West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-10

and fell back into desolation and Danish
ment. The American ship, damaged OF the
storm, to-day puts up In St. Helena and the
crew 20 up TO ses the spot where tho French
the mightiest of all Samsons shorn OF his locks
by ambition, that most mercilsss Of al
Delilahs.
1 have not tlms TO enumersts. Evfl
associations, sudden successes. %spendthrift
habits, misery 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 car
cases OF giants and filed the great prison
house with destroyed ssmsons who sit
shorn and their eyes out. III parents only
knew TO what temptations 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 I ever saw a city-it was tho
city OF Philadelphia was a mere lad. I
stopped at n hotel, and / remember I'm the
eventide a corrupt man piled me with his In
fernal art. He saw l was green. He wanted
20 show me the sights Of the town. He painted
the path OF sin until IL looked like emerald:
but L was afraid of him. / showed back from
the basilisk. made up my mind he was a
baslhsk. / remember how he reeled his chair
round In front OF me and with a contrated
NA10A ~ dNokIO lily
soul; but there were good angels In the air
that night. It was no good resolution on nv
part, but IL was the all encompassing grace OF
a good God that delivered me. Bewarei be-
warel Oyoung mani
There Is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof is death. II all the
victims of an impure life in all lands and
ages could be gathered together, they would
make a host vaster than that which Xerxes
led across the Hellespont, than Timour led
nnrOcq India NI.- Inul--- A.
led across England, than Abou-Bekr led
across Syria; and If they could be stretched
out in single file across this continent. I
think the vanguard OF the host would stand
on the beach OF the Pacific while yet the rear
guard stood on the beach of the Atlantic.
say this not because / expect to reclaim
any one that has gone astray in this fearful
path, but because / want to utter a warning
for those who still maintain their integrity.
The cases OF reclamation OF those who have
given themselves fully up to an impure life
are so Few, probably you do not know one Of
them. L have seen a good many start out on
that road. How many have 1 seen como
back Not one that / now think of. 1t seems
as IL the spell OF death is on them and no hui
man voice or the voice of God can break tho
spell. Their feet are hoppled, their wrists
are handcuffed. They have around them a
glrdle of reptiles punched at the waist, fas-
tenlng them to an iron dome; every time
they breathe the forked tongues strike them
and they strain to break away until the ten
'dons snap and the blood exudes; and amidst
their contortions they cry out: Take me
back to my fathers house. Where is moth
err Take me homel Take me homer
Do L stand before a man to-day the locks
of whose strength are being toyed with, let
me tell you to escape lest the shears of de-
struction take your moral and your spiritual
integrity. Do you not see your sandals be-
ginning TO curl on that red hot pathi This
day In the name Of Almighty God I tear
on the identifying veil n the EN-
lbroidered mantle of this old hag Of
iniquity, and l show you the ulcer
and the bloody ichor and the cancered Lin
and the parting joints and the macerated
limbs and the wriggling putrefaction, and l
cry out: oh, horror Of h%orrorsl In the still
ness of this Sabbath hour / lift a warning.
Remember IL Is much easier to form bad
habits than to get clear OF them; In one
minute OF time you may get into a sin from
which all eternity cannot get you out.
Oh, that the voice OF Gods truth might
drown the voice of Delilah. Come into the
ways Of -pleasantness and the pathes OF peace
and by the grace of a pardoning God start
for thrones OF honor and dominion UNION
which you may reign, rather thar travel the
road to a dungeon, where the DESTROYED
grind in the mills of despair, their locks shorn
and their eyes out.