Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 August 1893 — Page 6

“CHILDREN’S RIGHTS.” -A Vacation Sermon Prepared by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. - Jome of the Erlli In the Modern Rearing of Children—The Rising Generation Sacrificed on the Alter of Worldllneftft. •

Hhe following discourse was, among others, prepared by Rev. T. DeWitt ' Talma ge for delivery during bis vacation tour in the jrest. The subject is '‘Children’s Rights,” and the text: My father. If thou hadst opened thy mouth • unto the Lord, do unto me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth.— Judges xi., 3d a M Jephthah was a freebooter. vEarly 'turned out from a home, where he ought to have been cared for, he consorted with rough men, and went forth to earn his living as best he could. In those times it Was considered right for * man to go out on independent military expeditions. Jephthah wasj' a good man according to the light of his dark age, but through* wandering and predatory life he' became reckless and precipitate. The grace of God changes a man’s heart, birt never reverses his natural temperament. The Israelites wanted the Ammonites driven out of their country, so they sent a delegation to Jephthah, asking him to become cc*nmander-in- • ■ chief of all the forces. He might have <aaid: “You drove me out when you had no use for me, and now you are in trouble you want me back;” but he did not say that. He takes command of the army, sends messengers to the Ammonites to tell them to vacate the country, and, getting no favorable response, marshals his troops for battle. Before going out to the war, Jephthah ma es a very solemn vow that if the Lord will give him the victory, »then, on his return home, whatsoever first comes out ojL his doorway he will • offer in sacrifice as a burnt-offering. ' The battle opens. It was no skirmishing on the edges of danger, no unlimbering of batteries two miles away, but the hurling of men on the point of swords an^l sjfears until ^ the ground -could no more drink the blood, tyad the horses reared to leap over the piles of •bodies of the slain. In those old times opposing forces would fight until their swords were broken, and then each k one would throttle his man until they both fell, teeth to teeth, grip to grip, death-stare to death-stare, until the plain was one tumbled mass of corpses, from which the last trace of manhood -bad been dashed out. Jephthah wins the day. Twenty cities lay captured at his feet. Sound the victory all through the mountains of Gilead. Let the trumpeters call up the survivors. Homeward to your wives and children. Homeward with your glittering treasures. Homeward to have the applause of an admiring nation. Build triumphal arches. Swing out flags all over Mizpeh. Open all your doors to receive the captured treasures. Through every hall spread the banquet. Pile up the viands. Fill fiigh the tankards. The nation is redeemed, the invaders are routed, and the national honor is vindicated. Huzza for Jephthah the conqueror! Jephthah seated on a prancing steed, advances amid acclaiming multitudes, but his eye is not on the excited populace: Remembering that he had made -m solemn vow that, returning from vicxfccious battle, whatsoever first came out of the doorway of his home, that should be sacrificed as a burnt-offering, file has his anxious look upon the door. T wonder what spotless lamb, what brace of doves will be thrown «pon the •fires of the burnt offering. Oh -horvors! Paleness of death blanches his cheek. Despair seizes his heart. His 'daughter, his'only child, rushes out of •-ihe doorway to throw herself in her father’s arms and shower upon him more kisses than there were wounds on bis breast or dents in his shield. All hhe triumphal splendor vanishes. Holding back this child from his heaving breast, and pushing the locks back from the fair brow, and looking into file eyes of inextinguishable affection, with choked utterance he says, ■“Would God I lay stark on the bloody plain. My daughter, my only child, .joy of my home, life of my life, thou art the sacrifice!” The whole matter was explained to her. This was no whining, hollowhearted girl into whose eyes the father looked. All the glory of sword and - shield vanished in the presence of the valor of that girl. There may have •been a tremor of the lip as a rose-leaf trembles in the sough of the south winds; there may have been the starting of a tear like a rain-drop shook from the anther of a water-lily; but with a-self-sacrifice that man may not reach, and only woman's heart can compass, she surrenders herself to fire «nd to death. “My father, if thou . bast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, (Jo unto me whatsoever hath proceeded from, thy mouth.”

