The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-30
A CHILD IN THE MIDST

when Jesus Was here in the flesh.
q company Of friends, on 4 certain
OCCASION. gathered about him ard
asked who Was greatest in the King
ceu If Heaven. Whereupon Jesus
took q Little child and set him rs thcl
midst IT them, and said unto tnom.
"t.4oert ye be converted and become
a. little children, Sc shall not enter
into the Kingdom OF Heaven"
Ihey We're concerned about stations
and ranks In his Kingdom, Jesus
told them that unless they came
back to the un-seihshness and humi-
ity Of childhued. they would not he
fitted fer aIy station in his kin1don:.
they would not DC suffered even 10
crter into His Kingdom.
Jesus made the child q type If the
citizenship If heaven. he proclaimed
tHe heavenly and divine conception.
tt The worth Of the child. lie turn
cl the thought OF the world TO child
Huad. He made the training Of tho
child one II the chief concerns of his
cisHrCh. lie endowed parepthood with
tAr supreme authority known 10 earth
because cf the sacred and eternal in
forests involved in the training 81 the
child. lie pronounced an awful re-
tribution against men that sin against
~rE.ldh0od. lie said that it were bet
tef for "a man that q milestone were
BANGED about bis neck and that he
wore drowned in tho lowest DEPTHS Of
tNt -ea than that lie should lead a
stray one Of Co.'s little ones. And
tHa man that should save the life of a
tG.id. that he should shine as y
brightness of the stars forever and
sFer.
b. announced distinguished honor for
There are no workers closer to the
1.art of the great Father than those
Nho work fer the salvation Of child
Ecn. There is no bencyoience on
earth THAT has more Of the favor Of
heaven upon il than hat which min
listers to the helpless and dependent
cl4lG. and especially, if this child he
. dependent orphan child. 1t is the
trn hcueEolcDce n Il needs no advo-
.alc among mcn-it is jae one cause
j0 which all men join themselves. So
IlaIly have men taken the teaching
~ The Christ and SO surely has he
touched the heart of mankind with his
ST. passion and mercy. Here in
"tb Carolina no ether cause has so
1Itch If the love of our entire citizen
Ship ass tho cause Of the orphan. You
C' rot have any longer to plead this
cal>e among our people. You have
t"iF to- tell them OF it's needs.
When the great Jonn II. Mills laid
thc foundation Of the noble ~institu-
tcn At oxford. ard took his first child
il. he touched the heart CT his
commonwealth as no other man has
ever touched il, and from that day.
the work has been assured in North
Carolina.
North Carolina Forenicst.
We are probably the foremost Sou
thtru State in this noble beneficence
u Jas zone forward among rs. be
cause u people have responded t.
INC appeal of the Christ. and have
Tlaccd themselves under his leader
E#. Af4r har~n fII4 n1ar1. IL, =,
too as they have had compassion f0r
t%c orphan. Men have felt a more
genuine fellowship with Christ az
tutN have taken part in this work
"e.nT has set a child in the midst.
There are two things in the life
81 the orphan child that appeal t
III r: one il his utter helpIeSSneSS anC
q. lenseiessness. He is here without
having brought himself here, and he
not to- blame for the adverse and
.#Td conditions in which he is found
g LIS a case Of suffering without guilt
there - no mother-breast where
~ can lac fed and loved and careSsed
iHen God will find a mother-hear
Sui where that viii come and keel
G ch!td. lf there is no strong arm
.tr ms protection, Goo Will raise III
ith thousand men that Will build al
'fbhana@e whore he may find sheltel
ana home and the uplift to God.
H- FtttE tIillLS nat appear II
mon l. the sure revenue that come
from Investment in the heart Of th'
tEtld i certain worthy and beloy
90 citizen Of this community has
business venture hat is paying hin
twenty per cent income. This Sam,
'itlIen is making investment in TIL
orphan children Of the state thai vii
nay thirty fold, sixty fold, and
hundred fold. You are making pos
Slrle ten thousand noble achievement
IN the life of the race WI you vorl
upon the heart of a child. II is Ills
the grain Of mustard seed that til
man cast into the earth. and
brought forth q thing Of such foliag
that the birds of the air lodged in tn
branches of il.
Sometime ago in a North Carolin
town. l found two men who were fore
most business h1en in their conlnunit
and active church workers, and the
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