Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-04-26


/ OF making laws, take a resoits in bra,L;n,
.hsm. All classes of people ars robbel bI
.nis crime, the importer of FOREIGN silk, am
,ne dealer IN Chatham street pocket hand
kercnets- The c'erls OF the store taxa ,
hand after the shutters are mt nm and IN,
officers of the court waile away their tim
! while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that CITY was ths
greatest OF all gambling places on earth II
was no unusual thing the next morning in
eue wooas around that city to find the sus-
pended bodies of suicides Whatever toe this
: spieudor OF the surrou ndings thsrs ia No aI
| cuse Tor this crime. rne thu aders of eter
nai destruction roll In the deco rumble ot
that gambling tenpin alley, and as man
some out to Join ths long procession of sin
Al the drums ~os beat tt'> dead march
OF thousand souls. In one year In the
clty OF New York there were 81, ,OJO 900 sac.
rihced at the gaming table
ferhaps some OF your friends have beer
snltten OF this sin. Perhaps soma of Won
nave been smitten by it. Perhaps there NAV
De stranger in the house this morpiny 2
come from some of the hotels. Look out for
nose agents Of iniquity who tarry around
about the hotels and ask you, wv ouid Won iks
20 see the cityY Yes, "Have you ever seen
mat splendid building uptown No Then
tne villain viii undertake TO show you what
ne calls the lions" and the "eleohaatsn
and atter young man, through morbii
seen the lions" ami the elephants" he will
oe on enchanted ground. Look out for
men vic :::c nee eronnd the hotels with
sleek hats-always sleek nats-and patron.
izing air AMI unaccountabls interest about
gour welfare aud entertainment. You are
ifool II 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 a gam
bling saloon, lost ali his property, then blow
nis brains out, and before the blood was
washed from the door by the maid the COM
rades were shuthIng cards again. You see
there Is more mercy in the highway man for
The belate / traveller on wloss body ne heaps
the stones; there is more mercy in the frost
for the flower that it kills; there Is more
mercy in the hurricane that shIvers the
Iteamer on the Long Islan1 coast than there
S mercy in the heart OF gambler for his
-ictim.
In the miinight hour also. drunkenness
ioes its worst. The drinking will bs re-
Tpectable at o'clock in the evening, a little
iushe1 at g. talkative and garrulous at 10,
1t II biasphemous. at IL the nat falls of and
me man falls to the floor asking for more
rink. Strewn through the drinking
aloons OF the city-fathers, brotherS
iusban1s, sons, as good as you are by nature,
erhap5 better.
In the high circles OF society It Is hushed
~. A merchant prince. If he gets noisy
IN uncomfortable, Is taken by his fellow
'evelers. who try to get him to bed, o. tsks
lin home, where he falls fat in the entry. Do
lot wake up the children. They have had
iisgrAce enough. Do not let them know it.
Hush it up. But sometimes it cannot be
lushet up-wheu the rum touches the brain
nd the man becomes thoroughly frsnziei.
On, il the rum touches the brain, you can
tnr bTsb Won do tha wnrst
IN the midnight meetings a great multitude
lave been saved. We want a few hundred
Christian men and women to come down
rom the highest circles OF society to toll
mid these wandering an destitute ones and
indie up light in tls dark alley, even the
lainess OF heaven.
Do not go from your well hlle1 tables with
he idea tnat p.ou5 talk IL going to stop the
,nawing of an empty stomach or to warm
tockingless feet. Take bread, take raiment
AXE medicine well as take prayer. There
a great deal Of common sense IN what the
)oOr woman said to the city missionary
when he was telling her how she ought to
owe God and servo Him "OhP said she.
If you were as poor and coli as l am, and
s hungry, you could think OF nothing else"
A great deal OF what is called Christian
york goes for nothing for the simple reason
t is not practical, as after the battle of
Antietan a man got out of an ambulance
with a bag OF tracts, aud he went distribut.
ng the tracts, and George Stuart. one OF
The best Christian men In this country, said
70 him: "Whst are you distributing tracts
'or now, There are 300 men bleetiny to
ieath. Bind up their wounds, and then dis
tribute the tracts"
We want more common sense In Chris
ian WORK, taking the bread Of this life in
)ne hand, and the bread OF the next life In
;he other hand. No sucn inapt work as
that done by the Christian man who, during
h. into a hnsDltal with
and coming to the bsd of a man whose leg.
had been amputated, gave him a tract on
the sin of dancingi i rejoice before God
that never are sympathetic words uttered,
never a prayer offered, never Christian
alnsgiving INDUCED in but it is blessed.
There Is a place in Switz srland, | have
been told, where the utGeraucs of one word
will bring back a score Of echoes, and have
TO tell You this morning that a sympathetic
W ord, a kind word, a generous word, help
full word uttered in the dark place OF tho
town will bring back ten THOUSAND echoes
from all the thrones OF heaven.
Are there in this assent blage this morning
those who know by experience the tragedies
Of midnight in townf 1 am not here to
thrust YOU back with one hard word. Take
the bandage from your bruised soul and put
on it the soothing salve Of Christs gospel
and of Gods compassion. Many have come.
I see others CO ming to God this morning,
tired of sinful life. Cry up the news TO
heaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spread
the banquet under the arches. Let the
crowned neads come down and sit at tine
jubilee.
I taIl Won there is more delight In heaven
over one man that gets reformed by the
,rscs of God than over ninety and nine that
never got off the track. I could give you
the history in a minute OF one OF the best
friends / ever had. Outside OF my own
family never had better friend. He
me to my home at the west' ne
was of splendid personal appearances, anu
be had an ardor of soul and "arh'I ,,S' ot
lection that made me love MIN hKe
brother.
yambiiny bells, and they surrounded my
friend. and they took him at the weak polnt
his social nature, and saw him gong down.
and had fair talk with hlm, t9r l never
vet saw a man you could not TAX Win on
the subject of his habits il you talked WIN
him in The right way. / said to him, why
Jon,t Won give up your bad habits ana De-
come ChristiauF' l remember now JUST
now hs looked, leaning over his counter, as
be repIiei: ~ wish 1 could. On, III,
shou,d ike to be a Christian, out L nave
Tons 80 far astray 1 can't get back
g the time went on. After awhile the
IaT of sickness came. was summoned 70
bis sickbei. FASTENED. 1t took me but a
very Few moments to get thers. was SUI
prised as / went IN. saw mn " a..
ordinary clotoes, fully dressed, lying On snS sn
ron of the bed. L gave him my nsnd' snu
bs saized it convuIsivsly aud said: Oa,
be how ga. gIad am to see you'll Sit down thsrs."
NV ~ doxn- and he said: 'Mr. Taimage
i,se where YOU sit now my mother sat las,
night. She has been dead 20 years. WOW,
don't want you to think L ain o"'
mini. or that L am superstitions: buf, sir:
she sat there last night Just as c7r La,ry ny-o,
orr-+na can ana dpTOu
and spactacIes. 1t was my old mother-Sne
sac there" .o,5. .I
x;sb Won would take these strings OH ths
bed. Somebody is wrapping strings arount
me all the time: wish yo9 grS %ou,i :. nntbing
aere'n Then saw it was delirium. He saia:
Just ii where You slt now my mother i SAT,
and she said, Roswell, l wish you woqid 90
wish you would do better. t s,u, ~