The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-12-12

fVtht nttn afb uusN III plNct-. IN I0OlOFt@.
In banking houses, In stores. in shops. and
when evening comes they want the fresh air,
and they want sightseeing, and they must
have IL, they will have II, ard they ought to
haveit II. Most OF the men here assembled will
have three or four evenings Of leisure on the
winter nights. After tea the man puts on
his hat and coat and he goes out. One form
OF allurement says, "Come In here" Satan
says; at is best fer you to 90 in. You
ought not to be so green. BY this time you
ought to have seen everything" And the
temptations shall be mighty in dull times
such as we have had, but which, believe,
are gone, for i hear all over the land the
prophecy OF great prosperity, and the rail-
road men and the merchants, they all tell me
ofthe days OF prosperity they think are COM
ing. and In many departments they have al
ready come. and they are going to come
in ~ all departments, but those dull
passed have destroyed great many men.
The question Of n livelihood is with vast
multitude the great question. There are
young men who expected before this to set
mp their household, but they have been dis
appointed In the gains they have made.
They cannot support themselves. how can
modern society, the theory IL abroad that
man must not marry until he has achieved n
fortune, when the twain ought TO start
at the foot OF the hill and together climb to
the top.
That is the old fashioned way. and tina.
will be the new fashioned way II society is
ever redeemed. But during the hard times,
the Outlines, so many men were discouraged,
so many men had nothing to do-they could
get nothing to do--a pirate bore down on
the ship when the sails were down and the
vessel was makingno headway. People say
they want more time TO think. The trouble
Il, too many people ha We had too much time
to think, and IL our merchants had not had
their minds diverted many of them would
long before this have been within the four
walls OF an insane asylum. These long win.
ter evenings, be careful where you spend
them. This winter will decide the temporal
and eternal destiny Of hundreds Of men In
this audience.
Then the winter has especial temptations
In tho fact that many homes are peculiarly
unattractive nc this season. In the summer
months the young man can sit out on the
steps, or he can have n bouquet in the vase
on the mantel, or, the evenings being so
Short soon after gasllght he wants to retire
anyhow. But there are many parents who
do not understand how to make the long
winter evenings attractive TO tieir children.
1t ia amazing to me that so many old people
do not understand young people. To hear
some OF these parents talk you would think
they had never themselves been young and
had been born with spectacles on. oh, Il is
dolorous for young people to sit In the house
from 7 to IL o'clock at night and 10 hear par
ents groan about their ailments and the
nothngness oithis world. The nothingness
OF this world! How dare you talk such
biasphemy2 1t took God six days TO make
this world, and He has allowed II 6000 years
70 hang upon His holy heart, and this world
has shone on you and blessed you and ca
ressed you for these fifty or seventy years,
and yet you dare talk about the nothlnvness
OF this world! Why, II is magnificent
4 I'LL.
verse there Is a world equal TO Ii, except II
be heaven. You cannot expect your chill
dren to stay In the house these long winter
evenings to hear you denounce this star
lighted, sun warmed, shower baptised,
flower strewn, angel watched, God inhablt-
cd planet.
oh, make your home bright! Bring in the
violin or the picture. II does not require
great salary, or n big house, or chased sill
YER, or gorgeous upholstery TO make a happy
home. All that Is wanted is a fathers heart,
mothers heart, in sympathy with young
folks. have known man with 300 SAL
ary, and he had no other income. but he had
home so happy and bright that, though
the sons had gone out and won large for
tunes and the daughters have gone out Into
splendid spheres aud become prlncesses OF So
ciety, they clp never think of that early
home without tears OF emotion. X was 10 them
the vestibule OF heaven, and all their man.
SlbIlS nOW tuu lutlT IhltCts now cHnnOt
make them forget that early place. Make
your homes happy. You go around your
house growing about your rheumatism and
acting the lugubrlous, and your sons will go
into the world and plunge into dissipation.
They will have their own rheumatisms after
awhile. Do not forestall their msfortunes.
Oh, what n beautiful thing II IA TO see
young man standing up amid these temp
tatons OF city life incorrupt while hundreds
are falling! / will tell your history. You
will move in respectable circles all your
days and some day friend OF your father
will meet you and say; Good mornlngl
Glad TO see You. You seem TO be prosper
ing. You look like your father for ali the
world. | thought you would turn out
we'll when / used TO hold you on my
knee II you ever want any help or any
advice, come 10 me. As long as l remember
your father I'll remember you. Good
morning." That will be the history OF
hundreds OF these young men. How do /
know it2 l know 1t by the way you
start. But here's young man who takes
the opposite route. Voices OF sin charm him
away. He reads bad books, mingles in bad
society. The glow has gone from his cheek,
and the sparkle from his eve, and the purity
from his soul. Down he goes little by little.
The people who saw him when he came TO
town while YET hovered over his head the
blessing OF q pure mothers prayer and there
was on his lips the dew OF pure sisters
kiss, now as they see him pass cry, "What
an awful wreck" Cheek bruised In grog-
shop fight. Eye bleared with dissipation.
Lip swollen with indulgences. Be careful
what you say TO him; for a trine he would
take your life.
Lower down. lower down until. outcast OF
God and man, he lies in the asylum, blotch
Of loathsomeness and pain. One moment he
calls for God and then he calls for rum. He
prays he curses he laughs as a fiend laughs,
then bites his nails into the quick, then puts
his hands through the hair hanging around
his head like the name OF u wild beast then
shivers until the cot shakes, with unuttera-
BILE terror, then with his fists fights back the
devils, or clutches for serpents that seem TO
wind around him their awful folds, then asks
for water. which is instantly consumed on
his cracked lips Some morning the sur
geon going his rounds will find him
dead. Do not try to comb out or brush back
the matted locks. Straighten out the limbs,
wrap him in u sheet, put him In a box, and
let two men carry him down to the wagon at
the door. With piece OF chalk write on
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