Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-05-31
BAD COMPANY.
Tho Text: walk Thou Not in the WAY
With Them"
Young M"u Warned From Paths Of DAN
ger &" til" safe iIyways of Gods Own
th"usinc- sermon by Rev. 4.
DcNiI Tnlmage. ID. ID.

/ Rev. Dr. Talmage chpse inr his Pi'h-
jet 'Had rowhhhy, Tie text selected
being Proverbs l.. ID. Walk not thou
/ in the way with them
Hardly any young man goes to
| place al d'--'p3t,un alnnc Each one is
( accompanied. No man goes to ruin
alone. lie always salcS some one else
with him. May it please the court"
said a convicted criminal, when asked
/ if he had anything tu say before the
penalty uf death was imposed Upon
I him ''mat " please thf FQurt: ltd
! company his hccr my fdin. | received
/ TIE blessing "f good parents, and, in
return. promised to avoid all evil assoc
citations. Had ! kept MY promise, |
-"uuld nave been spared this shame
and been free from the load of guilt
that hangs around me like vulturc,
threatening To drag me To justice for
crimes yet unrcvcalcd. |, who once
moved in the first circle of society, and
have been the guest Of distinguished
public iocn' an' lest, and all through
bad conpant
This is but one of the Thousand pto';fS
that evil associations ilast and destroy.
!; - the invariable rule. There is u
well man in the wards of a hospital
where there are 100 people sick with
ship fever, and he will not he SO apt to
take the disease rs q good man would
he ATT 10 hr switch with imGral dis.
temper II smut up with iniquitous com
panions. In oldcn times prisoners were
hcrded together in the same cell, but
each one learned the vices of all the
culprits, 81 that. instead Of being rP-
fotmed ty Incarceration; tie dar az
dclileratidn turned them ont upon So
ciety beasts. not men.
We may, in our places of business,
be compelled to talk to arid mingla
With BAD men, but he who deliberately
chooses to associate himself with vici-
Gus people is engaged in carrying on
courtship with Deliliah, whose shears
will clip Off all the locks of his strength
and he will h" trippcd in perditior.
Sin is catching, is infectious, Is eris
dem'c. will LEI bci lt'ols dtef the
millions 8f people inha biting the earth,
and | challenge you t6 sliov' me good
man who. after one year, has made
choice and conSortcd with the wicked.
A thousand dollars reward for one
such instance. care not how
strong your character may be.
Go with the corrupt and ven
will l'etoiiiG rofrupt. tlan Nith
BURGLARS, and yoh will bScouic BUR
glar. to among the unclean. and you
will become unclcan. Many a young
man has been destroyed by not apprc-
ciating this. He wakes up some
morning in the great city, and
knows no one except the
persons into whose company he
has entered. As liz goes into a store all
the clerks mark Him. measure him and
discuss him; Tie upright ourG riicr
of the store wish him well, but perhaps
wait for n formal introduction, and
even then have some dcli1acy about
inviting him into their ASSOCIATIONS.
But the bad young men of the
store at the first opportunity APP
proarh him and atfer their .erv,
ices They PltFonize HIM They pro-
fess to Know all aboiit the town.
They will take him anywhere he wish
es to go-if he will pay the expenses.
For if a good young fan and a bad
young man go to Sc me place where
they ought not, the rood young man
has invariably 20 pas the charges. At
the moment the ticE = Is paid for, or
the chatipaghe settled fo:; the had
Young man feels a 'ound in his pockets
and says: IL have forgotten my pocll-
ctbooll." In As hours after the young
man has entered the store the bad fell
lows of the establishment slap him on
the shoulder familiarly and, at his stu
pidity In taking certain illusions, say:
My young friend. you will have to be
broken ih,' and they Immediately pro-
cecd t. break him in. Young man in the
name of tod, warn you 20 beware
how YOU lei bad man talk Familiarity
with you. If siich 4 one slaps you on
the shoulder Familiarity turn round and
give him n whitening look, until the
wretch crouches in your presence.
There is no tnonstrosity OF wic,lcdGcss
that can stand unabashcd under the
glance of purity and honor. God keeps
the lightnings Of Heaven in His own
scabbard, and no human arm can WELD
them; but God gives to every young
man lightning that he may use, and
that is the lightning of an honest eye.
Those who have been close observers
of city life will not wonder why give
warning to young men and say: BE
ware of evil companions"
warn yoh tu shun the sceptic-the
voting man who phts his fingers in his
vest and laughs at your old-.ashioned
religion, and turns over to som mys-
terry of the Bible and says: Explain
that, my pious friendj explain that"
And who says. "Nobody shall scare
me; am not afraid of the future. I
used to believe in such things, and so
did my father and mother, but | have
got over it." Yes, he has got over it;
and if you sit in his company little
longer you will get over it, too. With
out presenting one argument against
the Christian religion, such men will,
by their jeers and SCOTS and Garica-
lures, destroy your respect for that re-
ligion, which was the strength of your
father in his declining years and the
spillow of your oiG mother when she
lay a-uying.
Alas. a time will come when this blus-
tering young infidel will have to die,
and then his diamond ring will flash no
more splendor in the eyes of Death as
he stands over the couch waiting for
his soul. Those beautiful locks will be
uncombed upon the pillow, and the dy-
ing man will say, Il can not die can
not die Death standing ready be-
side the couch says: Won must die;
you only have half minute to live: let
Inc have it right avay-your SOUL"
No" says the young inf ell, here are
my gold rings and these pictures; take
them all. No says Death, what do
care for pictures,-your soul"
''Stand back says ths dying
infidel. Il will not stand back
says Death, for you have only 10 sec
onds now to live; ! want your soul"
The dying man says: Don't breathe
that cold air into my face. You crowd
me too hard. 1t is getting dark in the
room. o, Godr' Hush says Death;
you said there was no God" Pray