Sha bows to the knife, and the blood, 'which so often at the father’s voice had i rushed to the crimsou cheek, smokes in ,ihe fires of the burnt offering. No one «an tell us her name. There la wm need that we know her name. The .•garlands that Mizpeh has twisted for -Jephthah, the warrior, had gone into \fche dust; but all ages are twisting this •yu-Ts chaplet. It is well that her name came not to us, for no one can wear it. They may take the name of Deborah, . or Abigail, or Miriam, but no one in all r4the ages can have the title of this -- daughter of sacrifice. Of course this offering was not pleas- ; ant to the Lord; but before you hurt your denunciations at Jephthah’s cru- ■ city, remember that hi olden times, when vows were made,, men thought they must execute them, perform them, whether they were wicked or tnjood. There were two wrong things 'about Jephthah’s vow. First, he ought • never to have made it. Next, having . «»»adP it, it were better broken than jkept But do not take on pretentious . Jrs and say: *‘I could not have done as Jephthah did." If to-day you were standing on the banka of the Ganges .andjouhad been barn in India,yon

might have been throwing your children to the crocodiles. It is not because we are naturally any better, but because we hare more Gospel light. Now, I make very practical use of this question when I tell you that the sacrifice of Jephtba's daughter was a type of the physical, mental and spiritual sacrifice of ten thousand children in this day. There are parents all unwittingly bringing to bear upon their children a class of influences which will as oertainly ruin them as knife and torch destroyed Jephthah’s daughter. While I speak, the whole nation, without emotion and without shame, looks upon the stupe ndous sacrifice. In the first place, I remark that much of the system of education in eur day is a system of sacrifice. When children spend six or seven hours a day in school and then must spend two or three hours in preparation for school the next day, will you tell me how much time they will have for sunshine and fresh air and the obtaining of that exuberance which is necessary for the duties of wimincr lifa?

In connection with this I mention what I might call the cramming system of the common schools and many of the academies; children of delicate brain compeled to task* that might appall a mature intellect; children going down to school with a strap of books half as high as themselves. The fact is, in some of the cities parents do not allow their children to graduate, for the simple reason, they say; “We can not afford to allow our children’s health to be destroyed in order that they may gather the honors of an institution.” Tens of thousand of children educated into imbecility; so connected with many such literary establishments there ought to be establishments for the wrecked. It is push, and crowd, and cram, and stuff, and jam, until the child's intellect is bewildered, and the memory is wrecked and the health is gone. There are children turned out from the schools who once were full of romping and laughter, and had cheeks crimson with health, who are now turned out in the afternoon pale-faced, irritated, asthmatic, old before their time. It is one of the saddest sights on earth, an oldmannish boy or an old-womanish girl. You may flatter your pride by forcing your children to know more than any other children, but you are making a sacrifice of that child, if by the additions to its intelligence you are making a subtraction from the future. The child will go away from such maltreatment with no exuberance to fight the battle of life. Such children may get along very well while you take care of them, but when you are old or dead, alas! for them, if, through the wrong system of education which you adopted, they have no swarthiness or force of character to take care of themselves. Be careful how you make the child’s head ache or its heart flutter. I hear a great deal , about black men’s rights, and Chinamen's rights, and Indians’ rights, and women’s rights. Would God that somebody would rise to plead for children’s rights. The Carthaginians used to sacrifice their children by putting them into the arms of an idol which thrust forth its hand. The child was put into the arms of the idol, and no sooner touched the arms than it dropped into the fire. But it was the art of the mothers to keep the children smiling and laughing until the moment they died. There may be a fascination and a hilarity about the styles of education of which I am speaking; but it is only laughter at the moment of sacrifice. Would God there were only one Jephthah’s daughter. Again there are many parents who are sacrificing their children with wrong systems of disciplne—too great rigor or too great leniency. There are children in families who rule the household. They come , to the authority. The high chair in which the infant sits is the throne, Snd the rattle is the scepter, and the [other children make up the parliament where father and mother have no vote! Such children come up to be miscreants. There must be harmony between the father's government and the mother’s government. The father will be tempted to too great rigor. The mother will be tempted to too great leniency. Her tenderness will overcome her. Her voice is a little softer, Jier hand seems better fit to pull out a thorn and soothe a pang. Children wanting anything from the mother, crv for it. They hope to dissolve her will with tears. But the mother must not interfere, must not coax off, must not beg for the child when.the hour comes for the assertion of parental supremacy and the subjugation of a'child’s temper. There comes in the history of every child an hour when it is tested whether the parents shall rule or the child rule. That is the crucial hour. If the child triumphs in that hour, then he will some day make you crouch. It is a horrible scene. I have witnessed it: A mother come to old age, shivering with terror in the presence of a son who cursed her gray hairs and mocked her wrinkled face, and begrudged her the crust she munched with her toothless gums!

