The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-27

religious nfiuences7 Which would you rather
have in your hand when you come to die, pack
Eof cards or Bible2 Which would you rather
have pressed to your lips ia the closing moment,
h&he cup of Belshazzarean wassail or the chalice
nof Christian communionl Who would you rath
er have for your pal-bearers, the elders of a
Christian church, or the companions whose con-
sversation was full of slang and innuendo! Who
would you rather have for your eternal compan-
Hons, those men who spend their evenings bet
Hing gambling, swearing. carousing and telling
vile stories, your little child that bright girl
whom the Lord took2 Oh, you would not have
been away so much nights, would YOU if you
had known she was going away SO
soont Dear me- your house has never
has never frightened up. She has not got over
at; she viii never get over it. How long the
fevenings are with no one to put to bed and no
eone to tell the beautiful Bible story. what
pity it Is that you cannot spend more evenings
lat home In trying to help her bear that sorrow
You can never drown that grief In tne Wine-cup
You can never break away from the little arms
that used to be flung around your neck when
do stay home tonight You will never be able
to wipe from your lips the dying kiss of your
little girl. The fascination of dssipating club
house is so great that sometimes a man has
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dying Of scarlet fever. He went away. Before
The got back at midnight the eyes had been
closed; the undertaken had done his work, and
the wife, worn out with three weeks watching,
day unconscious in the nextrocm. Then the re-
Hurred father comes up stairs and he sees the
Cradle gone and the windows up, and says
whats the matterq" In the Judgment day he
will find out what was the matter. O. man
astrsy, God help you'll
THE EVIL WORK OF TIE cLUB-RooM
deplore this ruin the more because this
style Of dissipation is taking down our finest
men. The admission fee lifts out the penurious
and takes only those who are called the best fell
lows. On, how changed you are Not so kind
to your wife as you used to be; not so patient
with your children Your conscience is not so
much at rest You laugh more now and sing
louder than once, but are not half so happy. 1t
is not the public drinking-saloon that is taking
you down, but it is simply and undeniabiy your
club-rooms You do not make yourself as agree
able in your family as once. You 60 home at
IL o'clock with unnatural flush upon your
cheek, and q strange color in your eye that you
got at the club. You merely acknowledge that
you feel queer You say that champagne never
intoxicates; that it only exhilarates, makes the
the conversation fluent, shakes up the
shumor, and has no bad effect except
headache next day. Benot deceived Champagne
may not like whisky, throw man under the
gain an unnatural fuency OF speech and glow OF
feeling, you simply drunk. If those imper-
lied were heartless young men, stingy young
men, would not be so sorry as / ann but there
are many of them generous to a fault, frank.
honest, cheerful talented. / begrude the devil
such prize. After while these persons will
lose all the frankness and honor for which they
are distinguished. Their countenances will
get haggard and, instead Of looking one in the
eye when they talk, they will look down. After
a while, when the mother kindly asks, What
kept you out so later they will make no answer,
or will say, THAT is my business" They will
come cross and belonged to the store and bank,
and ever and anon neglect some duty, and after
a while will be dismissed, and
then, with nothing to do, will rise
In the morning at 10 o'clock, cursing the
ant because the breakfast is cold. and then 60
down town, and stand on the steps of a fashiona
BILE hotel, and criticise the passers by While
tho young man who was clerk in cellar has
come UP to be the first clerk, and he who a few
years ago ran errands for the bank has got to
be cashier, and thousands of other young men
of the city have gone up to higher and more re-
sponsible positions, he has been going down,
until there he passes through the street with
etep, and hat mud-spattered and set sideways on
o shock Of greasy hair, the ashes of his cigar
dashed upon his cravat. Here he goesl Look at
him, all We pure hearted young men, and see the
work of the dissipating club-room. knew one
such whos after the communications of his club
house, leaped out of the third story window to
put an end to his wretchedness.
o, men who are victims of dissipating asso-
Citations your sins will follow you! l describe
the history of thousands CT households when l
say that the tea is rapidly taken, and while yet
the family linger the father shoves back his
chair, has IAN engagement" lights bis cigar
and starts out, not returning until after mid
night. That is the history Of three hundred and
sixty five days in the year. except when he is
sick and cannot so out. How about home
dutiesl Have you fulfilled all your vowsa
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such prospect: Wait until your sons get to
be sixteen or seventeen years of age, and they,
too will shove back from the tea-table, have san
engagement light their cigars, go over to their
club houses; their night-key rattles in your door
after midnight-the effect Of your example.
And as your sons constitution may not be as
strong as yours, and the liquor he drinks more
terribly drugged, he will catch up with you on
the road to DEATH although you got the start Of
him. and so you will both go to hell together
revolving Drummond light on the front of a
locomotive casts its CLEAN through the darkness
as it is turned around; so catch up the lamp of
Gods truth and turn it round until its tremen-
dous glare flashes into all the club-houses of our
cities. Flee the presence of dissipating club
houses. paid your moneys" Sacrifice that
rather than your soul. Good fellows are
theyi They cannot stay what they are under
such influences. Mollusca live two hundred
fathoms down in the Norwegian seas. The
Siberian stag grows fat on the stunted growth
of Altaiau peaks. The hedysarium thrives
amid the desoiation of Sahara. Tufts
of osier and birch grow the
hot lips of volcanic Schneehalten.
But good character and useful life thrive amid
clubroom dsspations-pever! The best way to
make wild beast cover Is to look him in the
eye; but the best way to treat the temptations
have described is to turn your back and 1y Oh
my heart aches! / sec men struggling to get
out of the serfdom of bad habits and want to
help then. have knet with them and heard
their cry for beef have had them put one hand
on each OF my shoulders ana look me in the eye
with agony of earnestness that the Judgment
shall have no power to make me forget and
from their lips, scorehed with the fires of ruin,
have heard them cry, God help me!' There is
no rescue for such save in the Lord Almighty.