The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-07-05


wilder and wilder, until, with the speed
of lightning, they whirl off the edges OF
a decent life into a fiery future. This
gate of hell swings across the administer
of many a fine parlor and across the
ballroom of the summer watering place.
You have no right, my brother, my sis
ter, you have no right to take an attitude
to the sound of music which would be
unbecoming in the absence of music. Nc
Chiczering grand of city parlor or fiddle
of mountain picnic can consecrate that
which God hath cursed.
Gate the Third. -Indiscreet apparel
The attire of woman for the last few
wears has been beautiful and graceful
beyond anything l have known, but
there are those who will always carry
that which is right into the extraordi-
nary and indiscreet. charge Christian
women, neither by style of dress nor adj
justment Of apparel, to become admin
istrative of evil Perhaps, none else will
dare to tell you, so I win tell you that
there are multitudes of men who owe
their eternal damnation to what has
been at different times the boldness OF
womanly attire. Show me the fashion
plates of any age between this and the
time of Louis XVI of France and Henry
VIII of England, and I will tell you
the type of morals or immorals of that
age or that year. No exception to it.
Modest apparel means righteous peo-
pie. Immodest apparel always means a
contaminated and depraved society. You
wonder that the city of Tyre was de-
stroyed with such terrible destruction.
Have you ever seen the fashion plate of
the city of Tyre? l will show it to you
Moreover, the Lord saith, because
the daughters of Zion are naughty and
walk with stretched forth necks and
wanton eyes, walking and mincing as
they go, and making tinkling 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, the
changeable suits of apparel, and the
and the wimples, and the crisp
ing 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 today spread
their nets where that city once stood?
Stupendous Gate.
Gate the Fourth. Alcoholic beverage.
bn &c hn Of
purity The officers of the law tell us
that nearly all the men who go into the
SHAMELESS of death 60 in intoxicated, the
mental and the spiritual abolished, that
he brute may triumph. Tell me that
young man drinks, and l know the whole
story. II he becomes captive of the
wine cup, he will become a captive of
Ill other vices Only give him time No
one ever runs drunkenness alone. That
Is carrion crow that goes in flock, and
when you see that beak ahead you may
know the other beaks are coming. In
other words, the wine cup unbalances
and dethrones ones better Judgment, /
and leaves one the prey of all the evil
lppetites that may choose to aight upon
his soul. There is not a place of any
Kind of sin in the United States today
hat does not find its chief abettor in the
,halice of inebriety. There is either a
thinking bar before, or one behind, or
me above, or one underneath. These
people escape legal penalty because they
ire all licensed to sell liquor. The
courts that license the sale of strong
rink license gambling houses, license
ibertinism, license disease, license
leath, license all sufferings, all crimes,
ii despoliations, all disasters, all muir
lers, all woe. 1t is the courts and the
legislature that are swinging wide open
his grinding, creaky, stupendous gate
f the lost.
But you say: "You have described |
hese gates of hell and shown us how
hey swing in to allow the entrance to
he doomed Will you not, please, be-
ore you get through the sermon, tell us
ow these gates of hell may swing out
o allow the escape of the penitent?"
eply, But very few escape. Of the thou
and that go in 500 perish. Suppose
ne of these wanderers should knock at
our door, Would you admit her? Sup.
ose you knew where she came from.
Would you ask her to sit down at your
lining table? Would you ask her to be-
ONE the governess of your children?
Would you introduce her among your ac-
uaintanceships? Would you take the
of pulling on the outside
f the gate Of hell while the pusher ON
he inside of the gate is trying to get
ut? You would not Not one Of a thou
and of you would dare to do so. You
1ould write beautiful poetry over her
orrows and weep over her misfortunes,
ut give her practical help you never
7ill But, you say, "Are there no ways
y which the wanderer may escapeY"
N, yesl Three or four The one way is
be sewing girls garnet, dingy, cold,
unger blasted. But, you say, SIS there
o other way for her to escape?" Oh,
esl Another way is the street that
sads to the river at midnight, the end
the city dock, the moon shining down
n the water making it look so smooth 4
be wonders If it is deep enough 1t is.
10 b0aman near enough Co hear the
lnge Nowatchmn near enough to \
lex her ont before She sinks the third
me No other way2 Yes; by the curve
the rgf1rond gf fha r0frf whore ft,e D.