Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-05-18

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Becareful how you make the child's head
acne or its heart futter. / hear great
oeaI ABOUT black mans rights, and China
mans rights, and Indians rights, and
Woman's rights. Would to God that some-
body would rise to plead for children 8
rightsl The Carthagenians used to sacri-
nee their children by putting them into
the arms Of an idol which thrust forth its
hand; The child was put into the arms of
tne iuoi, ana no sooner touched the arms
than 1t dropped into the fire. But it was
the art OF the mothers to keep the children
smiling and laughing until the moment
they died. There may be fascinntion
ana hilarity about the styles of educa-
,lon OF which am speaking, but it is only
laughter at the moment of sacrifice.
Would God there were only one Jenh.
thah's daughter!
Again, there are many parents who ora
sacrificfng their children with wrong sys-
tenn OF discipline-too great rgor or toc
great leniency. There are children in fami,
chair in which the infant sits is the throne
and the rattle is the sceptre, and the other
children make up the parliament where
father and mother have no voteI Such
children come up to be miscreants. There
Is no chance in this world for a child that
has never learned to mind. Such peopIe
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-
thority. 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 about their father as "the old
man, the governor" 'the squire" "the
oid chap," p, @ or their mother as "the, old
woman?' They are those who in youth. in
childhood. never learned to respect au. u.
thority. Ell, having heard that his song
mad died In their wickedness fell over back
ward and broke his neck and died. Well
he might! What is life to father whose
| sons are debauched? 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 encompassing dol
lar They start In an age which boasts it
! can scratch the Lords PRAYER on q ten cent
| piece and the Ten Commandments on 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 a dime aud
| ten dimes make 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. r.
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would tell you by what awful tragedy many
of the youth OF this country are ruined
Further on, thousands and tens of thou
sands of the daughters of America are
sacrificed to worldlness. They are taught
to be in sympathy with all the artilicialties
OF society. They are nducted into all the
hollowness Of what is called fashionable
life. They are taught to believe that his
tory is dry, but that Efty cent stories of
adventurous love are delicious. With
capacity that might have rivaled n Flor
ence Nightingale in heavenly ministries or
made the fathers house glad with filal
and sisterly demeanor, their life is waste,
their beauty curse, their eternity a de.
molition
In the siege of Charleston, during our
Civil War, 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.
bombshell struck the roof dropped into
the group, and nine were wounded and
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 she might take the vows be-
fore her departure, and when the minister
said: "Wilt thou be faithful unto
death?" with her dying lips she said:
II will" and In two hours she had de-
parted. That was the slaughter and the
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 Is massacre.
Af1ianced to some one who is only waiting
until his father dies so he can get the prop
erty; then little while they swing around
in the circles, brilliant circles then the
property Is gone, and, having no power to
earn livelihood, the twain sink into some
corner OF society, the husband an idler and
sot, the wife drudge, slave and a
a.
from Jephthah's head and expend them all
on this Wholesale modern martyrdoml
hit up my voice against the sacrifice of
children. / look out or my window on a
Sabbath, and l see group OF children un-
washed, uncombed, n-Christianized. Who
cares for them? Who prays for them2 Who
utters to them one Kind word? 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 to-day. You ought to be
good. You ought to be Christian" The
lad looked up in his face and said: "Ah! It
is easy for you to talk, well clothed as YOU
are and well fed. But we chaps hain't got
no chance" Who lifts them to the altar
for baptism2 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
up, great piles OF rags and wretchedness
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 Indifference, crime
and disease and death will go on with the
agonizipg 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 flag, ana they had on
the Gag this inscription; ''Tremble, ,tyrants,
tremblel We are growing up" Nightly |
suggestive! This generation is passing off,
and a mightier generation is coming on. |
Will they be the foes Of tyranny the foes
of sin and the foes OF death, or will they |
be the foes OF GodP They are coming |
up! / 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, |
but they will come back again. A voice |
comes from the throne to-day. encourag-
ing you-"I will be u 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 |