Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-03-11
DR.. HUTCHINSON DELIVERS
"bAbY WEEK" SERMON

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Excerpts from sermon preached in
the McCabe Methodist Episcopal
church in connection with Bismarck
Better Baby week, March 5-11, 1916.
at is truly said that one Of the bull
warks OF American society is the
Home. The Home Yields tremen.
dous influence and, in the last analy-
Sis, the measure of that influence can
be ascertained by the amount of care
bestowed on the baby-and child-life.
Yet while We acknowledge the truth
Of this, our customs proclaim that we
care less for the baby and the proper
development Of the child life than we
do for other things.
"Think for moment Of the care
bestowed on the plantlife and lower
animal life. Inc wizard of the West
has received fabulous sums for the
improved specimens Of flowers and
vegetables end fruits. A professor In
South Dakota IS permitted to spend
thousands Of dollars to bring from
northern Asia q forage plant, the use
of which shall solve the farmers
feed problem. Large sums are set
aside annually for the betterment of
the race of calves and pigs and sheep
and horses. But for the baby-lfe little
or nothing is being done. Yet to be
well born is the essential right Of
the child.
Again, this is noticed as the needs
of the future are anticipated in the
matter OF recording the facts. Great
care is manifest in recording the
coming OF a calf or pig. Equal anX-
iety is seen in the setting forth the
facts of higher plants and shrubs.
But the baby comes out of the every
where into the here and that is all.
The future may hold money or posi-
ton for that grown child. But though
many instances prove that the right
to each is determined by a production
OF data concerning the birth and ante.
cedents, we go carelessly on and
make no record either as an express
sion Of our own joy or as an antici-
patton of coming needs.
Very recently a young lady wished
to 60 to Europe in the capacity OF
nurse. On applying for her passport
she was asked for data concerning
her birth. Not being in possession OF
these facts she wrote to the old home
town but found that her birth had not
been recorded. The physician attend.
ing her mother had passed away and
the only available record was found
in the following newspaper item I'M
der date of Monday, July 1G, 1894. "A
baby girl made her appearance Sat
urday morning at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. -. In consequence a box
of cigars made its appearance at the
Office last evening"
Another young lady had money
left to her and found it necessary to
her identity through the
record of her birth. None was forth
coming. But an old farmer remem-
bered that on the day that she was
born a calf was added to the stock in
the barn. Maybe that was recorded.
A search was made and the birth of
the calf, properly recorded, estab.
lished the claim of the young lady
whose coming into the world was as
nothing compared with the coming Of
= calf.
1T is we'll that we have arrived at
a time when such great care is mani
fest in the plant and animal life. 1t
Is matter for congratulation that
such welcome results are attending
the efforts of man to bring the best
along these lines to himself and his
fellows. But the BARN demands even
more thought, and movement back
to the old Family Bible with it's
precious history would not be amiss.
"The value of child is best realiz-
ed when we face the fact that it is a
gift from God; that it belongs to God
md that it is destined to not only
adorn and serve this world for a few
or years as is the case with
fruit and flower and animal, but to
carry out its existence in another
world or worlds where the develop
nent here shall be further expanded
Some years ago we were taught that
were the peculiar possession
If the powers of evil. That they were
BORN in sin and shapen in iniquity as
vas the ill-begotten child of a King
who forgot his manhood and stopped
% sensuality. That they must needs
)e treated as those in whom the pow
'rs of evil were dominant until the
ife was vitiated and when they were
% experience a revolutionary change
which should lead the life to higher
Now we are coming to
he acceptance of the truth that child
zen belong to God. That if by nature
hey have a vital relationship to the
irst Adam, they have, by grace. an
equally vital relation to the second
Adam even Jesus Christ.
Games Russell Lowell says:
"'Upon the hour that l was born
God said. "Another man shall be"
And the Great Maker did not sccrn
tut of Himself. to fashion me. He
summed me with his ripening looks
md Heavens rich instincts in m"
grew. As effortless as woodland