Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-02-22

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are dead orchards of golden fruit or groves
Of deadly upas.
| am so fascinated with the phusvhor.
escence in the track of a ship that | have
sometimes watched for long while and
have seen nothing on the face Of the
deep but blackness. The mouth of watcry
chasms that looked like gaping jaws OF
hell. Not "A spark rs big rs the firefiy; not
a white scroll of surf; not Il taper to illumi.
nate the mighty sepulchers of dead ships;
darkness 5000 feet deep and more thou.
sands of feet long and wide Th@ is the
Kind of wake that n bad man leaves behind
him as he plows through the ocean of thi,
life toward the vastcr ocean of the great
future
FATE OF THE sCOFFEE.
Now, suppose a man seated in II cOlnct
grocery or business office among clerks
gives himself TO Jolly skeptcsiH. II,
laughs at the Bible, makes sport of the
miracles, speaks of perdition in jokes and
laughs at revivas as a frolic, and at the
passage Of funeral procession, which al
ways .olcmnizes sensible people. say,.
Boys lets take drink There is in that
group young man who is making a great
struggle against temptation, and pray
Might and morning. and re;tG., his Uhjc.
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thar OUTLAW against Christianity make.
him lose his grip of sacred thing and ne
gives up sabbath and church aud morals,
and goes from bad to worse, till ne fails IN.
der designations, dies in II lazar house and
is buried in the potter's field.
Another young man who heard that Jolly
skepticism made up his mind that lit
makes no difference what we do or say, foi
we VIII ali come ont at last at the righ
place, ana began as consequence 10 p''r
ION some money lhat c'ihc mo HIS hdilu-
oro1hers applied 70 ms own uses thlhk'
| lngpcrhaps ne WoUid mihelt SttllGht some
olher 'lme' ana an would ne wen even II
he ulu hot make IL Stralgni' ne eidN III lht
| ptnlltntlary. lDal 9coiler VINO "tlcTeN 'Hl
| jokes against Christianity never realized
| Whal Dau WORK lie was uo!hs' ahu ne passeo
| ON through lie ana our "i IL ana INTO III
| tire that am not now going 10 utpicl.
| do not propose with "A Searchlight &c
| show the breakers of the awful coast on
which that ship is wrecked, for my hu-i
ness now il to watch the sea after the kee
! has plowcd il. No phosphorescence in tn,
wake of that ship, but bchind 1.-two soul,
STRUGGLING in the wave; two young men de
! stroyed by reckless skepticism, an unlllu
mined ocean beneath and on all sides o.
them. Blackness of darkness
You know what glorious good man Rev
John Newton was the most of his life bu
before his conversion he was very wicbc.
sailor and on board the ship HarWich in
stilled iuhdelity and vice in the mind of {
young man, principles which destroyed him
Aiterward the two met, and Newton triet
to undo his bad work, but in vain. Tn,
! young man became worse and worse ant
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families those who stood by him in his las
moments.
Better look out what bad influence yol
start, for you may not be able To stop it. /
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others. Why was il that many years az
a great flood nearly destroyed New Orleans
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he river until the ground was saturated
and the banks weakened until the foot
burst
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