Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-11-09

| eachusetts, but people were distrusttul OF
his sincerity, believing that lie did 1t more
for his own notoriety than the good of
the cause. Butler will not live rs long
in the hearts of the pcopl: as he will in
the stripes he has inflicted upon them.
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'sWherc Were You Last Night2''
The above was the topic of discourse
by Rev. >. H. Hartman IN the court house
Sabbath evening:
TExT-Ps. 139, IL. ''Even the night
shall be light about mc.''
The followieg is an ABSTRACT of the dis
course:
Night Is the season for the ravenous
wolf and the beasts of prey to skulk
abroad. Under cover of the night steals
forth the incendiary, the burglar and the
l.tertine. The sin of the hum-n family
RACES most in the night season. During
the day the hand Of industry engages the
minds of men, at night these hands mostly
lie idle, and the native moral elements of
the soul exercise themselves. Tell me
your night associations and can very
nearly predictyour destiny. Our associa-
tions affects US as the hands Of the father
affect the day. keep good company
and you shall be one of the number your
self,'' said Herbert Spencer. All of US
are IL ore or less moulded by the manners
and speech of our companions. "Exam-
pie is everything" said the eloquent
Burke, and he wrote upon the tablet of
the Marquis OF Rockingham this motto:
Resemble-Perseverc
Upon one occasion Plato reprovcd a
boy for engaging IN some foolish game.
The boy said: "Thou reprovest ME for a
very little thing" "But CUSTOM" an
swered the sage, ",s not little thing,
my boy" Custom makes habit, habit
forms character, character fixes destiny.
The life of every man is transform
ing force within q certain circle, and daily
inculcates bad or good. The very sight
of great and good man invites vlrtuous
action. A timely bint is sometimes all
tAaC IS necessary 10 chanGe the entlre
course of q growing lifc
Every community has its schools of VIZ
tue and its vices. There are all varieties
from the church TO the haunts of the
criminal. Some of them are as follows:
The religious school, the educational
school, the school of vulgarity, the school
of profanity, the school for gambling and
tho school of the namelcss sin. We are
night pupils IN one or other of these halls
of education, taking our lessons for life
or fixing our destiny for eternity. Two
of them arc worthy. Against tour of
them would caution you, for there are
four of the bad and two of the good, and
our Lord says. "S,rlve to enter IN at the
straight gatc," etc.
caution you against becoming night
pupil IN the school of vulgarity. Refine
ment, morality and generosity win III the
race Of life. This school instils coarse
ness of manner, lowness of mind, foul
ness OF speech and prurency of habits.
1t winks at the corrupt and wicked GUS
toms of society. 1t roots IN the mud aud
puts in claim for responsibility because
it is dressed IN silks aud satins. There is
q great deal of religious vulgarlty. A
physician cannot label his sbingIe with
II am the only good doctor in town"
No educator can claim II am the only
man that knows anything in the city,"
No one family can assume itself to be the
only exempIificstion Of refinement and
culture. All such would bc vulgarity.
That church subjects herself 10 the charge
OF vulgarity when she arrogantly claims
81 am the only true church and 1 alone
have divine right to exist" He who is
over praiseful of his own church and has
no commentators for other branches of
the vine tba: bear equally sweet fruit is
not only sectarlan but vulgar man.
Dcnominationalism seems to be of divine
fostering and is profitable in the earth.
Sectarianlsm is the spirit of the evil one
and is Qdlous before God. He who is not
broader than his church In his benevo-
lence, sympathies and lsbors Is secta.
ran and carr les vulgarity in his heart.
entreat you not to become a night
pupil in the school of profanity. Swear.
ing is q csncerous evil in the heart, cx-
udirg its foulness and offensiyencss from
the lips. 1t 10 prostitution of the sane.
tity of divine and holy things and an
imp,ous Dissertation of the name of AL.
mighty God. 1t is an internal badge of
the woeful depravlty of the human heart.
He who robs the highest themes of their
ssnctlty and the ''name above every
name" Of its grandeur casting 1t as a
foot hall at the feet of base passion dee
stroys the very bloom and fragrance Of
his soul. Words have character, they
have refexive influence. resiliency.
There are locked up in them forces that
shape character aud fix destiny.
exhort you net 10 become a night
pupil in the school of gambling. To give
my reasons for this exhortation l am
obliged to put on face of steel and turn
my heart to iron. Gambling needs no
definition at my hands. 1t is an evil that
has existed in every age. 1t reaches far
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