one day stood in the court room
| and made an eloquent plea before some
| men of great legal Attachments; and a
| gentleman said to him afterward: How
| could you be so calm standing in that au-
gust presence?' oh" said ErslSine. Il
| felt my children pulling at my skirts cry
| ing for bread" What stream will you
| not swim, what cavern will you not enter
what battle will you not fight, what hun
ger will you not endure for your children
| Your children must have bread though
you starve Your children must be
well clothed though you go in rags
| You say: My children shall be educated
| though l never had any chance" What
to you are weary limbs, and aching head
and hands hardened and callous, if only
the welfare of your children can be
| wrought out ny idY Their sorrow is your
sorrow, their Joy Sohr JOY their advance
ment your victory. And, oh. when the
| last sickness comes. how you fight back
the march of disease, ana it is only after @
/ tremendous struggle that you surrender
And then when the spirit has fled. the
great deep is broken up. and Rachel viii
I not be comforted because her children are
not and David goes up the palace stairs
crying: oh Absalom, my son, my son
would God 1 had died for thee oh Absa-
lom. my son, my SON."
There is not a large family. or hardly q
large family that has not bent over such
| a treasure and lost ii. In the family fold
! is there no dead lamb? l have seen many
such cases of sorrow. There is. one pre-
eminent in my memory as pastor-Sco-