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it Is To have a thankless chilli. But, on the other hand, too great rigor must he avoided. It is a sad thing when domestic government becomes cold military despotism. Trappers on the prairie fight fire with fire, bnt you can hot successfully fight your child's bad temper with your own bad temper. ‘We must not be too minute in our inspection. We can not , expect our children to be perfect. We must not see everything. Since we have two or three faults of our own, we ought not to be too rough when we discover that our children have as many. If tradition be true, when we were children we. were not all little Samuels, and our parents were not fearful lest they could not raise us because of our premature goodness. You can not scold or pound your children into nobility or character. The bloom of a child’s heart can never be seen under a cold drizsle. Above all, Avoid fretting and scolding in the household. Better than ten years of

fretting at your children is one good, round, old-fashioned application of the slipper. That minister of the Gospel of whom we read in the newspapers that he whipped his child to death because he would not say his prayers, will never come to canonization. The arithmetics can not calculate how many thousands of children have been ruined forever either through top gleat rigor or too great leniency. The Heavens and the earth are filled with the groan of the sacrificed. In this important matter, seek Divine direction. O father, 0 mother. Some one asked the mother of iaprd Chief-Justice Mansfield if she was not proud to have three such eminent sons, and all of them so good. “Ko,” she said, '“it is nothing to be proud of, but something for which to be very grateful.” Again, there are many who are sacrificing their children to a, spirit of worldliness. Someone asked a mother whose children had turned out very well, what was the secret by which she prepared them for usefulness and for the Christian life, and she said: “This was the secret: When in the morning I washed the children 1 prayed that they might be washed in the fountain of a Saviour's mercy, When I put-on their

ft* JUUJVU V4>«« WV arrayed in . the robe of a Saviour’s righteousness. When I gave them food I prayed that they might lie fed with manna from ileaven. When I started them on the road to sehool I prayed that their path might be as the shining i light, brighter and brighter to the perfect day. When I put them to sleep I prayed that they might be enfolded in the Saviour’s arms.” “Oh,” you say, “that was very old-fashioned.” It was quite old-fashioned. But do you suppose that a child under such nurture as .that ever turned out bad? Further on, thousands and tens of thousands of the daughters of America are sacrificed to worldliness. They are taught to be in sympathy with all the artificialities of society. They are inducted into all the hollowness of what is called fashionable life. They are taught to beliieve that history is dry, but that fifty-cent stories of adventurous love are delicious. With capacity that might have rivaled a Florenco Nightingale in Heavenly ministries, or made the father’s house glad with filial and sisterly demeanor, their life is a waste, their beauty ^ curse, their eternity a demolition. In the" siege of Charleston, during the civil war, a lieutenant of the army stood on the floor beside the daughter of the ex-governor of the state of South Carolina.. They were taking the vows of marriage. A bombshell struck the roof, dropped into the group, and nine were wounded and slain; among the wounded to death, the bride, while the bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying stanch the wounds, the bride demanded that the ceremony be completed, that she might take the vows before her departure, and when the minister said: “Wilt thou be faithful unto death?” with her dying lips she said, “I will,” and in two hours she ha,d departed. That was the accidental slaughter and the sacrifice of the body, but at thousands of marriage altars slain for time and slain for eternity. It :is not a marriage, it is a massacre. When the city missionary passing along the; park in New York saw a ragged lad and heard him swearing, he said to him: . “My son, stop swearing! You ought to go to the house, of God to-day. You ought to be good: you ought to be a Christian.” The lad looked in his face and said: “Ah, it is easy for you to talk, well clothed as you are, and well fed; but we chaps hain’t got no chance.” Who fifts them to the altar for baptism? Who goes forth to snatch them up from crime and death and woe? Who to-day will go forth and bring them, into schools and churches? -No. Heap them up, great piles of rags and wretchedness and filth. Put underneath them the fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put on more fagots, and while we sit in the churches with folded anus and indifferent, crime and disease and death will go on with the agonizing sacrifice. During the early French revolution, at Bourges there was a comp any of boys who used to train every day as young soldiers; and they carried a flag, and they had on the flag this inscription: “Tremble tryants, tremble, we are growing up.” Mightily suggestive! This generation is passing off. and a mightier generation is coming' on. Wjll they be the foes of tyranny, the foes of sin and the foes of death, or will they be the foes of God? They are coming up! I congratulate all parents who are doing their best to keep their children away from the altar of sacrifice. Your prayers are going to be answered, Your children may wander away from God, but they will come back again. A voice comes from the throne to-day, encouraging'you: “I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.” And though when you lay your head in death there may be some wanderer of the family far away from God, and you may be twenty years in Heaven before salvation shall come to his heart, he will be brought into the kingdom and before the throne qf God you will rejoice that you were faithful. Come at last, although so long postponed his coming. Come at last!

