Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-09-30
CALDRONS OF SIN.
The Rev. DIR. TaImage on the Poison
ous Influences i'm Life Four Ways
of Acquiring Money.

After the singing of "Hold the Fort. II
in which the voices of the vast corgre-
CATION were led by organ and cornet,
DIR. Talmage on Sunday morning an.
nouucad his text, H. Kings, iv., 40.
Elisha had gone to lecture, said he, to
some students at Gilgal. But it hap.
uened that the students were hungry =
students often are-and Elisha knew
that there was no use lecturing to OF
trying to argue with hnngry men.
Christ, in the wilderness, knew that. He
gave the people sermon and some
loaves, but which did he give them
first The loaves-the bread of this
life first and that OF another life after.
ward. 1t SO happened that in gather
ing the herbs for the dinner that Elisha
gave to the students scme poisonous
weeds were included, and when one OF
the hungry students who began to eat
recognized the presence Of the poison lie
exclaimed: go man of God, there is
death in tho lot i They could not eat
of it.
There are caldrons OF sin in the world
wherein the poison is boiling. A few
men eat from tbtm, reject the poison
Gus part and manage to live other men
eat and die. The world is filled with
the poison of sin, but blessel he God
who has given us Jesus Chiist for an
antidote. persuaded you lately to be
to me more charitable in your judg-
ments of the fallen; but | said then
and ] repeat it now, that while We may
pity the sinner, we mnst not forget to
condemn the sin. Sin Is iigged thing
and must be roughly handled You
cant catch buffalo with silken l.sso
There is n new settle ment in wild
country, and one day beast comes
down from the mountains aud carries
off child. The next day another
child, and then all the m in that
settlement get together and with torches
in one hand and guns in the other they
ind those beasts in their Governs and
kill them. So We should follow sin
right TO its caverns, with the torch of
Christ in one hand aud the sword OF the
Eternal Spirit in the other, ani we
should destroy it. o how mlch the
Influences of home have to do with a
mans ability to contend with tempta-
ton There are parents who even
make religion disgusting to their chill
dren. They have an exasperating way
of doing their duty. BOYS go forth
from such homes to die. Fathers and
mothers, which way are yOu leading
your children A mans house took
ire and be managed to get out bis fnrn
ture and his paintings and his ptper>,
but he forgot his children until l. wae
too late. When the earth shall he
fire, when the mountains and the ), as
1t is a very exceptional thing for bad
man to come from a good home. A
scoff'er once said to a celebrated doctor
Of divinity. Do You believe in the say
ing, Bring up a child in the way he
should go and when he grows old he
will not depart from il ?" Certainly, !
DO" "Well, how do you reconcile that
with the rascally conduct of your 10y,
Bill ?" "Yon put the accent on the
wrong word,' replied the Doctor.
When he grows oil but Bill is not
old yet" And | want to say to all of
you who have wandering children =
they are not old yet.
An indolent life is another caldron of
sin. Boys come to the city to begin life
a ID they see men hang around the
fashionable hotels, dress well, have
pl 4nty, and do no work. "Why shoul !
we work ?" say the beginners. These
indolent men hang around the Cit
Hall, with toothp:cks in their mouth
waiting for crumbs to fall from the
table of an oflice-holGer. Where do
they get their money? There are only
four ways of getting money-by lnher
iting it, by earning it, by begging it
and by stealing it. These men do not
inherit it, nor earn il, nor beg i.
don't Ike to take the responsil iiitg of
50, ing how they get it. The army OF
people who are trying TO live by their
was given all the land that he CT uld
plow around in day. And let me
tell you that you will have Just so MUGS
wealth, just so much hcnor and just SO
much happiness as you can plow
around in your lifrtime-no more.
The dTamshop is another terrible cal!
dron of sin. You put up n groeshop
next door to valuable piece of pr' p
eriy, and at once the value of the lat
ter goes down from five to fifty er
cent. Here Is building worth to day
$50, 900. Tomorrow YOU find grog-
shop beside it, and how much is it
worth twenty-five thousand? No.
Twenty? No. Fifteen? Well, per-
haps. These things carry the strongest
kind of moral. Some men interested
in the liquor trade went to William e.
Gladstone, when he was first made
Pine Minister of England, aud com
planned that their business did not re-
ceivs the attention il deserved. consider
ing the immense revenue it furnished
"Give me 10000, 900 of sober people
and I'll furnish revenue enough aud to
SPARE" was Gladstone's reply. say
that grogshops are the gates of hell.
They don't put mp the right kind OF
signs. They call them saloons, restau-
rants refreshment places, sample rooms
Sample room! What name to give
one of these places l saw a man lying
dead drunk on the eteps of one of them
the other day, and said to myself, 81
suppose that is n sample" Young men,
EN- masters of your own sppeti,es; he
be perors of your own natures.
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