Milford chronicle., 1895-12-13
THEOPENING WINTER
REV. DR.. TALMAeE's SERMON AT THE
METROPOLITAN.

Beware Of the Special AlIurements Of tn
season-Parents Should Make Homo Az
tractive-Arm the Young Against Temp
tations-Rum's Horrors.
WASHINGTON. Dec. s.-Today DR.. Tai
mage chose as the subject Of his sermon
"The Opening Winter Although til
cold comes earlier or later, according 4
tho latitude, this sermon is sooner or late
as appropriate everywhere as It is in Wash
ington. The text selected will be found il
Titus iii, ~, Il have determined there t,
winter"
Paul was not independent of the seasons
He sent for his overcoat to Troas on
memorable occasion. And now in the tex
he is making arrangements for the ap
preaching cold weather and makes an an
pointment with Titus to meet him at Ne
copolis, saying, Il have determined there tC
! winter, Well, this is the sth day Of De.
cember and tho second sabbath Of winter,
/ We have had few shrill, sharp blasts al.
ready, fOrerunners of whole regiments OF
storms and tempests. No one here needs
I to DO told that we arc in the opening gates
Of the winter. This season is not only a
test Of ones physical endurance, but in
our great cities is test of moral charao-
ter. A vast number of people have by one
winter Of dissipation been destroyed, and
forever. Seated in our homes on some
stormy night, tho winds bowling outside,
we imagine tho shipping helplessly driven
on tho coast, but any winter night, If our
ears were good enough we could hear the
crash Of q thousand moral shipwrocks,
There are many people who camo to the
cities on tho 1st Of September who will DO
blasted by the 1st of March At this sea-
son Of the year temptations arc especially
rampant. Now that tho long winter even
ings havo come, there are many who will
employ them in high pursuits, Intelligent
sOoialities, in Christian work, In tho
strengthening and ennobling Of moral
character, and this winter to many Of you
will be tho brightest and the best Of all
your lives, and in anticipation congratu-
late you. But to others it may not have
such effect, and 1 charge you, my beloved,
look out where you spend your winter
nights
Evil Allurements.
In the first place. have to remark that
Mt this season of the year the evil allure
ments nre especially busy. There is not
very much temptation for man to plunge
in on hot night amid blazing gaslights
and to breathe the fetid air Of an assem-
blago, but In the cold nights satan gathers
a great harvest, At such times the ca
sinOs are in full blast At such times the
in one night make moro than
in four or five nights in simmer. At such
times the playbills of low places of enter
tainment seem especially attractive. and |
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applause especially bewitching. Many q |
man who has kept right all the rest of the |
year will be capsized now, and though last |
lutumn he came from the country, and |
there WAS luster in the eye, and there were
roses in the check and elasticity in the
step, by the time the spring hour has come
You will pass him in the street and say to
lour friend; whats the matter with that
nan? How differently he looks from
what no looked last SeptemberP' Slain
# one winters dissipation. At this time
II the year there are many entertainments.
4 we rightly employ them and they arc
# the right kind, they enlarge our sociali-
les, allow us to make important acqHaipt-
ince, build US up in our morals and help
Is in thousand ways. 1 can scarcely
hink of anything better than good neigh
,Orlood. But there arc those entertain
nents from which others will come bosoil-
d in character. There are those who by
he springtime will be broken down in
ealth, and, though at the opening of the
eason their prospects were bright, at the
lose of the season they will be in the
ands Of the doctors or sleeping in the
emetery. The certificate of death will be
made out, and tho physician, to save the
ceilings Of the family, will call tho disease
y Latin name. But the doctor knows,
nd everybody else knows they died of too
lany leyees. Away with all these wine
rinking convivialities. How dare you,
he father of n family, tempt the appetites
the young people? Perhaps at the en-
to save the feelings of the
linister or some other weak temperance
ian, you leave the decanter In side
,om, and only few people arc invited I
zero to partake, but it is easy enough to !
now when you como out by the glare Of /
our eye and the stencil Of your breath that /
~ have been serving the devil. 5