News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-05-23

| begin to consort with these men, these idlers
! and they go down the same awful sleeps
! The number of men in our cities who arr
| trying to get their living by their wits anC
| by sleight of hand is all the time increasing.
| A New YOrl, merchant saw young man
one of his clerks, in half disguise, going intl
| very low place of amusement. The mer
chant said to himself: 81 | must look out foi
| that clerk; he is going in bad company and
! going in bad places; Unjust look out for him.
! few months passed on, and one morning tht
merchant entered his store, and this clerk Of
| whom / have been speaking came w
in assumed CONSERVATION and said: ''Oh
sir, the store has been ON fire; have put out
the firc, but there are great many goods
lost; we have had q great crowd of people
coming and going Then the merchant
took the clerk by the collar and said: "a
have had enough of this; you cannot deceive
mes where are those goods you stole?" The
young man instantly confessed his Vi1alny
O the numbers Of people in these great cities
who are trying to get their living not honestly
And they are a mighty temptation 60 the III
duStriouS young man who cannot understand
it. While these others have it so easy they
have it SO hard. Horatius of olden time was
told thathe could have just as much ground as
he could plow around with yoke of oxen in
one day. He hooked up tho oxen to the piOw
and he cut very large circle and plowed un-
til he came to the same point where he started,
and all that property was his. But have to tell
you to-day that just Sc much financial, just
SO mitch moral, lust 50 much spiritual pos
session YOU viii 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
OF the most awful caldrons of death to-day is
an indolent life. Thank God that you have
to work.
Ill Once more l remark: that the dram
shop is a great csldron of iniquity in our
time. Anacharsis said that the vine bore
three grapes: the first was Pleasure, the next
was Drunkenness, and tho next Misery.
Every saloon above ground or under ground
is a fountain of iniquity. 1t may have a
license and it may go along quite respectfully
for a while, but after while the cover will
fall of and the color of the iniquity will be
displayed
easier OH such traffic when it pays such a
large revenue 10 the government, and helps
support your schools and your great lnstltu-
tons OF mercy And then l think of what
William E. Gladstone said-I think it was
the first time he was chancellor of the OK
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 to the
English government, Mr. Gladstone said:
% Gentlemen, don't worry yourselves about
"
people and we'll have revenue enough and
surplus"
We might in this counGy-this traffic per-
iShed-havo less revenue, but we would have
more happy homes, and we would have moro
peace and we would have fewer people in
tho pcnitcntiary, and there would be tens of
thousands of men who are now on the road
TO he'll who would start on the road to heaven.
But the financial ruin is very small
part of it. This iniquity of which | speak
takes everything that is sacred out OF
The family, everything that is holy
in religion, everything that is infinite in the
seal and trampies it under foot. Tho
marriage day has come. Tho twain
are at the altar. Lights flash. Music
sounds. Gay feet 90 up and down
the drawing groom. Did ever q vessel launch on
such a bright aud beautiful sea- The scene
changes. Dingy garnet. No fire On
broken chair a sorrowful wife. Last hope
gone. Poor, fOTsaken, trOdden under foot,
she knows all the sorrow of being adrunllards
wife ''Oh = she says, ''he was the kindest
man that ever lived, he was no noble, he was
SO goodl God never made grander man
than he was, but the drink did it. the drink
lid itr' Some day she will press
her hands against her temples and cry: "Oh,
my brain, my brainr' or she will go out On
5he abutment Of tho bridge some moonlight
night and look down on the CLASSY surface
ind wonder Thunder that classy surface 6here
s not some rest for n broken heart.
A young man, through the intercession OF
friends, gets place i'll bank
II store. He is going to leave his country
home. That morning they are up early in
he old homestead. The trunk is on the
wagon. Mother says: MY son, l put a
Bible in the trunk I hope you viii read it
'ften." She wipes the tears away with her
,pron. "Oh,n he says ''come, don't you be
Worried, / know how to take care Of my
self Don't be worried about me-" The IA
Their says: My son, be a good boy and
wife home often, your mother will be anx-
whip, and over the hills goes tho wagon.