1 eongratuiuLc bu wuu are miumg’ for the outcast and the wandering Your work will soon be over, but th*. influence yon are setting in motion will never stop. Long after you have been garnered for the skies your prayers, your teachings and your Christian influence will go on and -help to people Heaven with bright inhabitants. Which would you rather see—which scene would you rather mingle in in the last day—being able to . say: “I added house to house, and land to land, and manufactory to manufactory; I owned half the city; whatever my eyes saw I had, whatever I wanted I got;” or, on that day to have Christ look you full in the face and say: “I was hungry, and ye fed me; I liras naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick and in prison and ye visited me; inasmuch as ye did it to the least of My brethren, ve did it to ms?”

WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. R. G. Don M Co. Report that a Hard Week Still Leaves the Bastoess World Able to Rejoice In Its Soundness and Strength— Mooej Generally eight, Bat the m.tarhence Less than Had Been Feared—Failures for the Week. Etc. New York, Jnly 99.—R. G. Dun A Co.’s weekly review of trade, published this mqrninfr, says: The hardest week has left the business world still able to rejoice in the soundness and strength disclosed. Prices of stocks were greatly depressed Tuesday and Wednesday, closing lower than any ether day since January, lmv, and the fall on Wednesday averaged over $g per share, and yet only two failures resulted, ami those of brokers not especially important. A sharp rally followed on Thursday, with buying from London by shorts and especially significant buying by small investors. No banks here or at other eastern cities and no eastern firms of large importance have gone down, but numerous banks failed at the west, including some of repute and large business. The Erie was again placed in the hands of a receiver, though for eight months of the fiscal year the net earnings of the company have been larger than last year's. And other roads reporting are generally equal to last year's. Money became stringent again with the depression in stocks, and the drain to assist other cities has been heavy, but through allJ the strain the banks of New York have passed without trouble, and imports of gold have commenced. From $1,003,000 to $1,000,000 in money has been sent west every day, and a large decrease in bank reserves is expected, os the treasury has not been disbursing heavily.* Few commercial loans have been negotiated and at high rates. At other cities the money markets bare been quite close, but bank failures at Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Louisville have caused less disturbance than might have been feared* The treasury purchases silver sparingly, and the exports of that metal have been large. Exchanges between this city and Philadelphia hare been especially disturbed: but banks of the latter city continue to supply customers as well as they can. Chicago has drawn heavily on New York, but in that and other cities the bank statements indicate a creditable soundness.

