Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-16
Timely Admonltlons.

timely lesson; and, without doubt. IN
the Sunday-school series, well-plaeed
lesson. The way to prevent evil Is to
pre-empt the ground The difference
between q strawberry bed and a rag
weed patch Is that one was seeded for
good things and the other left to grow
Just what 1t would. To displace is to
conquer, and the way to displace Is to
preoccupy. The golden text Gays, liter
ally, BE not filled with wine. but be
filled with the Spirit" tsame word In
Greek rendered by two different words
In the Engllsh). That Is to say, In
stead Of being given over to the spirit
from below, give yourself over to the
Spirit from above. Be not a wine-in-
toxicated, but -God-intoxicated man."
Preoccupy for good. P's
POINTS IN THE LESSON.
Do not say that the Old Testament
has no temperance advocacy. The
book of Proverbs Is just thirty-one
ringing temperance addresses.
This twenty-thl chapter is full or
sage, wise things. Put knife to thy
throat II thou be a man given to appe-
tite" ". ~. Some men compromise by
putting the knife to their mouths.
Gluttony never shows off well.
@As he thinketh In his heart so is he;
eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his
heart Is not with thee" ". ~. That Is,
man may smile and smile and be
villain" We are thinking just now Of
the individual that presides over the
lunch-counter yonder, and, with smirk
that Is slckening, dispenses the stuff
that steals away mems brains.
Surely there Is an end, or, as we
would say, hereafter, In the sense of
p..f hat N ~
time Is a part of ones future In this
life as we'll as in the life to come. God
gives awards even here. AS some one
has we'll said, We have our Judgment
day" here and now. The inebriate asy-
lum Is department. OF 1t; the insane
ward of the hospital; the police court.
On the other hand the good fruits show
the good planting.
AS we sow stshall We reap
In the tide OF coming years.
Whether IL be joy or sorrow. veal or woe.
, Then this word In view still keep.
While the days are going by,
We shall gather In the harvest what we
SOW.
"The drunkard and the glutton"-
these two are classed together In Scrip
ture. They are so associated because
they go together In nature, in society.
High living is responsible for much OF
the inebriety of to-day. The women of
the w. @. T. U. are rational and reason
able in their insistance that the kitchen
and the table be guarded. Highly
spiced food provokes unnatural appe-
tlte. That appetite goes out in many
evil directions! Let mothers be careful
what kind OF taste, in literal sense,
they cultivate among the young. 1t will
tell in the coming years. The Ger
mans have q motto: mann ist was er
isst: man is what he eats. Do you get
the thought?
Buy the truth and sell it not. Why
did the translator put in that intrusive
little word also2 as II wisdom" and
instruction, and understanding" were
the truth, namely, wisdom, correction
| ii. e., dlsclpline), discernment. These
are worth all you pay for them. They
cost self-denial, self-sacrifice, self-re-
straint; but be sure or this, you will
count 1t good expenditure in the read
ing days. Young man, how are you
using your capital, your patrimony?
What are you buying with 1t? Tears
and terrors for tomorrow, or hope and
happiness, partly realized here, more
fully In the eternity that stretches be-
yond? Wherefore do you spend your
money for that which Is not bread, and
your labor for that which satisheth
not?"
HINTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Now, dear brother teachers, do not
haggle or whimper about this matter of
strong drink. Be plain and outspoken.
Make a clean sweep Of the deadly thing.
Out with it from the cellar, from the
kitchen, from the club-room, from the
oh, I'M oh 1, Ia
aocursed stuff, full OF the fires of hell,
be clear and cogent. Say it straight
and strong, or, In Gods name, hold
your tongue. The Chriet is being daily
wounded here In the house OF his
friends, so-called. Il Is your lame and
hating speech on the drink question
that Is hindering more than anything
else the cause OF temperance, or, bet
ter, teetotalism (anything else Is an
anachronism). Moderation, custom,
! expediency, "post-canteen," high Il
cense, away with theml Yours to talk
clean, clear righteousness, nothing less.
Possibly it may strike home. Very
well, be thorough-going, personally,
individually SO, or recall DR.. Henson's
young Sunday-school teacher. She did
not, at first, think 1t wrong for her to
go to the theater; she had been brought
up that way. But one day she was talk
ing to her class Of boys. Teacher,
said one, is 1t bad for US tc go 10 the
theater?" There was but one thing she
could honestly say ard she said 1t.
yes" Then followed quick the stag
gering query, do you goP" A mo-
ment's pause, full stop indeed for this
cool sister-and then she nobly said,
looking her lads In the eye, (had she
ever done 1t before like that?) yes,
but will never go again" Perhaps
you may have an opportunity of this
sort. God help you to be equal to 1t
by his grace. Amen.
Call things by their right names.
Call slavery a theft of mems bodies,
and gambling a theft OF mems purses,
aud liquor vending theft of mems
souls. The Chicago Inter Ocean Is
taking an advanced stand and has de-
nounced q certain race track, which, it
Is said, has gone so far with the gam
bling mania as to have no "redeeming
feature" whatever. But why not take a
broader stand2 AS between the gam
bling institution with redeeming fea-
lures and that without, give us the
odious, open-faced, and brazen-faced
sort In preference to the other, Your
high license saloon, run with an eve to
so-called decency, Is the worst saloon
in its effects. Let things be consistent
with themselves. II anything Is
satanic let It be openly and |
plainly satanic, not half Satan |
and half priest. Said DIR. Corwin, |
before the Chicago ministers: eff |
two devils offer themselves for Chicago's |
mayoralty, one with a neat cloak and |