The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
.CH|LDREN'S RIGHTS
 MUST BE RESPECTED 5 SAYS DR. DILLARD
Pastor of Southside Baptist Church Emphasized Rights of Children In Morning
 Sermon

A sermon of unusual interest was preached yesterday morning at the Scuthside Baptist church by pr. James k. billiard, before congregation that filled the church edifice. Dr. Dillari had for his subject, The Rights of the Child" and said in part:
 ~ Hear what Jesus says, 'Despise not one of these little ones suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven excsps ye turn and become as little children, yc shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of heaven whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to staumble, it is profitable for him that a great mill Js1one should be hanged about his neck ara that he should be sunk in the dA pth of the sea-
 Y Children have rights the same as grown people. We rightly insist that children respect the rights of others. Let us equally insist that others re- spect the rights of the children. Among tie rights of the child there are five that need special emphasis.
 A RECKONING TIME
 -"Evefy cnI.u has the r4ght to be We'll born Why should he come into this world handicapped for life? There Ere some people that are not fit to DC the parents of children. Half-witted folks, diseased people of certain va yiety and other incompetents ought not to be permitted to transmit their defects to posterity. A dentist in th!s city told me a few days ago of a child brought to him whose gums were eaten away by lothsome disease for which the child was in no way responsible. A reckoning time is coming
 Tt is the right of every child to be slcved. God has recognized this riga {. and provides for it by putting a spark of His own love not be mere senti- This love should not be mere senti- nrent, but an active, intelligent and sacrificial love. Parents do not love their children as they ought to when ,they take them from their play and from their schools and put them to work on farms, cotton fields or in fac tories and stores.
 Neither do they love them as they should unless they provide for them clean and wholesome play; neither do they love. them as they should unless they have them examined in order to discover their defects and then pro- vide for the remedying of the same. Il have seen thousand children blind. two-thirds of whom would be able 60 see had they been given proper atten- lt1On at birth. l nave seen a nuHuTeu Ol cripples who could have been cure1 had it ben undertaken in time.
 RIGHT TO BE UNDERSTOOD
 Tt is the right of every child to he Understood. Parents forget their own childhood and often blame their chil- dren unjustly. If we understand their Instincts, emotions. their limitations, their ways of thinking and of doing if we have sympathetic understand ing, we will save them much pain ana anguish and save ourselves many mls- takes and sorrows. It is said that u children are loved to one that is un- derstood Don't laugh at children s defects nor poke fun at their fears. II we associate with them sympathetlcal- tly we shall learn to know them.
 "It is the right of every child to be educated, not only in books and play, but in social life and in religion. 1t is the right of child to have an ex- ample. He is an initiative creature You can't expect your child to talk right and walk right unless you snow Ihim how. You can't expect him to be the right kind of Christian unless you are one yourself.
 Tt is the right of every child to know Jesus and to be converted early in life Not to lead him to Jesus while he is a child is to rob his soul of the ipcurishment and the strength, .he mower of resistance and the joys or ompanionship that he has God given right to. Are you treating your child right? What would Jesus say?'