The Bottineau pioneer., 1889-10-10

one to And out the account; which yet my
soul seeketh, but lind not; one man among
9 thousand have found; but Q woman
among all those have not found?" My an
with common decency and kept out Of in.
famous circles he would not have had
SO much dfiiculty in finding in
tegrity Of character among women
and never would have uttered such
Q TRADE. Ever since my childhood have
philosopher who lived in q tub, for going
through the streets Of Athens in broad day
light with, q lantern and when asked what he
did that for said: II nm looking for an
honest .man." Now / warrant that that
philosopher who had such hard work to find
an honest man was himself dishonest. /
think he stole both the lantern and the tub.
So when hear O man expatiating upon the
weaknesses Of women Immediately suspect
him and soy there is another Solomon with
Solomon's wisdom left out. Still, would
not have the illustrations l have given of
transcending excelency in female biography
lead you to suppose that there are no perils
in woman's pathway. God'sgrace alone can
make an Isabella Graham, or q Christina
Alsop, or a Fidelia Fiske, or Catherine OF
Siena. Temptations lurk about the bright
est domestic circle. 1t was no unmeaning
thing when God set up amidst the splendors
OF his word the character OF infamous Delitah.
Far back in the country dstricts-just
where purposely omit to say-there was
born one whose fame will last as long as
American institutions. His name was the
terror of all enemies of free government. He
covered in his presence and when he spoke SEN
ates sat breathless under the spell. The
plotters against good government at
tempted to bind him with green withes and
weave his locks in a web, yet he walked
forth from the inthrallment not knowing he
hod h,1r h0,1I p,,%
there arose destroying spirit that came
forth to capture his soul. He drank until
his eyes grew dim and his knees knocked to-
gether and his strength failed. Exhausted
with lifelong dissipations he went home to
die. Ministers pronounced eloquent eulogi.
| 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 Deliah and his locks
were shorn
From the island of Corsica there started
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 ot
his bayonets bastiles burst open. The earth
groaned with the agonies of Rivoli, Aueter-
litz, 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 confagration of con-
suming cities. He could almost have made
q causeway of human bones between Lisbon
and Moscow. No power short of fomnipotent
God could arrest him. But out of the ocean
of human blood there arose q spirit in which
the conqueror found more than O match.
The very ambition that had rocked the world
was now to be his destroyer. 1t grasped for
too much and in it's effort lost all. Hereach-
ed up after the scepter ofuniversal dominion,
but slipped and fell back into desolation and
banishment. 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 dis.
grace, the mightiest ofall Samsons, shorn of
his locks by ambition, that the most merci-
less of all Delilahs.
have not time to enumerate Evil asso.
Citations, sudden excesses, 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 carcasses of giants
and filed the great prison-house with des-
OF despair their locks shorn and their eyes
out If parents only knew to what tempta-
tions 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 a city-it was the
city OF Philadelphia was mere lad.
stopped at O hotel, and remember in the
eventide a 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 it looked like
emerald; but was afraid of him. l showed
back from the basilisk. l made up my mind
he was basilisk. l remember how he reeled
his chair round in front of me and with O
concentrated and diabolical effort attempted
to destroy my soul: but there were good ang-
els in the air that night. 1t was no good
resolution on my part, but it was the all
encompassing grace of God that delivered
me. Beware! bewarel o young mani
There il way Tint seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof is death. If all the
victims of an impure life in all lands and
make host vaster than that which Xerxea
led across the Hellespont, than Timour led
across India, than William the Conqueror led |
England, than Abou-Bekr led across
Syria; and if they could be stretched out in |
single file across this continent l think the
beach of the Pacific while yet the rear guard
stood on the beach Of the Atlantic,
Isay this not because expect to reclaim any
one that has gone astray in this fearful path
but because want to utter q warning toi
thoss svho It'll naintaiu their integrity.
-
giyen thsmselves fully up to m impure I'm
are - lev, probably ron do not know onsa
Eot tlesR bars neeRa ecod many start az /
Zen thAtIoad. How m6ny haya1 neen cQn@
&ack Not one that 4 now thitIk III n sssla 4
as II ths si.all a dsath y on them md nohil |
the spell. Their feet are hopp1ed, their wrists !
nre hancuffed. They have around them q I
girdle of reptiles punched at the waist, last
ening them to an iron doom; every time they
breathe the forked tongues strike them and
they strain to break away until the tendons
contortions they cry out: .Take me back to
my fathers house. Where is mother? Take
me home! Take me home!" s5
Do stand before q man today the locks OF
whose strength are being toyed with. let me
tell you to escape lest the shears of destruc-
ton take your moral and spiritual integrity.
Do you not see your sandals beginning to
curl on that red-hot path? This day in the
name of Almighty God tear off the beauti-
flying veil and the embroidered mantle ofthis
old hag of iniquity, and show you the ul
GERS and the bloody ichor and the cancered
lip and the parting joints and the macerated
limbs and the wringling putrefaction, and
| cry out, Obi, horror Of horrorsl In the
stiffness of this Sabbath hour lit
q warning. Remember it is much easier to
form bad habits than to get clear of them; in
one minute Of time you may get into q sin
rom which all eternity can not get you out.
Oh, that the voice Of Gods truth might
down the voice of Delilah! Come into The
ways of pleasantness and the paths Of peace,
and by the grace Of pardoning God start
for thrones of honor and dominion npon
which you may reign, rather than travel the
road to dungeon where the destroyed grind
in the mills Of despair, their locks shorn and
their eyes out.
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