Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-04-26

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dee their children by putting them int,
the arms Of an idol which thrust forth il
nand. The child was put into the arms o
tne 1901, and no sooner touched the arm
than 1t dropped into the fire. But It wa
:he art OF the mothers to keep the children
'mfifng and laughing until the moment
:ney died. There may be u fascination
and a htlarity about the styles OF educs-
Ion OF which am speaking, but 1t Is only
aughter at the moment OF sacrifice.
Would God there were only one Jeph-
:hah's daughteri
Again, there are many parents who ara
sacrificing their children with wrong sys-
EN- OF oisciplinemtoo great rgor or too
great leniency. There are children I'm fami.
| les who rule the household The nigh
chair In which the infant sits is the throne.
and tho rattle Is che sceptre and the other
chiidren make up the parliament where
father and mother have no vote! Suci,
children come up to be miscreants There
is no chance in this world for child that
has never learned to mind. Such people
become the botheration OF the church OF
God and the pest OF the world. Children
that do not learn to obey human authority
are unwilling to learn to obey divine au-
shority. Children will not respect parents
whose authority they do not respect Who
:he street with their thumbs ia their vest
talking about their father as "tEe old
nan, "tbe governor" ''the squire" "the
Did chap" or their mother as "the old
xoman?" They are those who in youth, in
childhood, never learned to respect au-
;hority. Eli, having heard that his sons
lad died In their wickedness, fell over back
yard and broke his neck and died. Well
ie might What is life to a father whose
'ons are debauched? The dust Of the val
ey is pleasant to his taste. and the driving
aims that drip through the roof of the
ePuIcher are sweeter than the wines of
Ielbon.
In our day most boys start out with no
dea higher than the all encompassing dol
ar. They start In an age which boasts 1t
,an scratch the Lords Prayer on a ten cent
)tece and the Ten Commandants on a ten
sent piece. Children are taught to reduce
morals and religion. time and eternity, to
'ulRar fractions. 1t seems to be their chief
attainment that ten cents make dime and
en- dimes make a dollar. How to get
money l. only equ.led by the other art
low to keep it. Tell me, ye who know,
What chance there is for those who start
,ut in life with such perverted sentiments!
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 tragedy many
II the youth Of this country are ruined.
Further on, thousands and tens OF thou.
ands OF the daughters OF America are
'acriticed to worliliness. They are taught
be- in sympathy with all the artihcialties
If society. They are inducted into all the
lollowness of what is called fashionable
lie. They are taught to believe that his
ory Is dry, but that fifty cent stories OF
adventurous love are delicious. With
capacity that might have riyaled Flor
,nce Nightingale in heavenly ministries or
made the fathers house glad with iilial
Ind sisterly delneanor, their life is "A waste,
heir beauty curse, their eternity a de-
nOlition.
In the siege OF Charleston, during our
civil War, lieutenant OF the army stood
IN tine floor beside the daughter OF the ex-
Governor OF the State OF South Carolina,
they we're taking the VOWS OF marriage.
bombsheli struck the roof. dropped into
he group. and nine were wounded and
lain, among the wounded to death the
'ride. While the bridegroom knelt on the
arpet trying to stanch the wounds the
bride demanded that the ceremony he com.
)leted, that she might take the vows be-
ore her departure, and when the minister
aid; wilt thou be faithful unto
ieath?" with her dying lips she said:
4 WILL" and In two hours she had de-
parted. That was the slaughter and the
Iacritice OF the body, but at thousands
IL marriage affairs there are daughters
Ilain for time and slain for eternity.
L is not marriage. 1t is massacre.
Aflanced to some one who is only waiting
Until his father dies so he can get the prop
,rty; then a little while they swing around
n the circles, brilliant ircles; then the
property Is gone, and. having no power to
arm a livelihood, the twain sink into some
orner OF society. the husband an idler and
sot, the wife Il drudge, slave and a
acritice. All, spare your denunciations
rom Jephthah's head and expend them all
N this wholesale modern martyrdoml
liit up my voice against the sacrifice OF
;hildren. 1 look out Of my window on a
kt-kt II III
Washed. uncombed, un-Christianized. Who
iares for them? Who prays for them? Who
itters to them one kind word? When the
hty missionary, passing along the park
q New York, saw ragged lad and heard
lin swearing, he said to him: MY son,
top swearing! You ought to go to the
louse OF God to-day. You ought to be
;ood. You ought to be a Christian" The
ad looked up in his face and said: "Ah! 1t
3 easy for you t o talk, well clothed as YOU
're and we'll fed. But We chaps haint got
10 chance" Who lifts them to the altar
or baptism? Who goes forth to snatch
hem up from crime and death and woe?
Who to-day will so forth and bring them
nto schools and churches? No, heap them
lp, great piles OF rags and wretchedness
md filth. Put underneath them the fires
4 sacrifice, stir up the blaze. put on more
agots, and, while we sit in the churches
nth folded arms and Indifference. crime
gonizing sacrifice.
During the early French revolution at
,ourges there was company OF boys who
lsed to train every day IA young sol Hers,
md they carried Il flag, AMI thev had on
he Gag this inscriptions; "Tremble, ,tyrants,
remblel We are growing up" Nightly
uggestive! This generation is passing of.
nd mightier generation Is coming on,
Will they be the foes Of tyranny, the foes
Il sin and the foes of death, or will they
'e the foes Of God? They are coming
Ipi 1 congratulate all parents who are
loing their best to keep their children
way from the altar of sacrifice. Your
prayers are going to be answered. Your
hildren may wander away from God.
tut they will come back again. A voice
zones from the throne to-day, encourage
nR you-"I will be u God to thee and to
by seed after thee" And, though when
'ou lay your head in death there may be
rod, and you may be twenty years In
leaven before salvation shall come to his
leart, he will be brought into the king
lom, and before the throne Of God you
will rejoice that you were faithful. Come
It last, though so long postponed his COM
ng. Come at lastl
congratulate all those who are toiling
or the outcast and the wandering. Your
work will soon be over, but the influence
you are setting In motion will never stop.
Long after you have been garnsred for
he skies. your prayers, your teachings
and your Christian influence will go on
and help to people heaven with bright
inhabitants. Which would you rather
zee, which scene would you rather
ningle in In the last great day
being able to say, 81 added house to
house and land to land and manufactory to
owned half the city, what
over my eye cav had, whatever l wanted
cot ~ Or on that day 70 have Christ Look
you full in the face and say, II was hungry
and ye fed Me; l was naked and ye clothed
Me; was sick and in prison ye visited Mel
lnasmuch as ye did it to the least Of these
Ny brethren. ye did 1t to Mef''
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