The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-03

piotters aeainst good government attempted
TO bind him with green withes and weave his
locks In n web vet he walked forth from the
enthrnllment, not knowing he had burst
bond. But from the wine cup there
arose a destroying spirit that came forth
to capture his soul He drank until his eyes
grew dim and his knees knocked together and
his strength failed. Exhausted with lifelong
dissipations, he went home TO die. Minister'S
pronounced eloquent eulogiums, and poets
sung, and painters sketched. and sculptors
chiseed the majestic form into marble, and
the world wept but everywhere IL was known
that II was strong drink that came like the
infamous Delilah. and his locks were shorn.
From the island Of Corsica there started
forth n nature charged with unparalleled en-
ergies TO make thrones tremble and convulse
the earth Piedmont, Naples. Bavaria, Ger
many, Italy. Austria and England rose up 10
crush the rising man. At the plunge Of his
bayonets Bastiles burst open. The earth
groaned with the agonies of Rivoli Auster-
1itz, 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 conAagrstion of con-
suming cities. He could almost have
made q causeway OF human bones be-
tween Lisbon and Moscow. No power
short of omnipotent God could arrest
him. But out Of the ocean Of human blood
there arose spirit in which the conqueror
found more than match The very am
biton that had rocked the world was now to
he his destroyer. IL grasped for too much
and its efforts lost all. He reached up after
the sccptsr OF universal dominion. but slipped
and fell back into desolation and banish-
ment. The American ship damaged of tho
storm, to-day puts up in st. Helena and tho
crew go up to see the spot where the French
exile expired i'm loneliness and disgrace,
the mightiest Of all Saiusous shorn OF his locks
by ambition, that most mercless of all
Delilahs.
| have not time TO enumerate. Evil
associations sudden successes. spendthrift
habits, misery proclvites and dissipation
are the names OF some of the shears with
which mon are every day made powerlcss.
They have strewn the earth with the car
casses of giants and filed the great prison
house with destroyed Samsons who sit
grinding the mills Of despair, their locks
shorn and their eyes out. II parents only
knew To- what temptations their children
were subjected they would I've more earnest
in their prayers and more careful about their
example. No young man escapes having the
pathway Of sin pictured in bright colon
before him.
The first time ever saw a city-it was the
city of Philadelphia was mere lad
stopped at hotel and | remember in tho
fernal art He saw was green. He wanted
30 show me the sights Of the town He painted
the path of sin until IL looked like emerald:
but was afraid of him. / showed back from
the basilisk. made up my mind he was
basilisk. | remember how he reeled his chair
round In front of me and with a contrated
and diabollcal effort attempted TO destroy my
soul; but there were good angels In the air
that night. 10 was no good resolution ON my
part, but IL was the all encompassng grace Of
a good God that delivered me- Beware! DO
Narel Oyoung mani
There is n way that seeneth right unto n
man, but the end thereof is death II all the
victims of an impure life In all lands and
ages could be gathered together thev would
make host vastor than that which Nerxes
led across the HelleSpont, than Timour led
across India. than William the Conqucror
led across England, than Abou-Bckr led
across Syria; and IL they could he stretched
out in single file across this continent. |
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 10 reclaim
any one that has gone astray in this fearful
path, but because want To uttera warning
for those who still maintain their integrity,
The cases Of reclamation Of those who havd
given themselves fully up 20 an impure lifa
are so few, probably you do not know one of
them. have seen a good many start out en-
that road How many have | seen como
backp Not ono that now think Of IL seems
as If the spell of death Is on them and no hui
man voice or the voice of God can break the
spell. Their feet are hoppled, their wrists
are handcuifed. They have around them n
girdle of reptiles punched at the waist, fas-
tening them To an iron dome; every time
they breathe the forked tongues strike thom
and they strain 10 break away until the tom
dons snap and the blood exudes; and amidst
their contortions they cry OUT Take mo
back To my fathers house Where is moth
err Take me home Take me homem
Do stand before 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 sec your sandals be
ginning to curl ON that red hot pathy This
DAY III the name OF Almighty God / tear
or the beautifying veil and the EN-
broidered mantle OF this old hag of
iniquity, and | show you the ulcers
and the bloody ichor and the cancered lin
and the parting joints and the macerated
limbs and the wrigging putrefaction, and
cry out: Oh, horror OF horrors! In the still
ness of this Sabbath hour | lift IA warning.
Remember 1t is much easier to form bad
habits than to get clear OF them; in one
minute of time you may get into 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 upon
which you may reign, rather than travel tho
road 10 dungeon, where the DESTROYED
grind in the mills Of despair, their locks shorn
and their eyes out.