The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-05-28
Advice TO Young Women.

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Advice to Young Women.
Oii, young women, never give voUr
hand In marriage To a man who tanners
with strong drink, any more than Won
would take hold of a basiIiskl You
would reform him by marriage. would
youi Neveri have seen the eyperi
lheht tried too often, and the women
who made the successful experiment. by
marriage, Of reforming n man. some or
them are in suicides graves, some of
oil them are in the aims house and all
the rest ofthem are wretehed without anv
exception Reform him, will you? Why.
where one woman has succeeded in that
experiment, there are five hundred We
men buried in the ruin. Young women.
II II young man does not think cnonah
oil you to give up the wine cup, tell him
plainly that you will not contest for his
affections with so vile n rival Do not
De nasty to leave your fathers house in
such an unseaworthy craft They say
that Captain Williams was drunk when
he drove the Atlantic on Mars Head. and
look out how you trust your voyage Of
life in the hands of an inebriate. The
rocksl
say I" TIA" families of I.,y cunrrcSa-
tion, bnnish The wine cup from the table,
dash the brakrr from your lips, and in
the strength Of GOd resolve that YOU will
no more have anything To do with strong
drink Tor tell you now that there Is a
multitude Of you kept away from Christ
by intoxicating liquor, and there are
some of you WHO profess TO De followers
OF Jesus, members of my church, who
are drinking a little too much
Though you have not gone far in sin,
though you may never have been intoxi-
Gated, and suppose you have not, !
know some of you are drinking a little
too much, and So ask you all To ri,
stain. Come out ON the side Of sObricty
Come out Oh the side Of the Christian
religion. Let me tell you HOW, no drunk
ard hath eternal life, and that some of
you are running an awful risk Of being
drunkarls. May the Lord God Almigh-
ty save you, and me, and our families.
and this whole country from the scath
ing, sealding, blasting, damning, inlu
ence of strong THimGg1.
HATE Hate not. II is not worth
MI.
make it pay TO cherish :ll-wiII or hard
thoughts toward any one. What If that
man has cheated you, or that woman has
played you falsel What If this friend
has forsak, II you in time Of need or that
one, having won your utmost conf
denee, your war,nest love, has cOnelud-
ed that he prefers to consider and treat
you as a stranger? Let it all pass What
difference will il make to you in a few
years, when you 90 hence to the ''undis-
covered eountry" All who il,-treat you
now will be sOrrier for it then than you,
even in your deepest disappointment and
grief, can be-.
\ few more smiles, a few more tears,
some pleasure, some pain, a little longer
hurrying and worrying through the
world, some hasty greetings and abrupt
farewells, and our play will DE- played
out, and tine injured will De led away,
and ere long forgotten. Is it worth while
to hate each Otherl
INWARD PEACE. Many say they have
no peace nor rest, but 50 many crosses
and trials, Affections and sOrrOws, that
they know not how they shall ever get
through them. Now he who in truth
will perceive and take note, peTceiveth
clearly that true peace and rest liz not
in outward things for If it We're so, the
evil spirit also would have peace when
things 90 according to his will, which Is
nowise the ease. Therefore, We must
consider and see what is that peace
which Christ left to his disciples when
lac said My peace leave with you,
my peace ! give unto you-' Christ
meant that inward peace which can
/ break through all assaults and crosses Of
oppression, suffering, misery, huInili
alton and what more there may be- Of the
like, 50 that man may b" joyful and
/ patient therein; and what was bitter 10
/ him befOr. shall become sweet, and hi-
heart shall remain unmOyeI under al
changes and at all times
SHOW THE MAN. Show ~ the man
who il ever ready to pity and help the
defonned; show us a man who covers the
fauIts Of others with mantle Of charity I.
show us a man who bows a. politely andt
gives the street "a freely TO the poor sew
ing girl as to the millionaire; who val
ues virtue, not clothes; Who sliuns the
company Of such a. gather at publie
places to gaze at the fair sex, or make
unkind remarks Of the passing girl show
US man who abhors libertine; who'd
seorns the ridicule OF his mothers sex,
and the exposure Of wOmanly reputa-
ton: show US a man who never forgetsI
for an instant the delieaey due woman,
as a woman, in any condition or class
] and YOU show US a gentleman.