urtatu ruoo ui la&tj vu iuuuuay, uui au oirouulative markets yielded a little when tight money came and the slaughter of stocks. Wheat dosed about 1 cent lower, though western receipts were moderate. Corn is a fraction lower, and also some hog products. Cotton has declined an eighth, though receipts are a little larger and exports smaller than last year, but holders show great stubbornness in view of the large stocks in sight and the closing of many mills. i In other products no special change is reported, though prices tend lower. Many woolen factories are closing for a month or more or in- , definitely, because orders are slack, tor while jobbers' orders are about as usual, clothiers still hold off. Fall trade is said to be not more than a third of the usual size, and many dealers expect to do no more than hall the usual business. Dry goods are easy in tone. Fall cottons though half a cent lower than last year in price and exceedingly attractive, meet but moderate demand and print cloths are weaker at 2.6 cents. The knit goods business is somewhat better. Sales of wool at the chief markets last week were 2.214.000 pounds against 8.140,000 last year, and tor three months and a half 47.5*6,767, against 80,930,130 last year. Orders for, boots and shoes are restricted, many shops running short time, while others have closed, and shipments from the east are 13 per cent, less than tor the same week last year. The iron business grows less active, and m spite of past decrease in output the demand does not equal the supply, so that fdur large furnaces at Pittsburgh are expected to-close. Bar is weak, and has been sold at fl.no. Plates are in narrow demand, and structural iron is irregular, with beams down to *1.80, "Of steel bars 28,000 tons were sold to agricutural implement makers at Chicago. The business failures for the last seven days number 378 in the United States and 28 in Canada. It is noteworthy that only three failures were of capital above 1200.000 each and only ninety-nine of .oapital over 15.000. Over fifty banks stopped during the week, but nearly all were at the west. Last week the failures in the United States numbered 457 and the pre vious week 354. THE WORLD'S FAIR. Remarkable Exemption from Fatal Cases of Overheating In the White City, Over which the Officials Congratulate Themselver—Shirt Sleeves Don’t Go In the Wellington Cafe. World's Fair Grounds. Chicago, July 39.—A. singular feature of the World’s fair thus far has been the absence of heat victims. There has not been a single fatal case of sunstroke, nor even one of prostration from the effects of the heat, although the thermometer has been soaring up in the nineties and over for the past few days. This peculiar but happy coincidence can only be accounted for by ofcers of the exposition medical bureau by the fact that the proximity of Jaokson park to the lake affords a cooling breeze to the tired and exhausted visitors, saving them from sunstroke and prostration from heat. Another source of safety, for visitors comes from the ample shade afforded by the big buildings of the exposition. Many have discretion when they feel the effects of the exposure to run to the shade of the buildings either outside or inside, and thus escape a period of prosrtation and ride to the Emergency hospital. The average number of ordinary cases received at the hospital each day is thirty, hut not one is of sustroke or heat prostration. All are of exhaustion or a giving out of physical energy. The doctors report that in the most heated part of the day the women predominate, and all recover quickly, hut in*the ease of-men it is hard to bring them around. The thermometer was ‘at 90 deg. and over all day, but the average number of heat cases remained the same. There was much complaining on the part of patrons of the Wellington Catering Co. because they were competed to put on their coats or leave the lunch rooms or restaurants of the concern at department buildings. Many men came in with their coats on their arms because of the heat, but they were met at the doors with a firm request to cover their shirt sleeves or leave the place. They usually did the former and the dignity of the catering com pany and the sensitiveness of the women patrons of the concerned wetrs conserved.

Portland, Ore.. Has a Little Wrestle wttfc the Financial Bugbear. Portlajo), Ore., July 28.—The failures of the Oregon national and the Northeast Loan "and Trust Co. Thursday were followed yesterday by a run on the Merchants’ national and the suspension of the Union Banking Co. The former met every demand, paying dollar for dollar,. This seemed to have a most quieting effect, and none of the other banks suffered any trouble at all. The Union is a small concern, and is thought to have -been anxious for ah opportunity to close for a long time i baoauae of its small business. „

