The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-09-24
TEMPERANCE LESSON.


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TEMPERANCE LESSON.
LESSON TExT.-Prov. 4:1319.
GOLDEN TExT.-Rut they also have erred
through wine, and through strong drink are out
of the way.-Isa. 2S:7.
CENTRAL TRUTH.--Thc way OF strong drink
leads to ruin and death; the way of temper
ance and religion leads to blesseduess here and
for eyermorc
THE TWO WAYS.
THE PATH OF THE WICKED.-Vs. IA, II,
10. This lesson is part of the advice Of
the wisest of men, to the young. Prob
ably Solomon was thinking of his own
son, Rehoboam. His words are there
fore of all the more value to us. 1t is
almost universally acknowledged that
strong drink is one of the greatest in
centives and encouragements to all
kinds of sin and wickcdncss. 1t is the
door to world Of iniquity and sorrow.
The only safety lies in not entering that
door; in total abstinence from all that
intoxicatcs.
The result of observation by Hon.
Chauncy NJ. Depew, president of tho
New York Central Railroad Company,
in talk to railroad men: twenty-five
years ago l knew every man. woman
and child in Peckskill. And it has
been study with me to mark boys
who started in every grade of life with
myself, to see what has become of them.
/ was up last fall and began to count
them over, and it was an instructive
exhibit. Some of them became clerks,
merchants, manufacturers, lawyers,
doctors. 1t is remarkable that every one
of those that drank is dead; not one
living of my age. Barring few who
were taken off by sickness, every one
that proved o wreck and wrecked his
family did it from rum and no other
cause. Of those who were church,
going people, who were steady, in
dustrious and hardworSing men, who
were frugal and thrifty, every single
one of them, without an exception,
owns the house in which he lives and
has something laid by, the interest ON
which, with his house, would carry him
through many a rainy day. When q
man becomes debased with gambling,
rum or drink he doesn't care; all his
finer feelings are crowded OUT
The PATH OF THE JUsT.-Vs. 1918.
Shining more and more, unto the per-
feet day. A growth in every good,
through obedience to good instruction
Importance of beginning right. Pytha-
goras compared life to the letter v. It
is the diverging of the broad and the
narrow ways. 1t is easy to go in the
right way at first. 1t is comparatively
easy to cross from the wrong to the
right way at the beginning. But each
days progress widens the distance; OBJ
stacles grow greater, till at last it is al
most impossible to change. The
Christian Leader tells of liquor
dealer in the town of Ayr, Scotland,
who had a particular brand of whisky
which he wished to advertise. One day
the circus was coming to town. and, to
add interest to its performances and adj
vertise his whisky, he offered a prize
for the best answer to the question:
"Why this particular kind of whisky
resembled a certain bridge across the
water of Ayr?"
The show came, and the answers to
the liquor sellers question were hand
cd in to be examined, and the success
full competitor was announced. He
proved to be q poor boy, who perhaps
knew from experience what he was
speaking Of; and his answer to the
question why that publican's whisky
was like the bridge was: because it
leads to the poorhouse, the lunatic asy-
lum and the cemetery"
The publican probably looked glum
as he paid his money; and he is not
likely to propose any more prize conun-
drums to advertise his whisky at pres
ent. Perhaps some who have drunk it
will also halt and take another road.
Personal force never goes out of fash
ion.-Emerson.
The great fact is that life is a service;
the only question is: ''Who will we
serve?"-Faber.
A false report does not last long, and
the life one leads is always the best
apology of that which one has led
Jerome.
The gate Of Heaven, through the me-
diation of Christ, is as wide open to us
as the gate of hell. If after all this, we
choose the pleasures of sin, and refuse
the mercy of God in Christ Jesus, our
doom must be inevitable. presidents
Francis Wayland.
. THE king of BelUium has not suc-