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Show A TIMELY WARNING. "Parent," in a San Francisco paper, pa-per, rci'errit-g to an anecdote related to tho children by tiie revival preacher, preach-er, Hammond, in which he illustrated the mission of Jesus Christ by comparing com-paring God to the butcher to whom a lamb was being dragged forslaughter, and was redeemed by a benevolent man, pertinently says: Mr. Hammond bd t.-Ll the children that th-'y w. re Ml . nners and that God domand- d some pn- ment to Fatisfy his justice and Ohrit ptid tho debt to God ;nd so rc: eased them Ln other words, G d was draegiinr tlieni all up to his ii liniLo blocks ot butchery and had not CurUt iuterpesed he would havo slaughtered slaugh-tered them all. Now, -Mr. KJitor, I do not know how t: c pirr-nu of th;s city foel generally . vsr such ma.tir?, but f jr ono I protest i-i the name of n e mmon parentage .ijj'iinj-t ihe children being taught that O .ld is an intuitu butcher. Jesus Christ t.-uighr. t'-a children that (iod Was a father. I can undcrs'acd Mr, Hammond's part in tli;s buinos. 1 r is his calling, but I cannot undostand how our grave j .d reverend city cloriry can eitquieiiy b and har such language. My winder as yesterday that uvery clergyman on ti.e platform did not riio and protest against Iho horrid rccitil. Instead, however, how-ever, after the hearts of the children had b en stirred by.such st ones, a hundred persons wi-nt round among tho little io-nocen:s, io-nocen:s, who wero from live to tifteeD years old, and there was Bobbing all over tho houo tho sobbing of many a child wiioiO dream c innocence had probably pro-bably never been disturbed before. II we aro to convert firmer?, let go among tho sinners. Let Kev, Hammond Ham-mond nnd his laborers storm Duporit street frotn one end to the other, and he might lind foemen worthy, o- at least deiervmg ol Lis steel; but would it not bo well to lot our babies alone ? Another correspondent writes: I, f t one, do objact to the smiling ftices and tin- n curls of httlo children be ng s O'cb-'d by the sulphurous ilanica ol ru material ha:i lire. |