The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-11-19

beyond his reach, or, venturing too far on
the limbs, hath tumbled headlong without
remedy. There are ten thousand trees
from which we may eat and get only
good; but from the forest Of mystery, Di-
vine election, Trinity, the Resurrection
how many have plucked their ruin! Thou.
sands of men are not Christians because
they do not know who Melchizedek was.
There are many forms Of unhealthful in
quisitiveness. Many sit from morning to
night with the eye staring and mouth agape
of curiosity. They are the first to know
who told lie and build it another story
high and two wings to it. About other
peoples houses, about other peoples food,
about other peoples apparel, about other
peoples financial condition, they are over
anxious. No choice bit of gossip floating
in the community but stops at their door,
and they luxuriate and grow fat in the end
less round of the great world of Tittle-Tat-
tie. He invites and sumptuously enter
tains ut his fireside Colonel Twaddle, Es-
quire Chit Chat and Governor Small Talk.
Whosoever hath slander, whosoever hath
an inuendo, whosoever hath valuable Sc
cret, let them come and offer it sacrifice
to this goddess of splutter. Multitudes of
Adams and Ewes spend their whole time in
eating fruit that does not belong to them.
Some who are proficient mathematicians
have never learned this computation in
moral algebra: Good sense plus good
breeding minus curiosity equals mindipg
your own business.
Young people, urged on by their inquis-
itiveness, have ransacked the whole field of
French novels to find out whether they are
really as bad as moralists have pronounced
them. Just coming to look over the para
pets, they have lost their balance and
down they went, dashed into remediless
destruction, or, perchance, crawling upon
the rocks, shattered and bleeding and
CHASTITY, gibbering with curses or groaning
Intellectual prayers. Passion is a fiery
courser, and driven along dangerous
places II may become unmanageable, and
at the sudden sound Of mirth's trumpet
bit and pole break and it lunges Ike a bolt
into terrible abysm.
Again, learn from Ewes career that
some fruits that are pleasant to the taste
afterward produce agony. The forbidden
fruit was so pleasant to Ewes appetite she
is not satisfied until her husband tastes it,
But her banishment from Paradise and the
sufferings of an entire race were the price
paid for the luxury. Eve is not the only
one who hath sold great happiness for
temporary satisfaction. The cup of sin
always sparliles at the top, but there is
/ death at the bottem. Intoxication hath
| pleasant exhilerations makes a man see
! five stars where others see one star; puts
spring into the ground, fillips the blood,
makes the poor man feel rich, and cheeks
white as snow red as roses. But what
about the dreams that come afterward,
when they seem falling from great heights,
and, In effort TO save themselves, meeting
with other fancied disasters, till the sweat
stands on the brow like the night dews of
eternal darkness, and they are ground un-
der the hoof Of horrid nightmares, Shrek
ing out with lips that crackle with fever
ish torture. Look into that hall of revelry,
where ungodly mirth staggers and BIAS
phemes. Listen TO the senseless gable
and watch the going out Of the last traces
! of manhood from men made in Gods own
image. "Ha, hal This is joy for you"
said u registering neighbor. Gill your
cups, my boysl Here's TO my wife's sor-
row and my children's rags and my Gods
defiancew But he sees not that the flend
| stirs the goblet in the hand, and addere
uncoil from the bottom and thrust up their
fprked tongues, Kissing in the froth on the
4im. Perdition bought for a sixpence!
The fruit was pleasant to Eve, but that
disobedience still smites the earth until il
/ reels like on OK under the butchers
bludgeon. Who could tell the consequence
of that one sin unless all at once he could
make the world throw open all its prison
doors TO expose the crimes, and all its hos
pitals to show the disease, and all the aims
houses to show the squalor, and all the
insane asylums TO display the madness, and
all the sepulchers TO show the dead, and all
the gates of the lost TO show the damnedY
That one Edenic transgression has lighted
up every ungodly passion and stretched
cords of misery over the world, striking
them into dolorous woe; and hath seated
plaques on the air and shipwrecks on the
tempest, and hath fastened famine like a
leech on the sick heart Of the nations and
made ten thousand battle-fields groan with
horror.
Oh, the deceitfulness Of SIM The ground
over which it leads you is hollow; the
fruits it offers to your taste are poisoned; I;
the promise IL makes is lie. Over this
ungodly banquet the keen, glittering
source OF Gods Judgment is suspended.
An ominous handwriting is on the wall. o,
thou misguided victim Of pleasure, sound
the alarm Thy pleasure boat is far from
shore. Thy summer day is closing rough
ly, for the winds and waves are loud
voiced, and the overcoming clouds are all
aYrithe and agleam with terror. Thou art
past the Narrow" almost outside the
"Hook," and IL the Atlantic take thee,
frail mortal, thou shalt never get TO shore
again. Homeward! Put backl Row swift
ly swifter, swifter! Jesus from the shore
casteth rope. Grasp It quickly! Now
or never? Some Of my bearers, fear,
have freighted all their hopes and loves
and joys upon vessel which shall never
bring them TO port OF safety. See, thou
nearest the breakers! One heave upon the
rocks Another lunge may crush thee be-
meath the shriveled spars or grind thy
bones to powder among the torn timbers
Overheard, for thy life! Overheard Trust
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