Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-09-05
Protection Of Youth.

dren. God pity the man or the woman
into whose heart there has never come
little child to love and to develop
No human life is complete without a
child. My friend, II you have not q
child, bone Of your bone and flesh OF
your flesh, to love and to nurture, then
for your own good as well as for the
good Of some helpless children I beg
and plead with you to adopt one. DO
not be afraid that an adopted child, on
account Of it's unfortunate parents,
may turn out bad. DR.. T. J. Bernardo.
the greatest authority on children Of
the slums that ever lived and the one
man who saved more children to God
and to worldly usefulness and respecta-
bility than other men, gave this as his
testimony: 81 am strongly Of the opin.
ion that there Is no inherent tendency
in any boy or GIRL no matter how
descended or how surrounded, which
may not be eradicated or at least sub
jugated under favorable conditions. In
the fierce contest between heredity and
environment firmly believe that all
other things being equal, environment
Is the more potent. No one Is hopeless
ly handicapped by bis birth conditions"
In other words, with so many children
In our founding asylums who need
your help, are you going to turn your
back upon them and keep on growing
more selfish and mean as you are
aging? For Gods sake, for your own
sake as we'll as for the children's sake,
adopt child just as soon as you can.
God never meant you to live without
the loving influence OF some little child
in your home Take some child to
your heart and throw your protecting
arms about 1t.
Tho Helping Hand.
We are to help those standing upon
the threshold OF life. We must do
more than that-we are to extend fnan-
cial aid and spiritual help to those
who seem to have made n complete
failure of life. We should extend
the helping hand to those whose sins
and errors have flung them down, and
to those who have lost faith In them
selves. and to those whom the world
has cast aside as useless and Of no
account. One Of the hardest tasks in
the world Is to save man after his
backbone Of faith In himself has been
broken. Men are often spoiled for
life by too much censure. A man does
wrong he commits an awful sin, and
at once the world pitches into him.
He Is driven out Of the store, out Of
the church, out of respectable society.
No matter where he goes, his sin dogs
his footsteps. Now, my friends, |
want to tell you that no man has ever
fallen 80 low in sin but there Is yet
some good in him. If we only go
about it in the right way, we can win
that man back to the paths Of truth
and Of right. Don't growl n man into
being bad, but love a man into being
good.
Lastly. we should help those who
have lived their lives and are now in
the Indian summer of their earthly
existence, as we'll as the middle aged
who have erred, and those who are
young. We should help the aged and
the cripplcs and the chronic invalids
and those whose lives will always be
dependent upon others. You are to
do this not only for those who are
your kith and kin. but also for those
who have no direct claim upon your
benefaction.
Pity the Unfortunate.
Now, why should you not help the
MANNED and the halt and the deaf
and the dumb and the blind? Are
you going to save your money and
leave 1t to your ablebodied children, so
that they can lie around in ease and do
nothing? DO you not realize that ev.
cry dollar you give to your children
after you have given them good edu.
cation In all probability will lessen
their mental and physical vitality? II
you want your boys and girls to be
strong and brave and self reliant,
then you must teach them to labor as
you have laborcd. Are you going to
turn your backs upon Gods helpless
sick and aged and give your all to
your children, so that they shall be.
over for me the list OF the sons Of
wealthy men Of your youth. How
have they turned out, handicapped
with their fathers wealth? Would
YOU like your children to become as
those sons Of wealthy men are! Are
You going to take this necessity OF a
struggle away fror, your boys and
girls Are you going to unman your
children and take from them the very
discipline and struggle which have
made you what you are? Then, II
you are not going to sQuander your
money upon your ablebodied children,
will you not spend 1t where 1t is so
much needed. In helping along the "o!d
folks homes" in endowing hospital
beds for the sick and in helping to
. alleviate the sufferlngs Of those who
are dependent upon human medica-
Ment7
In Gods Vineyard.
And I plead with you thus to scatter
your money for another reason. When
you begin to give your money to the
lame. the halt, the blind and the aged.
the time will not be far distant when
you will gladly give your own per-
sonal strength to the care Of the un-
fortunate as well as your money. 1t
Is almost an impossibiity for q man to
continually give his money to the un-
fortunates Of life unless at the same
time he gives his personal self to the
same service. The story Is told by a