Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-12-12
The xeang In Great C.tles.

r. hi The xepng In Great C,ties. ...i3tur
The world learns It's lesson slowly. ai Much
CT the world does fotileafn its lesson stt ALL
Inc young are everywhere growing up amid
tbe ruins of other lives apparently without
innqulring Ing or caring for the reasons Of the
disasters to life, fortune and reputation that
are happening, or have happened, every
where around them. One man, with great
nsts of money in his hands, betrays the
2ntidence of theipablic, becomes hopeless
defaulter, and blows HIS brains out. - AM
other, led on by love of power and place, Is
degraded at last I'd poor demag gogue, with
out character or influence. Another, through
a surrender of himself to sensuality, becomes
disgusting Beast with heart and brain
more foul than the nests of unclean birds.
Another, BY tasting and tasting of the wir,el
cup, becomes drunkard at last, and dies
with o horrible delirium,p or lives to I've a
curse to wife, children and friends There
IS an army of these poor wretches in every
large city IN the land dying daily, and daily
reinforced "A young girl, loving ssritt
wisely but too well, p yields herself to a Sc.
ducer who ruins and then forsakes her to d
life of shame and death of despair, Not
one girl, but thousands Of girls yearly So
that, though great company of those whose
robes are soiled beyond clensing hide them-
selves in the grave during eVerYs twelve
months, another great company of the pure
drop to their places and keep filled to reple.
ton the ranksliof proStituti0nl Again and
again, in instances beyond counting, are
these tragedies repeated in the full apreserce
OF the rising generation, and yet it seems to-
grow no WISER! Nothing has been more fdiE
\ ~ demonstrated than that first steps of
folly and sin are fSanght with. peril. l Moth
ing has been Better proved than that temper
0lx
Excessive drinking is always ruii4eds. Moth
Ing is better known than a man cannot con-
stjrt with lewd women for an hour without
receiving altaint that a!whole lffe bf repent
ance cannot wholly eradicateE Since tine
began have 7wefilen been lea astfay by the
same promises, the same pledges, the same
empty rewards. 9cIfl young men aahd youiire
women could possibly learn wisdoHi, 1t would
seem as If they might win itin d single day,
by simply using their eyes ana thinking upon
what they see9l Yet in this great city Of New
York, and In aA The great Cities of the c6siff
try, young men and young Women are all the
time repeating the mistakes of those ar0tifid
them who are wrecked in character asltiif,;
fortune. The young man keeps his wine
bottle, and seeks resorts where deceived and
ruined women liein wait for prey, Knowing
perfectly well, 1T he knows anythingi iof has
ever used fairly the reason with which Heav-
/ en- has eudoAtedt' him, that he is in The broad
road to perditioh-Athat JiieFei Is before him
life of disgust and a death oflliorror! mon
When tile result of certain courses Of con-
duct and certain ii iindnigenCes are SO we'll
known as these ITO which we 'allude,,Iit seems
strange that any Team enter upon them.
Every young man Ikhows that IL he never
tastes glass of alcoholic drink he will never
become, or stand in daiiger of becoming; d
drunkard Every younglman knows that If
HE preserves a. 'chaste youth and dshuns the
societyo the lewd, he can carry to the wo.
titan whom he loves q oselflFespect which is
Invaluable, a. past freely open to her question
stall be the wealth of another generation
he knows that the rewards Of Chastity are
ten thousand times greater than those of
criminal indulgencies. He knows that fiotl9
ing is lost and everything is gained by'a life
ofimanly sobriety and self-denial. He knows,
an this, it he has had his eyes open, and Has
exercised his reason In even a small tlegree |.
and yet he joins the infatuated multitude and
goes straight to the devil. We know that we
do not exaggerate when WEI SAY that New
York has thousands of young men, with
good mothers and pure sisters, who, if their
lives should be uncovered, could never look
those mothers and sisters in the face again.
They are full of fears of exposure and com
scious of irreparable loss. Their lives are
mashed in a thousand ways They live
daily lie. They are the victims and slaves of
vices which are just as certain to cripple or
kill them unless at once and forever forsaken
as they live. There are thousands of others
who, now pure and good, will follow evil
example unwarned by what they see, and
within a year will be walking in the road that
leads everinore downward. '2a.!a0"4 rHjI
~ One tires of talking to fools, and falls back
In sorrow that hell and destruction are never
full--in sorrow that men cannot nor win not
learn that there Is but one path to an honor
able, peaceful, prosperous, and successful
life and that all others lead more or less d.
rectly to ruin.-Neso York Paper. -l1ti s...N
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