The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-10

their foot fleet TO ifs or pursue, they are
ready, Many of these poor creatures were
brought up in that way, They we're born
in a thieves garnet. Their childish toy was
a burglars dark-lantern. The first thing
they rememb Der was their mother bandaging
the brow of their father, struck by the po-
lice club. They began by robbinR boys
pockets and now they have come TO dig the
underground passage to the cellar OF the
hank, and are preparing to blast the gold
vault
Just SO long as there are neglected chill
dreu of the street, just so long we viii
have these desperadoes Some one, wishing
TO make a good Christian point and to quote
passage Of scripture, expecting 10 get a
scriptural passage in answer, said TO one OF
these poor lads, cast out and wretched,
"When your father and your mother for
sake you, who then will take you ups" and
the boy said, The perlIce, the perlicem
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 up the fire. Bring
on more drinks. Put up more stakes. That
commercial house that only little while
ago put out a sign Of copartnership will
this season be wrecked on a gamblers tas
BILE. There will be many a money-till that
will spring a leak A member Of congress
gambled with a member-elect and won one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The
old way Of getting living Is so slow. The
old way Of getting a fortune IS 80 stupid.
Come, let US toss up aud see VINO shall have
1t. And 50 the work goes on, from the
wheeling wretohes pitching pennies in a
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 tho sharp, keen tap Of
the pool room ticker. At these places
merchant princes dlsmount and Legislators
tired of making laws take a respite in
breaking them. All classes of people are
robbed by this crime, the importer in
foreign silks and the dealer in Chatham
street pocket haudkerchiefs. The clerks of
the store take hand after the shutters are
put up, and the officers of the court while
away their time while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that city was the
the greatest of gambling places on earth,
it was no unusual thing the next morning
in the woods around that city TO find the
suspended bodies of suicides. Whatever
be the sDlendor of the surroundings, there
is no excuse for this crime. The thun-
ders of eternal destruction roll in the deep
rumble OF tnot gambling ten~pin alley, and
as men come out to Join the long procession
of ain, all the drums Of woe beat tho dead
march Of Il thousand souls i'll one year, in
the city of New York, there were seven
million dollars sacrificed at the gaming Ia
BILE. Perhaps some of your friends have been
smitten of this sin. Perhaps some of you
have 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 the iniquity who tarry
around about the hotels, and ask you,
''Would you like TO see the cltyW Yes.
"Have you ever seen that splendid build
ing uptownW No. Then the villain will
10 20 uhovu yhaR ha IL fha
''lions'a and the elephants" and after
young man, through morbid curiosity
or through badness of soul, has seen the
''lions" aud 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
a fool If you cannot see through IL. They
want your money. In Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, while / was living in that
city, an incident occurred which was fami
lar TO us there. In Chestnut street a young
man went into gambling saloon, lost ell
his property, then blew his brains out, and
before the blood was washed from the floor
by the maid the comrades were shutflng
cards again. You sos, there is more mercy
in the hlghwaymRn for the belated traveller
on whose body he heaps the stones, there is
more mercy in the frost for the flower that
&c kills, there 10 more mercy IN the hurri-
cane that shivers the steamer on the Long
Island coast than there is mercy in the
heart Of gambler for his victim.
In the midnight hour, also, drunkenness
does its worst The drinking will be re-
spectacle at eight O'Clock in the evening
little flushed at nine, talkative aud garrul-
Gus at ten, at eleven blasphemous, at twelve
the hat falls Off and the man falls 20 the
floor asking for more drink. StreWn
through the drinking saloons of the city,
fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, as good as
you ere by nature. perhaps better.
In the high circles Of society it is hushed
up. A merchant prince, if he gets noisy
and uncomfortable, is taken Rby his fellow
Jewellers. who try to get him to bed or take
him home. where he falls fiat 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 il
cannot be hushed up, when the rum
touches the brain and the man becomes
thoroughly frenZied.
o, if the rum touches the brain, you can.
not hush it up. You do not see the worst.
In the midnight meetings 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 90 from your well-hlled tables
with the idea that pious talk is going to
stop the gnawlng of an empty stomach or
20 warm stockingless feet. Take bread.
take ralment, take medicine as we'll as take
prayer. There is great deal of common
sense in what the Door woman said to the
city missionary when ne was telling her
how she ought to love God and serve him
60" said she, IF you were as poor and
cold as l 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; as after the battle Of
Antietam a man got out OF an ambulance
with bag OF tracts, and be went dis
trlouhnR the tracts, and George Stuart,
one Of the best Christian men in this
country, said to him, what are you dis
tributng tracts for nowa There are three
thousand men bleeding to death. Bind up
their wounds, and then distribute the
tracts,
We want more common sense In Christian
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 nv the Christian man who, during the
last war, went into a hospital with tracts,
and coming to the bad of man whose legs
had been amputated, gave him a tract on
the sin of dancing / rejoice before God
that never are sympathetic words uttered,
never a prayer offered, never a Christian
almsgiving INDUCED in but it is blessed
There is a place in Switzerland, l have
been told, where the utterance of one word
will bring back score Of echoes; and have