Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-20

, aa!s-brcadth escapes, you may depend
upon it that you are the sacrificed victim
OF unsancuiiied pleasure. Our recrea-
tionsarc intended TO build up, ard if they
pull us down as TO our moral or as to our
physical strength you may come to the
! conclusion that they arc obnoxious.
There is nothing more depraving tian
attendance upon amusements that are
full of innuendo and low suggestion.
far back, with his hat on aud his coat
collar up. fearful that somebody there
may know him. Several nights pass on.
lie takes off his hat earlier aud puts his
coat collar down. The blush that first
came into his check when anything in
decent was enacted comes no more to his
check. Farewell, young man! You
probably started on the long road which
ends in cvnsummate destruction. The
stars of hope will go out one by one, I'M
TIL you will be left in utter darkness.
Hear you not the rush of the 1naelstrom,
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 ter
siiic agitation. Tou cry for help. I'm vain!
Neu pull at the car to put back but the
struggle will not avail! You Will be
| tossed and dashed and shipwrccked and
swallowed in the whirlpool that has al
ready crushed in iss wrath ten thousand
hulhs.
Young men who have just come from
counsry residence to- city residence will
90 wess to be on theirguard and let no one
induce you to places of improper amuse-
ment. 1t is nightly alluring when a
young man long u citizen, offers to show
new conner all around,
| saw beautiful home; where the bell
rang violently late at night. The son
had been off in sinful indMlgenees. His
comrades were bringing him home. They
carried him to the door: They rang the
bell at l 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 prodigas headlong into
the doorway, crying: s'There he is. drunk
as fool! Ha, HAP When mem go into
aMusements they 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 theft; and
when man gets as far on, as that he
does not stop short of the penitentiary.
There is NOS prison in the land where
there are not victims of unsanetified
Smusementss
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens The young man
says: ''Now l am off for a, good time.
Never mind economy. I'll get money
somehow. What beautiful day for a
ride! Crack the whip, and over the
, 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: 'sWhy, ]
} wonder where those fellows get their
: money from! We have to toll and; drudge.
}, They do nothing" To these gay meT
> life is a thrill and an excitement. They
5 stare at other people, and in turn art
stared at. The watch chain jingles
y The cup foanas. The cheeks flush. Th,
S eyes flash. The midnight hear
: their gntfaw, They swagger. They jostl
r decent men off the sidewalk. The
e take the name of God in vain, The
parody the hymn they learned at thei
II mothers knee; and to all pictures {
'e coming disaster they cry out, ''Wh
t. cares!' and to the counsel of som
II Christian friend, 'Who are you?"
e Passing along the street some nigh
is you hear Shrek in grog shop, til
e rattle Of the Watchman's club, the rus
q. of the police: What is the matter now
vt Oh, this reckless young man has, bee
# killed in a grog shop fight. Garry hiI
n home to his fathers house. Parent
" will come down and wash his wound
h and close his, eyes in death. They for
:, give him all, he ever did, although. b
n cannot in his silence ask it. The prod
t. igal has gone home at last. Mothe
e will go to her little garden and get tn
y sweetest flowers, and twist them into
g chaplet for the silent heart of the way
y ward boy, and push back, from tn
n bloated brow the long locks that wer
W once her pride. And the airtwill be ren
v with the agony. The great dramatis
says, ''How sharper than serpent
tooth it is to have a thankless child"
IL go further, and say those are un
It chri eian amusements which; become th
If chief business of q mans life. Life
is, an earnest thing. Whether we wer
born in a. palace or howell, whether W
IL are atfluent or pinched, We have to work
Y If you do not sweat with toll, you vii
y sweat with disease. You have sou
e that is to be transtigured amid the pom
y of q judgment day; and after the sea ha
IS sung its last chant and the mountai
IL shall have come down in an avalanche Q
s. rOCk. you Will live dHu u1luh GlIA dC
r. high on a throne where seraphs sing, o
e deep in dungeon where. demons how
l. In world where there is, so much to d
( for yourselves, and SO much to do 70
o others, God pity that man who has moth
II ing to do.
e go further, and say that all thos
p amusements are wrong which Lead int
W bad company. If you go to- any plac
r. where you have to associate with the ir
m temperate. with the unelean, with tn
t. abandoned, however we'll they may b
n dressed, in the name Of God quit il
d They will despoil your nature. The
N will undermine your moral character
,e They will drop you when you are d.
stroyed. They will give not one cent
l. support your children when you al
er dead. They will weep not one tear {
le your burial. They will ehackle owe
If your damnation.
to had friend at the West-a raj
1T friend. He was one Of the first to we
re come me to my new home. To fine pc
sonal appearance he added generosit
a. frankness and ardor of nature that mao
re me love him like brother. But l sa