Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1877 — One of Dean Stanley’s Sermons to the Young. [ARTICLE]

One of Dean Stanley’s Sermons to the Young.

A writer in the Standard (Chicago) says Dean Stanley preached this most beautiful and noble sermon to so less than 5,000 young hearers assembled in that magnificent old cathedral of London, known as the Westminster Abbey. In England, some of the good people celebrate what they call "Holy innocents’ Day,” in commemoration of the brutal munler of the innocent children by the tyrant Herod. The aay is the 28th of December. “ Dean Stanley (says the Standard writer)is an old man. whose hair is almost white, and his face shines with goodness as a Sunbeam with light. He is a very learned man, and is greatly respected and beloved by the good people of all England and the entire world. His sermon to the young folks is as follow* : 44 Love honest work, love to get knowledge, never be ashamed of saying yonr prayers morning and evening. It will help you to he good all through the day. Always keep your promises; ao not pick up foolish ana dirty stories; never, never tell a lie; never strike, or hurt or be rude to a woman or a girl, or any one weaker or younger than yourselves. Be ready even to risk your own lives to save a friend, ora companion,- or a. brother or sister. Be very kind to poor dumb animals; never put them to pain; they are .God’B creatures as well as you, and if you kutt them you will become brutal and base yourselves. Remember always to be Sntle and attentive to older people; ten and do not interrupt whan they are talking. If you have an old father, or a grandfather, or a sick uncle or aunt, remember 'not to disturb them by loud talking or rough play. Be pareful and tender to them- You cannot think what gopd it does them, and if it should happen that any of you have a poor father or a poor mothe? who has to get up early to go About their business and earn their bread, and yonr bread, remember—-what a pleasure it will he to them to Arid their little, boy or little girl has been out of bed before them on'a Cold winter’s morning, and has lighted* a bright, biasing fire, so as to give them a warm cup of tea. Think what pleasure it would be to them, if they are sick, if they are deaf or blind, to find a little hoy or a little girl to speak to them, or to read to them, or to lead them about. It is not only the comfort they have in having help; it is a still greater comfort In knowing that they have a good little lon or a good little daughter who is anxious to help them, and who they feel sore will be a joy and not a trouble to them by day and by night, " No Christmas present cap be so wel come to any father or mother or friend as the belief that their ch.ldren are growing up truthful, manly, courageous, courteous, unselfish and religious, and do not think

srasusawiußMßUt; and in win* is going (®n, that whoever shall never fail. Let the ’gnd.'ftrighu.n s&t are little English buys agdgirtat wUd are determioed to dp theijr “ It was only tha other day 1 heard of a brave and mode*i boy—Mammon Parker was his name—who was only fourteen yearn of age, add who haa already Saved at different times the lives of no leas than What yon past do-*«H perhaps by plunging into the stormy spa, but at any rate fef saVtoT i tittle W&tor or a little sister fppm going Wrong. .Ypu can you wUI yery soon ran asnwi ,Bad'people are alwaya afraid pf gopd people, even though the go6d are machTwerTknd even though the geod may beontya little child. " 1 knew once a .very, famous man who lived to be very k. be eighty-eight.. He .was always the delight eagle’s whentit (flashed fire at what was which belonged to him, all tattered and torn, which he fiafi when a-little hoy at school, and phai do you think I found written in? bMoWn’fcand in tftto 4>e*y first vicious tonguesf-be Jtfal arid" Mar not’ aUOhrppgh i#f,*nd he was loved and honored down to the day when he was carried to hlWpAve. Be be with you then, Pow arid always.”