The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-01
HOW TO CONQUER.
|vr POWER OF EVIL HABITS
,,os Tells OF a Campaign to Re
cover Lost Ground.

~ ss,ing stepped aside from tho path OF
Pn9oI.i. u dssires 10 return. With a wish for
nn,S;ng better. ho said: "When shall l
NJ Nhen shall como out OF this horrid
s'h,msre OF iniquityY But, scized upon by
S.r,dicted habit, and forced down NIL by
z IA .ions, he cries out; Il VIII SOCK IL yes
- | will try 10 once more.
ksn kL ,nrarics are adorned with an elegant
l.,,,rc w addressed to young men, pointing
y e. tben all tho dangers and perils OF life
r,.',rl.,e mnps Of the voyage, showing all
sts the auicksands, tho shoals. But
80. a man has already made shipwrcck;
PIE be is already off the track; suppose
~. siroady gone nstray. How Is he TO
49,, That is field comparatively un-
t..s.l propose 10 address myself to such.
~. are those in this audience who. with
- rassion Of their ngonized soul, are
~, H. hear such discussion. They COM
L,.,bemSclyos with what they were ten
ks.r .co. and cry out from the bondage In
ssh they are incarcernted Now, II there
.uv here come with an earnest
,,c vet feeling they are beyond
80 Of Christian sympathy, and that the
- can hardly be expected TO address
:, ,bcn nt this moment, give thom my
a, hand and call them brother. Look
TSere is glorious and triumphant hopo
vr,, vet. | sound tho trumpet OF Gospel
r,iys.,nc,. The church Is ready 10 spread
[h.,oret al your return, and the hicrarchs
Soaron 10 fall into line Of hammered pro-
- nj the news of your emancipation.
4 isr as God may help mo, l propose TO
kow what nrc the obstacles of your return,
n then how You are TO surmount those
k.s,lo, The first difficulty in the way Of
rur return is tho force Of moral grayitation.
I. as fhcrc Is a natural law which brings
rvn 10 thccarth anything you throw into tho
4 :, there is q corresponding moral gravi-
Rtion. I'm other words, IL is easier 10 20
[uu than il is 10 go up; IL is easier 10 do
song than IL is 20 do right Call to mind
q comrades of your b0yhood days
kue Of them good, somo OF them bad
ich most affected your Call TO mind the
ks,lotcs that you have heard in the Inst
r. or ten years-sorne of them are pure
n some Of them impure. Which tho
kore easily sticks 10 your memory
hiring tho years Of your life you have
krned certain courses OF conduct-some of
I'm good, some of them bad. To which
kle Of habit did you tho more easily
teld' All. my friends, wo have TO take but
moment Of self-inspection to find out
hi there is in All our souls force OF
kpral grayitation! But that gTavitation
~ he resisted. Just rs you may pick up
pm the earth something and hold IL i'll your
md toward heaven, just so, by the power
Gods grace, soul fallon may bo lifted
Snurdrcacc, toward pardon, toward heaven.
prre Of moral gravitation in every one OF
but power in Gods grace TO overcome that
bee Of moral gravitation.
XThs next tling in the way of your return
tbe power Of evil habit. know there are
pse who Sny IL is very easy for thom TO give
evil habits. do not believe them. Here
4. Fri.sn "a. INF xtnnttnn L.. ly,,ntxo tt
digracing his family, destroying his prop
", running him, body, mind and soul.
that man, being an intelligent man,
loving his family, could easily
e up that habit, would he
do SOY Tho fact that he does not give
bp proves that it Is hard 10 give it up. II
very easy thing 10 sail down stream, tho
carrying you with great force; but sup
y you turn the boat up stream, is II so easy
n TO row itS As long rs we yield to the
inclinations in our hearts and our bad
bits, we nre sailing down stream; but the
ment VIC try to turn, we put our boat in
rapids just above Niagara, and try TO
up stream. Take q man given TO tho
BIT Of using tobacco, as most of you do,
let him resolve TO stop, and he finds it
difficult. Twenty-seven years ago quit
p habit and would as soon dare to put
right hand in the fire as once TO indulge
II. Whyf Because 1t was such a
riiic struggle to get over il. Now,
man bo advised by his physi-
n TO give up the use OF tobacco
goes around not knowing what TO do
n himself. He cannot add up limo of
pres lie cannot sleep nights. IL seems
u the world had turned upside down. Ho
Us his business going 10 ruin. Whero he
Bind and obliging he is scolding aud
fful Tho 4
ms given way 10 fretful restlcssness,
he has become a complete fdget. What
yer Is 1t that has rolled u wave OF woo
the earth and shaken a portent in the
'ehst lie has tried to stop smoking or
Mlng. After while he says, II am going
90 as please. The doctor doesn't under
pa my case. Pm going back to my old
pit' And he returns. Everything assumes
usual composuro. His business seems To
Shton' The world becomes an attractive
10 lvo IN. His children, seeing the
erence hail the return of their
hers genial disposition. What wave
Color mas dashed blue into the sky, and
hhcSs INTO the mountain foliage, and the
" oi sapphire into the sunsetY What en-.
himent has lifted world OF beauty aud
on his soul He has gone back TO to.
", the fact Ia, ns VIC oil know In our owI
'ien'e' tlat habit Is tasbnaster: n
as we ohey H. 10 does not chnstise us
let us rea.st, and we find we are 10 ID,
ncu with scorpion whips and bound witt
cable and thrown into tho track of
bs,5 ,Ig Juggernautsl During tho war
- there was ship sot OH fire lust above
sau ais and then, cut loose from lis
,bs IL came ON down through the NIGHT
'oNSed over the falls. II was said To have
scene brilliant beyond all descrintion
ulere arc tAousands of men ON fire of
H.npll' coming down through the rnpids
'"ioush tho awful night of temptation
@Iu the eternal plunge Oh how hard Il
arrest them. God only can arrest them
W ppVso @ man after five, or ten, or twenty
h. olil aolng. resolves 10 do righty Why
un ty'ocs OF darkness are allied against
h te cannot sheep nights. Ho gots down
me a'''S ~ :, IA The midnight ,snd cries 'God
IN ia di io pltes his lip. He grinds hi.
to - ''eilche5 his list in his determine
M lN.P nus purpose. Ho dare not look
Dotues In tho window of a wine store
aug oIe long, bitter, exhaustive hand n
[slsth"T WIN lnlamed, tantali,ing and
fss naolt' When he thinks he Is EN-.
lilo enc Oh inclinatlons pounco unou
ra pack OF hounds with their mug,los
20 away ut the fianlls OF one moor Toin-
.tion as rs Us lneFe Is a sculpt,ired renro-
In In o,' ~ bacchns, tho god OF reyelry. He
rstIvo1 panther at full leap Oh. how
bad wa, ioe oyery one who Is speeding
,rS SSays understand he is not ridinp =
Dns,nr "eI,broken steed, but he il ridYnt'
lean wiz and bloodthirsty, going at q
II and y there arc who rosolye ON n boA
seized on % when shall awaker'
try Il on by their old habits, cry: III
~ once moro; will seek k vet
Ituden,s ago thore were some Prince
bery III, VINO were skating, and the ice
ANY bacl ana somo one warned the
m lax from tho air nola and f,n.IIv