Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1851-04-18
NOTES FROM MY JOURNAL.
BY A BAPrIsT MINIsTER.

some Ilme ago ] was waking IN FOl-
tenham Court Road when my attention
was attracted to psrSon selling paper.
I invited him TO attend my religious.
meetings, which he promised TO do.
found him civil and Intelligent, but evi
dfntiy fallen man. His history wa+
briefly this: "When arrived at the age
Of twenty .one 4 came into possession Of
e1500 Gn~,ead OF placing my money
in my fathers businessgt tnok ii into my
own hands. Iicame 10 London and was
soon led into ever, vice. I wasted all
my money; my fathers door was closed
against me. and ] have been an outcsst
ever since that foolish career" Such a
lamentahle history should induce every
Young man to ponder his path. He
that keepeth company with harlots. spen-
deth his substance
Ny visits to the haunts OF the wicked
often Introduce me TO fallen writer's
ministers and artists A memorable in-
stance from the ranks Of fhe artist class
has come to my knowledge. Passing
down street leading from Drury Lane,
chanced TO glance down into cellar,
and saw beautiful Landscape painting
upon a bench ! watched for while
and soon saw the artist. went down
into the cellar and found il the resort oi
thieves brggars. and vile women and
. ragged bows and amongst them was the
artist. He told me that six wears ago he
: taught drawing 70 the children of the ar
list 'cracy. and exhibited his pictures iu
J The Suffoli; Street Gallery. He is nov
; in rags and filth His fame has departed
: Wine has ruined him. AS dog re,
turneth TO his vomit SO fool returneit
to his folly
e Not many days ago a painful cas-,
e came before me. When visiting TO in
) Viie wanderers to the house of God.
e went to group Of men and gave then
an invitation. 'Ahp said one Of then
l. he was smoking and tipsy-' wisI
b you could make me teeto'aler. | an
n the son of city missionary, and hav'
lost situation worth a hundred an
k twenty guineas a. year. l have not bee
r. sober since ELL said | hav
al been an absiainpr for fourteen year,
and il you will come tony religious sci
vice. you shall sign the pledge at ii
le close lie did not come, and, there
y. fore, as my custom is. | purpose vi>
lg ting him. The way Of transgressors
hard.
il. Persons born to station. fortune an
of education, not unlrequently come to al
It. $oIute want. A young man married
o. Iadv from Yorkshire. He had eigl
n. thousand pounds in his pocket, and soc
pn became deputy coroner for. Th
as man has been at my door without
nv home. penny, or shirt. got him
as sign the pledge, but he soon forSook OF
ge ranks, and became filthy ragged drum
r. en- man about town. Let him tn
,e- lhinketh he standeth, take heed lest
fall.'
bA Nv experience compels me to write
nd that miaister sons often become drunkard
,e. will adduce a case in point Mar
nv years ago a popular mi lister. used
ID supply the pulpit at Surrey Chapel.
as. Crowds went TO hear him He died
zee the faith; what Of his child? l fou
ell him in Drurv Lane, the companion
druEkardS, thieves and ploAigate womq
r. He was i'll, unshaven, penniless. immc
~ al, and forsaken by all who had knoV
I cI him in prosperous days. Such da
!. were once his goodly heritage |
-, -, was learned polished, eloquent ma
~ and when lie lectured on the classics,
" history, on poetry. and on elocutic
fashionable auditors filled the pub
I; ;ch hall. But his father hid MT taoght h
Ia ,, to shun Wine and strong drink Th
~ seduced him tIom virtue aud honor a
"e he is now the disgrace and sorrow of
n. family. A foolish son is a grief 10
~ father, and bitterness TO her that be
"9 him. | close my note with this quer
~ III If parents teach their Children 10
IT, ~ " int"ricating drinks, as at surprising t
% h. 81 mrny families are mqde miserable
" druaken Suns ?-Temperance League.
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