The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-09-06


OF their lives 20 your interests INA
NOT your sisters aud brothers max.
sacrifices for your educaticpf Nna'
about the little old village chu'0n
where YOU used 10 bo taken as B" oos
and whore. 10 a great extent your ~ &c
rual character was formed n ,at
Won over done anything for Il
church, Have You helped 10 pay Oh
~, moriraeef Have you bought q
new organ for that church, haV'
Won ever seut dollar 10 help support
/ fho door widow % your old pastor Wn'
lt6 So much for your spiritual heelthl
How about your old sch0olteachersi
Have you done anything for them
No You stick your thumbs In he
eoal OF your coat and pat your chesl
annrovinely aud conientedly say
,m "a self made man These people
b.s nothing 20 40 with my present sue
..ss won q all. Yes. ! won II all
know from your words that your uh-
.,raternl heart has turned into stone,
and that ~ wifi need blast OF dyna'
mite 10 break Il from its present IN
Gratitude and forgetfulness
Then what about Your present SIAN
of amplovees2 Are they 70 receive no
financial share Of your present sue
cessf You know you have men work
inc for Won today who are simply IN
valuable You know that n rival
er,, should come and offer certain
men I'm your firm q third more than
they are receiving YOU would be- glad
fo advnnce their wages rather IMAM
lose them YOu know that II hard
times should come aud business should
ram behind Won would cut your ems
nlovees' wages down. And yet when
vonr business IS prospering you give
chose employees no share Of the pros
nerltv Now. my brother. want 70
ask you. IS that squarel Is that rightly
II Won ask those men With whom you
are associated TO share your adversely
when II comes. ought You not 10 lct
those same faithful men and women
share your prosperity
But there Is another large class q
peopie who need your help today and
who have a right 10 claim II. They
are not the old men and women nor
the middle aged They are not the
people who for years have been living
bv your side They are not the people
with whom perhaps you are even ac-
oualnted. But they are the boys and
the girls or the young folks who are
standing upon the threshold Of life
with some fearful mental or physical
or spiritual handicap. These young
Deoplo have on them the faint Of o.
had ancestral heritage OF by hnanf
cial misfortune they are compelled t9,
grow up amid yitiating socia! environ:
ments Unless some one comes y
their help they are doomed 10 make
a failure ont Of life before they start
God expects you to help them. u
Here. for instance. Is a young boy,
who has a large number Of brothersI
and sisters He is born In the beautil
ful city OF Philadelphia. But thou.
sands and hundreds Of thousands OF
families are there. and he is only an
atom in @ great crowd His father IS
hardwoIklng. brave. noble man
But one day scanolding upon which,
he is working drops and almost irn~I
mediatelv the husband and father isi
dead His mangled corpse is carrien
home 10 The little cottage Now. how
is that Young boy ten years Of age n
get an educauonf Who is 20 feed hip
md 10 educate him and 70 clothe him.
The mother7 Well, II the mother r.
10 be the breadwinner. who will stay
at home and look after the childreq
Can a weak mother do a mans work
and o woman's work az the SANE,
timer Is Il possible for her TO be r.
two places at the same timer Unless
some one comes 10 this womans help
that boy VIII have no chance for subj
cess lie will be sent forth 10 help earn
! bis living almost before be Is out OF tf~
nursery he may become a newsb0y /.
Tie may be pitllessly thrown among the
vile influences Of a street gutter. Tbeb
/ his moral character. IN all probability
VIII b. wrecked while he Is yet only q
I little child Who will be the Stephen
Girard 20 reach out the helping hang
/ TO rescue that childi Tell me. with 81
many helpless young people about
cannot you do something TO help those
young folks by your sidef II
But though all people should try to
help the helpless young folks. this plea
ought 70 come especially home TO those
who have never boon blessed with chill
dren. Coo pity the man or the women
INTO whose heart there has never CONF
"a little child 70 love and 10 develop,
No human life is complete without O.
child. My friend, II you have not @
child. bone Of your bone and flesh Of
| YOUR flesh. 70 love and 10 nurture, thee
FOR your own good as well as for the
good Of some helpless children l beg
and plead with you to adopt one -
We are TO help those standing upoh
the threshold Of life. We must DO
i more than that-we are 70 extend imam.
cial aid and spiritual help to those
who seem 10 have made a complete
failure Of life. We should extend
the helping hand 10 those whose sins
and errors have flung them down. anq
70 those who have lost faith In them
selves. and 70 those whom the world
has cast aside as useless and OF no
account One Of the hardest tasks IN
the world IS 10 save man after his
backbone Of faith IN himself has been
broken. Men are often spoiled for
life by too much censure. A man docs
wrong. he commits an awful sin, ana
az once the world pitches into hin.
| lie is driven out of tho store. ont Of
the church. out Of respectable society
No matter where he goes hts SIN dogs
his footsteps Now. my friends. !
want TO tell you that 10 man has ever
fallen so low IN Gin but there IS yet
some rood In him n we only 60