The Penn's Grove record., 1889-10-12
PENIS GROVE, N J., SATURDAY OCTOBER 70, 1889.

plottsrs against good government attempted
to bind him With green withes and weave his
locks In . web, yet he walked forth from the
enthrs1lment, not knowing he had burst
. bond. But from the wine cup there
arose . destroying spirit that came forth
to capture his soul. He drank until his eyes
grew dim and his knees knocked together and
designations, he went home to die. Ministers
pronouncsd eloquent eulogiums, and poets
sung and painters sketched, and sculptcrs
ohiseled the majestic form into marble, and
the world wept, but sverywhersi it was known
that It was strong drink that came like the
infamous Delilah, and his locks were shorn.y
From the island of Corsica there started
ergics to make thrones trembls 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 Bastilss burst open. The earth
groaned with thu agonies Of Rivoh, Austsr-
Eta, Saragossa and Eylau. Five million men
slei1 fa y n: ma wsT r;nr Jrowni b ~sfs 'n ts;TmSs a
arches TO let him pass under, and Europe was
lighted up at the confagration Of con-
unning cities. He could almost nave
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 q match. The very am
bition that had rocked the world was now to
b his destroyer. II grasped for too much
and its efforts lost all. He reached up after
the scepter Of universal dominion, but slipped
and fell back into desolatiop. and Danish
ments The American ship, damaged Of the
storm to-day puts up in st. Helena and the
crew 20 up to see the spot where the French
exile expired in Loneliness and disgrace,
the mightiest Of al Samson shorn Of his locks
by ambition, that most mercilsss Of all
Eelilahs.
II have not time to enumerats. Evil
associations, sudden successes, spendthrift
habits, miserly proclivities and dissipation
are the names Of some Of the 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
houss with destroyed Samsons, who sit
grinding b mills Of despair, their locks
shorn and their eyes out. II parents only
to what temptations their children
were subjected they would be more earnest
IN their prayers n more careful about their
exampls. No young mar escapes having the
pathw9y Of sin pictured in bright colors
before him.
The first time I ever saw a city-it was the
city Of Philadelphia was a mere lad. /
stopped alta hotel, and ! remember in the
evsntide . corrupt man piled me with his in
fernal art. He saw l was green. He wanted
to show me the sights of the town. He painted
the path Of sin until it looked like emerald:
but-I was afraid of him.. l showed back from
the basilisk. made up my mind he wa q
basilisk. 1 remember how he rssled his chair
round in front Of me and with q contracted
and diabolical effort attempted to destroy my
soul; but there were good angels in the air
that night. 1t was no good resolution on my
part, but It was the all encompassing grace Of
a good God that delivered me. Beware! BE-
There Is . way that seemeth right unto q
man, but the end thereof is death. If all the
victims Of an impure life IN all lands and
could BE- gathered together, they would
make . 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
out In single fle across this continent. I
think the vanguard Of the host would stand
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 to uttera warning
FOR those who still maintain their integrity.
The cases Of reclamation of those who a
given themselves fully up to an impure life
are sofew, probably you do not know one Of
them. / have seen Q good many start out on
that road. How many have l seen come
back? Not one that / now think of. 1t seems
as il the spell Of death is on them and no hu-
voice or the voice Of God can break the
spell. Their feet are hoppled, their wrists
are handcufed. They have around them a
girdle OF reptiles punched at the waist, fas-
tening them to an iron dome; every time
they breathe the forked tongues strike them
and they strain to 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
er. Take me home! Take me homer
Do l stand before q man to-day the locks
of whose strength are being toyed with, let
me tell you to escape lest the shears Of de
take your moral and your spiritual
integrity. Do you not see your sandals be-
ginning to curl on that red hot PATH This
day in the nan of Almighty God I tear
on the identifying veil and the EN-
mantle Of this old bag of
and i show you the ulcers
and the bloody ichor and the Ncancered lip
the parting joints and the macerated
and the wriggling putrefaction. and I
cry out: Oh, horror of horrorsl In the still
ness Of this Sabbath hour / life . warning.
1t Is much easier to form bad
habits than to get clear of them; in one
minute of lime you may got into q sin from
which all eternity cannot get yon out.
Oh, that the voice Of Gods truth might
brown the voice of DeliIah. Come into the
ways of ~pleasantness and the pathes of peace
and by the grace of a ~pardoning God start
Tor thrones Of honor and dominion upoB
which you may reign, rather than travel ths
road to . dungeon, where the destroyed
srind in the mills Of despair, their locks shorn
their eyes out.
$1,000 A.