Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1893-04-14

preparing to blast the gold vault
Just 80 long as there are neglected chi
dren of the street, just so long we win hav
| these desperadoes. Some one, wishing {
make good Christian point and to quot
a passage Of Scripture, expecting to get
| Scriptural passage in answer, said to on
| of these poor lads, cast out and wretched
when your father and your mother fol
sake you, who then will take you up?n am
the boy said, THE perlice, the perlicef'
In the midnight, gambling does its wors
work. What though the hours be slipping
away, and though the wife be waiting il
the cheerless homer Stir up the fire
Bring on more drinks. Put up NOR
stakes. That commercial house that onl.
a little while ago put out sign Of copartneE
ship will this season be wrecked on a gam
bler's table. There will be many monel
till that will spring leak. A member o
congress gambled with member elect ans
won sl20,OO0 The old way of gettinga liv
ing is so slow The old way Of getting
fortune is so stupid. Come, let us toss al
and see who shall have it. And 50 thl
work goes on, from the wheeling wretche,
pitching pennies in a rum grocery up TO thu
millionaire gambler in the stock market.
THE GAMBLER's HOURS.
In the midnight hour, pass down the
streets OF our American cities, and you heal
the click of the dice and the sharp, keen taI
of the poolrocm ticker At these place.
merchant princes dismount, and legislator!
tired of making laws, take a respite in
breaking them. All classes Of people ar
robbed by this crime, the Importers foreign
silks and the dealer Of Chatham street
pocket handkerchief 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 chat 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 find the sus-
pended bodies Of suicides. Whatever be the
splendor Of the surroundings there is no ex-
cuse for this crime. The thunders 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 a Thousand souls. In one year in the city of
New York there were s., OOO, 600 sacrificed at
the gaming table.
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 morn
ing come from some Of the hotels Look
out for those agents Of iniquity who tarry
around about the hotels and ask you,
Would you ike to see the city," Yes.
"Have you ever seen that splendid building
uptown" No. Then the villain will IN
dertake to show you what he calls the
lions" and the elephants" and after a
young man, through morbid curiosity or
through badness of soul, has seen the
lions" and the elephants" be will be on
ground. Look out for these
men who move around the hotels with sleek
hats-always sleek hats-and patronizing
air, and unaccountable interest about your
welfare and entertainment You are a fool
if you cannot see through It, They want
your money
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while
was living in that city, an incident occurred
which was familiar to us there. In Chest
nut street young man went into gam
bling saloon, lost all his property, then
blew his brains out, and before the blood
was washed from the floor by the maid the
comrades were shutting cards again. You
see, there is more mercy in the highwayman
FOR the belated traveller on whose body be
heaps the stones, there is more mercy in
he frost for the flower it kills, there is
more mercy in the hurricane that shiyers
5he steamer on the Long Island coast than
here is mercy in the heart Of a gambler for
lis victim.
DRUNKENNESS IN HIGH PLACES
In the midnight hour, also, drunkenness
Ices its worst. The drinking win be re-
ipectable at 8 o'clock in the evening, a lit
lie flushed at 9, talkative and garrulous at
o, at II blasphemous, at 10 the hat falls of
md the man falls to the floor asking for
more drink. Strewn through the drinking
aloons of the city, fathers, brothers, hus-
lands, sons, as good as you are by nature,
perhaps better.
In the high circles Of society it is hushed !
Up. A merchant prince, if he gets noisy and !
is taken by his fellow revel- !
rs, who try to get him to bed, or take him |
iome, where he falls fiat in the entry Do !
lot wake up the children They have had /
isgrace enough. Donot let them knowit. |
lush it up. But sometimes it cannot lie |
ushed up-when the rum touches the /
rain and the man becomes thoroughly !
renzied.
Oh, if the rum touches the brain, you 1
annot hush it up. You do not see the /
7orst. In the midnight meetings great /
multitude have been saved We want a
sw hundred Christian men and women to
ONE down from the highest circles Of so
iety to toll amid these wandering and des-
itute ones, and kindle up light in the
ark alley, even the gladness Of heaven.
Do not 20 from your well filed tables
nth the idea that piOus talk is going to
lop the gnawing of an empty stomach or
D warm stockingless feet. Take bread,
IKE raiment, take medicine as well as take
rayer. There is a great deal Of common
snse in what the poor woman said to the
ty missionary when he was telling her
ow she ought to love God and serve him.
Oh, " said she, IF you were as poor and
Did as ] am and rs hungry, you could
mink Of nothing elsel"
A great deal of what is called Christian
ork goes for nothing for the simple rea-
IN it is not practical, as after the battle Of
ntietam a man got out Of an ambulance
it'll bag Of tracts, and lie went distribut-
g the tracts, and George Stuart, one Of
lie best Christian men in this country, said
him; what are you distributing tracts
IT nowf There are 1900 men bleeding to
sath. Bind up their wounds and then
stribute the tractsn
COMMON SENSE CHRISTIAN WORK.
We want more common sense in Chris
an work, taking the bread Of this life in
ie hand and the bread Of the next life In
10 other hand-no such inapt work as
at done by the Christian man who dur
g the last war went into hospital with
acts, and coming to the bed Of man
hose lrgs had been amputated gave lin
tract on the sin Of dancingl Irejoice be-
re God that never are sympathetic words
tered, never a prayer offered. never a
lristian almsgiving INDUCED in but it IS
essed.
There is a place in Switzerland, HAYS
en- told, where the utterance Of one word
II bring back a score of echoes, and
We to tell you this morning that a SYM
thetic word, a kind word, a generous
,rd, a helpful word, uttered in the dark
ices Of the town, will bring back ten
ousand echoes from ell the thrones Of
aven.
Are there in this Hsscmbla5e this morn
: those who know by experience the trag
les Of midnight ia town. am not here