The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-05-17
T0L1le0dge on SIN.

Sin comes to the young man. 1t says, "Take
q game of cards-it won't hurt you. Besides
that, it is the way men make their fortune" 1t
is only small stake. See how easy it is. The
young man plays and wins horse and carriage
and a house-wns fortune. "See how easy it
is,'' says sin ''It don't cost you any thing
Look at those young men who stick to their SAL
aries, away down to the foot of the ladder, while
you are in great prosperity" The young man
is encouraged. He goes and plays larger and
larger the tide turns against him he loses the
horse, loses the carriage, loses the house, loses
the fortune. Crack goes the sheriff's mallet on
the last household valuable Down lower and
le'ya- -he 'nan falls. until he bitches nARRAs fer
drlnk Oh ciI,cnes fJl 70 :, ,r,,-r
in wild delirium. 1.-THE way of the tfausgressor
is hard"
She comes to a young man and says, "Take
this glass-it won't hurt you. 1t has very fine
flavor. Take glass in the morning it will be
an appetizer Take glass at noon !; it will aid
digestion. Take glass at night it will make
you sleep we'll" You are in glow while others
are chilly. How bright it makes the eye-how
elastic it makes the step One day you meet him
and you say, "Whata are you doing here at noon
| thought you were at business" "Lost your
place ?" God have mercy upon the young man
when, through his misdemeanor, he loses his
place. Every temptation in hell takes after him.
by evil habit Save that youg man he is on the
express train that stops not until it tumbles over
the embankment of perdition. "The way of the
transgressor is hard"
Sin comes to young man and says, "Take
dollar out of your employers drawer; he won't
miss it; you can put it back after while. Take
another take another Don't you see how easy
it is I? Hundreds Of dollars added to your salary
in a year P' One day the police knock at the
door, and say, 81 want you." Discovery has
come disgrace, Imprisonment, loss of the soul.
''The way of the transgressor is hard"
But you need not look through the wicket of
the prison 10 learn this, and to find the frozen
feet, and the bruised brow, and to hear the cough
ing lungs, resulting from crime. Every man has
found out in his own experience that the way of
trangressors is hard. Sin demeans US sin is
desperate-it lacerates it mauls the SOUL it chains
you like dog, it drives you out like dog, it
whips you with innumerable stripes like dog
There is legend abroad of some one of whom
it was foretold that she would die of a serpent's
bite. The father, to keep her away from that,
built castle far out in the sea. He said no SER
pent could crawl there but one day boat came
under the castle, and the daughter saw grapes in
it, and, letting down a rope, she got the grapes
and was eating them, when she found serpent
entwined in the cluster. 1t stung her and she
died. Sin may seem luscious and ripe, and 10
have all the wealth of the vinyard, but at the
last ''it biteth like serpent and stingeth like
adder" Oh have nothing to do with its ap-
proaches. 1t promises you robe; it will cover
you with rags. 1t offers you chalice Of luxuri-
Gus beverage; it will fill you with wormwood.
1t promises you throne; it will drive you into
kennel.