The Brookhaven leader., 1888-10-04
TEMPERANCE.
HARD TO GEL OuI.
The Danger Confronting Young Men
Their Ives ShonId lie Opened.


ne Danger Confronting Young Men
Their Eyes ShouId lie Opened.
"Hark! what is that?" Quicker
and faster rang the bell in the fire
tower. Open the door and listen.
There go the horses, and every body
gets out of the way as soon as possi-
bic.
Yes. there was fire. followed the
crowd that windy evening and soon
found myself in front of q large livery
stable.
Hay and straw are fearfully COM
bustible and the flames were spreading
with appalling rapidity. There were
several horses in the stalls when the
alarm was sounded, but one by one
they had been led out, till now only a
single span was left.
But the flames were on three sides
Of them. A kind hand was Juggling
at each halter to lead them away from
the impending crash. But they would
not stir. They glared with fascination
at the bright flames creeping nearer
and nearer, but they refused to move,
In rushed man with blanket and
wrapped it around the head OF one OF
these noble horses.
Back, said he, and now the horse
obeyed him. Over the head o. MS
mate went another blanket, and in
two minutes more both the handsome
fellows stood outside the burning build
ing. A very parrow escape, for just
as they passed out of the broad open
door or to the street the roof fell in,
and there was a mass Of roaring flames
right where moment before they had
been standing, reluctant TO move from
the place of danger,
That danger they of course could
not understand, There was a charm
in the bright flames, and the horse that
you could have forced to leap into
precipice you could not have forced TO
come out OF that burning building.
The horses. with the flames ali about
them, needed to have their eyes closed
that their lives might be saved. Men
sometimes need to have their eyes
opened to save them from fate as
fearful as that which threatens horse
when the flames are threatening his
life. How hard it seems for them to
come out and stand where there is
safety
Hank. again. This time Il is not the
ringing of bell thai can hear We
are on the street standing BY III open
door, and we can hear the clink of
glasses for we ere looking into sa-
loon, Aud what do we see there? Not
two horses but two young men, hard
colts their comrades call them. They
are in far greater danger than the
horses in the burning stable were.
Flames are all nbout them -yes. within
them, for they have swallowed freely
what the Indians rightly call fire
water. Like the horses they, toe, are
fascinated. They see no danger where
they are. More than once their
mothers have led them away from this
fearful place. But they soon return.
What will their fate be? Worse than
that of the horses would have been
had no kind friend covered their eyes.
The trouble with the young men Is
that their eyes are covered so COW
cred that they might as well be blind.
What they need i. 10 have their eyes
opened to their danger. What would
you say II the smoke and flame of a
burning stable were going up every
night in every village in our land?
You would cry for help to put out
those flames, and you would yourself
do all you could to eXtinguish them.
But worse than that, in almost ev-
cry village in our land there is sa-
loon where vile men are setting the
souls OF our young men on fire of
hell,
What have painted these two pict-
ures for? This is my object Some
dear boys who have never seen the in
side Of saloon may read what J have
written, and resolve as they have
never resolved before that they will
not enter any place where liquor is
sold. l shall rejoice if any young
reader OF mine shall say to himself;
81 propose to keep out OF such places"
-EgbeT L. Bangs, IN Christian at
Work.