The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-03-15

want to endorse every word Brother
Litchheld said Wednesday night in his
sermon on lack OF Christian sympathy or
| church sympathy for an erring boy or
way ward girl. He sent telling truths
home to each and every heart. We are
ali Conscou, of the deep aud heartfelt
| sonOws there are in the world, SORROWS
which blot for the moment all Joy from
the horizon and almost abscuTe the light
OF heaven with tears, caused by thought
lessness, and by the yielding to tempta-
tion of undisCiplined minds. Whole
| households are darkened and years Of
! ones life are often eclipsed by the going
aBtray OF son or a daughter. When We
cross the threshold Of one mourning for
| the dead we are sorroWful with the in
mates and sorry for them We are ten
derly compassionate and we all help the
mourners in our own feeble manner bear
the burden of sweet gentleness. For
otherwise Ibid you ever think OF itP
il necessarily is with living trouble
The idoliz ID child perhaps in this time
OF bustlil g temptations, has yielded in
an uDguaTded moment and commits a
crime. What words of pity are deep
enough for the mother, the fatheri A
well brought up young man or woman
fallen from his or her integrity! The
way of the transgressOr is hard enough
for him or her. but oh, my goodness,
| it is paved with red hot Goals for his or
her family Take inebriety, infdelitY,
| incompatiblity, let the cause be
in the union of welded hearts; when
faith fails and love goes and they part
above the ruins OF their promised vows
can there he any depth OF sorrow equal
to theirs? and yet bow we stand of,
how we fail to extend sympathy. When
any such living trouble comes, the tears
shed over the grave are sweet compared
to those which blister and burn the
cheeks of one who mourns for living
trouble. How many are willing to up
lift? How many instead give the cold
shoulder and are ready to criticise and
condemn an individual who makes al
honest effort TO Te-establish Instead
as Brother Litchfield said, its "kick,
kick, kick, until a girl or a boy who
has shown a willingness to return to q
straight path becomes discouraged and
goes head-lOng to ruin. "Alas for the
rarity of Christian charity under the
SUM-" How should we bear ourselves
who profess to be followers of the NEE
and lOwly Savior towards those whose
lot has been saddened by ill-doing anC
fatal mistakes, but who show a DISPOSE.
ton TO 'sin no moreP" Should it not
be with the verv greatest kindness
deicacy and tact? Should we not re
member that though the world is very
hard and unfOTgiving, very relentless in
judgement and slow to forget an error
yet that there is always a place in Gods
essed economy for the rehabilitation
of all who want to come INF Who, who
is TO lead them back, II not Gods owl
children Instead OF shutting the dool
Ci Hope on the tempted and the falleI
girl or boy why not open II wide and try
TO bring back to honor and virtue2 anC
/ would like TO preach from the hOus'
tops and highways that no one is eve
disgraced save by his OF her own act
one members lapse does not in reality
OBJECT character aud should not affect the
reputation OF another member Of thu
same family / am bitterly opposed Il
holding parents culpable for their child
ren's errors. Every man or every wo
man In the last analysis must answer 10
him or herself. A kind word, q sympa
thetic tone, an oustretched hand, nigh
have saved many from being crushed b.
living troubles, but too late, too late
But l want to say to those who may fee
crushed the Divine assistance can b
sought aud q sure hold from above
81 have laid help on One that is mighty
In the Lord Jehovah ia everlasting
strength"