The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-12-18

The dtssOlute cannot DS reclaimed
deny both propositions The moral are
not safe unless they have laid hold Of
God, and the dissOlute can be re-
claimed ] suppose there are self-right-
eous men in this house who feel no
need of God and viii not seek after
him. and they will go out into the
world and they will be tempted, aud
they will be flung down by misfortune
and they will go down, down, down,
until some morning you will see them
going home hoOting, raving, shouting
blasphemy-going home 90 their
mother, going home TO their
sister going home to their
young companion TO whom,
only a little while ago, IN the presence
Of q brilliant assemblages flashing
lights aud orange blossoms, and cen
sers swinging IN the air, they promised
fidelity and purity. and kindness per-
petual As that man reaches the door
She will open it. not with an cutlery,
but she will staggeF back from the
door as he comes in, and In her look
there will be the prophecy of woes that
are coming; want that will SILVER in
need of IRE; hunger that will cry in
vain for bread, crueities that Will not
leave the heart when they have crushed
it. but pinch it again. aud stab It again,
until some night she will open the door
of the place where her companion was
ruined, and she will fling out her arm
from under her ragged shawl and say
with almost omnipO:ent eloquence,
give me back my husband! Give me
back nv ProtsctOri Give me back my
ALI Him of the kind heart and gentle
words, and the manly brOw-give him
back TO met And then the wretched,
obese and filthy, will push back their
matted locks, and they will say, put
her outl Put her Out"'
o! self righteous man, without God,
you are in peril Seek after him to-
day. Amid the 10, OOO temptations of
life there is no safety for man without
God.
But / may be addressing some who
| have gone astray, and SO assault that
other proposition that the dissolute can
not be reclaimed. Perhaps you have
/ only gone a littla astraY. While I
! speak are you troubled? Is there a
| voice within you saying: what did you
| do that for? Why did you go there2
/ What did you mean by tlat?" Is there
/ a memory in your soul that makes you
| trenble? God only knows all Our
/ hearts Yea, if you have gone so far as
| to commit iniquities and have gone
| through the whole catalogue, I invite
| you back this hour. The Lord waits
| for you Rejoice! o, young man, in
| thy youth, and let thy heart cheer
thee in the days of thy youth
/ but know thou that for all these
things God will bring thee into judg-
ment." Come home, young man, to
your fathers God. Come home, young
man, to your mothers God. o! I wish
that all the batteries of the gospel
could to-day be unlim bered against all
| those influences which are taking down
| so many of our young men. would
like to blow a trumpet Of warning, and
| recruit until this whole audience would
| march ont against the evils of society.
But let none of us be d;sheartened Of
| Christian workers, my heart is high
with hope. The horizon is blooming
into the morning of which prophets
| spoke, and of which poets have
dreamed, and of which painters have
! slxetched. The worlds bridal hour ad
vances- The mountains will kiss the
morning radiant and effulgenE and all
the waves of the sea will become the
crystal keys of a great organ, on which
the fingers of everlasting joy shall play
the grand march of a world redeemed
Instead of a thorn there shall come "
the fir tree and instead of the briaI
there shall come up the myrtle tree
and the mountains and the hills shall
break forth into singing, and all the
trees OF the wood shall C aP their hands
APOLLOs Are SCARCE.
TaiIors who Say That Perfectly Formed
Men Are seldom Found.
There is not one perfectly formed
man in five thousand" was the start
ling declaration made by a fashionable
| Fifth avenue tailor to a Journal re
porter.
''Whatr' gasped the reporter.
| at is true" replied the man-malzer
land the measurements TO be foun,
upon the books of the leading tailor
| will prove the fact"
But look ut the hundreds of big
chested, stalwarL fine looking meI
who are to be seen daily on Broad wal
| or at the clubs. Arc there no genuini
ApollOs among them alp
VERY, very few" said the tailor
most of the men you admire are mad
up, but so skillfully is the work per
formed that only themselves and theh
Wallets are aware of the fact Many o
the hnest-shaPed men you encounter Ol
a stroll along the avenue wear corset Is
: They find that they are becoming
trife stout from high living and lack o
exercise and they adopt the corset as
! / temporary relief,
= II know five members of the stool
exchange whose trim shape is frequent
" commented upon It is due to tn
5 wearing of cOrsets. which are now nm
, hesitatingly recommended by hrst-clas
t taiIors to such of their customers a
are becoming too stout Watch tn
next uGely dressed man VINO - andFG'
on the plan of an hOur-glass aud see
: you cannot detect the artihcislity o
= mis- makeup.
= s'What do you call a hneIy-propol
= toned man9" the reporter asked
/ zone that is i've feet eleven inche
5 tall, who weighs about one hundre,
{ | and eighty-6ve pounds and is the pos
SCISSOR of a shapely leg, a small foo
< and square shoulders His chest meas
ure must be larger than that of hi
[ stomach. I cali that a we'll bull
Z stylish figure"
Somewhat astonished by the SWEEP
S ing assertions OF the Fifth avenu
= tailor, the reporter called upon Broad
! way knight Of the shears
1T is too true" he said, when aslze
| il perfectly-formed men vers scarce
| they are scarcer- than hens teetl
Z I When I find customer who is perfeC
/ physically am willing to make hi
clothes for nothing. simply for the az
vertising his appearance viii give me.
III men were perfectly formed OF
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