The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-03


under the swift hoofs OF the fast horses, or
drowned IN large po,aii0ns of cogaac or
Monongahela. Their clubhouse was the
Loeb Earn" Their business houses was
the Vile du Hayre." Thew struck, and the
"Eille du Havre" went under.
THIRD TEST,
by which you may know whether the club
20 which you belong or the club to who
membership you are invited is q legitimate
club or an Legitimate club, is this: What s
its effect on your sense of moral and religious
obligation? Now IL l should take the names
OF all the people in this audience this Morn
ing al put them on a roll and then should
lay the roll back OF this organ and 3 hun
drfd years from nov some one should take
that roll and call il from a to z that would
not one OF you answer. / say that any as
ISOLATION that makes me forget that fact Is
bad association. When go to Chicago am
sometimes psrplexed st Buffalo, as 1 sup.
pose many travellers are. as TO whether it is
better TO take the Lake Shore route or the
Michigan Central, equally expeditions ana
equally safe getting az the destination at the
same sine. But suppose that hear that on
one route the track is torn up and the bridg-
es are torn down aud the switches are uu-
Iocxed2 1t viii not take me great while to
dec de which road to take. Now hsre
ave tw~ r"sds into the future,
the Christian aid the unch istiaa,
The safe and the lsaIe. Any institution or
any association nat eonfuses my idea in re-
gard to that fact is a bad institution and
Dec a. soc alton.
had prayers bsfore joined the club.
Did hsve them after? attende1 the house
OF &C d before l connected myself with the
cub. Since that union with the olub do
absent myself from religious Influences?
Whi' h would you rather have IN your hand
wht You come to die, a pack of cards or a
Biblef Which would you rather have pressed
aSw1usr IL -
OF Behhszzarean wassail or the chalice of
Chritt an communion? Who would you
rather have for your pail bearers. the elders
OF q Christian church or the companions
whose conversation was full of slang aud
inuendo? Who would You rather have for
your eternal companions those men who
spend their evenings betting. gambling,
swearing, carousing and telling vile stories,
or your little child that bright girl whom
the Lord TOOK? On, you would not have
been away so much nights, would you, If
you had known she was going away 50 soon?
Dear me, kyour house has never been the
same since. Your wife has never frightened
up. She mas not got oyer it; she never will
set over 1t. How long the evenings are with
TO one to put to bed and no one to tell the
beautiful Bible story? What q pity it Is
that you can not spend more ev-
enings st home in trying to help her bear
that sorrow? You can never drown that
x
away from the little arms that used to be
flung around your neck when she used to
say: Papa, do stay home to night, do stay
home to.night!' You will never be able to
wipe from your lips the dying kiss OF your
little girl. The fascination of a dissipating
clubhouse is so great that sometimes man
has turned bis back on his home when his
child was dying of scarlet fever He went
away. Before he got back at midnight the
eyes had been closed, the undertaken had
done his work, and the wife, worn out with
three eks' watching, Law unconscious in
the next room. Then tie returned father
eomfs upstairs and be sees the cradle gone
and the windows mp and says: What is the
natter" In the judgment day he will fad
ont what was the matter. Oh, man astray,
God help you'll
I deplore this ruin the more, because this
style Of dissipation is taking down our finest
men. The admission fee Sits out the Pc
nurioUs, and takes only those who are called
he best fellows. Oh, 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 al rest. You
ioogh more now and sing louder than once,
but are not so happy. 1t Is not the public
drinking saloon that is taking you down, but
it is simt ly and undeniaoly your ella room.
You 90 not make yourself as agreeable in
your family as once. You go home at -
clock with an unnatural flush upon your
cheek and strange colorin your eye that you
got Ct the club. You merely ackno Wedge
tbstyou feel queer. You say that champagne
Peytr intoxicates, that il only tXhil arates,
makes the convel -stion fluent SHAKES up the
humor, and has no bad effect except a head
ache the next day. Be not deceived. Cham
psgne may not, like whisky, throw q man
under the table; but if, through anything
you drink you gain an unnatural huency OF
speech and glow of feeling. you are simply
drunk. II those imPeriled were heartIess
your men, stiDgy young men, would not
bs so sorry as / an, but there are many of
them generous to a fault, frank, honest,
cheerful, talented. l begrudge the devil
sren prize. After a while these persons
will
LOSE ALL THE FRANKNRss AND HONOR
for which they are now distinguished. Their
couu nances will get haggered, and instead
t looking one in the eve when they talk,
they will look down. After while when
the mother kindly asks, What kept you
out so late?n they will make no answer, or
will soy, THAT is my business" They will
come cross and betogged to the store AID
bank, aud ever and anon neglect some dug,
and after while will be dismissed; and
then, with nothing to do, will rise in the
morning a. 10 o'clock, cursing the servant
because the breakfast is cold, aud then 90
down town and stand on the steps of fash.
ionabIe hotel and critioise the passers-by.
While the young man who was clerk in a
cellar has come up 10 the fist clerk, and be
who few years ago ran errands for the bank
has. got TO be cashier and thousands
OF other young men have gone up
to higher and more responsible pos.
tions. be has been going down until there ne
passes through the street with bloated lip
and bloc dshot eye and staggering step and
tat mud-spattered and set sideways On
shock of greasy hair, and askss of his cigar
dashed upon his cravat. Here he goes Look
at him. sil ye pHrs-hearted young men, and
ee the work of the dissipatIng club room. 1
ksew ore such who, after the contamina-
lions Of his clubhouse, leaped out of the
third-story window to put an end to his