Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-04-21

pairing to blast the goli vault.
just so long as there are n9giec0eI caii-
dren of the street, just 50 loag We VIII nave
these desperadoes. Some one, wishing 20
make gOoi Christian point ana 70 quote
passage or Scripture, expecting 20 ge0
ScriptIral passage in answer. said % one OF
these poor lads, cast ou- ana "FSocnT1'
when your father ami mother forsake
you who tnen will take you up: ana the
boy said, The perllce, the perIice."
In the midnight gambling does its worst
work. What though the hours be slipping
away and though the wife be waiting in the
cherries home? Stir 10 the fire Bring on
more drinks. Put up more stakes. That
commercial house that onlv little while
ago put out a sign Of copartAershlp will
this season be wrecked on gamblers table:
There will be many money tin that viii
gambled with Member-elect and won
$4,000. The old way of getting living Is
so slow. The old way of getting fortune IS
SO stupid. Come, let US toss up and see WAC
shall have it. And so the work goes on,
from the wheeling wretches pitching pen
MES in rum grocery up to the millionaire
gambler in the stock market.
In the midnight hour pass down the streets
OF our American cities, and you hear the
click OF the dice and the sharp. keen tap or
the poolroom ticker. At these places mar-
chanG princes dlsmount, and legislators tired
of 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
kerchlefs. The CLERKS Of the store take a
hand after the shutters are put up, an1 the
officers Of the court while away their time
while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that city was the
greatest OF all gambling places on earth, it
was no unusual thing the next morning in
the woods around that city to fin1 the sus-
pended bodies Of suicides. Whatever be the
splendor of the surroundings, there is no ex-
cuse for this crime. rne thuuders Of eter-
nal destruction roll in the deep rumble OF
that gambling tenpin alley. and as men
come out to join the long procession OF sin
all the drums of woe beat the dead march
of thousand souls. In one year in thu
city of New York there were 81. 600, 900 sac.
rificed at the gaming table.
Perhaps soma OF your friends have been
smitten of this sin. Perhaps soma OF you
have been smitten by it. Perhaps there may
be 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 ana ask you, wv ould you like
20 see the city," Yes, "Have you ever seen
that splendid building uptownp' No Then
the villain will undertake to show you what
he calls the lions and the elephants"
and after young man, through morold
curiosity or through badness Of soul, has
seen the 'lions' AMI the elephants" he will
be on enchanted ground. Look out for
these men who move around the hotels with
sleek hats-always sleek hats--and patron
iZing air and unaccountable interest about
your welfare and entertainment. You are
fool if you cannot see through it. They
want your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while I
was living in that city, an incident occurred
which was familiar to us there. In Chest
nut street, q young man went into gam
bling saloon, lost all his property, then blew
his brains out, and before the blood was
washed from the hoor by the maid the COM
rades were shutting cards again. You see
there is more mercy in the highway man for
tie belated 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 shlvers the
steamer on TIE Long Islan1 coast than there
Is mercy in the neart Of a gambler for his
victim.
In the midnight hour also, drunkenness
does its worst. The drinking will be re-
spectacle at o'clock in the evening, a little
flushed at 9, talkative and garru!ous at 10.
at II bIasphemous. at IL the hat falls off and
the man falls TO ths floor asking for more
drink Strawn through the drinking
saloons of the clty-fathers. brothers,
husbands, sons as COOL as you are by nature,
perhaps Lejter.
In the high circles OF society it is hushed
up. A merchant prince, If hs gees noisy
AMI uncomfortable. is taken by MS fellow
jewellers. who try to get him to bed, OK taxa
him home. where he falls fat in the entry. Do
not wake up the children. They have had
disgrace enough. Do not let them know it.
Hush it up. But sometimes it cannot be
hushed up-when the rum touches the brain
and the man becomes thoroughly frenzlel.
Oh, if the rum touches the brain, you can
not hush it up. You do not seq the worst.
In the midnight meetings a great multitude
have been saved. We want few hundred
Christian men and women to come down
from the highest circles Of society to toll
amid these wandering and destitute ones and
kindle up light in the dark alley, even the
gladness of heaven.
Do not go from your we'll filed tables with
the idea that pious talk is going to stop the
gnawing of empty stomach or to warm
stockingIess feet. Take bread, take raiment,
take medicine as we'll as take prayer. There
poor woman said to the city missionary
when he was telling her how she ought to
love God and serve Him. Oar said she
''if you were as poor and cold as am, and
as hungry, you could think Of nothing else"
A great deal of what is called Christian
work goes for nothing for the simple reason
it Is not practical, after the battle OF
Ancletaal man got out of an ambulance
with a bag Of tracts, and he went distribut.
ing the tracts. and George Stuart, one of
the best Christian men in this country, said
to him: what are you distributing tracts
for now? There are 5000 men bleeding to
death. Bind up their wounds, and then dis
tribute the tracts"
We want more common sense in Chris
tian work, taking the bread of this life in
one hand and the bread Of the next life in
the other hand. No SUCH inapt work as
that done by the Christian man who during
the war; went into a hospital with tracts.
and coming to the bed of man whose legs
had been amDutata0. him trsot ~,