The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-01
CARE MY CHILDREN sArE2n

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children be safep VIII your children he
saiep Unhappy and undisciplined
homes are the source OF much Of the
wretchedness and sin of the world. /
know there are exceptions to 1t some
times. From q bright and beautiful
Christian home a husband or a son will
go forth to die. Oh, how long have you
had that boy in your prayersl He does
not know how many sleepless nights you
have spent v him. He does not I'M
derstand how many tears you have shed
for his waywardness. Oh, it is hard,
after you have toiled for a child, and
given him every advantage and every
kindness, to have him pay you back IN
ingratitudel As one Sabbath morning
a father came TO the foot of the pulpit
as l stepped out of 1t, and said, "Oh my
son, my son, my sonI'' There is many a
young man proud of his mother, who
would strike into the dust any man who
would insult her, who is at this moment
sharpening a dagger to plunge through
that mothers heart. A telegram
brought him from afar. He went bloat.
ed and, SCARED into the room and he
stood by the lifeless form Of his mother.
Her hair turned gray; 1t had turned
gray In sorrow. Those eyes had weep.
floods of tears over his wandering.
That still white hand had done him
many a kindness and had written many
a loving invitation and good counsel.
He came into the room and threw him.
self on the casket, and he sobbed OUT
| right: "Mother, motherln but those
lips that had kissed him in infancy and
l INF tn,.oI co Vnonu bind x.,nt.Js rn,I,n 800.
they were sealed. Rather than have
such a memory come yer my soul, 1
would prefer to have roll over me the
A'p3 and the Himalayas.
But while sometimes there are sons
who turn out very badly coming from
good homes, 1 want to tell you, for your
encouragement, it is a great exception.
Yet an unhappy and undiscipllned home
Is the poisonous caldron from which a
vast multitude drink their death.
III. l remark that a caldron of in
iquity is
AN INCIDENT LIFE.
ALI the rail trains down the Hudson
River yesterday, all the rail trains on
the Pennsylvania route, all the trains on
the Long Island road brought to these
cities young men to begin commercial
life. Some of them are here this MORN
ing, l doubt not. Do you know what
one of your great temptations is going
to be? 1t is the example of indolent
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.-plenty of
money and yet idle. They hang around
our great notes.-the Fifth Avenue, the
Windsor, the Brunswick, the Stuyve-
SAINT, the Gilsey House-all our beauti-
full hotels; You find them around there
every day--men who do nothing, never
earn anything, yet well dressed, having
p'enty. Why should 1 workp Why
should You work. Why drudge and
toll in bank and shop and office, or on
the scaffOlding, or by the anvil. when
these men get along 50 well and do not
work?
Some of them hang around the City
Halls of u great cities, tOothpick in
their mouth. waiting for some crumb to
fall from the oflice-holder's table. Some
of them hang around the CITY Hall for
the city van bringing criminals from
the station-houses. They stand there
and gloat over it-really enjoy the dis
grace and suffering of those 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 l ask.
Only
FOUR WAYS OF GETTING MONEY.
only four: by Inheritance, by earning it,
by begging it, by stealing it.; and there
are a vast multitude among us who get
their living not by inheritance, nor by
earning II, nor by begging it. l do not
like to take the responsibility OF saying
how they get it'll Now, these men are
a constant temptation. Why should |
toll and wear myself out In the bank, or
the Office, or the store, OF the shop, or
the factory? These men have nothing
to do. They get along a great deal
better. And that is the temptation
under which a great many young men
fall. They begin to censort with these
men. these oilers, and they go down the
same awful sleeps. The number Of men
in Il cities who are trying to get their
living by their wits and by sleight-of-
hand is all the time increasing.
A New York merchant saw a young
man, one OF his clerks, in half disguise.
/ going into a very low pace OF amuse-
ment. The merchant said TO himself:
II must look out tor that clerk; he is
gong in bad company and going In bad
| places; l must look out fW him." A
| few months passed on, and n morning
| the merchant entered his store, and this
| clerk of whom l have been speaking
came up in assumed CONSERVATION and
| SAID: "Oh, sir, the store has been Oh
fire; 1 have put out the fire, but there
are q great many goods lost, we have
had a great crowd Of people coming and
going" Then the merchant took the
| clerk by the collar and said: 81 have
had enough OF this; you cannot deceive
I NE; where are the goods you stOle?"
The young man Instantly confessed his
| villainy.
Oh, the number of people in these
great cities who are trying to get their
living not honestlyl And they are
A MIGHTY TEMPTATION
to the industrious young man, who cam
not understand it. While these Others
have it SO easy they have it so hard.
Horatius of olden time was told that he
could have just as much ground as he
could plow around with a yoke of oxen
in one day. He hooked up the oxen to
the plow and he cut a very large circle
and plowed until he came TO the same
point where he started, and all thai
property was his. But | have to tell
you to-day that just SO much financial.
ust so much moral. just so much spiri-
tual, possession 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 W hard
work. $50 to the ant. thou sluggard;
consider her ways, and be wise" One
of the most awful caldrons OF death to-
day is an indolent life. Thank God that
you have to work.
Ill. Once more 1 remark: that
THE DRAM SHOP
is a great caldron Of iniqulty in our
time. Anarcharsis said that the vine
bore three grapes: the first was Pleasure,