Telegram-herald., 1891-03-16

which - tklEk The aaQSsk1eaIs q ia
are merely the orchestra playing while the
great tragedy Of life plsages throoge its
I've Ac<s-inf&1cy, ekisdh ood, naanhoo6. @
age and death. Then exit the last earthly
opportunity. Eater the evexx hslznlEg real
lies " an eternal world.
~ farther. and say thai all those
amasenenss are wrong wAicA lead iaso
bad eo1paay. II VOC 90 70 any place
where you have u associate with the in
temperate, with tAe unclean, with the
abandoned. however well they may be
dressed, IL The name OF God quit IL They
Will despoil your nature They viii IN
dsrmiae year moral character. raey viii
drop you when You are destroyed. They
Will give not ore cent - support your chill
dFen waen you are dead They will weep
not one tear az your burisl. Iaey viii
ehuckie over your dannation.
had frie-ld az ths wes.---a rare friend
He was one al The llrst 10 welcome me 10
my new home. To hns personal appear
arce be added generosity, frankness and
ardor Of nature that mzde rae love him
like "a brother But saw evil people gath
er.Dg around him. They cams up from
the saloons. from the gambling beils
They piled him with a thousand arts
MY cri&cx u'lCl Has rDC41@l u6tlff. anu nc
could hot ssS-nd the charm. They drove
him on the rocks, like ship ful. winged.
shiyering on the breakers. / used ~ al
moaish him. ] would say, Now / wish
you would quit these bad habits aud be-
come Christian" oh" lie would reply,
Il would Ike To, / would like ~. but /
have gone so far don't thini, there Is ANY
way back" Ia bis moments II repentance
h.. h..r, 4 {. l.. n 81
OF years. and embrace her cOAvulsiyeiy.
and cover her with adorIments. and stSeG
around ner pictures AMI toys and every
thing that could rlaks her happy; and
then, 81 though bounded by an evil spirit,
he would SO cut TO the eEdamins cup and
the house o. shame, like = fool 10 inc CO..
recs!on OF the stocks.
pEArH5gD scESg.
was summoned 10 his deathbed !
FASTENED. / entered the room found
him, 10 my surprise, lying in full every day
dress on the top OF the couch. put out
my hand. lie grssped it excitedly and
said, sit down, Mr. Talmagc, right there"
i sat down. He said: Last night / saw
my mother. who has been dead twenty
years, and she SIT just where you sit now.
IL was 10 dream. was wide awake.
4lfEs Ctti6ip1 III Lie i
saw her jaSt IS plainly as see you. Wife,
! wish you would take these strings of OF
me. There are strings span all around my
body. wish yoC wouid take tiem OF Of
me-" saw i. was delirium.
''Oh," replied bis wife, my dear, there
is nothing there, there is nothing there"
lie went Oh. and said: Just where you sit,
Mr. Taimnge, my mother sat. Che said to
I ID s,., IL h.n.
ter got on, Of bed, put my arms around
her, and said: Mother. want to do bet
ter have been trying TO do better.
Won't you help mo TO do bcttcr' You
used to help me- No mistake about it, no
delusion. / saw her--the cap, and the
apron, and the spectacles, jus; as she used
TO look twenty years ago; but do wish you
would take these strings away. They
annoy me so. / can hardly talk. Won't
you take them away" / knelt down and
prayed, conscious of the fact that he did
not realize wnat | was saying. got up.
said, ''Good-by; hope you will be better
soon" He st id, ''Good-by, good by"
That night ais soul went 10 tho God who
gave it. Arrangements were made for the
obsequios. Some said, Don't bring him
in the church; he was too dissolute."
"Oh." said, bring him. lie vGs a good
friend of mine while he was alive, and l
shall stand by him now that he is dead.
Bring him to che church"
LAST SCENE OF ALL.
AS sat in the pulpit and saw his body
coming up through the aisle felt as il /
could weep tears OF blood. / told the peo-
pie that day: This man had his virtues,
and a good many Of them. He bad his
nj ~ 1.,t
there is any man in this audience who is
without sin let him cast the first stone at
this coffin lid" On one s,de TIE pulpit sat
that little child, rosy, sweet faced, rs beau
tiful as any little child that sat at your
table this morning, warrant you She
looked up wistfuliy, not knowing the full
sorrows OF an orphan child. Oh, her coun-
tenance haunts rae today like some sweet
face looking upon us through horrid
dream. On the other side of the pulpit
were the mca who had destroyed him
There they sat. hard visaged, some Of them
pale from exhausting disease, some of
them flushed until it seemed as K the fires
OF iniquity famed through the cheeks and
cracked the lips. They were the men who
had done the work. They were the men
who had bound him hand and foot They
NORWOOD and gall into that orphans cup
Did they wecps No. Did they sigh re-
pentingly' No. Did they say, What a
pity that such brave man should he
SLANT" No, no; not one bloated hand was
lifted to wipe tear from a bloated cheek
They sat and looked at the coffin like vul-
lures gazing at the carcass of lamb W hose
heart they had ripped out! cried in their
M rairfrly IA / f-auid tsT'br-. Ia IL
and a j,,e sment day'' Did they trembles
Oh. no. no. They went back from the
house OF God. a nd that night, though their
victim lay in lakewood cemetery, I Was
told that they blasphemed, and they drank,
and they gambled, and there was not one
less customer in all the houses Of iniquity.
This destroyed man was Samson in phys
icAl strength, bat Delilah shcared him, and
tie Philistines of evil compnnionship dug
his eyes out aud threw him into the prison
Of evil habits. But in the hour Of bis death
he rose up and took hold Of the two pill
Jared curses of God against drunkenness
spc uncieanness. and threw niI-scTr for
ward. until down upon him and his com
paaions there cams the thunde-s OF an
eternal catastrophe.
Again, any amusement that givgs you a
distaste for domestic life Is bad How
many bright domestic circles have been
broken MP BY sinful amuscmentsl The
father went of, the mother weBt OF, the
child went of. There are today the frag
uents before me OF blasted households. Oh.
II you have wandered away, would Ike 10
charm You back by the sound o. that one
word, home" DO yoa not kDow that
ran ha~e afit little more tig,ae tn eve 10 DO