Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-10

plotters against good government attempted
to bind him with green withes and weave his
locks in a web, yet he walked forth from the
enthrallment, not knowing he had burst
a bond. But from the wine cup there
arose a destroying spirit that came forth
to capture his soul. He drank until his eyes
grew dim and his knees knocked together and
his strength failed. Exhausted with lifelong
designations, he went home to die Ministers
pronounced eloquent eulogiums, and poets
sung, and painters sketched, and sculptors
chiseled the majestic form into marble and
the world wept. but everywhere it was known
that it was strong drink that came like the
infamous Delilah, and his locks were shorn.
From the island Of Corsica there started
forth nature charged with unparalleled en-
ergies to make thrones tremble and convulse
the EARTH Piedmont Naples, Bavaria, Ger
many, Italy, Austria and England rose up to
crush the rising man. At the plunge of his
bayonets Bastiles burst open. The earth
groaned with the agonies of Rivoli Austen
ltz, Saragossa and Eylau. Five million men
slain in his wars. Crowns were showered at
his feet, and kingdoms hoisted triumphal
arches to let him pass under, and Europe was
lighted up at the conhagration of con-
suming cities. He could almost have
made causeway Of human bones be-
tween Lisbon and Moscow. No power
short of omnipotent God could arrest
him. But out of the ocean of human blood
there arose spirit in which the conqueror
found more than a match The very am
bition that had rocked the world was now TO
be his destroyer. 1t grasped for too much
and its efforts lost all He reached up after
the scepter'of universal dominion, but slipped
and fell back into desolation and Danish
ment. The American ship damaged of the
storm, to-day puts up in st. Helena and the
crew go up to see the spot where the French
exile expired in loneliness and disgrace,
the mightiest of all Sanisons shorn of his locks
I nv ambition that uearrilQeG M all
Delilahs
/ have not time to enumerate Evil
associations, sudden successes, spendthrift
habits, miserly procliyities and dissipation
are the names of some of tho shears with
which men are every day made powerless.
They have strewn the earth with the car
casses of giants and filed the great prison
house with destroyed Samsons who sit
grinding the mills Of despair : cir locks
shorn and their eyes out. If parents only
knew TO what temptations their children
were subjected they would be more earnest
in their prayers and more careful about their
example. No young man escapes having the
pathway of sin pictured in bright colors
before him.
The first time ] ever saw city--it was the
city of Philadelphia was a mere lad.
stopped at hotel, and ! remember in the
eventide corrupt man piled me with his in
fernal art. He saw was green. He wanted
to show me the sights of the town. He painted
the path of sin until il looked like emerald
but j was afraid of him. / showed back from
the basilisk | made up my mind he was a
basilisk | remember how he reeed his chair
round in front of me and with a contrated
and diabolical effort attempted TO destroy my
soul but there were good angels in the air
that night IL was no good resolution on my
part, but it was the all encompassing grace of
a good God that delivered me. Bewarel be-
warel young mani
Thara fc a vyay that caarnpfh t-ioht unto n
man, but the end thereof is death. II all the
victims of an impure life in all lands and
ages could be gathered together, they would
make a host vaster than that which Xerxes
led across the Hellespont, than Timour led
across India than William the Conqueror
led across England than Abou-Bekr led
across Syria; and If they could be stretched
out in single file across this continent. |
think the vanguard of the host would stand
on the beach OF the Pacific while yet the rear
guard stood on the beach OF the Atlantic.
/ say this not because | expect TO reclaim
any one that has gone astray IN this fearful
path, but because | want 70 utter warning
for those who still maintain their integrity.
The cases OF reclamation Of those who have
given themselves fully up to an impure Life
are so few, probably you do not know one of
them. l have seen a good many start out on
that road How many have ! seen come
hackg Not one that now think Of ltseems
as il the spell of death is on them aud no hui
man voice OF the voice Of God can break the
spell. Their feet are hopplcd their wrists
are handcuffed. They have around them a
girdle Of reptiles punched at the waist fas-
tening them TO an iron dome every time
they breathe the forlsed tongues strike them
and they strain 10 break away until the ten-
dons snap and the blood exudes; and amidst
their contortions they cry out; Take me
back TO my fathers house Where is moth
err? Take me home Take me home"
N + cfasfd hafafsf a mar fO-dQN tina ippkQ
of whose strength are being toyed WITH let
me tell you to escape lest the shears Of de
struction take your moral and your spiritual
integrity. Do you not see your sandals be
ginning to curl on that red hot pathg This
day in the name Of Almighty God | tear
of the identifying veil and the EN-
broidered mantle OF this old bag of
iniquity, and / show you the ulcers
and the bloody ichor and the cancered lip
and the parting joints end the nacerated
limbs and the wriggling putrefaction, ana
cry out; Oh horror of horrorsi In the still
ness of this Sabbath hour / lift warning
Remember 1t is much easier to form bad
habits than to get clear OF them; in one
minute of time you may get into a sin from
which all eternity cannot get you out
Oh that the voice of Gods truth might
drown the voice of Delilah. Come into the
ways of pleasantness and the p1thes of peace
and by the grace Of a pardoisng God start
for thrones of honor and dominion upon
which you may reign, rather than travel the
ROAD to a dungeon where the destroyed
grind in the mills of despair, their LOCKS shoIn
and their ewes out