The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-04-13
FRIDAY MORNING, APR. Is, 1894


mail or express, charges prepaid. they
would send package with which I could
make fortune In two months, but did
not believe it My neighbors did, but
did not Why, no man could take my
money, ! carry it In pocket inside my
vest No man could take 1t. No man
could cheat me at the faro table. Don't
! know all about the cue box, and the
dealers box, and the cards stuck to-
gether as though they were one. and
when to hand in my checks? Oh, they
can't cheat me, I know what am
about, while at the same time, that very
moment, such mon are succumbing to the
worst satanic influences in the simple
fact that they are going to observe
Now, II q man or woman shall 90 down
into haunt Of iniquity for tho purpose
OF reforming men and women or for the
sake OF being able intelligently to warn
people against such perils; II, as did
John Howard or Elizabeth Fry or Thorn
as Chalmers, they go down among the
abandoned for the sake Of saving them,
then such explorers shall be God pro-
tected, and they will come out better
than when they went in. But if you go
ON this work Of exploration merely for
the purpose of satisfying morbid Curl
osity l will take 20 per cent off your
moral character.
A PERILoUS ROAD.
Sabbath morning comes. You wake
up in the hotel You have had a longer
sleep than usual. You say: Where am
I?A thousand miles from home? l have
no family to take to church today My
pastor will not expect my presence. /
think | shall look over my accounts and
study my memorandum book. Then !
will write a few business letters and
talk to that merchant who came in on
the same train with me-" Stop! You
cannot afford to do it.
But, you say, II am worth $780,
000." You cannot afford to do it. You
say, II am worth $1,000, 000" You
cannot afford to do it. All you gain by
breaking the Sabbath you will lose. You
will lose one of three things-your intel
lect, your morals or your property-and
you cannot point in the whole earth to
q single exception to this rule. God gives
us six days and keeps one for himself.
Now, if we try to get the seventh, he
will upset the work of all the other six.
remember going up Mount Washing
ton, before the railroad had been built,
to the Tip-Top House, and the guide
would come around to our horses and stop
us when we were crossing very steep
and dangerous place, and he would
tighten the girth of the horse and
straighten the saddle. And have to tell
you that this road of life is so steep and
full of peril we must at least one day
in seven stop and have the harness of
life readjusted and our souls re-equip-
ped The seven days Of the week are
like seven business partners, and you
must give to each one his share, or the
business will be broken up. God is so
generous with 'us-he has given you six
days to his one Now, here is father
who has seven apples, and he gives six
to his greedy boy, proposing to keep one
for himself. The greedy boy grabs for
the other one and loses all the six.
How few men there are who know
how to keep the Lords day away from
home! A great many who are consistent
on the banks of the st. Lawrence, or the
Alabama, or the Mississippi are not con-
sistent when they get so far off as the East
river. l repeat-though it is putting it
on a low ground-you cannot financially
afford to break the Lords day. 1t is
only another way of tearing up your
government securities and putting down
the price of goods and blowing up your
store. have friends who are all the
time slicing off pieces Of the Sabbath
They cut little of the Sabbath off that
end and little Of the Sabbath off this
end. They do not keep the "a hours
The Bible says, Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy"
have good friends who are quite ac-
customed to leaving Albany by the mid
night train on Saturday night and get
ting home before church. Now, there
may be occasions when it is right, but
generally it is wrong. How if the train
should run off the track into tho North
river? hope your friends will not send
to me to preach your funeral sermon. 1t
would be an awkward thing for me to
stand up by your side and preach, you,
Christian man, killed on rail train
travelling on Sunday morning. RE
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy" What does that mean? 1t means
"a hours. A man owes you dollar. You
don't want him to pay you 90 cents.