The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-12-12
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SOME SEASONABLE ADVICE
Subject: "rhc Opening Winter"

Paul was not Independent OF the seasons.
He sent Tor his overcoat TO Troas on "A mem
oraole occasion. And now in the text he Is
making arrangements for the approaching
cold weather and makes an appointment
with Titus 10 meet him at Necopolis, saying;
81 have determined there to winter" Well,
this Is the Sth day of December and the sec.
ond Sabbath OF winter. We have had a few
shrill. sharp blasts already, forerunners OF
whole regiments OF storms and tempests
No one here needs 10 be told that we are in
the Denlng gates OF the winter. This season
i. 1eAonly test OF ones physical endur-
. .Je, but In our great cities is test OF
moral character. A vast number OF people
have by one winter OF dissipation been de-
sroyed, and forever. Seated in our homes
on some stormy night, the winds bowling
outside, we imagine the shipping helplessly
driven on the coast, but any winter night.
u our ears were good enough, we could
hear the crash OF q thousand moral
|shipwrecks. There are many people
Who come to the cities on the ist Of
| September who will be blasted by the LIST OF
March. AT this season OF the year tempta-
tons are especially rampant. Now that tho
/ long winter evenings have come, there are
many who will employ them in high pur-
suits, tn intelligent socialities, in Christian
work, in the strengthening and ennobling OF
roral character, and this winter TO many of
X YOU viii bt tut urlSuteSI unu tne De9t OF All
J0ur lives, and in anticipation congratu-
he you. But to Others II may not have
Hch effect, and charge you. my beloved,
box out where you spend your winter
sighis.
10 the FIRST place, have to remark at this
Jason OF the year evil allureEsnts are es-
,ecially busy. There is not very much
snptation for man TO plunge In on hot
l;ht amid blazing gasllghts. and to breathe
40 IA h,,s L..
pi nights satan gathers great harvest
u such times the casinos are In full blast.
such time, the grogshops In one night
BAKE more than In four or five nights in
Enmer. AT such times the playbils OF low
aces OF entertainment seem especially at
ractive, and the acting is especially impress.
I've. and the applause especially bewitrhtnr.
Many man who has kept right all the rest of
tayear will be capsized now and though last
aiumn he came from the country and there
yas luster in the eve and there were roses I'm
hs cheek and elasticity in the step, by the
he the spring hour has come YOU will pass
n In the street and say to your friend:
What's the matter with that mann How
ierently he looks from what he looked
Il September" Slain of one winters dis
cation At this time of the year there are
py entertainments. II we rightly en-
chem, and they are of the right kind.
~ enlarge our socialities. allow us TO
important acquaintance, build US nm
morals. and help US In thousand
4. can scarcely think OF anything bet
Than good neighborhood. But there are
ke entertainments from which Others will
ne hesoiled in character. There ara those
u 10 by the springtime will be broken down
health, and though atthe opening OF the
! hson their prospects were bright at the
u ose OF the season they will he in
lie hands OF the doctors or sleeping in the
kemetery. The certificate OF death will be
nade out, and the physician, to save the
Feelings OF the family. will call the disease
" a Latin name. But the doctor knoHs
hd everybody else knows, they died Of too
hany levees. Away with all these wine
rinking convivialities. How dare YOU. the
ather OF family, tempt the appetites.of the
oung people? Perhaps at the entertain
bent, to save the feelings of the minister or
!, pine other weak temperance man, you leave
he decanter in side room. and only a few
people are invited there to partake, but it is
DSess,foosh to know when you come out. by
glare OF your eye and the stencil OF your
=. ath, that you have been serving the
s ml
Z Yen sometimes excuse themselves and say
ty n late suppers IL IL necessary 10 take som,
s,l Of stimulant TO aid digestion NV plain
"a mon is that IL you have no more self CON
u Than to stun yourself until your diges-
better
NW call yourself man, bur class yourself
hs the beasts that perish. Al this season
lh e year the Young Mems Christian Assoc
a' Ions OF the land send cut circulars asking
IA pastors 10 speak word on this subject.
% sound In your ear the words Of the
uol Almighty, Woe unto him thar
u-, ea the bottle TO his neghbor's lips"
VI zee mat you have come TO the glad win
y" nonths that remind you OF the times when
eMllInnp1
nee Of iGther. mother, brothers. sisters,
uW Of mem, alns! no more 10 meet you
''u a "happy New Year or u "Mcrry
l' Xmas. . But again and again have We
i''I % New Years Day the sons OF some of
iaaA ~ families drunk, and youug men have
u d %l themselves by the fact that the wine
er pas been offered by the ladies. and again
VtI yam II has been found out that n ladys
sa mas klndled the young mans thirst Tor
lI1 drink. and long after all the
Al'I Suons OF the holiday have passed
guy same woman crouches in her
Wt and her desolation, and her
}' laer the uplifted hand OF the drunken
"1a dto whom she had passed the fascin-
A"' 4p on New Years Day. II we want
rum, let US 90 alone and not take
e 'W WIN us. Can we not sacrifice our
graz II need be? When the good ship
q Ws went down, the captain was told
used might escape in one OF the lifeboats
'uigN he replied, "I'll 90 down with the
gers. All the world applauded his
T. And can we not sacrifice our tastes
d. y appetites for the rescue Of others?
,,Ns IS not very great sacrifice. Oh.
mans WIN the innocent beverage OF tho
: o,cf Tue poison of adders! Mix not with
,uavA le sugar OF the cup the snow Of this
,.t.y sIfosy! Mar not the clatter OF the
~ utu y the iestal occasion with the clank
,,y! A,inan's chain.
'.t n uGwn the street and look into the
,Ia1s vAet window. Elegant watch, ele-
elegant flute, elegant shoes, eIe-
NJ elegant books elegant mementos
Ieumes see people with pleased
70 IAees looking into such window.
ia2eW 9oA INTO pawnbrokers window IL
1t has ne ne AZ II had looked into the win
'ct lr +sn To whom did that watch be-
and y wy drunkard. To whom did those
cert I lN TO drunkards wife. To
Iue,lol ~ Nose shoes belong? To drunk
loid az ~ take the three brazen balls at
ma OF a pawnbroker's shop and l
~ TSsether, sounding the knell OF
IN sra 'u soul A pawnbrokers shop
49, S me eddies Ia the great torrent
srious sipal drunkenness. ooh" says
TIe u don't patronize such
nave destroyed no young man
ughoui 1nuences. l only take ale, and
,rrine. n, great amount OF ale to intoxi-