The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-18

called the old boat-man as he drew mp
the chain that had fastened the skiff;
takes a clear head to weather sea
like this. y
''Never mind us, Uncle! we need little
rough work before we go home to-
night
There is little more to tell. ny story
is short one and full of sadness.
Out from the shore the waves were
rough, and even the boasted strength of
Carl gave away The moon shone
serenely above them, but clouds were
scudding across the sky. and the wind
was rising.
In the morning the old boat-man
found them lying on the white sands of
the beach, whittier the washing of the
waves had brought them drowned.
The mansion was draped, the cottage
closed, for in a darkened room of each
lay the hope and pride of the parents
heart.
A week later, and from the cottage
door another funeral train had passed,
and the broken-hearted mother is laid
besided her misguided boyin the village
church-yard; while the grandeur of the
palatlai home cannot shut out the
shadow that has fallen across its thres-
hold. But from the club the light still
shines through the stained windows and
battles other young men in its rosy
warmth as it falls about them in soft
and glowing colors upon the pavement.
Fathers, mothers, where are your
boys tonight Union Signal.
GA Little Wine for Thy StOmach's
Sake.'
A SHORT SERMON BY A LAY PREACHER.
use little wine thy stomach sake and
thine often intirmities."-L. TIM. SIS.
Many very worthy Christians apply
all the promises and injunctions of the
Bible, Genesis to Revelations, to all
Christians living now or hereafter, with
out discrimination; when, in fact, very
many were just as personal as DIR. Nut
gals prescription for Tommy whoop-
ing cough, and can only be appropriate
ed by those possessing the same quail
fications, needs and surroundings, as
the persons or people addressed.
PauPs advice to Timothy has excused
many a dram for which there was no
palliative infirmity; and many persons
give broad significance to the word
''wine," making it include all the fiery
and poisonous decoctions representing
the outgrowth of the pure juice of the
grape.
DR.. Nutgall would have been sur
prised to find his rather severe remedy
for Tommy in peculiar case of whoop-
ing-cough had been passed round to all
the children in town afflicted with
measles, worms, canker-rash, fever,
teething and humps; and no less as
tonished, fancy, would Paul be, could
he see to what dire dilemmas his pre-
scription to Timothy has brought many
a weak Christian, and many man who
makes Bible teaching an excuse for his
deprayed appetite.
That pure wine IS good for the stom-
ach, in certain cases, no physician will
deny, but all physicians will tell you
that the constant use of any medicine
lessons it efficacy, and over-doses often
produce the most pernicious results.
The manufactured wines of the
present day, said to be imported from
grape-growing countries, bear no CON-
parison to the pure wine of past cent
uries or our own times. and are at best
very questionable medicines; but when
the wives and children must do without
suitable food in order that men may be
supplied with a0lisky, then the excuse
for such medicine becomes a shameful
absurdity, for which no condemnation
can be too severe.
Then, too, Paul advised the use of
little wine; that item in the prescrip-
ton is quite forgotten when one copious
draught follows another. and infrmities
become of daily occurrence because of
such indulgence.
The very form of the sentence -''Use
a little wine ''-s suggests benefit and not
abuse. 1t was to be taken in small
quantities like any medicine, and for a
special condition of the stomach. The
so-called ''good fellowship of wine-
drinking" has ruined many man to
whom drunkenness was abhorrent, and
who would never have stopped to its
vices only for the small beginning of a
glass OF wine with a friend. Paul's adj
monition to Timothy had no shadow of
this good fellowship. He did not say
take a little wine with friend, or show
your kindness by offering wine; not a
bit of it!
Timothy's wine was just for the ne
cessity of the time, tonic suited to his
real need; and no doubt if Paul had
foreseen how many in after days would
trip over his advice to Timothy, he
would have specified the particular in
trinity for which he deemed wine q
panacea. - Woman at Work.