Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-07-28

SoAhh sAhA e4lAhGl Il lgILNl4k IA lLS
heavensi lie has tried 10 stop smok.
ing or chewingl After u while he
says, II am going 10 do Us ] please.
The doctor doesn't understand my
case. I'm doing baci; 10 ny old hab
II" Aud lac returns. Everything
assumes its usual CompusuFC His
business seems % brighten. The
world becomes an attractive place 10
live ill., His children, seeing the diff
ference. hail the ryluwi oI tAesr ia.
Tiers genial disposition. What wayc
of color has dashed blue into tue sky,
and grecuncss into the mountain foil
age, and the glow Of sapphire into the
sunset! What euchantiHcnt has lift
ed world Of beauty and JOS on his
soull He has gone back TO tobacco!
4 1T Is A TAsKMAsTER.
Oh, the fact is, as we all know in
our own experience, that habit is
taslSmaster; as long as we obey il, it
does not chastise us: but let us resist,
and we find we are TO be lashed with
scorpion whips and bound with ship
cable, and thrown into the track Of
bone breaking Juggernauts During
the war OF 1872 there was a ship set
on fire just above Niagara Falls, and
then, cut loose from its moorings, il
came on down through the night and
tossed over the falls, 1t was said TO
have been scene brilliant beyond all
description. Well, there are thou
sands u men on fire Of evil habit,
coming down through the rapids and
through the awful might of tempta.
ton toward the eternal plunge. Oh!
how hard il is to arrest them. God
only can arrest them.
Suppose a man after FIVE. or ten, or
twenty years Of evil doing, resolves 10
do righti Why. all the forces OF dark.
ness are allied against him. He can.
not sleep nights He gets down on
his knees in the midnight and cries,
God help me" He bites his lip. He
grinds his teeth. He clenches his fist
in his determination TO keep his pur-
pose. He dare not look at the bottles
in the window Of wine store. II was
one long. bitter, exhaustive, hand 10
hand fight. with inilamed, tautalizing
and meIciless habit When he thi,iks
he is entirely free. the old inclinations
pounce upon him like pack Of hounds
with their muzzles tearing away at the
Hanks Of one poor reindeer In Paris
there is sculptured representation OF
Bacchus, the god Of revelry. He is
riding on panther at full leap. Oh,
how suggestive, Let every one who
is speeding on bad ways understand
he is not riding q docile and well
broken stsd but he is riding mon
ster, wild aud bloodthirsty, going at
death leap,
WHEN SHALL I AwAKEp
How many there are who resolve op
a better life and say, when shall
awakel" But, seized on by their old
habits, cry, Il will try il once more;
/ will seek il yet again." Years ago
there were some Princeton students
who were skating, and the ice was
very thin, and some one warned the
company back from the air hole, and
finally warned them entirely 10 leave
the place. But one young man with
bravado, after all the rest had stopped,
cried out: Zone round more" He
swept around aud went down, and
was brought outa corpse. My friends,
there are thousands and tens Of thou.
sands Of men losing their souls in that
way. II is the one round more.
| have also TO sag that if a man
wants 10 return from evil practices SO.
/, ciety repulses him. Desiring 10 re.
form, he says: NOW | will shake oil
my old associates, and | will FIND
|, Christian companiouship." And he ap
! pears ut the church door some Sabbatl
day, and the usher greets him with ;
, look, as much as TO say: why, yoI
/ here! You are the last man ever ex
pected 10 see at churchl Come. TAX,
/, this seat right down by the doorl' In
: stead of saying: Good morning;
a am glad you are here. Comes vii
& give you first rate seat, right up by
!. the pulpit" Well, the prodigal, no
yet discouraged, enters the prayer
- meeting. snd some Christian man, witt
more zeal than common sense says
Z 'Glad TO see you. The dying THE
was saved, and Isuppose there mercy
for your The young man, disguised
, chilled, throws himself back on hi:
dignity, resolved he never will enter
the house of God again. Perhaps not
quite fully discouraged about reforma
ton, he sides up by some highly re
spectacle man he used TO know going
, down the street, and Immediately tn,
respectable man has an errand dowI
some other street, Well, the prodigal
!, wishing 10 return, takes some member
OF Christian association by the hand
Z or tries 10. The Christian young mar
looks at him, looks at the faded ap
parel and the marks Of dissipation
Q and instead OF giving him a warn
7 grip of the hand offers him the tip enc
2 Of the long fingers Of the left hand
which is equal TO striking man il
the face.
Oh, how few Christian people under
Q stand how much force and Gospe
j there is in a good, honest handshalI
, ingl Sometimes. when you have fel
: the need Of encouragement, aud soln'
! Christian man has taken you hearth,
by the hand, have you not felt tina
: thrilling through every fiber of you
body, mind and soul, an encourage
: ment that was just what you needed
: You do not know anything al all abou
this unless you know when a mai
Q tries 10 return from evil courses o
conduct, he runs against repulsion
2 innumerable. We say Of some man, h
lives block or two from the church
or half mile from the church. Their
repeoplei in our rcrowded cities wholly
8 a. thousand miles from the church