The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-05-18

poisonous caldron from which a vas
multitude drink their death.
Second-I remark that another caldrol
OF iniquity is an indolent life. All tn
rail trains down the Hudson river yester
day, all the rail trains on the Pennsyl
vania route, all the rains on the Lon
Island road brought to these cities younI
men to begin commercial life. Some o
them are here this morning, 1 doubt not
Do you know what one of your grea
temptations is going to be? 1t is the ex
ample of incident <Reople in our cities
They dress better than some who are in,
dustrious. They nave access to all place,
of amusement-plenty of money, and We
idle. They hang around our great hotels
the Fifth Avenue, the Windsor, the
Brunswick. the Stuyvesant, the Gilsey
House-all our beautiful hotels, you will
find them around there any day-men wht
do nothing, never earn any thing, yeI
well dressed. having plenty. Why should
l work. Why should you work? Why
drudge and toll in bank and shop and of.
fee or on the scaffolding, or by the anvil
when these men get along 80 we'll and dc
not work?
Some Of them hang aroung the city
halls OF our great cities, toothpick in their
mouth, waiting for some crumb to fall
from the oficeholder's table. Some OF
them hang around the city hall for the
city van bringing criminals from the sta
ton houses. They stand there and gloat
over it-really enjoy the disgrace and
suffering of those poor creatures as they
get out of the city van and go into the
courts
Where do they get their money? That
Is what you ask. That is what 1 ask.
Only four ways of getting money-only
four; by inheritance, by earning it, by
begging it, by stealing it; and there are a
vast multitude among us who get their
living not by inheritance, nor by earning
it, nor by begging it. 1 do not like to
take the responsibility of saying how they
get it'll
Now, these men are a constant tempta-
tion. Why should 1 toll and wear myself
out in the bank. or the office, or the store,
or the factory These men ave nothing
to do. They get along a great deal better,
and that is the temptation under which a
great many young men fall. They begin
to consort with these men, these idlers,
and they go down the same awful sleeps.
The number of men in our cities who are
trying to get their living by their wits and
by sleight of hand is all the time ~increas-
ing.
New York merchant saw a young man,
one of his clerks, in half disguise, going
into a very low place Of amusement. The
merchant said TO himself: 81 must lock
out for that clerk; he is going in bad COM
pany and going in bad places; 1 must
look out for him" A few months passed
on and one morning the merchant entered
his store and his clerk of whom l have
been speaking came up In assumed con-
and said: 80, sir, the store has
been on fire; l have put out the fire, but
there are a great many goods lost we
have had a great crowd of people coming
and going" Then the merchant took the
clerk by the collar and said: II lave had
enough OF this; you can not deceive me;
where are those goods you stole?" The
young man instantly confessed his vii
laiuy.
o, the numbers of people in these great
cities who are trying to get their living
not honestlyl And they are a mighty
to the Industrious young man
who can not understand it. While these
others nave 1t so easy they nave it so hard.
Horatius Of olden time was told that he
could have just as much ground as he
could pillow around with a yoke OF oxen in
one day. He hooked up the oxen to the
pillow and he cut a very large circle and
until he came to the same point
he had started, and all that prop
erty was his. But l lave to tell you to-day
just so much financial, just so much
moral, just SO much spiritual possession
you will have as you compass with your
industries, and just so much as from
the morning of your life to the evening of
your life you can pillow around with your
hard work. "Go to the ant, thou
consider her ways and be
wise." One of the most awful caldrons
of death to-day is an indolent life. Thank
God that you ave to work.
Third-Once more / remark, that the
Is a great caldron of iniquity in
our time. Anacharsis aid that the vine
bore three grapes-the first was Pleasure,
then next was Drunkenness and the next
Every saloon above ground is
a fountain of iniquity. 1t may have ali-
cense and it may go along quite respecta- !
BILE for awhile. but after awhile the cover
will fall off and the color OF iniquity will
be displayed.
%, "says some one, you oughtto be easier
On such a traffic when 1t pay such a large
revenue to the Government and helps sup
port your schools and your great institu-
of mercy" And then l think of what
E. Gladstone said-I think it was
he first time be was Chancellor of the Elk.
men engaged in the ruinous
,ratjc came to him and said their business
to have more consideration from
he fact that it paid such a large revenue
the English Government. Mr.. Glad
,tone said: Gentlemen, don't worry !
yourselves about the revenue; give me {.
OO0, 600 Of sober people and We'll have !
enough and u surplus"
We might in this country-ihis traffic
,erished-have less revenue, but we would
more happy homes and we would
more peace andfwe would have fewer
people in the penitentiary, and there
would be tens of thou sands of men who
ire now on the road to hell who would
tart on the road to Heaven.
But the financial ruin is a very small
Of it. This iniquity Of which ! speak
axes every thing that is sacred out of the
every thing that is infinite in the
Ioul and tramples 1t undsr foot. The mar
day has come. The twain are at the
altar. Lights fash. Music sounds. Gay
go up and down the drawingroom.
Did ever vessel launch on such a bright
Lnd beautiful sea? The scene changes.
)ingy garrett. No fire. On "a broken chair
sorrowful wife. Last hope gone. Poor,
'orsaken, trodden under foot, she knows
the sorrow of being a d~runkard's wife.
u" she says, she was SO noble, he was
10 goodl God never mad u grander man
han he was, but the drink did 1t, the
did it" Some day she will press
Ter hand against her temples and cry,
%, my brain, my brain 70 or she will go
tut on the abutment of the bridge some
moonlight night and look down on the
classy surface and wonder if under that
classy surface there Is not some rest for a
heart.
A young man, through the iptercession
# metropolitan friends, gets a place in a
or store. He is going to leave his
home. That morning they are
Up early in the old homestead. The trunk
5 on the wagon. Mother says: 'My
on, i put a Bible in the trunk, 1 hope
on will read 1t often" She wipes the
ears away with her apron. co." he
avs, come, don't you be worried, 1
now how to take care of myself. Don't
% worried about me-" The father says:
My son, be a good boy and write home
ften, your mother will be anxious to
from you" Crack! goes the whip
nd over the hills goes the wagon Five
ears have passed III and a dissipated
Ife has done its work for that young man.
here Is a hearse coming up in front of
he old homestead. The young men of
he neighborhood who have stayed on the