The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-11-26

offices in our cities, ana tell mo IN how
many Of those stores and Offices are the
principles of Christ's religion dominant.
In three-fourths of themp No. In half of
themg No. In one-tenth of themY Decide
for yourself. The impression IS abroad
somehow that charity can consecrate in
iquitous gains, and that II a man give to
God portion of an unrighteous bargain
then the Lord will forgive him the rest.
The Secretary Of benevolent society
came to me and said: "Mr. So. on2 so
has given large amount of money to the
missionary cause" mentioning the sum.
said; ~ can't believe it," He said: at is
so." Well, went home staggered and
confounded. / never knew the man to
give any thing. But after while found
out that he had been engaged in the most
infamous kind of swindle, and then he
promised to compromise the matter with
the Lord, saying: snow, here is so much
for thee, Lord. Please to let me Off"
Iwant to tell you that the Church of God
is not shop for receiving stolen goods,
and that if you have taken any thing from
your fellows you had better return it to
the man to whom it belongs.
Look around and see the allurements to
dissipated life. Bad books, unknown Ia
father and mother, creeping into some OF
the best families of the community; and
boys read them while the teacher is look
ing the other way, or at recess, or on the
corner of the street when the groups are
gathered. These books are read late at
night. Satan finds them smooth plank
on which he can slide down into perdition
some of our sons and daughters. Reading
bad books, one never gets over it. The
books may be burned, but there is not
enough power in all the apothecary's
preparations to wash out the stain from
the soul. Fathers hands, mothers hands,
sisters hands, will not wash it out; none
but the hand of the Lord can wash 1t out.
All, the most dreadful part of the whole
thing is that there are persons abroad
whose whole business it is to despoil the
young.
All, what an eternity such a man will
have! As the door opens to receive him
thousands of voices will cry out: "See
here is what you have done;" and the
wretch will wrap himself with fierce flame
and leap into deeper darkness, and the
multitude he has destroyed will pursue
him and hurl at him the long, bitter, relent'
less, everlasting curse of their own anguish
II there be one cup of eternal darkness
more bitter than another, they will have tC
drink it to the dregs. II in all the ocean Of
the lost world that comes billowing up
there be one wave more fierce than another
IL will dash over them.
Young men, after you go home, while
you have time to reflect upon these things
and before the duties Of the office and the
store and the shop come upon you again
look over this whole subject, and after the
day has passed, and you hear in the night
the voices and footsteps Of the city dying
from your ear, and it gets so silent that
you can hear distinctly your watch under
your pillow going stick, tick" then open
your eyes, and look out upon the darkness
and sec two pillars Of light, one horizontal
the other perpendicular, but changing theiI
direction until they come together, and
your enraptured vision beholds it-th'
cross! ...