Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-04-04

thin," said the wife to the husband, 30
there will not be enough to 60 all arount
| for the children; cut the slices thin" Bless
ed be God there is full loaf for every on
| that wants it'll Bread enough and to spare
| No thin slices at the Lords table. l re
member when the Master Street Hospital
in Philadelphia, was opened during tn
war, telegram came, saying: "There Will
be three hundred wounded men tonight
be ready to take care OF Them" and from
my church there went in some twenty OF
thirty men and women to look after these
poor wounded fellows. AS they came
some from one part of the land, some from
another, no one asked whether this mar
was from Oregon, or from Massachusetts
or from Minnesota, or from New York
There was wounded soldier, and the only
question was how to take off the rags the
most gently, and put on the bandage, and
administer the cordial. And when sou
comes to God. He does not ask where
you came from or what your ancestry was.
Healing for all your wounds. Pardon for
all your guilt. Comfort for all your
troubles.
Then, also, 1 counsel you, if you want to
get back, to quit all your bad associations.
One unholy intimacy will fill your soul with
moral distemper. In all the ages of the
church there has not been an instance
where man kept one evil associate and
was reformed. Go home to-day, open your
desk, take out letter paper, stamp and en-
velope, and then write letter something
like this:
sMy Old Companions:.I start this day for
heaven. Until l am persuaded you will
join me in this, FAREWELL
Then sign your name, and send the letter
by the first post. Give up your bad COM
panions or give up heaven. 1t is not ten
bad companions that destroy man, nor
five bad companions, nor three bad COM
panions. nor two bad companionns, but one.
What chance is there for that young man l
saw along the street, four or five young
men with him, halting in front of grog-
shop, urging him to go in, he resisting, vio-
lently resisting, until after while they
forced him to go in? 1t was summer
night, and the door was left open, and /
saw the process. They held him fast, and
they put the cup to his lips, and they fore
ed down the strong drink. What chance
is there for such a young man?ss
l counsel you, also, seek Christian advice.
Every Christian man is bound to help you.
If you find no other human ear willing to
listen to your story of struggle, come to me
and will by every sympathy of my heart,
and every prayer, and every toll of my
hand, stand beside you in the struggle for
reformation; and as I hope to have my own
sins forgiven and hope to be acquitted at
the Judgment seat of Christ, l will not be-
tray you. First of all, seek God, then seek
Christian counsel. Gather up all the ener-
gies of body, mind and soul, and, appealing
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lasting war against all drinking habits, all
gaming practices, all houses of sin. Half
work will amount to nothing; it
you are lost. Push on, and you are saved.
A Spartan general fell at the very moment
of victory, but he dipped his finger in his
be was dying: "Sparta has conquered"
seem to be almost death-struggle, you can
dip your finger in your own blood and write
on the Rock of Ages; 'Vicsory through
our Lord Jesus Christi Oh! what glorious
news it would be for some of these young
men to send home to their parents in the
country. They go to 9he postoffice every
day or two to see if there are any letters
from you. How anxious they are to hear!
Nothing would please them half so much
as the news you might send home tomorrow
that you had given your heart to God. |
know how it is in the country. The night
comes On. The cattle stand under the rack
through which bursts the trusses Of hay.
The horses just having frisked up through
the meadow at the night fall, stand knee
deep in the bright straw that invites them
to lie down and rest. The perch of the
hovel is full of fowl, their feet warm under
the feathers. In the old farmhouse at night
no candle is lighted, for the flames clap
their hands about the great backlog. and
shake the shadow of the group up and down
the wall. Father and mother sit there for
half an hour, saying nothing. l wonder
what they are thinking of. After awhile
the father breaks the silence and says:
"Well, wonder where our boy is in town
tonight" and the mother answers; Iu DO
bad place, warrant you; we always could
trust him when he was home, and since he
has been away there have been so many
prayers offered for him we can trust him
still" Then at s o'clock-for they retire
early in the country-at 8 O'Clock they
kneel down and commend you to that God
who watches in country and IN town, on
the land and on the sea.
Some one said to a Greciau general:
.'What was the proudest moment of your
life?'' He thought moment, and said:
"The proudest moment of my life was when
sent word home to my parents that had
gained the victory" And the proudest and
most brilliant moment in your life will be
the moment when you can send word to
your parents in the country that you have
conquered your evil habits, by the grace of
God, and become eternal victor. Oh! de-
spise not parental anxiety. The time will
come when you will have neither father
nor mother, and you will go around the
place where they used to watch you, and
find them gone from the house, and gone
from the field, and gone from the neigh
borhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as you
may over the mound in the churchyard, they
will not answer. Dead! Dead! Aud then
you will take out the white lock of hair that
was cut from your mothers brow just before
they buried her, and you will take the cane
with which your father used to walk, and
you will think and think, and wish that you
had done just as they wanted you to, and
would give the w5rld if you had never
thrust pang through their dear hearts.
God pity the young man who has brought
disgrace on his fathers name. God pity
the young man who has broken his mothers
nOdtts DoGtOl IL uC ldu uON6F D6tu UUEu-
better if, in the first hour of his life, instead
of being laid against the warm bosom of
maternal tenderness, he had been cofined
and sepulchred. There is no balm. power
full enough to heal the heart of one who
has brought parents to a sorrowful grave,
and who wanders about through the dismal
cemetery, rending this hair and wringiug
the hands, and crying: "Mother! motherp'
Oh, that to-day, by all the memories of the
past, and by all the hopes of the future, you
would yield your heart to God. May your
fathers God and your mothers God be
your God forever.
'Tis SOZOEONT the whole world tries,
'Tis SOZOCONT that purifies
The breath and mouth, and dirt dedes,
'Tis SOZODONT for which we cry,
Sweet SOZODONT for which we sigh,
'Tis only SOZODONT we buy.
Praise of SOZOGOnt
like the famous article itself, is in almost
everybody's mouth. The people know that
it preserves as well as beautifies the teeth.
Hence it is the standard Tooth Wash of the
Period.
''Spalding's Glue" useful in every home
Two HUNDRED PASSENGERS IN A SNOW
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