The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-12-09

Inc inorhlng-glorleS bloom Tor q little while
under the sun, and then they shut up as the
heat comes on; but there are flowers alonk
the Amazon that blaze their beauty for
weeks at time; but tho short-lived morn
ing-glory faifils its mission as we'll as the Vic
toria Regia. There are some people who take
forty, fifty or sixty years to develop.
Then ti iere are little children who
fling Their beauty on tina vision and
vanish. they are morning-g 'orics that can.
not stand the glare of the hot noon sun OF
trial You have all known such little chill.
dren. They were pale; they were ethereal;
there Wis something very wonderfully deep
in the ere: they had gentle foot and soft
hand, end something almost supernatural in
their behavior ready to be waited away.
You hkd such one in your household. Gone
row 1t was too delicate a plant for this
rough world. The heavenly gardener saw it
and took it in. We mako splendid Sun
day:school hooks out of such children,
but they almost always die. l have
noticed that for the Inest part, the children
that live sometimes get cross and pick up
bad words in the street, and quarrel with
brother and sister, aud prove unmistakably
that they are wicked-as the Bible SAYS go.
ing astray from the womb, speaking lies.
See the little ones in the Sabbath class, so
sunshiny eni beautiful, you would think
they were always so, but mother, seated a
little way off, looks over at these children
and thinks of the awful time she had to got
them ready.
After the boy and girl come little further
on in life, the mark of sin upon them is still
more evident The son comes in from a
pugilistic encounter in the streets bearing
the marks of defeat The daughter prac.
tices positive deceotion, and the parent says:
''What shall l do' l can't always be
things must be stopre1" 1t is e3pe-
cially sad if tho parent sees his own faults
copied by the child. 1t is very hard
work to pull up a nettle that we our
selves planted. We remember that the
greatest fraud that ever shook the banking
houses of the country, started from boy'G
deception good many years ago; and the
cleaning blade of the murderer is only
another blade of the knife with which the
boy struck at his comrade. The cedar of
Lebanon, that wrestles with the blast started
from seed lodged in the side of the mountain,
aud the most tremendous dishonesties of the
world once toddled out from the cradle. All
these things make parents anxious.
Anxiety on the part of parents also arises
from the consciousness that there are so
many temptations thrown all around our
young people. 1t may be almost impossible
to take castle by siegs- straightforward
siege-but suppose in thu night there is a
traitor within, and he goes down and draws
the bolt and swings open the great door, and
then the castle falls Immediately. That is the
trouble with the hearts of the young: they
have foes without AMI foes within. There
are great many who try to make our
young people believe that it is sign Of
weakness to be pure. The man will
toss his head and take dramatic attitudes,
and tell of his own indiscretio1s, and ask the
young man if lie -vould not like to d the
same. And they call him verdant, and they
say heis green and unsophisticated, and Won
der how he can bear the Puritanical strait
jacket. Thay tell him he ought to break
from his mothers apron strings, and they
say: - will show you all about town.
Come with me. You ought to see the world.
1t won't hurt you. Do as you please it will
be the making of you" After awhile the
young man says: Il don't want to be odd.
nor can | afford to sacrifice these friends, and
I'll go aud see for myself" From the gates
of hell there goes shout of victory. Fare
well to all innocence--farewell to all early
restraints favorable to that innocence which
once gone, never comes bacl, l heard one
of the best men l ever knew, seventy five
years Of age. say: "Sir God liasforgiven me
for all the sins of my lifetime, ] know that;
but there is one sin l committed at twenty
years of age that never viii forgive myself
for. 1t somstime' comes over me over
whelminglv, and it ABSOLUTELY blot5 out my
hope of hea ZEN"
Young man, hear it, How many traps
there are set for our young people! That is
what makes parents so anxious Here are
temptations for every form OF dissipation
and every stage of it. The young man, when
he first goes into dissipation, is very partjcu-
lar where he goes 1t must be fashionable
hotel He could not be tempted into these
corner nIisances, with red-stained glass
and mug of beer panied on the sign
board. You ask the young man to go
into that pla e and he would say
n -.
marblefloored barroom. There must be
no lustful pictures behind the counter: there
must he no drunkard hiccoughing while he
takes his glass. 1t must be Il place whe c ele-
CANT gentlemen come in and click their cut
glass and drink to the announcement of
fattering sentiment. lut the young
man cannot always find thai kind CT a
place: yet he has 4 thirst and it must
be gratited The down-gi ade is s'cepar
now, and he is almost at the tom. Here
they sit in an oyster ce lar around card
table, Wheeling, hloated and bloodshot, with
cards so greasy you can hardly tell who has
the best hand. Bat never mind; thy are
only PLAYING for drink. shu : e away! shut
fie away Tee landlord stands in his shirt
sleeves with hands on his hips, wat hing
the game and waiting for another
call to Gil up ths glasse;. 1t is
the hot breath o. eternal woe that
flshes that Young mans cheek. In he Jets
of gaslight / see the shooting cut of the fiery
tongue of the worm that n.ver d e' The
clock strikes u; it is the toling of the bell Ct
eternity at the bur al OF soul. Two
hours pass on. and they are all sound
asleep in their chairs Laad'or | SAYS:
"Come, now, wake up; IFS time to shGtuo."
They look up aad say: WHAT" ''lts time
TO shut up" Push item out into the a r.
in the corner, and the children hide under
the bed. They are & iny h 'ne! What is
the history of that young man he heEal
bis dissipation at the Fl til A"enue Hotel
and completed his damnation In the worst
grog-shop in Navy street
But sin even does not stop here. 1t comes
to the door of the drawing room. There are
men of leprous hearts that go into the very
best classes of society. They are so fascinat-
ing-they have such bewitching way of
offering their arm. Yet the poison of asps is
under tho tongue, and their heart is he'll. At
first their sinful devices are hidden, blt after
while they begin to put forth their ia .ons
of death: Now they begin to-, to shoT
taolgh you could not have expected
it, they were SO charming in their man
| ner, and so fascinating in their addreSS-sud-
| denly a cloud, blacker than was ever woven
| of midnight or hurricane, drops upon some
| domestic circle There is agony in the pa
| rental bosom that none but tue Lord God
| Almighty can measure-an agony that
wishes that the children of the household
had been swallowed by the grave, when it
would be only a loss of body instead OF a
| loss of soul What is the mattsr with that
| householdl They have not had the front
windows open i. six months or year. The
| mothers hair suddenly turned white; father,
hollow-cheeked and bent over prematurely
goes down the street. There has been no
death in that family-no loss of property.
Has <idness seized upon thon! mol MOI A
VILLAIN, kid-gloved, patent-leathered, with
gold chain and graceful manner, took that
cup of domestic bliss, elevated it high in
the air until tho sunlight struck it, and
all the rainbows danced about the
brim, and then dashed it down in desola-
tion and wee, until all the harpies of darkness
clapped their hands with glee, and all the
voices of hell uttered a loud ha. hal Oh.
there are scores and hundreds of homes that
have been blastel, and If the awful stat sites
could be fully set before you, your blood
would freeze into a solid cake Of ice at the
hear. Do You wonder that fathers and
mothers are anxious about their children, and
that they ask themselves the questions day
and night: What is to become of themi
What will be their destiuyl
shall devote the rest of my remarks to
alienation Of parental anxiety. Let me say