THE BRITISH HAND. Visible In the Settlement of the Franco* Slnmeae Difficulty—Slam Accept* the Term* of the French Ultimatum After Kecelrlnr Certain Assurances from Great Britlan Re|*nlla( the Dismemberment of the Kingdon. Paris, duly SO.—The following semiofficial statement was given to tho press yesterday evening: The Siamese government having reconsidered its former attitude, now aocepts all conditions of France’s ultimatum without reserve. The acceptance gives-’complete satisfaction to France and all who were not desirous of making the Siamese difficulty the occasion of fresh colonial enterprise. After referring to the cabinet meeting yesterday and the cabinet meeting called for to-day the statement closes with the words: The French government, desiring to give proofs oyts good will to Slam probably will not raise further^bjections In the affair. Another semi-official statement denies the truth of the rumor that M. Develle and M. Delcasse, under secretary of state for the colonies, have resigned. “The public will have proof in the outcome of the Siam affair,” says the statement, “that Great Britain has not intervened and does not intend to do so.” The Jours accepts this last statement only with a grain of salt. It says that something has been done behind the scenes, and the French are likely to awaken soon to the fact that Great Britain after all has got the better of them in the diplomatic negotiations. The Jourx describes the sudden softening of tone of the British press to private assurances from official sources that effect would be given to the British representations.

Slam Received Secret Assurance Uefore Yielding. Bangkok, July SI.—While the government of Siam accepted without reservations France’s ultimatum it received previously the assurance that the kingdom would not be dismembered until after the consideration by all powers concerned of France’s demand for the territory between the eighteenth and twenty-third parallels. It is somewhat remarkable that before Prince Vadhana, Siamese minister in Paris, could have received his instructions to accept the ultimatum Great Britain's refusal to recognize the blockade had became known in this city. The British residents here, while rejoicing over the action of the home government, do not forget to give credit to Capt. Jones, British minister in Bangkok, for his earefnl and ju<Meious conduct throughout the critical period. When his advice was sought by the court chaplain, Jones pronounced in favor of moderation and concession. The blockade is still maintained by the Forfait. Lunail. Constante and Comete.1 The British war sl^jp Swift remains at the barwithin the blockade limits. The British war ship Manet and the German war ship Wolf are anchored in the river off Bangkok. The British mail has betln allowed to pasS, but mercantile correspondence to Siamese firmshas been shut off. RearAdmiral Humann has arrived at Co-Hai-Chang. M. Pavie remains at the same port, rs all negotiations subsequent to the disruption h4ve been carried on directly with Paris. The French have seized the Siam mail steamer Pantaboin and the HongKong steamer Phraehula with 400 Chinese aboard. The Phraehula was allowed to land her passengers and cargo at Bangkok. She will sail for liong-lvong today. Of the British steamers rendered idle bv the blockade, twelve are in the trade with IIong-Kong, eight with Singapore and one with Honolulu. llritaln’s Rand lu the Settlement. London, July SI.—Beyond question the Siamese affair brought France and Great Britain much nearer hostilities than the public have realized. The earl of Rosebery. British foreign secretary, has had virtually a free hand in the negotiations with France, and be lias found an able supporter in the marquis of Bufferin, British ambassador in Paris. Each has maintained a dignified ajtjtude far removed from bluster, buTfirm beyond any misunderstanding. Together they impressed upon the French official mind unmistakably their intention not to let anybody ride ronghshod over British interest sin the east. Great Britain’s protest that the blockade of the Siamese coast was illegal and her suggestion that in- \ lerferenee with British commerce would not be tolerated, were made witli such unqualified plainness that the French ministers were sobered at once and conceded the justness of the British contention. There seems little doubt that a pacific settlement will be accomplished shortly; That such is the case is attributed no less to Great Britain’s attitude than to Siam’s surrender. Theterritorial arrangements between France and Siam are notlikelyto causeany appreciable difficulty. They will be simply a matter of diplomatic agreement. Among the several suggestions of compromise the most plausible one is that France nominally, in graciousness to Siam, but really in respect to British intervention, leaves to Siam: the territory north of the eighteenth parallel. % The burden of the compromise will tie found by the French government in persuading the French voters at the. near election that the ministry of Dupuy has achieved a glorious victory.

Bold Robbery of a Pacific Exprew W«ji» at WIchHa, Kas. Wichita, Kas., July 30.—A Paeifi* express wagon was held up on the streets here about 6:80 o’clock last night and robbed of 67,500. On a telephone call a wagon went to the Wiehi ta creamery to collect goods. When the wagon arrived at the creamery two negroes pimped in and told the driver to drive to the rear, and while in aA alley a third negro appeared. Covered by three revolvers, the messenger was compeled to open the safe, and after emptying its contents into a bag, the negroes drove off.

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