Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-05-12

hours Of sober reflection have convinced
him that it was salutary and righteous.
Eut behold how tile scene Changes. The
father, through the interceding of metro
poiitan friends, has secured the son place
in some bank or store or Office. School
mates, on the night before his departure,
come to take their farewell of the young
advehturcr
That morning he takes Il last walk
around The old place. and going past some
loved spot sly tear may start, lut no one
sees IT, The trunk is on the carriage, and
after warm gaodby away they speed over
the hills. set down amid exeitements and
among companions not prescriptions as
20 their words or deeds, temptations troop
around the stranger. The morning comes,
but no family altar, and the Sabbath, but
no real quiet. and perhaps ut the sanctuary
the faces are all strange and no one cares
whether lac goes to church or whether he
does not so. Long winter evenings arrive,
and how shall they be spent? On his way
home from his place of business he saw
flaming placards announcing rare per
forinances and that this was positively the
last night.
At the door of his cheerless boarding
house no one greets him. and the evening
meal is insipid, for no one cares whether
he eats or does not eat The room in the
third story that evening seems doleful and
req ling. A book snatched up from the
tai proves to be dull, for no sister is
her to look over with him. In despair
l..Ils es out, reckless as to where he goes,
. oily he can see something that will make
him stop thinking. That night may be
the turning point in his history. Once
within the fatal circle of sin, and the soul
has no power to repel it. On that dark sea
he is launched, where the CLEAN of joy is
only the flash of the pit and the roar Of
laughter is only this crcaking of the gates
Of the lost.
THE DANIELS IN BABYLON.
In many country ehurchyard is now
the grave OF some youthful spirit that
went away 1.-THE and bounding, but came
home diseased and crushed and blasted to
disgrace the sepulcher of his fathers Yet
this exodus must be made As from far
distant hills rivers find their way through
tunnels to great cities, so from far distant
points Of the country it is necessary that a
stream Of interrupted population shall
pour into our great thoroughfares to keep
them pure and manage the traffic of the
world. Multitudes of such are constantly
making their departure from home.
Tomorrow morning all of the thorough
fares leading toward the great cities Of our
land, on steamboat and rail ear there will
be young adventures for the first speed
ing away from their homes in order TO try
their fortune in town. The Lord stretch
forth his arm for The deliverance of these
Daniels away down in Babylon. Wher-
ever your lot may be cast, in far inland
town or in some great seaport, maintain in
your absence the same principles of morals
and religion which may have been instilled
by parental solicitude
And while you may feel in your heart
and life the advantages Of early religious
culture, forget not those to whom you are
chiefly indebted, and pray that as age
comes upon them and the night of death
begins to fall on their pathway, the hope
of heaven may beam through the darkness,
lustrous and steady as the evening star
The Lord forbid that by our conduct we
should ever bring disgrace on fathers
name or prove recreant to the love of a
mother The poet did not exaggerate
when he exclaimed:
How sharper than a serpent's tooth, 1t is,
To have a thankless child.