The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-10-07
A WARNING.
Which is Worth Reading and
Worth Pursueing.

{. III. Ja'm4n, the well known
writer and worker in the Y. VI. G..
4. cause, recently published all arti-
Gle in the Young Mems Eva "
which without doubt bears upon it
the stamp Of Il warning TO young men,
which is rs remarkable as anything
of the kind which has ever been
penned. 1t is well worthy Of care
full reading and careful preservation
by all. The article is as follows:
He is but boy of twelve. A wee
bit back he knew no one that's bad.
Sweetly he prayed at night with a
mothers listening esr-"Now lay me
down to Sleep" but now | see him
amidst a crowd Of hnyo -hU,e tongues
tell tales, whose lips sOiled with lies,
but they are new to him, he is only on
the threshold of acquaintance.
Stop HIM!
Oh, stop him Stop him there
and you save life, a soul. He is
not Stopped. Three years have pass
ed. It's night; never has he been in
a saloon, bat now, with one who
drinks. he stands at the entrance.
Stop him!
Oh, stop him ! and there will be
one less drunkard, but in he goes.
A taste of wine and the fires of habit
kindle, and now they burn. Again /
see him with flushed face; his hards
hold some coin. Never has he gam
bled, but now he is about to take his
chances with the rest.
Stop him :!
Oh stop him. for his mothers sake,
his own sake, for the sake of God on
high. He stakes his gold and-wins; |
sad, sad that day. With his unjust
coins he moves along the selfsame
street, He is man now. He stops
befoie the door of her whose feet take
hold on death. Never yet has he
gone thus far.
Sop him.,
Oh, stop him. before he sells his
birihright for Il mess Of pottage, be-
fore he sells his manhood for a sensual
song. Stay his steps before a dart
strikes through his liver.
| see him lead tair woman to the
altar where stands the clergyman in
his gown. He has deceived that girl.
She knows not how the fires of sin
rage III his hidden life. DIR. Jekyll
has won her, but she will marry Mr..
Hyde. The minister will, in a mo-
nent, call them man and wife
Stop him :!
Oh, stop him that there be one
ess wife Of woe. Better that she
walk LIES pathway alone than be
led to living death better that the I
marble of motherhood be untouched
With mantle and chisel than to carve ,
ut grief for children yet unborn. | |
ee hOuse-for home it cannot be
owe, if there has ever been any that
Tas true, has fled. A frenzied wife
lands pleading peace, but a drunken !
husband mad with liquor has lifted {
is fist to strike.
Stop him!l .
Oh, stop him and save this last dis
race. There is no stop, The mo-
lentum of his life is with torrents of
ice. The brook has become a river
ow, the ball of snow an avalanche.
'aurs closing words in Romans is true
life. Full many time have Chris
an men warned, plead, besOught even I
18th tears thar he let a Savior see him, h
II to no purpose. Mothers prayers |
locked, friends entreatiss unheard, t
'ife's cry stiffled. On he rushes till
ne body gives way to the 5
ruelty of its master, like a t
essel stranded on the rocks with
ashing pillows breaking over it. One Q
lore sea and it will break and sink
,rever. Watch him! Watch him ! e
lind Providence has sent one last 7
nance of rescue. The cup of saliva. i
on is offered, will he take it !? Oh, D
i'll he take it? Oh will he take it q? i
lie has the choice to make. Oh,
&C he pushes it away.
Stop him :! y
Oh, stop him that there =.
The end is here. ;,
There is no end hereafter" !,
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