Five years have passed on, and a diSSiputed
life has done its work for that young man.
There is q hearse coming up in front of the
bolhood who have stayed on the farm
come in and say: rs it possible? Why, he
doesn't look natural does he Is that the
fair brow we used to know Is that the
healthy cheek we used to know 1t can't be
possible that is him." The parents stand
looking at the cash in the forehead from
which the life oozcd out, and they lift their
hands and say: g Oh, my son, AbsaloIn, my
son, my son AbSalom would God that had
died for thee, oh Absalon, my son, my soni"
Lorenzo de Medici was very sick. and some
OF his sUpeTstitiOus friends thought if they
could dissolve a certain number Of pearls in
cup and then he would drink them it would
euro him of the disease. So they went
around and they gathered up all the beauti-
ful pearls they could find, and they dis
solved them in q cup, and the sick
man drank them. Oh, it was an ex-
peTsive draugbt But I tell you of a more ex-
peusive draught than that. Drunkenness puts
into its cup tho pearl of physical health, the
pearl of domestic happiness, the pearl of re-
spectability, the pearl of Christian hope, the
pearl of an everlasting heaven, and presses
it to the hot lips.
| tell YOU the dram shop is the gate OF
hell The trouble is they do not put Up the
right kind of sign. They have q great many
diiferc-.t kinds Of signs now on places where
strong drink is sold. One is called
the Restaurant and another is called
the saloon" and another is called the
''hOtel," and another is callcl the ''winC
cellar" and another is called the sample
room" What q name to give one OF those
placesl A sample roomr | saw man on
the steps of one of those sample rooms the
other day, dead drunk. / said to myself: 81
suppose that is a sampler | tell you it is
the gGte of hell.
'Oh," says some man, II am kind, am
indulgeDt to my family, am right iii many
respects, | am very generous, and l have TOO
grand and generous moral nature TO be
overthrown in that way" Let me say that
the persons who are in the most peril
have tho largest hearts, the best educa-
ton, the brightest prospects. This sin
chooses the latest lambs for its sacrifice The
brightest garlands are by this carbUrcled
hand of drunkenness torn off the brow of the
poet and the orator. Charles Lamb, answer!
Thomas Hood, answer Sheridan, the Eng
lish orator. answer! Edgar A. Poe, answer !!
Juuius Brutus Booth, answer!
Oh, come and look over it while draw OH
the cover-hang over it and look down into
it. and see the secthing boiling, loathsome,
smoking, agonizing, blaspheming hell of the
drunkard. Young man, be master OF your
appetites and passions. There are hundreds
might not say thouSandsY-of young men
in this house this mOTning-yOung men OF
fair prospects. Put your trust IN the LORD
God and all is well. But you will be
tempted Perhaps you may this mo
ment be addressed on the first Sabbath
of Your coming TO the great city, and l give
you this brotherly counsel. | speak not IN
perfunctory way. l speak as an older brother
talks TO a younger brother. 1 put my ha1ld
on your shoulder this day and commend you
to Jesus Christ, who himself was young man
and died while yet young man, and has
sympathy for all young men. Oh, be master,
by the grace Of God, of your appetites and
passions !
! close with a peroration. Ministers and
speakers are very apt to close with peroTa-
ton, and they generally roll up some grand
imagery to express what they have to say. L
close with q peroratiOn mightier than was
ever uttered by mere human lips. Iwoquo-
tations. The first is this: no hath
woe! VINO hdth D5tpplIiSt WIZ hta'i " a.
without cause? They that tarry long at the
wine, they that go to seek mixed wine. Look
not upon the wine when il is red, when 1T
moveth itself Alright in the cup, for at the
last it biteth like serpent and stingoth like
an adder" This is the other quotation.
Make up your mind as to which is the more
impressive / think the last is the
mjghtier: Rejoice, o young man, in thy
youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in tho
days of thy youth, and walk thou in the
sight of thine own eyes; but know thou tna a