Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-03-31
NUMBER :3S

say tnat, you mad better beware tor
the death angel seems to be partial 10
our little ones. Oh, how many smalI
graves there are in the family plots!
II almost seems that to some of us life
may have a reproduction of that OF
roor washerwoman who some years
ago came to a photograph gallery IN a
western city. The proprietor looked at
bor sharply. for she was evidently very
moor as he said, "Well, my good woin-
an. what do you want?" She SAID: i
want 70 have my baby's picture taken
II | could, please, sir. But amt got
no money. But If you will let me
will clean and scrub up the floors for
YOU in order to pay for the picture"
Then. when the baby began to utter
q nlaintive wall the poor woman SAID:
"You see. sir, he don't cry Ike wen
hobv He amt never been strong
None of my babies are I've Durieu
fonr and | amt got no picture OF any
NJ them. so | thought I'd try ana get
nlcture of this one in case ahyulihs
should happen. I'd do any amount ol
scrubbing if you would only take this
nicture. for I'm afraid this little one
might 90 like the rest" The proprietor
brushed away tear as he said: Yes,
] GOOD woman. | will take picture OF
your baby. Sit right down now Az
7 read the story said: 80 God, ART
thou going to take away any OF my
hohies rs thou hast taken 50 many
other babies? If they are taken away
shall I be able to have any comfort!
Shall be able to say, They are wen
with thee.' because | have given them
70 theep And if | am myself taken
away shall I still be able to say ere
90 that If IS well with my babies, be-
cause I have taught them already 10
meet me before the great white throne
In heayen|
But cannot close this home greeting
without giving you still another salu-
tation. would salute you with the
words 'Is it we'll with thy nelghDors
child as with thine own childT Ana
when accost you thus | would tell
Won why I do it, | have had in nina
for some time to preach upon our duty
, to care for the abused and neglected.
children of the slums. | wanted to 90
so today. but the more ! thought upon
This subject the more l felt that II
, narent did not realize his responsibility
, to his own children he could not reallze
his responsibility to his neighbors chill
I dren Now. I do believe we realize our
, responsibility to our own. Therefore
l can | not say just word or TWO III
p reference to our duty toward those
! moor little waits of the street or those
Q worse than orphans, the children OF the
0 outcasts Of sin?
= Children of the Sums
0 You know how hard it is to develop
n children Alright even under the very
e hest conditions. And if there Is BAD
It hov in your neighbOrhOod at once you
t. can see the influence OF his lie upon
8 the actions of your own little son IL
3 they 90 together. What chance mas
that little child whose mother Is d
" drunkard and whose father is hDer-
IT tine2 What chance have those little
Is girls who are growing up surrounded
i NV the vitlatisg and appalling atmos-
- a.1,, ----,rr-srre1U e1UnlpIlcssv -s1tifSD7 ~
y vi I CHRISTIAN societies of our large cities
r. come TO their reseue2 DO you moi
le know that in our large cities some
a Iovd and debauched parents have Deen
It. willing to sell their children INTO hle
n ~ crime when they have not yet en-
is tored their teens? o God, as we are
" Giving our children to thee, can we no
y. ,oocb out the hand Of rescue and nell
NJ This Christly work Of taking the lltu'
On children ont of the slums and putting
a them into thine arms, as the mother
ic- of old gave their little ones to Chris
re that he might bless themf
ne IF Christian society in the name 0
he Jesus Christ will not rescue these CHI
id: dren in all probability no power o
ais earth will. Years ago three men wer
is canning in the Indian jungle. Suddei
re- " With a mighty bound, tiger leape
Of mon the back of one of the party. IN
he two untouched men at once CLIMBED
Ike naorhv tree. Then the tiger called
ice bor voung to come and have an ever
md ing meal. The cubs were not yer
mt, hnngrv. so the old mother Above
Of them to play with their prey TOT hl'
un- while After few minutes the lha
'gs. came TO. He saw the cubs. lie >"
by +be old mother. Then he staggered
ren his feet and started to run. His col
hey panions not only saw him. Dut heai
ex- his screams as the tiger brought III
Ong hack and laid the man again IN u
ght. midst of her young. Three or 10
lble times the mother beast did thls' III
we flor awhile hunger asserted Use
1t The play stopped and the sound OF
wer crunching bones was heard. An
Iren said 70 myself when | read that stol
, Of how often do we see sin playing WI
mis- bar victims like that? And In no W
and does sin seem to play with more fel
'oys ,sh qlee over her prey than when spo
Is ing with the children of the sluiiis
oral with those dlssolute or cruel paren
Oh. nv friends, if amid the brlght
oP conditions we have such hard VIC
lren n raise our children right shall we
you in Christs name try to rescue th
ntal- ~ -S'n4o1 i-.,. ,,+tlo onos Of the slums?
ldeu we today try to give our own chlldl
lave We c,'n;at .I sholl we not try TO offer h
their " O.,''lJ .,o,l,l,I,o,,s children also? "Wh
wen shall receive one such little child IN
aken name receiveth me, but whose 81
i5 tne offend one Of these little ones when
toiu IIeve in me II were better for him I
cters n milestone were hanged about his u
lew? =" 'i'''.1 n,o4 no uore drowned in
love o'iD sn1.,,a 80 tho seosn
" Won m copyright 1906, by Louis Klopseh'I
there '.-.~
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