St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-03
TO RAILROAD MEN.
Evangelist Munhall Looks Down
the Track With Them.

Despite the disagreeable weather a
good audience assembled at Market hall
last evening, to hear DIR. Munhall. The
front seats, which were reserved for
railroad men, were occupied by
members of that fraternity, for whom
DR.. Munhall has special admiration.
The text was Mathew 7, Is and IA.
Enter We in at the straight gate; for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way
that leadeth to obstruction, and many
there be which go in thereat: because
straight is the gate and narrow is the
way which leadeth unto life, and few
there be who find it, Said DR.. Num-
hall:
There are two roads in this life; one,
the broad road that leads to destruc-
ton, and the other, the narrow
road that leads to eternal life.
Which do you want? am sure no train
master would think of sending out a
train without headlight; not that the
headlight is an absolute preServative
against danger from accidents, for it
does not throw light very far along
the road. I'm sure if some man could
invent a headlight that could show the
full length of the road he could make a
fortune. / want to say to you there
is a headlight that will show you
your way clearly through life, and that
headlight is Gods word. This light
will show you what's before you and
what You have to expect. Let us allow
it to flash along the broad road. The
first prominent thing L see is that
the way of the tranSgreSsOr is hard.
Now for a suggestion or two. That
man violates the law who fills up
ON whisky and brings pow
erty and misery and beggary
to his home and family. He's on the
broad road and he'll find it out soon.
Who foots the bill for the building of
and dimes? know that railroad men
are
LESS DISPOSED TO DRINK
than other classes. One reason for this
is that many of the trunk lines will
not employ tiDplers. Drunken
men are apt to wreck trainse
Railroad men nowadays, as a rule, are
the most sober men you can find, but
now and then you find few who take
drink on the sly. There's the man
that swearS. / know the provocations
that railroad men have to in
dulge in profanity, when the
weather is rainy and gold
and the engine backs and doesn't
how railroad man finds it difficult to
refrain from swearing. [ heard of a
man once who rushed into a depot
only to see the train he wanted to
catch dashing away from him.
An instant later another man.
who wanted to catch the same
train, came up to where the first man
stood. Number one was cursing away
at a terrible rate and when he had fin
ished number two turned and said to
him: "1'm much obliged to you"
Swearing is the most seeseless thing
Imaginable. Now word about gam
bling. Many of you won't go into a
saloon to pursue your gam
if you are caught at I it
you'll get the bounce. But you gamble
just the same. You get into a caboose
and play ''craps," and fritter your hard
earned money away. The way of the
transgreSSor is hard. Let the light
flash along the broad road again,
and / see there way that
seems right. On this road you'll
find the man who leads a good life
who doesn't swear, or drink, or do wrong.
Let US fash the light along the narrow
way. The first thing that is revealed, is
that the narrow way is a way of pleas
etllIuoSS. Oo NhtH you put your UruSU
in God, your path is path of peace. l
know as much of the world as the Or
binary man, and Eve travelled it over
pretty thoroughly during the forty odd
years of my life, and I've kept my eyes
OPEN AT ALL TIMES,
and desire to say to you, my friends,
that it is hundred times easier to go to
heaven than to hell. The sinner has no
peace on earth. When he's out Oil his
run and hears of some poor fellow
getting mangled under the wheels, he
grows restless; but if he's on the narrow
road he can think of these things in
perfect calmness. He can go out to the