The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-17

AWARE MONDAE
might b arrkytd m the rot so7G lzviouiss
rlghtsousnsss. Whom gave them food, !
prayed that shey might BE- fed WITH manns
from heaven. When. ! started them on
tho road to school, prayed thas thsis path
might BE- ~ the shining light, brighter
and brighton 10 the perfect day. Whsn I
put them to sleep, prayed that they
might be infolded In the Saviour's arms"
"Oh," you,say, "thAt was worry old fash
toned" u was quite old fashioned' But
do you suppose that D child under sltoh
nurture az that ever turned out badi
In our day most boys start out with no
idea higher than the all accomplishing dol
lar. They start In an age which boasts II
can scratch the Lords Prayer on 10 cont
piece and the Ten Commandments on . 10
cent piece. Children arc taught to reduce
morals and religion, time and eternity, to
vulgar fractions. 10 seems 10 be their
chief attainment that 10 cents make .
dime and ten dimes make dollar. How
to get money Is only equaled by the other
art, how to keep II. Tell me, ye who
know, what chance there is for those who
start out In life with such perverted senti-
ments
The money market resounds again and
again with the downfall Of such people
II had drop Of blood on the tip Of a
pen, would tell you by what awful trag-
edy many Of the youth Of this country are
ruined. OF
FasAion's HelIowAe ss.
Further on thousands and tens Of thou
sands Of the daughters Of America are sac
rificed to worldliness. They are taught to
DO in sympathy with all the Artincialties
of society. They are induoted Into all the
hollowness Of what Is called fashionable
life. They are taught to believe that his
tory IL dry, but that 80 cent stories Of ad-
venturous love are delicious With CO.
pacity that might have rivaled Florence
Nightingale In heavenly ministries or
made tho fathers house glad with filial
and sisterly demeanor their life is waste,
their beauty curse, their eternity DEM
clifton.
In the siege Of Charleston, during our
civil war, a lieutenant Of the army stood
ON tho floor beside the daughter Of the ex-
governor Of the state Of South Carolina
They were taking the vows Of marriage.
A bombshell struck the roof, dropped into
the group, and nine-were wounded and
slain, among the wounded to death the
bride. While tho bridegroom knelt on the
carpet trying to stanoh the wounds the
bride demanded that the ceremony be COM
pleted that she might take the vows be-
fore her departure, and when the minister
eaid, "Wilt thou be faithful, unto deathP"
with her dying lips she said, II willP
and in two hours she had departed. That
was the slaughter and tho sacrifice Of the
body, but at thousands Of marriage affairs
there are daughters slain for time and
slain for eternity. 1t is not marriage
1t Ia massacre. Affianced to some one
who is only waiting until his father dies
90 he can get the property; then q little
while they swing around In the circles,
brilliant circles; then the property Is gone,
and, having no power to earn livelihood,
tho twain stink into some corner of So
ciety-the husband an idler and a sot, the
wife drudge, slave and sacrifice. All
Spare your denunciations from Jephthah 8
head and expend them all on this whole
sale modern martyrdonl
A Mighty Influence.
1 lift up my voice against the sacrifice
of children. look ont of my window on
a Sabbath, and see a group Of children
unwashed, uncombed, -Christianized.
Who cares for themP Who prays for thcmp
Who utters to them one kind words When
the city missionary, passing along the
park In New York, saw ragged lad and
heard him swearing, he said to him: my
son, stop swearingl You ought to go to
the house of God today You ought to be
good. You ought to DO Christian" The
lad looked In his face and said: "Ah, it
Is easy for you to talk, well clothed as
you are and we'll fed. But we chaps hahn
got no chanoei" Who lifts them to the
altar for baptismf Who goes forth to
snatch them up from crime and death and
woe' Who today will go forth and bring
shem into schools and churchesa No; heap
them UP, great piles of rags and wretched-
ness and filth 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 indiffer-
ence 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 flag and they had on the
flag this inscription, "Tremble, Tyrants,
Tremble; We Are Growing Up" Nightly
suggestivel This generation Is passing OIL,
and mightier generation is coming on.
Will they be the foes Of tyranny, the foes
of sin and the foes Of death, or will they
DO the foes Of GodG They are coming up!
I congratulate all parents who are doing
their best to keep their children away
from tho altar of sacrifice. Your prayers
arc going to be answered. Your children
may wander away from God but they will
come back again. A voice comes from the
throne today, encouraging you, II will be
a God to thee and to 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 before salvation
shall come to his heart, he will be brought
into the kingdom, and before the throne OF
God you will rejoice that you were faith
full. Come ct last, though 80 long post
poned his coming Come at last!
congratulate all those who are toiling
for the outcast and the wandering. Your
work will soon be over, but tho influence
you are setting in motion will never stop.
Long after you have been garnered for the
skies your prayers, your teachings and
your Christian influence will go on and
help to people heaven with bright inhnb
itants. Which would you rather sec,
which scene would you rather mingle in
in the last great day, being able to say