The Globe-republican., 1902-08-07

the laws against immortality and cor
ruption as faithfully executed as they
were? Is there a decrease OF Islander,
faIsehood and perjury? Is the Sab
bath day remembered and kept holy
with its ancient strI -tness? Did our
fathers journey and labor on that holy
day and do things with our impunity2
Has there been no increase OF in
temperance
So 1 might go and enumerate the
whole decalogue, and what would be
your answer?
It will amaze you to know that the
ancient discipline of the family has
been extensively neglected Chill
oren have neither been instructed in
religion nor governed in early life as
they were in the days of our fathers.
That is the great obstacle in the way
of moral and religious Hfe-the chill
dren-they are the future people, the
rulers, and they are neglected 1 do
not mean abandoned but left to their
own devices and taught wrong Every
body has a new plan to train children;
everybody is experimenting
And how are we experin enting?
Only this great discovery has been
imported, philosOphic discovery
from the undermined, enete systems
of Europe, Asia and Africa, to
speak. We have discovered that hui
man nature is too good to be made
better by discipline; the children are
enticed from the right way by inan-
instruction; they are driven from the
path to the higher life by the rod and
kept in thraldom by a conspiracy be
tween the priests and legislators We
must change all that, say the diSci-
pies of the great discovery.
We multiply new prohibitions and
prescribe new penalties, but of what
avail are they when the very evil to
be redressed is the incarceration of
ecuted to our protection We are
waIlowing in the dust of neglected
laws, mass of dust without life or
vigor.
Truly t-our transgressions and our
sins are upon US, and we pine away
in them How shall we live? The
institutions which are in danger are
not only the institutions of this great
nation, the institutions of Heaven
provided to aid US in reaching eternal
life are crumbIing. The laws which
have lent their congenia1 influence 20
the immortal work of saving sinners;
laws upon which the welfare of mil
lions through eternity, depends, under
God, upon their preservation, are be-
ing abrOgated.
Are you prepared, oh, Christian
father and mother, to blindly permit
your beloved children to take part
in this abnegation of God?
Let me enCreaC you, unhappy peO-
pie, f1oundering about in the quagmire
of uncertainty, to cease from your vain
experiments and return to the old
institutions which led to morality.
| Why will you die? Why will you
| drive others of your fellow creatures
| to death? What is there so fearful in
| the idea of a beautiful heaven that
! causes you to fee from it? What at
| traction is there in the CRIME and
| smoke of the Lake of Pitch, that ex-
| cites such frenzied eXertion to burst
| every bond, o'erleap every mound to
| force your way downward to the
| chambers of everlasting death?
Stop! 1 beseech you, and repent, re-
| form God will blot out your trans
| gressions and remember them no
| more. Stop, and the many who are
| treading in your footsteps by force of
| your example, will also stop and re-
| turn LAS 1 live, 1 desire not tn e
death of the sinner, put that he shall
| not die.