Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-04-29

commercial mouse ina. O1v q little While
ago nut out q sign Of co~pertne-ship will
This season be wrecked on a gamblers table.
there will be many a money til that will
spring a leak. 4 Member Of Congress
gamhled with a Member-elect and won
sio0. coo. The old way OF getting a living is
50 slow. The old way OF getting a fortune Is
- stupid. Come. let Us toss up and see who
shall have it. AID so the work goes on.
rom rne wheezlng wrerchs pitching pen
MES In a rum grocery up to the millionaire
gambler in the stock market.
10 the Midnight hour pass down the streets
II our American cities and you hear the
click OF h edice AMI the sharp keen tap OF
the poolroon ticker. At theee p.eoes rier-
caant princes dfSnoun-, AMI legislators rirai
< making laws take a respite IN breaking
them. Al Classes OF people ara roAbe1 by
his crime. the importer OF foreign silks AMI
he dealer IN Chatham street pocket hand
lercliofs. The GERS o. the store take n
1ani after the shutters are put up. and the
,tfrars 81 the court while away their time
while the jury is out.
Ia pa ien-baien, when that city was the
,rearps, o. al gano IN. places OF earth, it
sas 10 unusual thin, "a, mex morning il
he w1oI~ around TIA. city to find the su--
ended bodies OF >~uiriles. Whatever he the
>,.endor Of the surroundings. there is no ex-
use for this crlna. rae thunaers Of ettr-
AL destruction roll in the desp rumble ot
=iiiL - ~ dHt htCy ol1A oS dtt
.1ne ont i joip the lon. proc assion Of sin
Ill the drums Of woa baa. the dead marca
II a thousand sous. in one year in the
ety or Eaw YORK there were 5000, 90 sac.
rlticei at the gaming table.
Perhaps some Of your frien Is have been
,uitien OF this sin. Perhaps som, OF you
ave been s-nitten by it. Perhaps there mav
- a stranger in the house this morning
ON. RON some Of the hotels, LJCk uutfOr
nose agen;- Il inid1lty VINO tarry arouui
bout the hotels AMI ask you, wv ould you Xix
see the ety. Yes. "Have YOU eyer*seen
hat sp.endit building uptown No, Then
he villain will undertake TO show vow ~n1t
IL calls the lions and the "elephants"
an after a young man. through niorbil
.urios.ty or through badness Of soul, has
cen thu "4ions' an / the ''elephants' he vii!
- on enchanted ground. Look out for
ehese men who move around the hotels with
lex hats-always sleek hats-and patron
zns air AMI unaccountable interest about
our welfare an entertainma mt. You are
i fool if YOU cannot see through it. 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
tut street, a young man went into q gam
ding saloon, lost all his property, then blew
his brains out, and before the blood was
washed from the floor by the maid the com
ctdes were s~huffiinG cards again. You see
here is more mercy in the highwayman for
he telatei traveller on whose body he heaps
lie stones; there is more mercy in the frost
or the flower that it kills; there is more
mercy IN the hurricane that shlvers the
{ ,ttaner on the Long Island coast than there
Is mercy in the heart Of a gambler for his
victim,
In the midnight hour also. drunkenness
Ices its worst. The drinking will be re
spectacle at s o'clock in the evening, a little
flushed at 9, laxative and garrulous at 10.
at II blasphemous. at - the hat falls of and
the man falls to the floor asking for more
drink. Strewn through the drinking
saloons of the city-fathers, brothers.
husbands, sons, as good as you are by nature,
perhaps hotter.
In the high circles Of society it is hushei
up. A merchant, prince, if he gets noisy
an uncomfortable. is taken by his fellow
jewellers. who try ~ get him to bed, o. take
hiunhome. where he falls fat in the entry. Do
not wake up the children. They lave 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 frenzie1.
Oh, if the rum touches the brain, you can
not hush it up. You do not see the worst.
In he midnight meetings a great multitude
haN been saved. We want a few hundred
Christian men and women to come down
from the highest circles Of society to toll
uIlllu LucSt Wduucl luS IL lOcStltuGoO ucS 8uI
kindle up a light in the dark alley, even the
gladness of heaven.
Do not go from your we'll flle1 tables with
the idea that pious talk is going to stop the
gnawing of an empty stomach or to warm
,tockingless feet. TAX bread, take raiment,
take medicine as we'll as take prayer. There
IS a great deal Of common sense in what the
poor woman said to the city missionary
when he was telling her how she ought to
love Goi and serve Hin. "Ohf' said She
IF you were as poor and cold as l am, AMI
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, as after the battle of
AntietaAl a 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
Tor now There are 300 men bleeding II
death. Bind up their wounds, and then dis
tribute the tracts"
we want more common sense i'll Chris
tan 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. durin1
the war. went into a hospital with tracts
and coming To the bed Of u man whose leg
had been amputatd, gave him a tract on
the SIN OF dancing. l rejoice before Col
that never are sympathetic words uttered,
never q prayer offered, never Il Christian
almsgivinS INDUCED in but it is blessed.
There is a place in Switzerland, have
been told. where the utterance of one word
viii bring back a score Of echoes, and | have
TO tell You this morning that a sympathetic
word, a kind word, a generous word, a help
fun word uttered in the dark place of the
town will bring back ten THOUSAND echoe:
from all the thrones Of heaven.
Are there In this assemblage this morning
those who know by experience the tragedies
of midnight In town? | am not here t
thrust you back with one hard word, Tax.
the bandage from your bruised soul and put
on 1t the soothing salve of Christ's gospel
and Of Gods compassion. Many have come
l see Others coming to q 4 this morning
tired OF sinful life. Cry up the news +
heaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spreae
I the banquet under tae arches. Let tn
crowned heads come down and sit at tn,
Jubilee.
, tel YOU there Is mora delight In HEAVIER
over one man that gets reformed BY tn
!, grace y troi than over ninety and nine tina
!. never cot off the track. / could give 70
!. he history IN a minute az one of the bes
: trlenis | ever had. Outside of nv o..
family | never had a better friend. n
welcomed mo II nv bo-,a a. ira ra-% Z,