Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-12-18
NO. L.

nave it, they will have it, ara they ought to
1 have 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" Satar
| says: at Is best fer you to 90 in. You
ought not to be 50 green. By this time you
ought to have seen everything" Aud the
temptations shall be mighty in dull time5
such as we have had, but which, believe,
are gone, for 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'
In all departments, but those dull
times through which we have
passed have destroyed great many men.
The question of livelihood is with vast
multitude the great question. There ara
young men who expected before this to set
up their household, but they have been dis
appointed in the gains they have made.
They cannot support themselves. how CAP
they support others? And, to the curse OF
modern society, the theory is abroad that q
man must not marry until he has achieved
fortune, when the twain ought to start
Mt the foot OF the hill an 1 together climb to
the top.
That il the old fashioned way, and tha.
will be the new fashioned way If society Is
ever redeemed. But during the hard times,
the dull times, 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 making no headway. People say
they want more time to think. The trouble
is, 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
his audience.
Then the winter has especial Compilations
In Inc fact that many homes are peculiarly
unattraciive at this season. In thu summer
months the young man can sit ont on the
STEPS, or he can have a bouquet in the vase
on the mantel, or, the evenings being so
short, soon after gaslight he wants to retire
anyhow. But there are many parents who
do not understand how to make the long
winter evenings attractive to tLeir children.
1t is amazing to me that 50 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, 1t Is
dolorous for young people to sit In the house
from to IL o'clock at night and to hear par
ents groan about their ailments and the
nothlngness of this world. The nothingness
of this world! How dare you talk such
bIasphemy? 1t took God six days to make
this world, and He has allowed ii 5000 years
to 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 vet you dare talk about the nothingness
Of this world, Why, it is n magnificent
world do not believe in the whole uni
verse there is world equal to it, except it
bs heaven. You cannot expect your chill
dreu 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 inhabit.
ed planet.
Oh, make your home bright! Bring in the
'iolin or the picture. 1t does not require a
great salary, or big house, or chased sill
yer, or gorgeous upholstery to make happy
home. All that is wanted is IA fathers hear,
a mothers heart, in sympathy with young
folks. / have known a man with $500 sal
arv, and he had no other income. but he had
a 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 and become princesses of So
ciety, they can never think of that early
home without tears of emotion. 1t was 70 them
the vestibule of heaven, and all their man
sions now and all their palaces now cannot
make them forget that early place. Make
your homes happy. You 20 around your
house growing about your rheumatism and
acting the lugubrious. and your sons will go
into the world ani plunge into dissipation.
They will have their own rheumatisms after
awhile. Do not forestall their misfortunes.
Oh, what a beautiful thing il is to see a
young man standing up amid tn 'se temp
tatiOns of city life incorrupt while hundreds
are falling! | will tell your history. You
will move in respectable circles all your
days, and some day II friend OF your father
will meet you and say: Good morning!
Glad to see You. You seem TO be prosper.
in
world. 1 thought you woull turn out
well when 1 used to hold you on my
knee. If you ever want any help or any
advice, come to 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 il? L know it by the way you
start. But here's a 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 tee purity
| from his soul. Down he goes little by little.
| Tne people who saw him when he came to
| own while yet lowered over his head the
blessing OF pure mothers prayer and there
was on his lips the dew OF pure sister'a
| Kiss now as thev see him pass cry, "What
| IN awful wreckr' Cheek bruised in grog.
shop fight. Eve bleared with dissipation
Lip swollen with induigences. Be careful
what you say to him; for trile he would
| AXE your life.
Lower down. lower down until. outcast OF
God ant 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 laugh rs a fiend laughs,
then bites his nails into tn quick, then puts
| his hands through the hair hanging around
| his head like the name vi a 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
L., NI,atr f1lI
for water. which is instantly consumed on
his cracked lips. Some morning the sur
geon going his rounds will fint him
lead. Do not try to comb out or brush back
the matted locks. Straighten out the limbs,
| wrap him in n sheet, put him in a box and
let two men carry him down to the wagon at
the door. With a piece of chalk write on
top OF the box the name of the destroyer and
destroyed. Who is it? 1t Is you, oh. man.
Il, yielding to the temptations OF II dissipated
lie, you 90 out and perish. There is way
| hat seemeth brigh: and fair and beautiful
| 20 q man, but the end thereofis death. En-
oloy these long nights of December, January
and February in high pursuits, in intelligent
.ocialities, in innocent amusements, in
Christian work. Do not waste this win
ter, for soon you will have your last
snow shower and have gone up into the COM
panionship of Him whose rament is white
a. snow, whittier than any fuller on earth
could whten II. For all Christian hearts
| he winter nights of earth will end in the
| June morning of heaven. The river of life
| from under the throne never freezes over
The foliage of liies fair tree Is never FROST
bitten. The festivities. the hilarities, the
family greetings of earthly Christmas times
will give way to larger reunion and brighter
lights and sweeter car'ands and miShtier Joy
in the great holiday Of heaven.
! The Demand Tor Pennies.