Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-11-07
them. We did not stand looking at
The outside. Ishall tell you what
these gates are made of.

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the outside. Ishall tell you wha
these gates are made of.
Gate the First--Impure literature
a great deal of the bad literature i
not yripped by the law, but it is il
yoT parlors and your libraries
some OF your children read it at nigh
aftet they retire-the gasburne
swinging as near as possible to th,
pillow. iIaauurcAaf this literature il
under the title of scientific informa
ton. 1t is appalling that men ant
women who might get from thei
f.lmily physician all the useful in
formation needed, and without an,
contamination, should wade chir
deep through accursed literature un
ster the plea of getting useful knowl
edge, and that printing presses hop
Ing 70 be called decent, lend them
selves to this infamy. Fathers ane
mothers, be not deceived by the titlt
medical work. Nine-tenths O
such books come hot from the los
world. Then there are the novelcttes
flung over the land by the million
No one systematically reads the ever.
agr novelette, of the day and keeps
either integrity or virtue. Oh, this
is wide gate of hell! There are a
millioa men and women in the Unit
ed Ststes to-day reading themselves
into hell. ScOur your house to-day
to find whether there are any of these
adders coiled on your parlor table.
One bad book or picture may do the
work for eternity.
DIssOLUTE DANCING.
Fate the Second The dissolute
dance. Yoi know of what I speak.
1t is the first step to eternal ruin for
a great multitude of both sexes You
know what postures and figures are
suggested by the devil. They who
glide in the dissoiute dances glide
over an inclined plane, and the dance
is swifter and swifter and wilder and
wilder, until, with the speed of light
ming, they whirl off the edges of a
decent life into fiery future. This
gate of hell is so wide that 1t swings
across the Administer of many fash
ionable parlor and across the ball
room of the summer watering place.
You have no right to take any atti-
tude to the sound of music which
would he unbeconing in the absence
of music.
Gate the Third-Indiscreet attire.
The attire of women for the last few
years has been beautiful, but there
are those who always carry that which
Is right into the extraordinary ana
the indiscreet. / am told there is a
fashion to come from Paris shocking
to all righteousness. Icharge Chris
tian women neither by style of dress
nor adjustment of apparel to become
administrative of evil. Perhaps no
one else will dare tell you, so 1 will
tell you that there are multitudes OF
men who owe their eternal damna-
ton to boldness of womanly attire.
[ Applausel
RUNS RAvAGEs.
Gate the Fourth Alcoholic b ~
erages.-Iu our midnight exploration
we found that all the sins of wicked
ness were done under the enchant-
ment of The wine cup. That was
what the waiter carried on the platter
that was what g owed on the table
that flushed the cheeks of the patrons
WHO came in; that staggered the steps
of the patrons as they went out. The
wine cup is this patron of inpurity.
Nearly all the men who 60 into the
shambles of death go intoxicated -
the mental and spiritual abolished,
the brute ascendant. Tell me young
man drinks and l know the whole
story. No man ever runs drunken
ness alone. That is a carrion crow
that traveis:~ in a flock. In other
words the wine cup unbalances and
dethrones ones better judgment and
leaves him a prey to all the evil ap.
petites that may choose to alight upon
his soul. There is not place of sin
in the United Sta.es to-day but finds
its chief abbettor in the chalices of
inebriacy. The court that licenses
the sale of strong drink, licenses gam
ing, licenses lioertinism, licenses dis
ease, licenses death, licenses all
all sufferings, all disasters,
all woes. 1t is the Legislatures and
Courts that swing wide open this
grinding, roaring stupendous gate
OF the lost. i rms
THE FIRE ESCAPE.
"But, "you say, ''tell us how these
gates swing out to allow the escape of
the penitent. / reply but very few
escape. Out of 1000 that go in, 999
perish. Suppose one one of these
should knock at your door,
would you admit her? Would you
introduce her among your acquain-
tanees? Would you take the respon-
sibility of. pulling on the outside of
the gate of hell while she pushed on
the inside Of that gate, trying to get
out? You would not You write
poetry over her sorrows and weeping
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