The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-01-24
Shun The Danrari

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E holding protracted meetings, and endeav
= oring to arouse a religious interest in tn,
community, ones mind naturally revert!
to the horrible sea of ruin that is con
, stantly flowing in our midst. There are
to be seen, almost daily, young and ordi
narily intelligent men-some of them
men of fine education-reeling about the
streets, objects of loathing to all respect
able people. They have fallen very low
in the scale of degradation, fallen from
the high estate of manhood, down to a
state lower than the lowest of brute Gre
alton. All these victims start at the
same place. They start in the saloon"
Their first experience is at the ''pool-ta-
bic" and the card table. The doggeries
offering these allurments to the young
men are the natural enemies of the
churches and the gospel, and in them ev-
cry effort is turned toward making the
young men HOPELESS victims to the dis
graceful life in the doggery,
Many a young man who would be
ashamed to walk up, in the presence of
respectable congregation, and join church,
will gamble, and swear, and use indecent
language for hours in the doggeries, and
the only blush which comes to his face
is the flush placed there by the slops kept
for sale in the den. He will make the
most sacred associations of home subjects
for ribald jesting and will use, and per-
nit others to use, language about those
near and dear to him, which ought to
make him forever afterward hang his
head in shame. The doggery keeper,
meanwhile, will lean lovingly upon his
"bar," and enjoy the horrible scene, be-
cause sit helps my peesness, dond you
zee?" We can compare the picture to
none but that of Satan. sitting upon his
sulphurious throne, and complacently
listening to the shriekings and groanings
of the damned. The only apparent differ
ence between the Devil and the doggery-
keeper, is that the Devils is the smarter,
and has greater resources.
We are not exhorting young men to
join this church or that church, or this
society or that society; but it does seem
to us that in view of all the horrible ex-
amples of the work of the doggeries that
are to be seen daily, the doggery is some
thing to flee from. And it would doubt
less be better for the young if they should
thoroughly identify themselves with a
church and Sabbath School.
There is no young manor old man,
either,-who can successfully contend
against Sin as long as he persists in seek
ing the places where Sin abOunds, and
passing his idle moments there
There is not man who attends the
nightly revelings in the doggeries but
who will live to regret it-not one.
There is scarcely young man who
goes to ruin, who does not start in the
doggery.
In short, while there may be shadows
of evil occasionally creep into the church |
es, while there may be found, occasion
ally, a man shouting "glory, hallelujah!"
who is known to be a Apprenticeship the
great body of the people in churhes are
good people. The general tone of the So
ciety is good The "black sheep" is the
exception. In the saloons all are bad |
The very atmosphere is bad with foul |
language and foul fumes Of smoke and !
liquor. Let the young men pause and |
consider well the consequences of the |
life which has the doggery for central
attraction and starting point. And let the
older men consider well the dangerous
example they are setting in frequenting
these dens of iniquity, the doggeries. A
little solemn reflection upon this matter
may save lifetime of misery.