The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-26

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There are amusements that send
man next day to his work bloodshot,
yawningi stupid, nauseated, and they
are wrong kinds Of amusement They
are entertainments that give man dis
gust with the drudgery of life, with
tools because they are not swords, with
working aprons because they are not
robes, with cattle because they are not
Infatuated bulls Of the arena. II any
amusement sends you home longing for
life of romance and thrilling advent
ure, love that takes poison and shoots
itself, moonlight adventures and hair
breadth escapes, you may depend upon
it you are the sacrificed victim of I'M
sanctified pleasure. Our recreations
are intended to build us up, and If they
pull us down as to our moral or as to
our physical strength, you may come to
the conclusion that they are obnoxious
SLY AND ALLURING INsINUATIoNs.
There is nothing more depraving than
attendance upon amusements that are
full of innuendo and low suggestion
The young man enters. At first he sits
far back, with his hat on and his coat
collar up, fearful that somebody there
may know him. Several nights pass
on. He takes off his hat earlier and
puts his coat collar down. The blush
that first came into his cheek when
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no more to his cheek. Farewell, young
mani You have probably started on
the long road which ends in consum
mate destruction The stars of hope
will go out one by one until you will
be left in utter darkness. Hear you
not the rush of the maelstrom, in whose
outer circle your boat now dances,
making merry with the whirling waters?
But you are being drawn in, and the
gentle motion will become terrific agi-
tation. You cry for help. In vain
You pull at the oar to put back, but
the struggle will not avail You will
be tossed and dashed and shipwrecked
and swallowed in the whirlpool that
has already crushed in its wrath ten
thousand hulks.
Young men who have just come from
com ry residence to city residence, you
will do well to be on guard and let no
one induce you to places of improper
amusement. 1t is nightly alluring
when a young man, long a citizen, of
fers to show Il new conner all around.
Still further; those amusements are
wrong which lead you into expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away. 1t is
all folly for us 10 come from place of
amusement feeling that we have wasted
our money and time. You may by it
have made an investment worth more
than the transaction that yielded you
hundreds or thousands of dollars. But
how many properties have been rid
died by costly amusements.
The first time | ever saw the city-it
was the city of Philadelphia was a
mere lad. | stopped at hotel and ]
remember in the eventide one of these
men piled me with his internal art. He
saw was green. He wanted to show
me the sights of the town. He painted
the path Of sin until it looked like en-
erald, but | was afraid of him. |
showed back from the basilisk. | made
up my mind he was a basilisk. | re-
member how he wheeled his chair
round in front of me, and with a concen-
trated and diabolical effort attempted
to destroy my soul, but there were good
angels in the air that night. 1t was no
good resolution on my part, but it was
the all encompassing grace Of good
God that delivered me- Bewarel be-
ware! oh, young man. ''There is a
way that seemeth right unto a man,
but the end thereof is death"
The table has been robbed to pay
the club. The champagne has cheated
the children's wardrobe. The carous-
ing party has burned up the boys
primer. The tablecloth of the corner
saloon is in debt to the wife's faded
dress. Excursions that in day make
tour around whole months wages,
ladies whose lifetime business is to Ego
shopping" large bets on horses, have
their counterparts in uneducated chill
dren, bankruptcies that shock the mon
ey market and appal the church, and
that send drunkenness staggering across
the richly figured carpet of the man
sion, and dashing into the mirror, AID
drowning out the carol of music with
the whooping of bloated sons come
home to break their old mothers heart.
"oH, THE PITY OF I'll"
l saw a beautiful home, where the
bell rang violently at night. The son
had been off in sinful indulgences. His
comrades were bringing him home.
They carried him to the door. They
rang the bell at 1 O'Clock in the
morning. Father and mother came
down. They were waiting for the
wandering son, and then the comrades,
as soon as the door was opened, threw
the prodigal headlong into the doorway,
crying, There he is, drunk as fool.
Ha, haw When men go into amuse
ments that they cannot afford they
first borrow what they cannot earn,
and then they steal what they cannot
borrow. First they go into embarass-
ment, and then into lying, and then
into theft; and when man gets as far
on as that he does not stop short of the
penitentiary. There is not a prison in
the land where there are not victims of
unsanctified amusements
Merchant of Brooklyn or New York,
is there disarrangementi in your ac-
counts? Is there leakage in your
money drawer2 Did not the cash &C
count come out right laskthght2 l
will tell you. There is a young man
in your store wandering off into bad
amusements. The salary you give him
may meet lawful expenditures, but not
the sinful indulgences in which he has
entered, and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful