Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-03-21

itself. moonlight au ,onilIrcs H,d IAN
breadth escapes, you may depend upon
IL that you are the sacrificed victim 81
unsatisfied pleasure, Our recre ItiOns
are intended TO build us up; and II they
pull us down rs 10 our moral or as tC
our physical strength. you may come tC
the conclusion that they are obnoxious.
There is nothing more d PRAYING
than attendance upon amusements thai
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. fearing that someone there
may know him. Several nights pass
on. He takes of his hat earlier, and
puts his coat collar down. The blush
that first came into his cheek when
anything indecent was enacted. comes
no more 10 his cheek. Farewell, young
man! You have probably started on
the long road which ends in consum-
mated 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, max
ing 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 ut 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 crushcf. in its wrath 10000
hulks.
cen f,,,4hon. Those or,ucor,onIS oro
wrong which lead you into expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away. 1t is all
folly for lis 30 come from u 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 of thousands of dollars. But
how many properties have been riddled
by costly amusements.
The first time ever saw the city-it
was the city of Philadelphia was a
mere lad. | stopped at hotel. and l
remember in the evcntide 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 basilisk. | remember
how he wheeled his chair round in front
of me. and with concentrated and dia-
bOlical effort attempted to destroy my
soul, but there were good angels in the
air that night. IT was no good resolu-
ton on my part, but il was the all en-
comprising grace OF good God that de-
livered me. Beware. beware! o, young
man. ''There is way that secmeth
right unto 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
carousing party has burned up the boys
primer. The table cloth in the corner
saloon is in debt to the wife's faded
dress. Excursions that in day make a
tour around whole months wages; la
dies whose lifetime business is to go
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 and
drowning out the carol of music with
the whooping of bloated sons come home
to break their old mothers heart. l
saw beautiful home where the bell
rang violently late at night. The son
had been of in sinful indulgences. His
comrades were bringing him home.
They carried him to the door. They
rang the bell at | 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 head
long into the doorway, crying out:
''There he is, drunk as fool. Ha, ha."
When men go into amusements that
theJ cannot afford they first borrow
what they cannot earn and then they
steal what they cannot borrow. First
they go into embarrassment and then
into lying and then into their theft,
and when man gets as far on as that,
he does not sop short OF the pen1ten-
tiary. There is not a prison in the
land where there are not victims Of I'M
santified amusement.
Va ANOW AVi M
is there disarrangement in your &C
counts? Is there a leakage in your
money drawer? Did not the cash &C
counts come out right last night? /
will tell you. There is 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
salary.
How bright the path Of unrestrained
amusement opens. The young man
says: ''NOw 1 am of for good time.
Never mind economy. I'll get money
somehow. What a fine road! What
beautiful day for a ride! Crack the
whip, and over the turnpike! Come.
boys, fill high your glasses. Drink!
Long life. health, plenty of rides just
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