The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-09
THE OPENING WINTER.
Many Temptations That Allure With
Fatal Brilllancy, I. Fl.
And Lead Young Nrn 20 Everlasting Ruin
satan Gathers n Rich Harvest Under
the Gasiight these Winter Nights
Rev. Dr. Tnlmage's Sermon.


subject of his sermon ".rhe Opening
winter" The text selected will be
found in Titus iii 10: II have deter.
mined there to winter"
Paul was not independent of the sea-
cons. He sent for his overcoat to
Troas on a memorable occasion. And
now In the text he is making arrange
xnents for the approaching cold
weather, and makes an appointment
with Titus to meet him at Necopolis
saying! II have determined there to
winter" Well, this is the eighth day
Of December, and the second Sabbath
of winter. We have had n few shrill,
sharp blasts already, forerunners of
whole regiments of storms and tenn
pests. No one here needs to DE
Aold that we are in the opening
gates of the winter. This season is
not only test of ones physical endur-
knce, but in our great cities is a
sest of moral character A vast num-
her of people have by one winter Of
dissipation been destroyed and for
ever Seated in our homes on some
stormy night, the winds bowling out
.
~ driven on the coast, but any winter
night, il our ears were good enough,
we could hear the crash Of a thousand
raOral shipwrecks. There are many
PEOPLE who came to the cities on the
Erst of September who will be blasted
by the FIRST of March. At this season
Of the year temptations are especially
rampant Now that the long winter
evenings have come there are many
who will employ them in high pur-
snits, in intelligent sOcialities, in
Christian work. in the strengthening
and ennobling Of moral character, and
this winter to many of you will be the
! brightest and the best Of all your
Ewes, and in anticipation I congratu-
bate you. But to others it may not
have such effect, and charge you, my
Beloved, look out where you spend
{ your winter nights.
< lu the first place, l have to remark
ehat at this season of the year evil
. nllurements are especially busy. There
n not very much temptation for a man
TO plunge in on a hot night amid
siazing gaslights, and to breathe the
Setid air Of an assemblage but in the
4 cold nights Satan gathers great har-
4 vest At such times the casinos are in
full blast At such time the grogshops
In one night make more than in four
or Eve nights in summer. At such
times the play bills OF low places OF
entertainment seem especially attrac-
aiye, and the acting is especially i'm
pressive, and the applause es-
Pecially bewitching. Many a man
who has kept right all the rest
Of the year will be capsiEed
aow, and though last autumn he
came from the country and there was
mister in his eye and there were roses
in the cheek and elasticity in the step,
BY tie time the spring hour has come
you will pass him in the street and say
20 your friend: Whats the matter
with that man? How differently he
looks from what he looked last Sep
aember" Slain of one winters dis
Ripstion. At this time OF the year
ancre are many entertainments II we
rightly employ them, and they are OF
she right kind, they enlarge our 60
ssalities, allow us to make import
snt acquaintance, build us up in our
0orals and help us in "a thousand
ways can scarcely think of any
Shing better than good neighborhood.
&ut there are those entertainments
from which others will come besoiled
kn character There are those who by
Abe springtime will be broken down
m health, and though at the opening
Of the season their prospects were
bright, at the close of the season they
will be in the hands Of the doctors, OIL
sleeping in the cemetery. The certih
cate Of death will be made out, and
che physician, to save the feelings o.
she family, will call the disease by
latin name. But the doctor knows
and every body else knows, they died o.
400 many levees Away with all these
sine-drinling convivialties How dare
you, the father of a family, tempt th'
appctites Of the young people? Per
haps at the entertainment, TO save the
seflings OF the minister or some othel
seak temperance man, you leave tn
aecanter in side room, and only
4 Aw people are invited there TO par
lake; but il is easy enough to know
\ shen YOU come out by the glare Of you
I re and the stencil of your breath
NAT you have been serving the devil
1 Men sometimes excuse themselve
and say, after late suppers it Is neces
nary TO take some sort of stimulen
@aid digestion. My plain opinion
lsat II you have no more self-contro
4 Nan TO stuff yourself until ycur al
\ vsative organs refuse their Office, yol
nd better not call yourselfa man, blu
Ass yourself among the beasts thai
X l1NlAh AZ this snaann ~ the YEAR Lh