The Penn's Grove record., 1899-04-21

chair In which the infant sits is the throne,
and the rattle is the sceptre, n the other
children make up the parliament where
father and mother have no votel Such
children come up to be miscreants. There
Is no chance In this world for q 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-
thorlty. Children will not respect parents
whose authority they do not respect. Who
are these young men that swagger through
the street with their thumbs In their vest
talking nbout their father as "the old
man, - 1.-THE governor" ''the SQUIRE 1.-THE
old chap" or their mother as "the old
womanF" They are those who in youth, in
childhood, never learned to respect au-
thority. Ell, having heard that his SONG
bad died in their wickedness, fell over back.
ward and broke his neck and died. Well
he might What is life to a father whose
sons are d%ebauched2 The dust Of the val.
ley is pleasant to his taste, and the driving
rains that drip through the roof of the
sepulcher are sweeter than the wines of
Helbon.
In our day most boys start out with no
idea higher than the all encompasslng dol
lar. They start In an age which boasts 1t
can scratch the Lords Prayer.on a ten cent
piece and the Ten Commandants on a ten
cent piece. Children are taught to reduce
morals and religion, time and eternity, to
vulgar fractions. 1t seems to be their chief
attainment that ten cents make u dime and
ten dimes make a dollar. How to get
money Is only equaled by the other art
how to keep 1t. Tell me, ye who know,
what chance there is for those who start
out in life with such perverted sentimentsl
The money market resounds again and
again with the downfall of such people. II
| had a drop Of blood on the tip of pen, /
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of the youth of this country are ruined.
Further on, thousands and tens Of thou
sands of the daughters of America are
sacrificed to worldliness. They are taught
to be in sympathy with all the artihcialties
Of society. They are indicted into all the
hollowness of what is called fashionable
life. They are taught to believe that his
tory Is dry, but that fifty cent stories of
adventurous love are delicious. With
capacity that might have rivaled q Flor
ence Nightingale in heavenly ministries or
made the fathers house glad with filial
and sisterly demeanor, their life is a waste,
their beauty u curse, their eternity a de-
molttion.
In the siege OF Charleston, during our
Civil War, q lieutenant of the army stood
on the 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, anu nlut WtEb WOuuutu anu
slain, among the wounded to death the
bride. While the bridegroom knelt on the
carpet trying to stanch the wounds the
bride demanded that the ceremony be com
pleted, that sho might take the VOWS be-
fore her departure, and when the minister
with her dying lips she said:
II WILL and in two hours she had de-
parted. That was the slaughter II the
OF the body, but at thousands
of marriage affairs there are daughters
slain for time and slain for eternity.
1t is not II marriage. 1t is a massacre.
Aflanced to some one who Is only waiting
until his father dies so he can get the prop
erty; then a little while they swing around
in the circles, brilliant circles; then the
property is gone, and, having no power to
earn a livelihood, the twain sink into some
corner of society, the husband an idler and
q sot, the wife Il drudge, q slave and o
sacrifice. All, spare your denunciations
from Jephthah's head and expend them all
this whoIesale modern martyrdoml
I Tilt up my voice against the sacrifice Of
look out of my window on a
Sabbath, and I see Il group of children un-
uncombed, un-Christianized. Who
cares for them? Who prays for them? Who
utters to them one kline word2 When the
city missionary, passing along the park
In New York, saw a ragged lad and heard
swearing, he said to him: MY son,
stop swearlngl You ought to go to the
of God to-day. o ought to be
lad looked up in his face and said: "Ahl 1t
Is easy for you to talk. we'll clothed as you
are and well fed. But we chaps hain't got
no chance" Who lifts them to the altar
for baptism? Who goes forth to snatch
them up from crime and death and woe?
Who to-day will go forth and bring them
Into schools and churches? No, heap them
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and filth. Put underneath them the fires
of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put on more
and, while We sit in the churches
with folded arms and indifference, crime
and disease and death will so on with the
agonizing sacrifice.
During the early French revolution at
Bourges there was a company OF boys who
used to train every day as young soldiers,
and they carried a flag, and they had on
the flag this inscription; "Tremble, tyrants,
We are growing up" Nightly
This generation is passing off,
and a mightier generation is coming on.
VIII they be the foes Of tyranny, the foes
of sin and the foes of death, or will they
be the foes of God? They are coming
upl l congratulate all parents who are
doing their best to keep their children
away from the altar of sacrifice. Your
prayers are going to be answered. Your
children may wander away from God,
put tuey Will COlHo puch again "A NOlco
comes from the throne to-day, %encourag-
ing you'll will be a God to thee and to
thy seed after thee" Aud, though when
you lay your head In death there may be
wanderer of the family far away from
God, and you may be twenty years in
heaven before salvation shall come to his
heart, he will be brought into the king
dom, and before the throne of God you
will rejoice that you were faithful. Come
at last, though so long postponed his COM
ing. Come at lastl
l congratulate all those who are toiling
for the outcast and the wandering. Your
work will soon be over, hut the 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
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 to land and mandatory to
mandatory, / owned half the city, what
ever my eye saw l had, whatever l wanted
| got" or on that day to 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 Me;
inasmuch as ye did 1t to the least OF these
My brethren, ye did 1t to Mep"
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