Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-12-12

Beware Of the Special Aliuremsuts OF TIE
season-Parsnts should Make Home At
traetivs-Arm the Young Against Temp
taiions-Rum's Horrors.
WASHINGTON. Dec. s.-Today DR.. Tai
mage chose as the subject Of his sermon
"The Opening Winter" Although the
cold comes earlier or later, according to
tho latitude, this sermon is sooner or later
as appropriate everywhere rs It is in Wash
ington. The text selected will be found In
Titus Ill, 12, 81 have determined there to
winter"
Paul was not independent Of the seasons,
He sent for his overcoat to Troas on o
memorable occasion. And now in the text
he Is making arrangements for the ap-
preaching cold weather and makes an ap-
polntment with Titus to meet him at Ne
copolis, saying, 81 have determined there to
winter" Well, this is the Sth day Of De-
cember and the second Sabbath Of winter.
We have had q few shrill, sharp blasts al
ready, forerunners of whole regiments OF
storms and tempests. No one here needs
to be told that we are In the opening gates
of the winter. This season is not only q
test Of ones physical endurance, but in
our great cities Is q test Of moral charac-
ter. A vast number of people have by one
winter of dissipation been destroyed, and
forever Seated in our homes on some
stormy night, the winds bowling outside,
we imagine the shipping helplessly driven
on tho coast, but any winter night, II our
ears were good enough, we could hear the
crash Of a thousand moral shipwrecks.
There are many people who came to the
cities on the 1st of September who will be
blasted by the 1st of March. At this sea-
son of the year temptations are especially
rampant. Now that the long winter even
ings have come, there are many who will
employ them in high pursuits, intelligent
socialities, in Christian work, In the
strengthening and ennobling of moral
character, and this winter to many OF you
will be the brightest and the best OF all
your lives, and in anticipation congratu-
late you. But to others 1t may not have
such effect, and charge you, my beloved,
look out where you spend your winter
nights.
| Evil AlIurements.
In the first place, have to remark that
at this season of the year the evil allure
ments are especially busy. There Is not
very much temptation for man to plunge
In on hot night amid blazing gaslights
and to breathe the fetid mir of an assem-
blage, but In the cold nights satan gathers
great harvest. At such times the ca
sinos are in full blast. At such times the
grogshops In one night make more thar
In four or five nights in summer. At such
times the playbills of low places Of enter
tainment seem especially attractive, and
the acting Is especially impressive and the
applause especially bewitching. Many 9
man who has kept right all the rest Of th'
year will be capsized now, and though las
autumn he came from the country, ant
there was luster in the eye, and there wert
roses in the cheek and elasticity In th'
step, by the time the spring hour has COM
: you will pass him in the street and say tt
your friend: "Whats the matter with tina
manP How differently he looks from
what he looked last Septemberr' Slail
: of one winters dissipation. At this tim
Of the year there are many entertainments
, If we rightly employ them and they ar
: of the right kind, they enlarge our social
ties, allow us to make important acquaint
ance, build us up In our morals and he'll
us In o thousand ways. can scarcel
think of anything better than good neigh
borhood. But there are those entertain
ments from which others will come besoil
ed in character. There dfe those who b
the springtime will be broken down Il
health, and, though at the opening of tn
season their prospects were bright, at th
close of the season they will be In th
hands of the doctors or sleeping In th
cemetery. The certificate of death will b
made out, and the physician, to save th
feelings of the family, will call the dlseas
by O Latin name. But the doctor knows
J and everybody else knows, they died of to
many levees. Away with all these win
drinking convivialities. How dare you
the father of family, tempt the appetite
of the young people? Perhaps at the er
tertainment, to save the feelings of th
minister or some other weak temperate
man, you leave the decanter in sid
room, and only few people are invite
there to partake, but 1t is easy enough
know when you come out by the glare {
your eye and the stencil Of your breath thi
you have been serving the devil.
Practice Self Control.
Men sometimes excuse themselves an
say after late suppers 1t is necessary
take some sort of stimulant to aid dige
tion. My plain opinion is that If you hay
no more self control than to stuff yourse
until your digestive organs refuse the
office you had better not call yourself
man, but class yourself among the beas
that perish. At this season of the year ii
Young Mems Christian associations of th
land send out circulars asking the pasto
! to speak word on this subject, and SO
, sound in your ear the words of the Lol
God Almighty, "Woe unto him that pu
teth the bottle to his neighbor' lips" r
/, joice that you have como to the glad vii
ter months that remind you of the tim
:, when in your childhood you were shone c
m by the face of father, mother, brothers, 81
20 ters, some of them, alas! no more to me
tyou with "Happy New Year." or
MERRY Christmas But again and aga
= = have we seen on New Years day the sol
= of some of the best families drunk, al
Y young men have excused themselves by Il
4 fact that the wine cup has been offered
the ladies, and again and again it has bet
= found out that lady's hand has kindl'
4 the young mans thirst for strong drin
J and long after all the attractions Of Il
holiday have passed that same womf
4 crouches in her rags, and her desolatio
and her woe under the uplifted hand of Il
9 drunken monster to whom she had pass
4 the fascinating cup on New Years da
! If we want to go to ruin, let US go alol
q and not take others with US. Can we n
Z sacrifice our feelings if need beS VIII
the good ship London went down, the ca
A tain was told that he might escape in o.
y of the lifeboats. enc" he replied, "I'll
q down with the passengers. All the wor
4 applauded his heroism. And can we n
sacrifice our tastes and our appetites
the rescue of others? Surely it is not q We
A great sacrifice. Oh, mix not with the i
nocent beverage of the holiday the pois'
q of addersl Mix not with the white sug
4 of the cup the snow Of this awful lepros
Y Mar not the clatter of the cutlery Of Il