Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-10-04

the sea-thousands and tens of tho l.
sands of the bodies and souls annu-
ally consumed in the conflagra ton OF
ribbons.
! Social dissipation is the abettor OF
! pride, it is the instigator of jealousy,
it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is
the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue
of lust and it is the curse of every
| town on both sides of the sea. Social
! dissipation. 1t may be hard to draw
the line and say that this is right on
| the one side and that it is wrong on
the other side. 1t is not necessary
that we do that. for God has put a
throne In every mans soul, and / ap.
| peel to that throne to-day. When a
man does wrong he knows he does
wrong and when he does right he
knows he does right, and to that
throne which Almighty God lifted in
the heart OF every man and woman
appeal
AS to the physical ruin wrought by
the dissipations of social life there
can be no doubt What may we ex-
pect of people who work all day and
dare, all night? After while they
wilt be thrown on society nervous, ex-
hausted i'm be Giles. These people who
indulge in the suppers and the mid
night revels and then go home in the
cold unwrapped of limbs, will after a
while be found to have been written
down in Gods eternal records as sui
cides, as much suicides as if they had
taken their life with pistol, or a
knife. or strychnine.
How many people have stepped from
the ball room into the graveyard!
Consumptions and swift neuralgias
are close on their track Amid many
of the glittering scenes of social life,
diseases stand right and left and bal
ance ard chain. The breath of the
sepulchre floats up through the per-
fume and the froth of deaths lips
bubbles up in the champagne. I am
told that in some of the cities there
are parents who have actually given
up housekeeping and gone to board
ing that they may give their time
illimitably to social designations 1
have known family after family
blasted in that way in one of the other
cities where / preached. Father and
mother turning their back upon all
quiet culture and all amenities of home
leading forth their entire family in
the wrong direction. Annihilated,
worse than annihilated-for there are
some things worse than humiliation.
give you the history of more than
one family when say they went on
in the designations of social life until
the father dropped into lower style
of dissipation, and after awhile the
son was tossed out nto society nom
entity, and after awhile the daughter
eloped with n French dancing master,
and after awhile the mother, getting
on further and further in years, tries
to hide the wrinkles but fails in the
attempt, trying all the arts of the
belle, an old tlirt, poor misera ole
butterfly without any wings.
Oh, how many of you have floated
far away from God through social dis
ipations, and it is time you turned
For l remembe that there were two
vessels on the sea, and in storm 1t
was very, very dark and the two ves-
sells were going straight for each
other, and the captains knew it noty
But after awhile the man on the look
out saw the approaching ship and
shouted, Hard a-larboard" and from
the other vessel the cry went up,
Hard a-larboard" and they turned
just enough to glance by and passed
you are in the storm of temptation
and you are driving on and coming
toward fearful collisions unless you
change your course. Hard a-larboard!
Turn We, turn We. for why will We
die, oh, house of Israel?'