Telegram-herald., 1891-03-16

which ends IN eoHsGn1 u2-SS ccslE uctt0n.
Ths st-rs Of hops sil - CIT oos " oas.
until yea will be eft II utter darkness.
Hear yoa cot tbs rasa q the Iaaslssroua, "A
whass outer circle your bo<t now d.oees.
making merry with the whi-lIng waters,
Bus yoz are beiag drawn N, and the gen
tie uaoslon will become teErlae agitation.
You cry for help. In vainl foa pull al
the oar q pat oack. bot the struggle VIII
not sYaiI, You viii be tossed and dashed
aud shipwreck-d and swallowed in the
whirlpool that has already crushed IN It's
wrath ter thousand huEks.
YeuSG Man BE OK YoCR GUARD.
YoaDg men who have Just coGe from
country residence 10 city rcsideIce viii DO
well 70 De GA guard and let no one iadace
you ID places OF improper amusement IL
Is migEIiiy allarsng when young man,
long a citizen, offers 70 show a new conner
all around
Sui further. Those amusenunts are
wrong which lead you into expenditure be-
You'd your ID ans. Money spont in recrea-
tioa Is not thrown away. IL Is al folly for
Us 10 come tr9ia place Of amusement feel
Ing that we have wasted our money and
time You may by it have made ga in
yestment worth more than the transaction
dollars But now many properties have
been rid9led by costly aIausenents-
Tho first t.cle ever saw the city-it was
the city of Philadelphia was a mere lad.
stopped at u hotel. and remember in the
eventidr one Of these men piled rle with
his internal art de saw was green. lie
wanted 70 SO ~ me the sights OF the town.
He painted the path OF sin Un.il II looked
like emerald; but | was afraid OF him.
showed back from the basillsk-l made up
my mind he was basilisk. | remember
how be wheeled his chair round In front OF
me, and with concentrated and disboiical
effort attempted TO destroy ray soul; but
there were good angels in the air tina.
night. IL WAS good resolution on my
part, but il was the all cncoin passing grace
of good Goo that delivered me. Bewarel
bewarel oh. young man. There Is way
that seemeth right unto a man, but tie end
thereof Is death"
The table has been robbed 10 pay the
club. The champagne has cheated the
children's wardrobe. Tho carousing part
has burned up the boys primer. The
tablecloth OF the corner saloon is In debtto
the wife's faded dress. Excursions that In
a day make tour around \ whole moatb's
wages; ladies whose lifetime business IL Is
to Ego shopping" large bets on horses
have their counterparts in uneduc2te
children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appal the church, and
that send drunkenness staggering across
the richly ilgured carpet Of the mansion
and dashing into the mirror and drowning
ont the carei of music with tho whooping
of bloate,i sons come home to break their
old mothers heart.
SAD STORY.
saw n beautiful home. where the bell
rang vioicatl- late at night. The son had
been of in sinful .indulgences. His COM
radcs were bringing him home. They car
ried him to Ike 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 COM
rades, as soca as the door was opened,
threw the prodigal headlong into the door
way, crying: There he is. drunk as a fooll
Ha, hal' When men go into amusenents
they cannot afford they first borrow what
they cannot earn, and then they steal what
they cannot borrow. First they go into en-
barrassuent, aud then into lying and then
into theft; and when a man gets as far on
rs that he does not stop short of the peni-
tertiary. There is not a prison in the land
where there are not victims of unsaDcti6ed
amuseucnts.
Merchant Of Brooklyn or New York, is
there a disar-anye.nent in your accounts.
Is their n leakage in your money drawer'
Did not the cash account come out right
last night, / will tell you. There is q
young man in your store wandering of
into bad amusments. The salary you
give him NAV meet lawful expenditures.
bat not the sinful indulgenccs in which he
has entered. and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful
salary.
How brightly the path of unrcstrained
amusement opens. The young man says:
"Now | am Of for good time Never
mind economy. I'll get money somehow.
What fine roadl What beautiful day
for ridel Crack the whip, and over the
turnpike! Come, boys. fill high your
glasses. Drink, Long life, health, plenty
Of rides just like this,' Hard working
men hear the clatter of the hoofs and look
up and say: why. wonder where those
fellows get their money from! We have to
toll and drudge. They 40 nothing" To
these gay men life is a thrill and an excite.
ment They stare at other people, and in
turn are stared at The watch chain
flush. The eyes fash. The midnight hears
their guffaw. They swaggcr. They jostle
decent men OF the sidewalk. They take
the name of God in vain. They parody the
hymn they learned mt their mothers knee:
and to all pictures Of coming disaster they
CRY out, who caresi' and TO the counsel
OF some Christian friend, who are your"
Passing along the street some night you
hear a shrek in a grog shop, the rattle of
the watchman's club. the rush OF the po-
lice What Is the matter now' Oh, this
reckless young man has been killed in n
grog shop flgat Garry him home 10 his
fathers house. Parents will come down
and wash his wounds and close his eyes in
death. They forgive him all he ever did,
although he cannot In his silence ask it.
The prodigal has got home at last Mother
will go TO her little garden and get the
sweetest flowers. aad twist them into a
chaplet for the silent heart OF the wsyward
boy. and push back from the bloatci brow
the long locks that were once her pride.
And the air will be rent with the agony.
The great -matist says. How sharper
than a scrpeut's tooth it is TO have . thank
less child"
LIrE AN EARNEST THING.
&c further. and say those are unchris-
tian snusemsats which become the chief
business Of mans life. Life is an earnest
thing Whether we we're born IN pal
ace or howell. whether we are affiuent or
pincbcd, we have TO work. IL ron do not
sweat with toll. you will sweat with dis
ease. Yon have soul that is to Be trans
figured amid tae po7p Of a Judgment