Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-10-04

financial accumulation: and there is always
a sharp shears ready to destroy it, Every
day there are Samsons uugianted. saw a
Young man start life under the most cheer
ing advantages. His acute mind was at
home in all scientific domnions. He reached
not only all rugged attachments but by
delicate appreciation he could catch the
tinge of the cloud and the sparkle of the
wave and the diapason of the thunder. He
walked forth in life head aud shoulders
above others in mental SEIZURE. He could
wrestle with giants in opposing systems Of
philosophy and carry of the gates Of oppos-
ing schools, and smite the enemies Of truth
hip and thigh with great slaughter But he
began to tamper with brilliant freethinking
Modern theories Of the soul threw over him
their Establishments Skepticism was the
Pbilell that shore his locks Off, and all the
were upon hlaQubt and darkness and despair
unbelief, his eyes outiied in a very prison Of
Far back in the country
where l purposely omit to say--thef5 lust
born one whose fame will last as long as
American institutions His name was the
terror Of all enemies Of free government. He
stood, the admired Of millions; tie nation
uncovered in his presence, and when he spoke
senates sat breathess under the spell. The
plotters against good government attempted
TO bind him with green withes and weave his
his locks IN a web, yet he walked forth from
the enthrallment, not knowing he had burst
a bond. But from the wine cup there arose
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
designations he went home to die Ministers
pronounced eloquent eulOgiums, and poets
sung, and painters sletched and sculptors
chseled the majestic form into marble, and
the world wept, but everywhere it was known
that it was strong drink that came like the
infamous Delilah and his locks were shorn
From the Island Of Corsica there started
forth nature charged with unparalleled en-
ergies 10 make thrones tremble and convulse
the earth. Piedmont, Naples, Bavaria, Ger
many, Italy, Austria and England rose up to
crush the rising man. At the plunge of bay
onets Bastiles burst open. The earth groaned
with the agonies Of Rivoli Austerlitz, Sara
gossa aud 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 conhagration Of consuming cities.
He could almost have made a causeway of
COW. No power short Of the omnipotent
God could arrest him. But out of the
ocean Of human blood there arose a spirit in
which the conqueror found more than a
match. The very ambition that had rocked
the world was now to be his destroyer. It
grasped for too much, and in its effort lost
all. He reached up after the scepter Of uni
versal dominion, but slipped and fell back
into desolation and Punishment The Ameri-
can ship, damaged Of the storm, today puts
in az ST. Helena and the crew go up to see
the spot where the French exile expired in
loneliness and disgrace, the mightiest of all
Samsons shorn Of his locks by ambition, that
most merciless Of all Delilahs.
THE EARTH sTREWN WITH SLAIN GIANTS.
have not time TO enumerate. Evil asso-
Citations, 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 carcasses Of giants
and filed the great prison house with de-
stroyed Sainsons, who sit grinding the mills
Of despair, their locks shorn and their eyes
out If parents only knew to what tempta-
lions 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 l ever saw q city-it was the
city Of Philadelphia was a mere lad. ]
stopped at a hotel, aud remember in the
eventide a corrupt man Piled me with his in
ferual art He saw 1 was green. He wanted
to show me the sights of the town. He paint
ed the path Of sin until it looked like emerald;
but l was afraid Of him. l showed back from
the basilisk; made up my mind he was a
basilisk | remember how he wheeled his
chair round in front Of me, and with a CON
centyated and diabolic effort attempted to
destroy mRsoul; but there were good angels
in the air that night Il was no good resolu-
ton on my part, but it was the all encompass
sing grace Of a good God that deliv-
cred me. Bewarel bewarel o young
mani There is a way that seemeth
right unto a man, but the end thereof
is death. If all the victims Of an impure life
in all lands and ages could be gathered to-
gether, they would make host vaster than
that which Xerxes led across the Hellespont,
than TimOur led across India, than William
the ConquerOr led across England, than
Abou-Belr led across Syria; and If they
could be stretched out in single file across this
continent think the vanguard of the host
yet the rear guard stood on the beach of the
Atlantic
BEWARE IN TINE
say this not because expect to reclaim
any one that has gone astray in this fearful
path, but because I want to utter 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. have seen good many start out on
that road How many have l seen come
hackl Not one that ! now think Of. 1t
seems as If the spell of death is on them and
no human voice nor tine voice of God can
break the spell. Their feet are hoppled, their
wrists are handcuffed. They have around
them u girdle of reptiles punched at the
waist listening them to an iron doom; every
time they breathe the forked tongues strike
them and they strain to break away until the
tendons snap and the blood exudes; and
amidst their contortions they cry out; Take
me back to my fathers house. Where is
motherl Take me homel Take me homer
Do I stand before a man today the locks Of
whose strength are being tOyed WITH let me
tell you TO escape lest the shears Of destruc-
ton take your moral and your spiritual
integrity Do you not sec your sandals
beginning to curl on that red hot pathl
This day in the name Of Almighty God tear
off the identifying veil and the embroidered
mantle of this Old bag of iniquity, and show
you the ulcers and the bloody ichor and the
caneered lip and the parting joints and the
macerated limbs and the wriggling putrefac-
ton, and cry out: Oh, horror Of horrorsl
In the stiffness Of this Sabbath hour lift a
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 down
the voice Of Delilah. Come into the ways Of
pleasantness and the paths Of peace, and by
the grace of a pardoning God start for
thrones Of honor and dominion upon which
Fou may reign, rather than travel the road
to a dungeon where the destroyed grind in
the mills Of despair, their locks shorn and
their eyes out
A captious Enelishman began holding