The Penn's Grove record., 1893-04-14

/ t0e pOOITOOn TICKER. Al tueS5 DldSe5 ihSt-
chant princes disuount, and legislators urei
! oil making laws, take a respite in breaking
them. All CLASSES of people ara robbed by
this crime, the importer OF foreign silks and
the dealer IN Chatham street pocket hand
kerchiets. The CLERKS of the store take a
hand after the shutters are put up. and the
! officers of the court while away their lime
while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that city was the
greatest of all gambling places on earth, 1t
was no unusual thing this next morning IN
the woods around that city to find the sus-
pended bodies Of suicides. Whatever be the
| splenGor of the surroundings, there is no ex-
cuse for this crime. rhe ~thunders of eter-
nal destruction roll in the deep rumble OF
that gambling tenpin alley, and as men
come out to join the long proc ession OF sin
all the drums Of woe beat the dead march
Of a thousand souls. In one year in the
| city OF New York there were $T,0U,0W sac
rificed at the gaming table.
Perhaps some OF your friends have been
,mitten of this sin. Perhaps some OF you
nave been smitten by it. Perhaps there may
be a stranger in the house this morning
come from some of the hotels. Look out for
those agents Of iniquity who tarry around
about the hotels and ask you, Would you like
10 see the city?' Yes. "Have you ever seen
that splendid building uptown No. Then
the villain will undertake to show you what
he calls the '.lions' and the elephants"
and after a young man, through moroif
curiosity or through badness OF soul, has
seen the 'iions' ami the elephants" he VIII
be on enchanted ground. Look out for
.,h1..s,ss ;5s c VIC .:cgs s.o.nd the hotels with
sleek hats-always sleek hats-and patron
izing air and u~naccouutable interest about
| your welfare and entertainment. 1ou are
l fool IL you cannot see through 1t. They
want your money
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, While !
vas living in that city, an incident occurred
which was familiar to us there. In Chest
nut street. a young man went into a gam
bling saloon, lost all his property, then blow
MS brains out, and before the blood was
washed from the floor by the maid the com.
rades were shutting cards again. You see
there is more mercy in the h~ighwayman for
the. belatel traveller on whose body he heaps
the stones; there is more mercy in the frost
for the flower that it kills; there is more
mercy in the hurricane that shivers the
steamer on the Long Island coast than there
S mercy in the heart OF q gambler Tor his
7ictim.
In the midnight hour also. drunkenness
Toes its worst. The drinking will be re-
,pectable at s o'clock in ths evening, a little
iushed at 9, laxative and garrulous at 10.
1t IL blasphemous, at IL the hat falls of and
The man falls to the floor asking for more
rink. Strewn through the drinking
ialoons of the city--fathers. brothers,
lusban Is, sons, as cool as you are by nature,
erhaps letter.
In the high circles of society It is hushed
ip. A merchant prince, If he gets noisy
IN uncomfortable, is taken by his fellow
jewelers., who try to get him to bed, o. take
lin home, where he falls fat in the entry. Do
lot wake up the children. They have had
| lisgrace enough. Do not let them know it.
Hush it up. Blu sometimes 1t oannot De
ushe1 up-when tina rum touches the BRAIN
=, eL n.1n ia fran0taN H
Oh, il the rum touches the brain, o can
lot hush it up. You do not see the worst
IN tn midnight meetings a great multitude
AVE been saved. We van a few hundred
Christian men and women to come down
rom the highest circles OF society to toll
tmid these wandering and destitute ones n
indie up a light in the dark alley, even the
Iadness of heaven.
Do not go from your we'll filed tables with
he idea that pious talk Is going to stop the
snawing OF an empty stomach or to warm
tockingless feet. Take bread, take raiment,
AXE medicine as well as take prayer. There
8 a great deal of common sense in what the
)oor woman said to the city missionary
when he was telling her how she ought to
owe God and serve Him. "Ohp' said she,
If you were as poor and coli as / am, and
S hungry, you could think OF nothing else.n
A great deal of what is called Christian
work goes for nothing for the simple reason
t is not practical, as after the battle of
AntietaM a man got out OF an ambulance
with a bag of tracts. aud he went distribut.
ng the tracts, and George Stuart, one OF
the best Christian men In this country, said
lJo him: "What are you distributing tracts
Tor nowf There are 300 men bleeding to
ieath. Bind up their wounds, and then dis
tribute the tracts"
ian work, taking the bread of this life in
,ne hand. and the bread Of the mex life in
| The other hand. No such inapt work as
that done by the Christian man who, during
| the war, went into q hospital with tract
| and coming to the bed of a man whose legs
bad been amputatsd, gave him a tract on
| the sin of dancingl l rejoice before God
that never are sympathetic words uttered,
never a prayer offered, never q Christian
almsgiving INDUCED in but it is blessed.
There is a place in Switz srlsnd, | have
been told, where the utterance Of one word
will bring baok a score of echoes, and l have
to tell you this morning that a sympathetic
| full word uttered in the dark place of the
town will bring back ten thousand schoes
from all the thrones OF heaven.
Are there in this assemblage this morning
those who know by experience the tragedies
| of midnight in towaf l am not here to
thrust you back with one hard word. Take
| the bandage from your bruised soul and put
on 1t the soothing salvs of Christ's gospel
and of Gods compassion. Many nave come.
I see others co ning to Esd this morning,
tired of sinful life. Cry up the news to
heaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spread
the banquet under the arches. Let thu
crowned heads come down and sit at the
Jubilee.
1 tell you there Is mora delight In heaven
over one man that gets reformed by the
grace of God than over ninety and nine that
never got off the track, l could give you
lhe history in a minute OF one of the best
friends 1 ever had. Oitside of my own
family l never had a better friend. He
welcomed me to my home at the west. He
he had an ardor Of soul n a warmth Of af'
lection that made me love him like q
brother.
Isaw men coming out OF the saloons and
gambling helis. and they surrounded my
friend, aud they took him at the weak point,
his social nature, and l saw him going down,
aud / had a fair talk with him, Tor / never
yet saw a man you could not talk with or
the subject OF his habits II you talked with
him in the right way. 1 said to HIM, "Why
don't you give up your bad habits and be-
come a Christiang' remember now jusl
he replied: II wish l could. Oh, sir,
should like to be a Christian, but | have
gone so far astray / can't get back"
So the time went on. After awhile tn
day of sickness came. was summoned t
his sickbed. 1 hastened. 1t took me but 1
very few moments to get there. I was sur
prised as I went in. I saw him in hi
ordinary clothes, fully dressed, lying on tn,
top of the bed. Igave him my hand, anS
he seized It convulsively add said, 'Oh
now glad l am to see you'll Sit down thare.
1 sat down, and he said; "Mr. Talmage
just where you sit now my mother sat las
night. She has been dead 20 years. Now,
t.lAnlf 4anE N fhinh ana 0rKf of ma,
mini, or that | am superstitious: but, sir
she sat there last night just Ms certainly a
yon sit there now--the same cap, and aproi
and soectacles. 1t was my Old mother --sh
sat there"
Then he turned to his wife snl sail: "a
wish you would take these strings Oft tn
bed. Somebody is w~rapping strings aroun.
me all the time. wish you would stop tina
ANNOYANCE" She said, ''There is nothiul
here" Then l saw il was delirium. He said
Just where you sit now my mother sat
and she said. Roswell, l wish you would d
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