The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-01-10

NufNt anu hNhA lNHN meant aH NNAflNfHAHNt NI
ng0nies, 30 broken up households, 80 pros
poets Of o drunkard's grave, 80 ways o pef-
diuon. Three N'A. III were going 90 write
a story, the first chapter 4 would call
"Ihreo ks and the last chapter 4 would
call "Ihe pawnbrokera shop" Oh, beware
OF your influence.
The winter season 4 especially full Of
temptation, because OF the long evenings al
lowing such full swing for evil inlulgtnces
You can scarcely expect young mau 20 gc
into bis room and Ut there from 7 10 II
o'clock In the evening. reading Motoyf
"Dutoh Republic" or John Fosters essays.
II would be a beautiful thing for him 10 do,
but he viii not do Il. The most Of our
young men are busy On Offices In factories,
I'm banking houses IN aores. In shops. and
when evening comes they want the fresh air.
and tboy want Sightseeing and they must
have It., they will have Il. ard they ought 20
hayelt. Most OF the men here assembled will
have three or four evenings OF leisure on the
winter nights. After tea the man puts on
hts hat and coat and he goes out. Ono form
OF alluremont says, "C0me In here" Satan
Says 1T Is best fer you 90 90 IN. You
ought not 10 be so green. BY this time You
| ought TO have seen everything" And the
| temptations shall be mighty IA dull times
such as we have had. but which, / believe,
are gone, for I hear an over the land the
| prophecy OF great prosperity, and the rail-
/ road men and the merchants, they all tell me
! otthe days OF prosperity they think are COM
/ ing. and IN many departments they have al
/ ready come. and they are going to come
| In all departments, but those dull
I times through which we have
I passed have destroyed a great many men.
/ The question Of a livelihood Is with vast
/ multitude the great question. There are
| young men who expected before this 10 set
! up their household but they have been dis
/ appointed In the gains they have made.
| They cannot support themselves. how can
; they support others2 And, 20 the curse OF
| modern society, the theory Is abroad that a
/ man must not marry until he has achieved a
| fortune, when the twain ought 10 start
at the foot Of the hill and together climb to
the top.
That Is the old fashioned wav. and that
will be the new fashioned way II society Is
ever redeemed. But during the hard times,
! the Outlines, so many men were discouraged,
! 80 many men had nothing 70 do-they could
( get nothing 10 do-a pirate bore down on
4 the ship when the sails we're down and the
vessel was mallingn no Roadway. People say
they want more time 10 think. The trouble
IS, too many people ha We had too much time
10 think, and If 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
this audience
Then the winter has especial temptations
inthe fact that many homes are peculiarly
unattractiYe at this season. In the summer
months the young man can sit out on the
steps, or he can have 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 so 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, II is
dolorous for young people to sit in the house
from TO IL o'clock atnight and to hear par
| ents grOan about their ailments and the
nothingness Of this world. The nothingness
OF this world! How dare you talk such
blasphemy2 1t took God six DAYS TO make
this world, and He has allowed It 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 yet you dare talk about the nothingness
OF this world! Why, 1t is a magnificent
world. / do not believe in the whole uni
verse there is a world equal to it, except ii
be heaven. You cannot expect your chill
dren 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
violin or the picture. II does not require q
great salary, or big house, or chased sill
yer, or gorgeous upholstery to make happy
home. All that Is wanted is a fathers heart
a mothers heart, in sympathy with young
folks l have known a man with 500 sal
airy, and he had no other income. but he hat
a home so happy and bright that, though
the sons had gone out and won large for.
tunes and the daughters have gone out int
splendid spheres and become princesses Of so
ciety. they can never think of that earl,
home without tears of emotion. 1t was to then
the vestibule Of heaven, and all their man
: sions now and all their palaces now canno
make them forget that early place. Maxi
your homes happy. You 20 around you
, house growing about your rheumatism ant
acting the lugubrlous. and your sons will 81
into the world and plunge into dissipation
They will have their own rheumatisms afte
awhile. Do not forestall their misfortunes
You we're young once, and you had you
bright and joyous times. Now let the youn
folks have good time. stood in front o
/ house, and said to the owner of the house
"This is a splendid tree" He salt
in a whining tone, eyes. but /
viii fade" I walked around in hi
3 garden and said "This is a gloriou
r garden you have" eyes" he said, "but /
| will perish" Then he said to my littl
l child whom I was leading along. "Com
. and kiss me-" The child protested an
3 turned away. He said. "Oh, the perversit
5 of human naturep' Who would want t
; kiss him2 / was not surprised to find on
Z that his only son had become a vagabond
, You may groan people out Of decency. bu
. you can never groan them into It, and / de
l clare in the presence OF these men and VIC
men OF common sense that it is a most i'm
9 rortant thing for you to make your home
bright Il YOU want your sons and daughter
to turn out we'll
g Alas, that old people SO much misundel
J stand young folks! There was a great Sur
> day-school anniversary, and there wer
5. thousands Of children present-indced a
d the Sunday-schools OF the town were In tn
'. building, and it was very uproarious an
it | full of disturbance, and the presiding Office