Connecticut western news., 1895-12-12
THE COMING SEASON.

<ul THE COMING SEASON. REV. oR. TAlMAGs ON TAe LESSONS
 SNOF WINTER. .E i asrmsn ApprepriAts to Cold Weather.
 Tssapeatie.s of the Long Evenings-The
 Dssiss q. old a.d Yoang-An Eloquent Psrsrasiea.
 ], WAsHKGToN, Dec. 8.-Today Or. Talmage chose as tho subject of his ser. mon "The Opening Winter" Although the cold comes earlier or later, accord. ina to the latitude, this. sermon ia sooner or Ales. .esApAror oreiatseeyery " nara as 1t iS in Washington. The text selected will he found in Titus iii. l2, II have de termined there to writer" .
 Paul was not independent of the sea- sons He sent for his overcoat to Troas on . memorable occasion. And now in thsltext ho ia making arrangements for tho approaching cold weather and makes disappointment with Titus to meet him at Necopolis. saying. ''l4 have deter inined there to winter. Well, this is fhe 8sh day of December and the second Sabbath Of winter, Wesbave had affew sAsill. aharpi hlasts a lfeady ' sforeruiiners MswAoee regiments of storms and tenn PeAts. No ore here needs to be told that ws afs.intfheeopeAirg gates of the win-, ter. This season is not only test of sxe's physical endurance, but in our great cities is test of moral character. Asvast number of people have by one winter of dissipation tbeen destroyed, iaasd forever. Seated in our homes on same stormy night, the winds bowling outside. we imagine the shipping help 9oGEly driven on the coast, but any win- tsrHight. n4our ears were good enough. we could hcar the crash of thousand moral shipwFecks. There are many peo- ple who came to the cities on the lst of September who will be blasted by the lst of March. At this season Of tho year temptations are especially fatHpArst. Now that the long winter evenings have come. there Are many who will employ tAemsi in high pussaits. in, intelligent so a5alNtse,a > in Dakntaan sykofk. in the s4s~1tA Szi.Vs a1ds anAoSxAR of mural character. and this winter to many of you will be tho brightest and the best of all your lives, and in anticipation I congratulate you. But foAotherssit may not have ysach effect, and IchAfge you. my beloved. lock voutSwhere you spend your w4htor nlslats.
 " ksii lAl,ersns.es.
 In the first place. I have to remark that sasI this season of the year evil al- lurements are especially busy. There is not very much temhtation for q n,ati to plunge in on a,hoE night An1id blazing gasaiahts, and to Brtashe tho fetid air of an assemblAse. but in tho cold nights satan gHtisets great harvest At such times the casinos are ihfnlk kb1ast. .asAt such time. the grogshops in ono night make moro than in four or five nights in summer. At such times the playbills of low places of entertainment seem espe- cially attractive, and the acting is espe- cially impressive, and the applause es- pecially bewitching. Many a man who has kept right all the rest of the year will be capsized now, and thouRh last gztundn he came from the country and there was luster in the eye and there were roses in the cheek and elasticity in xhi 1aAp. by the 4tims the spying hour has come you win pass him in the street and say to your friend: Whats the matter with that man? How differently he looks from what he looked last Sep fember' Slain of one winter sedissipa- tion. At this4tlSs dfsthe year there are many entertainments. IT weriehtly em- ploy them. and they are of the right kind. they enlarge our socialities. allow us to uaake.=important acquaintance. build us up in our morals, and help us in . tabnsend ways. I can scarcely think of faIJthing better than good lieighbor- hood. But there Are those enter taihments from which others will come besoiled in character. There are those who by the springtime will be broken down in health. and though atthe opening of the seoson their prospects were bright, at tho close of tho season they will be in lthe Aauds of tke doctors or sleeping in the 'cemetcry. The ceftincate of death win be made out. and the physician, to ssve the feelinSa of the family, will call the disease by a.Latin name. But the doctor knows, a..d everybody else Knows, stbey died of too many ilevees. Away with all these wine drinking .convivial fties How dare you, the father of 'fsmilys tempt therapeutics of the young people? Perhaps at the entertainment. 10 save tho feelings of the minister or some other weak temperance man, you ,leavo the .decanter in side reom,s and only | few people arc invited there to parthke, but it is easy enough 10 know when you come out. by the glare of your eye and the sstench of your breath, that you have been serving the devil
 The Esil of Appstite.
 Men sometimes excuse then1selves and say after late anppers it is necessary to take sone sort of stimulant to aid di. seseion. Ny plain opinion is that if you ;h&ve no moro self control than to stuff yourself until your digestive organs re- fuee their office you had better not call yourself man, but class yourself among the beasts that perish. At this season of the year tho Young Men Christian as- xociations of the land send out circulars ~sking, the pastors to speak a word on shfsssubject, and SO round in your ear ahe words of the Lord God Almighty, "Woe unto him that puttgth the bottle to his neighbor's lips" Rejoice that you have come to tbegl winter months that remind you of the, times when in your childhood you were shone on by the face of father, mother, brothers, sis ters, some of them, alas! no more to meet you with a. Happy New Year" CT "Merry Christmas But again and again have we seen on New Years day the sons of some of the best families drunk. and young men have excused themselves by the fact that the wine cup has been offered by the ladies, and again and again it has been found out tkMt lady s hand has kindled the yoang