Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-23

memory come on my soul / would prefer To
have roll over on me the Alps and the lima
layas.
But, while sometimes there are sons who
turn out very badly, coming from good
homes, l want to tell You for your encourage
ment it is a great exception. Yet an nnhap-
Ply ano urdlscipnned nome is the no,sonons
caldron from which a vast multitude drink
their death ---
II. | remark that another caldron of in
lquity Is an indolent life All the rail trains
down the Hudson River yesterday. All fine
rail trains on the Pennsylvania route. an the
trair1 on the Long Island road brought to
these cities young men to begin COM
mercial life. Some of them are here
this morning, doubt not. Do YOU know
what one OF your great temptations is
going to bes II is the example OF INDECENT
people in our cities. They are in all our
cities. They dress better than some who are
industrious. They have access TO all places
of amusement-pienty of money, and vet
idle. They hang around our great hotels
the Fifth Avenue, the Windsor the
Brunswick the Stuyvesant, the Gilsev
House-all our beautiful hotels, you find
them around there any day-men who do
nothing, never earn anything, yet well
dressed, having plenty. Why should walk
Why should you work? Why drudge and toll
in bank and shop ard Office or on the scat
folding, or by tho anvil, when these men get
thob6 ~ NCh anu aO hOt W.T.
Some of them hang around the city halls of
our great cities toothpick in their mouth,
waiting for some crumb to fall from the
Office holders table. Some of them ham.
around the city hall for the city van bring.
ing criminals from tho station houses They
stand there and gloat over it--really enjoy
the disgrace and suffering of these poor
creatures as they get out Of the city van and
go into the courts
Where do they get their money! That is
what you ask. That is what ask Only
four ways OF getting money-only four: by
inheritance, By earning it, by begging it, by
stealing 1t; and there are vast multitude
among us who get their living not by in
heritance, or by earning it nor by begging
it. do not like to take the responsibility Of
saying how they get It'll
Now, these mon are constant temptation.
Why should / toll and wear myself out in
the bank, or the Office or the store, or the
shop, or the factory These men have moth
ing to do. They get along great deal bet
ter And that is the temptation under
which great many young men fall. They
begin TO consort with these men these idlers.
and they go down the same awful sleeps
The number OF men in our cities who are
trying to get their living by their wits and
by slelght of hand is all the time increasing.
A New York merchant saw young man.
one OF his clerks, IN half disguise, going into
very low place of amusement The mer-
chant said to himself must look out for
that clerk; he is going in bad company and
going in bad places: Unjust look out for him"
A few months passed on, and one morning the
merchant entered his store, and this clerk Of
whom havo been speaking came up
in assumed CONSERVATION and said: ''Oh
sir. the store has been on fire; have put out
the fire, but there are great many goods
lost; we have had great crowd Of people
coming and going" Then the merchant
took the clerk by the collar and said; Il
have had enough of this; you cannot deceive
me; where are those goods You stoleY' The
young man instantly confessed his villainy.
o the numbers of people in these great cities
who are trying TO get their living not honestly
And they are mighty temptation TO the in
dustrious young man who cannot understand
it. While these others have il so easy they
have it so hard. Horatius of olden tune was
told that he could have just rs much ground as
he could plow around with yoke of oxen in
one day He hooked up the oxen to the plow
and he cut very large circle and plowed UNI
til he came to the same point where be started,
and all that property was his. But have 10 tell
you to-day that just so much financial, just
so much moral, Just so much spiritual pos
session you win have as you compass with
your own industries and just so much as
from the morning Of your life to the evening
of your life YOU can plow around with your
own hard work. $50 to the ant, thou slug
gard: consider her ways and be wise" One
of the most awful caldrons of death today is
an INDECENT life Thank God that you have
TO work.
III. Once more / remark. that the dram
shop is a great caldron of iniquity in our
time Anacharsis said that the vine bore
three grapes; the first was Pleasure. the next
was Drunkenness, and the next Misery.
Every saloon above ground OF under ground
is a fountain Of iniquity. 1t may have
license and it may go along quite respectaoly,
for while, but after while the cover win
fall off and the color of the iniquity viii be
displayed.
dOn,n says some one, lyon ought to DO
easier on such traffic when 1t pays such q
large revenue to the government, and helps
support your schools and your great ins1tu-
tions of mercy" And then think OF what
William E. Gladstone said-I think 1t was
the first time he was chancellor Of the ex-
chequer-when men engaged in the ruinous
traffic came TO him and said their business
ought to have more consideration from the
fact that it paid such large revenue 70 tne
English government, Mr.. Gladstone SAID:
Gentlemen, don't worry yourselves ABOUT I
the revenue; give me thirty millions Of sober
people, and wen have revenue enough ana
We might in this country-this traffic per-
ished-have less revenue, but we would have
moro happy homes and we would have more
peace. ana we would have fewer people IN
"
thousands of men who are now on tine ROAD /
to he'll who would start on the ros1 to heaven;
But the financial ruin is very small
mart of it. This iniquity of which speak
takes everything that is sacred out OF
the family, everything that Is hoy th
in religion, everything that is infinite IN the
soul and tramples It under foot. The
marriage day has come. The TWAIN
are at the altar Lights flash. MUSE
sounds. Gay feet go up and down
the drawing-room. Did ever vessel launch on
changes Dingy garrett. No fire. On
broken chair a sorrovful wife. Last hope
zone. Poor. forsaken trodden under fooe,
she knows all the sorrow Of being adrunkafus
wife. s'Oh," she says, The was the Klnoest
man that ever lived, he was no noble ne VIZ
so good God mover made a granuer ma
thar he WAS but the drink did it, the drink
'Iid itr Some day she VIII pres
her hands against her temples and cry; On,