San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-11

of life. There is no place no matter
how secluded, no matter how
public, no matter where 1t comes
from or whittier 1t leads, in the
vale or on the mount, in the church
or in the world, among saints or sim
ners or newspaper men, it is all one.
The banana peel is there. The man
who lifts his eyes the highest, and
holds his head most in air, and is
stiffest in his joints, and does not
look carefully to the way OF his go.
ing, is going to strike his banana
peel the quickest and fall the hard.
est. The average woman is not so
easily tripped up as the average
man, but when she falls she does
not get upon her feet so readily.
This also is one of the lessons OF
the banana peel.
There are no end of lessons to be
derived from this little yellow
cuss, that turks so innocently along
every pathway that humanity
treads. That the imp is terribly
dangerous is conceded. There turks
not so much real danger in cord
Of yellow covered novels as in an
inch square of intelligent banana
peel. At the same time there is no
truer instructor Of youth and mid
die age than this same despised and
too little seen banana peel.
1t teaches every man and woman
of the race to be careful where they
step, and Furnishes them II they do
not obey. II no other end was &C.
cured than this, it is worth all that
humanity has suffered from the
involuntary athletics Of his teach
or. All me! II all who are in the
LIGHT congregation this morning
would only learn to carefully note
where they are putting their feet
what a gain to community as we'll
as to personal safety. Beloved,
suffer the word of exhortation this
morning and beware Of the banana
peel.
But what Of those miserable sin.
ners, for whom there is no saliva
ton in this world and should be
none in the next, those whose chief
business in life is putting banana
peel in the way of the feet Of hui
manity; who lie in wait for human
regulations, scatter scandal as the
wind scatters dust and trip up the
feet of innocence on their rotten
banana peel; who regard no condi-
tions as sacred, no confidence as
trust, no friendship with respect,
and whose chief business is to
watch eternally the success Of their
Internal attempts to trip up the
heels Of the contiding and the open
minded, finding their supreme de-
light in the inevitable tumble that
follows.
These excrescences are regard
less of person, rank, condition, age,
sex, quality, friendship or aught
else. The cleaner the garments Of
their victim the more openly and
gladly do they hail the besmirch-
ing that follows the fall. They fear
not God, respect not Man, have no
regard for their patron, the Devil.
A rattlesnake is to be avoided,
tarantula is to be feared, smallpox
is to be Stunned, yellow fever to
be given a wide berth, leprosy to
be steered clear Of, and all other
evils averted where possible, but
IL all of these were to be put in the
scale against the yellow snare
they will not outweigh its
cussedness. To the man or woman
who prefers liberty to death
there will be a quick decision in
favor Of all combined evils, mental,
moral and physical, il by cheer
full submission thereto they can be
delivered out OF the hand that
drops banana peel.
All other sins, whether of omis-
ion or commission, that have ever
been committed by men and
women, shall be forgiven them, but
to the he or the she who puts