Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-05-17
stOler The young man instantly eOnfessed

his vlllalny.
o, the numbers Of people in these great
cities who are trying to get their living not
honestly And they are a mighty temptation
to the industrious young man. who cannot
understand it, While these others have It so
easy, they have il so hard Horatius of olden
time was told that hy could have just as much
ground as he could pillow around with yoke
of oxen in one day He hooked up the oxen
10 the piow anu ne cut very large circle,
and plowed until he came to the same point
where he started, and all that property was
his But have to tell you today that just so
much financial just so much moral, just SO
much spiritual possession you will have as
you compass with your own industries, ana
lust so much as from the morning Of your
life to the evening Of your life you can pillow
around with your own hard work Go to
the ant. thou suggard, consider her ways
and be wise" One of the most awful eald-
rons of death today IS an INDECENT life. Thank
God that you have to work.
THE AWFUL SALOON.
III. Once more remark that the dram
shop is a great caldron Of iniqulty IN our
time. Anacharss said that the vine bore |
three grapes; the first was Pleasure, the next |
was Drunkenness, and the next Misery. Every /
saloon above ground or under ground is a /
fountain of iniquity 1t may have license, |
and it may 90 along quite respectfully for |
while. but after a while the cover will fall of |
aud the color OF the iniquity viii be dis /
played
"Oh," says some one, ''you ought to be ca.
sier on such traffic when it pays such a |
large revenue to the government, and helps
support your schools and your great institu
lions of mercy And then think Of what
ru~srr sfattr
the first time he was chancellor Of the ex-
chequer-when men engaged in the ruinous
traffic came to him and said their business
ought to have more consideration from the
fact that it paid such large revenue to the
English government Mr. Gladstone said;
Gentlemen, don't worry yourselves about
the revenue; give me thirty millions Of sober
people. and Wen have revenue enough and
surplus"
We might in this country-this traffic per
ished-have less revenue, but VIC would have
more happy homes, and we would have more
peace, and we would have fewer people in
the penitentary, and there would be tens of
thousands Of men who are now on the road
to hell who would start on the road to
heaven.
But the financial ruin is very small part
of it, This iniquity of which | speak takes
everything that is sacred out Of the family,
everything that is holy in religion, every
thing that is infinite in the soul and tramples
| it under foot. The marriage day has come
| The twain are at the altar Lights flash
| Music sounds. Gay feet so up and down
/ the drawing room. Did ever a vessel launch
on such a bright and beautiful scat The
scene changes. Dirty garrett No fire. On
a broken chair a sorrowful wife. Last hope
] d, fro11aYt unHn~ font
she knows all tho sorrows of being drunk
ards wife. oh" she says, "he was the
kindest man that ever lived, he was so noble,
no was so goodl God never made a grander
man than he was, but the drink did it, the
drink did It'll" Some day she win press her
hands against her temples and cry, "Oh, my
brain, my brain" Or she will go out 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 broken heart.
A young man, through the intercession Of
metropolitan friends gets a place in bank
or store He is going to leave his country
home. That morning they are up early in
the old homestead The trunk is OH the
wagon. Mother says: My son, put Bible
in the trunk, l hope you will read it often. y
She wipes the tears away with her apron.
"Oh. " he says, "come, don't you be worried,
l know how to take care Of myself.
Don't be worried about me-" The
father says: my son, be good boy and
write homo often, your mother viii be
anxious to hear from you" Crack goes
the whip and over tho hills goes the
wagon. Five years have passed on, and
a dissipated life has done its work for
that Young man. There is a hearse
coming up in front of the old homestead.
Tie young men Of the neighborhood who
have STAYED on the farm come in and say: Is
1t possiblel Why, be doesn't look natural,
does hel Is that the fair brow we used to
knowl Is that the healthy cheek we used to
know? It can't be possible that is him. The
parents stand looking at the cash in the fore
! head from which tho life oozed out, and they
lift their hands and say; 30, my son Absa-
lon. my son, my son Absalom; would God
had died for thee, o Absalom, my son, my
!, sonl"
DRUNKENNESS AN EXPENSIVE DRAUGHT.
Lorenzo de Medici was very sick, and some
of his superstitious friends thought if they
could dissolve a certain number of pearls in {
cup and then he would drink them, it would
cure him of the disease. So they went arounC
and they gathered up all the beautiful pearl
!, they could find, and they dissolved them in {
cup, and tho sick man drank them. Oh, j
was an expensive draught But tell you o.
a more expensive draught than that Drunk
enness puts into its cup the pearl of physical
, health, the pearl Of domestic happiness, tn
pearl Of responsibility, the pearl Of Christian
hope, the pearl of an everlasting heaven, ant
!, presses it to the hot lips.
Il tell YOU the dram shop is the gate of hell
{, Tho trouble is they do not put up the RICH
u kind of a sign. They have a great many diff
! ferent kinds Of signs now on places wher
Is strong drink is sold One is called the 'res
;, taurant" and another is called the saloon,
Il and another is called the "hotel, and anOthe
Y is called the swine cellar" and another
! called the sample room" What a name b
Z give one Of those placesl A sample rooml
q saw man on the steps of one of thos
i sample rooms" the other day, dead drunk
y | said to myself: ~ suppose that is a sample!
y | tell you it is the gate Of hell.
ooh" says some man, Il am kind, / ar
d indulgent to my family, am right in man
e. respects, am very generous, and have to
grand and generous moral nature TO
y overthrown in that way" Let me say tina
; the persons who are in the most peril hav
y the largest hearts, the best education, tn
y brightest prospects. This sin chooses the fat
: test lambs for its sacrifice. The brightes
garlaudS are by this carDuncled mana {
drunkenness torn OFF the brow Of the poet an
/ the orator Charles Lamb, answerl Thomt
=, Hood, answerl Sheridan, the English oratol
z, answerl Edgar A. Poe, answerl JuniU
= Brutus Booth, answer
= BE MASTER OF YOUR APPETITE
Oh, come and look over into it while dra'
|. of the coyer-hang over it and look dow
= into it, and see the SETTLING, boiling, loatl
, some, smoking, agoniziug, disappearing he
j., of the d1unkard Young man, be master
=, your appetites and passions There are hui
bs dreds-might not say thousandsi-of youn
!, men in this house this morning-young me
!. OF fair prospects, Put your trust in Il
~ Lord and all is we'll But you will be temp
~ ed Perhaps you may this moment be a
~ dressed on the first Sabbath of your eomir
~ to the great city, and give you this brot
- erly counsel speak not in perfunetoi
's vvay. l sneak as an older brother talks to