The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-07-13

uance ~ sWiftcr ana swiltcrs Wuuo
and wilder. until with the speed O
lightning they whirl of the edges OF
decent life into a fiery future. TIL
gate OF hell swings across the Axmin
ster OF many fine parlor and acros
the ballroom of the summer watering
place. You have no right my broth
er, my sister-you have no right
take an attitude to the sound Of music
which would be unbecoming in the alb
sence of music. No grand piano o
the city parlor or fiddle of mountain
picnic can consccrate that which Goo
has cursed.
Gate the third: Indiscreet apparel
The attire of woman for the last few
years hns been beautiful and graceful
beyond anything I have known; bu,
there are those who will always carry
that which is right into the eXtraordi.
nary and indiscreet. charge Chris
tian women, neither by style of dress
nor adjustment of apparel, to become
administrative of evil. Perhaps none
else will dare to tell you, so l will tell
you that there are multitudes OF men
who owe their eternal damnation
to what has been at differ
ent times the boldness of wom-
anly attire. Show me the fashion
plates of any age between this and the
time of Louis WI. Of France and
Henry VIII. of England, and will
tell you the type of morals or inn
morals OF that age or that year. No
exception to it Modest apparel means
n righteous people. Immoral apparel
always means contaminated and de-
PRAYED society. You wonder that the
city of Tyre was destroyed with such
terrible destruction. Have you over
seen the fashion-plate Of the city Of
Tyre? will show it to you:
Moreover, the Lord saith, because
the daughters of Zion are naughty
and walk with strctched-forth necks
and wanton eyes, walking and mine
ing as they go, and making n tinltling
with their feet, in that day the Lord
will take away the bravery of their
tinkling ornaments about their feet,
and their cauls, and their round tires
like the moon, the rings and nose
jewels.thc changsable suits of apparel,
and the mantles, and the wimplcs, and
the crisping pins
That is the fashion-plate Of ancient
Tyre. And do you wonder that the
Lord God in his indignation blotted
out the city, so that fishermen to-day
spread their nets where that city once
stood?
Gate the fourth: Alcoholic beverage.
Oh! the wine-cup Is the patron of i'm
purity. The officers Of the law tell us
that nearly all the men who go into
the shambles of death, 60 in intoxi-
Gated, the mental and the spiritual
abolished, that the brute may triumph.
Tell me that a young man drinks,
and l know the whole story. II
he becomes captive Of the wine
cup, he will become captive of
all other vices; only give him time.
No one ever runs. drunkenness alone.
That is a carrion-crow that goes in
flock, and when you see that beak
ahead, you may know the other bealSs
are coming. In other words, the
wine-cup unbalances and dethrones
ones better Judgment, and leaves one
the prey of all evil appetites that
may choose to alight upon his soul
There is not place of any
kind of sin in the United States
to-day that does not find It's chief
lbettor in the chalice of inebriacy.
There is either drinking-bar before,
Or one behind, or one above, or one
underneath. These people escape le-
gal penalty because they are all Ii
,ensed to sell liquor. The courts that
license the sale of strong drink, license
gambling houses, license libertinism,
license disease, license death. license
III sufferings, all crimes, all despolia-
ions, all disasters, all murders all
woe. 1t is the courts and the legisla-
.ure that are swinging wide open this
creaky, stupendous gate of
he lost
But you sayi "You have described
.hese gates of hell and shown how
hey swing in to allow the entrance OF
he doomed. viii you not, please, be-
ore you get through the sermon, tell
Is how these gates of hell may swing
,ut to allow the escape of the pcni-
.ent?" l reply. but very few escape.
)f the thousand that go In, nine hun
lred and ninety-nine perish. Suppose
,ne of these wanderers should knock
It your door. would you admit her?
suppose you knew where she came
rom, would you ask her to sit |
Town at your dining table? Would
you ask her to become the governess
If your children? Would you intro |
luce her among your acquaintance
ships? Would you take the RESPONSE
oility Of pulling on the outside of the
gate OF hell while the pusher on the |
inside Of the gates is trying to get out?
You would not, not one of thousand |
Of you would dare TO do so. You
would write beautiful poetry over
1er sorrows, and weep over her
but give her practical |
help you never will. lnt you say:
Are there no ways by which the
may escape?" Oh, yes; |
.hrec or four. The one way is the |
sewing girls garnet, dingy, cold, hun
But you say: SIS there
no other way for her escape?' Oh,
res Another way is the street that
eads to the river, at midnight, the end |
IF the city dock, the moon shining
down on the water making it look so