The Globe-republican., 1893-04-14
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pecting to get a scriptural passage il
answer. said 10 one of these poor lads.
cast out and wretched: When Your
father and your mother forsake you.
who then will take you up?" and the
boy said. the perlice, the perlice..''
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 a little while ago put
out sign of copartner>hip will this sea-
son be wrecked on gamblers table.
| There will be many money-till that
| will spring leak.
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 of the pool-room ticker At
these places merchant princes dismount.
and Legislators. tired of making laws
take a respite in breaking them. All
| classes OF people are robbed by this
crime. the importer of foreign silks md
the dealer in Chatham street pocket
handkerchief. The clerks OF the store
take a 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 greatest of all gambling places on
earth. il was no unusual thing the next
morning. in the woods around that city.
to find the suspended bodies of suicides.
| Whatever be the splendor of the sur
roundiugs. there is no excuse for this
crime The thunders of eternal de-
struction roll in the deep rumble of
that gambling ten-pin alley. and As
men come ont to join the long process
sion 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 $1,000. 600 sacrificed at the gaming
able. Perhaps some of Your friends
have been smitten of this sin. Perhaps
some OF you have been smitten 10y it.
Perhaps there may be a stranger
in the hon this morning come
from some OF the hotels. Look
cut for those agents OF iniquity who
tarrv around about the hotels. and ask
you: Would You like to see the city,"
Yes. Have You ever seen that SPLEEN
did building up-town?" No Then the
villain will undertake to show you what
he calls the lions" and the elephants"
and after Young man. through NOR
bid curiosity or through badness of soul.
has seen the lions and the ''ele-
phants he will be on enchanted
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 the midnight hour. also. drunken
ness also does its worst. The drinking
will be respectable at S o'clock in the
evening. a little flushed at .. talkative
and garrulous at 10. at IL blasphemous.
at II the hat falls off 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. per-
hapS better.
In the high circles of society it is
. hushed uD. \ merchant prince. if he
gets noisy and uncomfortable. is taken
) by his fellow-reveleTs. who try to get
him to bed or take him home. where he
} falls flat 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 canno,
be hushed up. when the rum touches
. the brain and the man becomes thor
, Oughly frenZied.
Oh. if the rum touches the brain. you
, cannot hush it up. You do not see the
worst. In the midnight meetings a
/ great multitude have been saved. We
| want a few hundred Christian men and
women to come down from the highest
: circles of society to toll amid these
wandering and destitute ones, and kin
. die up a light in the dark alley, even
the gladness of Heaven.
. Do not go from your well-filled tables
with the idea that pious talk is going
: to stop the cravings of an empty
stomach or to warm stockingless feet
/ Take bread. take raimant, take medi
cine as well as take prayers. There is
: a great deal of common sense in what
/ the poor woman said to the city mis-
I sionary when he was telling her how
+ she ought to love God and serve fSm
= oh" said she. If you We're as poor anc
5 cold as | am. and as hungry. you could
: think OF nothing else.
!, \ great deal of what is called Christ
| ian work goes for nothing for the sim
r pie reason it is not practical. As after
the battle of Antietam a man got out
: of an ambulance with bag of tracts.anC
e he went distributing the tracts. anC
2 George stuart. one of the best Christian
e men in this country. said to him. Nv ha
. are YOU distributing tracts 70" now
e There are 5000 men bleeding e. death
| Bind up their wounds. and then dis
t tribute the tracts" We want NOR,
; common sense in Christian work. ia k
r ing the bread of this life in one hand
? and the bread of the next life in tn,
. other hand
t There is place in Switzerland.
e have been told. where the utterance o
one word will bring back score o
Z echoes: and | have to tell you thu
morning that a sympathetic word,
n ! kind word a generous word. helpful