Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-24
TEMPERANCE LESSON

, TEMPERANCE LESSON.
LESSON TEXT.-Prov. Abb
GOLDEN TExT.-Rut they also have ere
through wine, and through strong drink are on
Of the way.-Isa. 2S:7
CENTRAL TRUTH.-The Wly-of strong drin
leads TO ruin and death; the way Of temper
ance and religion leads to blessedness here an
for evermore.
THE TWO WAYS
THE PATH OF THE WICKED.-Vs. II, II
10. This lesson is part of the advice o
the wisest of men, to the young. Prob
ably Solomon was thinking of his owl
son, RehObOam. His words are there
fore of all the more value to us. It /.
almost universally acknowledged tha
strong drink is one of the greatest in
centives and announcements to al
kinds of sin and wiclledness. 1t is the
door 70 a world OF iniquity and sorrow
The only safety lies in not entering that
| door; in total abstinence from all that
| intoxicates.
The result of observation by Hon.
Chauncy VI. Depew, president of the
New York Central Railroad Company,
in talk to railroad men: ''Twenty-five
y
and child in PeellSkill. And it has
been a study with me to mark boys
who started in every grade of life with
myself, to see what has become of them.
/ was mp 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 a few who
were taken off by sickness, every one
that proved q 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 Woodworking 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 rainy day. When a
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. 1915.
Shining more and more, unto the per-
feet day. \ growth in every good,
through obedience to good instruction.
Importance of beginning right. Pytha-
goras compared life to the letter V. 1t
is the 1iverging 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 n liquor
dealer in the town of Ayr, Scotland.
who had 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
ed in to be examined, and the success
full competitor was announced. lie
proved to be a poor boy, who perhaps
knew from experience what he was
speaking of; and his answer to the
question why that publicans 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
emit. Perhaps some who have drunk it
will also halt and take another road.
Personal force never goes out of fash |
The great fact is that life is a service;
.he only question is: ''Who will we
! y false report does not last long, and |
he life one leads is always the best
apology of that which one has led
Jerome.
The gate of Heaven, through the me-
liatiOn of Christ, is as wide open to us
IS the gate of hell If after all this, we
hooSe the pleasures of sin, and refuse
he mercy of God in Christ Jesus. our
loom must be inevitable President
francis Wayland.