The Russellville Democrat., 1889-08-01
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

| thirty men and women to look after thess l poor wounded fellows. As they came, | some from one part of the land, some | from another, no one asked whether thlS
 man was from Oregon, or. from Massa- | chusetts, or from Minnesota, or from New | York Phere was a wounded soldier, and | the only question was how to take of the
 rags most gently, and put on the bandage
 andsadminister the cordial. And when a l soul comes to God Ho does not ask where
 you came from or what your ancestry was. Healing for all your wounds, par
 don for all your guilt, comfort for all your troubles
 Then, also, counsel you, if you want
 to get back, to quit all your bad associa- l lions. One uuhoiy intimacy will fill your 1 soul with moral distemper. In all the
 ages of the churcs there has not been an instance where a man kept one evil asso- i ciate and was reformed. Among the four' | teen hundred millions of the race not ono instance. Go home to-day. open your
 desk, take oet letter paper, stamp an en-
 velope, and then write letter something
 like this:
 My old Companions-I start this day
 for Heaven. Until I am persuaded you will join me in this, farewell"
 Then sign your name and send the let ter with the first post. Give up your bad companions or give up Heaven. It is no' ten bad companions that destroy man, nor five bad companions, nor three bad companions, but one. What chance is
 there for tbat young man saw along ths street, four or five young men with him, halting in front of Q grog shop, urging hlm to go in, he esisting-violently re. sisting-until after awhile they forced him to go ing It was summer night and the door was left open, and l saw tho process. They held him fast, and they put the cup to his lips, and they forced down the strong drink. What chance Is there for such 6 young manY
 counsel you also seek Christian ad vice. Every Christian man is bound to help you. First of all, seek God; then seek Christian counsel Gather up all the energies of body, mind and soul, and, ap- pealing to God for success, declare this day everlasting war against all drinking habits, all gambling practices, all houses of sin. Half- and half work will amount to nothing; it must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now and you are lost. Push on and you are saveds A Spartan General fell at tha very moment of victory, but hs GlBIlEu Atio uiiSsoi HI Al4p pHA bAbCA ifAAN wrote on a rock near which he was dya ing, "Sparta has conquered" Though your struggle to get rid of sin may seem to be almost a death struggle, you can dip your finger in your own blood and write on the Rock of Ages: "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" Oh, what glorious news it would be for some of these young men to send home to their parents They go to the post-oft1ce every day or two to see whether there are any letters from you. How anxious they are to hear.
 Some one said to Grecial General: ''What was the proudest moment in your life?" He thought a moment, and said: ''rhe proudest moment in my life was when I sent word home to my parents that had gained the victory" And tha proudest and most brilliant moment in your life will be the moment when you can send word to your parents that you have conquered your evil habits by the grace of God and become eternal victor. Oh despise 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 neighborhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as you may over the mound in the churchyard, they will not answer. Dead Dead! And 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 world if you had never thrust 0 pang through their dear old hearts.
 . God pity the poor young man who has brought disgrace on his fathers name! God pity the young man who has broken his mother's heartl Better if he had never been born--better if, in the first hour of his life. instead of being laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been coffined and sepulchered. There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave and who wander about through the dismal cemetery, rending the hair and wringing the hands and crying: "Motheri motherW 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! Ma your father's God and your mother's Go be your God forever!