Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-01-06
ASHTABULA OHIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1872

are these tragedies repeated ip the full
presence Of the rising generation, and
yet IL seems 10 grow no i@er. Nothing
has been more fully demonstrated than
that the first steps OF folly aud sin are
fraugbt with peril. Nothing has been
better proven than that temperate drink
ing is always dangerous, aud that exces-
si,e drinking is always ruinous. Moth
ing is better known than that n man
cannot consort with lcwd women on
hour without receiving taint that
whole lifetime Of repentance cannot
Wholly eradicate. Since time began
have women been led astray by the same
promises, the same pledges, the same
empty rewards. If young men aud wo-
men could learn wisdom il would seem
as if they might win it in single day,
by simply using their eyes aud thinking
upon what they see. Yet in the great
city Ct New York, aud in all the great
cities OF the country, young men aud
young women are all the time rvpeatiDg
the mistake Of those around them who
are wrecked in character and fortune.
The young man keeps his wine bottle,
and seeks sports where deceived and
ruined women lie in wait for prey, know
ing perfectly well, if he knows anything,
or bas ever used fairly the reason with
which Heaven has endowed him, that be
is in the broad road TO perditiOn--that
there il before him life OF disgust and
"A death of horror
When the result of certain courses Of
conduct aud certain indulgences are so
| well known rs these to which we alludr,
it seems strange that any can enter upon
them. Every young man knows that il
he never tastes "A glass of alcoholic drink
he will never become or stand in danger
of becoming druDkard. Every young
man knows that it he preserves a chastc
youth, shuns the $ ciety of the lewd, he
can carry to ihe woman whom he loves
selfrespect which is invaluable, a past
freely open To her questioning gaze, and
the pure physical vitality which shall b'
the wealth OF another generation. lie
knows that the rewards of chastity ar.
ten thousand times greater than those ot
criminal indulgence. He knows that
nothing is lost aud everything is gain, q
by lite OF manly suberity aud scIi-de
nial. He knows all this, # he had had
his eyes open, and has exercised his rca.
sou in even a small degree and yet be
joins the in atua,cd multitude and goes
straight to the devi We know that
we do not exaggerate When we say thai
! New York has thousands of young men
with good mothers aud pure sisters, who
if their lives should be uncovered, could
never look those mothers and sisters il
the face again. They are tull of fears
Of exposure and conscious of irrerara
BILE loss. Their lives are masked in =
thousand ways. They hive daily lie
They are the victims aud slaves of vice,
which are just as certain TO cripple ol
kill them, unless III once AID forever for
saken, as they live. There are thousand,
of others who, now pure aud good, vii
follow evil example unwarned by wha
they see, and wnnln Il year will be walk
ing in that road that leads cvermor,
downward.
One tires of talking to fools, and iall
back in soriow that he'll aud destruction
are never fuil-in sorrow that men can
not or will not learn that there is buI
one path 10 an honorable, pr, sperou
life, and all others lead more or /, IS d
reclly TO ruin