Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-08-11

out all going down, and that work
proceeds day by day. and night by
night. That cart-rope," says some
young man, has never been wound
around my soul" But have not some
threads OF that cart-rope been twisted?
arraign before God the gift enter
prises of our cities, which have a ten
dency to make this n nation of gam
blers. Whatever you get, young man.
IN such place as that, without giving
proper equivalent, is "a robbery of
your own soul and "A robbery of the
community. Yet, how we are appalled,
to see men who have failed in other
enterprises 60 into gift concerts, where
the chief attraction is not music. bu
the prizes distributed among the nudi
ence; or to sell books where the chief
attraction Is not the book, but tho
package that goes with the book To-
bacco dealers advertise that on n GER
tain day they will put money into
their papers, so that the purchaser
OF this tobacco in Cincinnati or
New York may unexpectedly come
upon magnificent gratuity. Boys
hawking through the cars packages
containing nobody knows what, until
you open them and find they contain
nothing. Christian men with pictures
on their wall gotten in lottery, and
the brain of community taxed To find
out some new way of getting things
without paying for them. Oh, younp
men. these are threads that make the
cart rope, and when young man con-
sents TO these practices, he is BEING
bound hand and foot by "A habit which
has already destroyed "a great multi
tude that no man can num-
Der Sometimes these gift enter
prises are carried on in the
name of charity; and some OF YOU
rcmemb Der at the close of our civil war
how many gift enterprises were on
foot, the proceeds to go TO the orphans
and widows OF the soldiers and sailors.
what did the men who had charge of
those gift enterprises care for the or
phans and widows? Why, they would
have allowed them TO freeze to death
upon their steps have no faith in
charity which, for the sake OF reIiev-
ing present suffering, opens a gaming
jaw that has swallowed down SO much
of the virtue and COOL principle of tho
community Young man, have moth.
ing 10 do with these things. They
y
OF chance. DO one OF two things: be
honest or die
L have accomplished nv object If [
put you on the lookout 1t is a great
deal easier to fall than it is to get IN
again. The trouble is that when men
begin to go astray from the path OF
duty, they are apt TO say, there's no
use of my trying to get back. I've
sacrificed my respec liability. | can't re-
turn and they go on until they arc
utterly destroyed. | tell you, nv
friends, that God this moment, by His
Holy spirit, can change your entire
nature, SO that you will be
ulHerent man in minute.
Your great want-what is itP
More salary? Higher social positionp
No, no. | will tell you the great want
of every man, if he has not already
obtained it 1t is the grace of God.
Are there any who have fallen veins
TO the sin that have been reprei end
ing? You are in prison Nou
rush against the wall OF this prison
and try to get out, and you fail: and
you turn around and dash against the
other wall until there is blood on the
CRATES, and blood on your soul You
Will never get out in this way.
There Is only one way of getting
out. There is key that can unlock
this prison house. 1t is the kew OF
the house of David. 1t is the KEY that
Christ wears at his girdle II YOU will
allow Him 70 put that key to the lock.
the bolt will shoot back. and the door
will swing open, and you will be free
man in Christ Jesus. Oh, prodipal.
what business this is for you. feed.
ing swine, when your father stands in
the front door, straining his eyesight
TO eaten the first glimpse of your re-
turn; and the calf Is as fat as il will be.
and the harps Of Heaven are all
strung. and the feet free There are
converted gam blers in Heaven The
light of eternity flashed upon
the green baiz. OF the billiard.
saloon In the laver OF Gods
forgiveness they washed off all
their sin. They quit trying for earthly
stakes. They tried for Heaven and won
H. There stretches a hand from
Heaven toward the head Of the worst
offender Il is a hand, not clenchcd
as If 10 smitc, but outsp rcad as IL To
drop benediction. Other seas have
a shore and may be fathomed. but tho
sea of Gods love-eternity has no
plummct To strike the bottom.
and immersitv no iron bound shore
TO conhnc it, Its tides are lifted
by the heart OF infinite compass
sion. Its waves are the hosan-
mains OF the redce med The arrosies
That sail on IL drop anchor at last amid
the laundering salvo of eternal VIC
tory But alas for that man who sits
down 90 the final game OF life and puts
ms immortal soul on the ace. while the
angels OF God keep the tally board;
and after kings, and queens and
knavcs and spades arc "shuflsi" and
cut. and the game is ended. hover
ing and impending worlds discover
that he has lost IL, the faro-b bank OF
eternal darkness clutching down into
ITS wallet all the blood stained vavers.
THERE is no known antidote for the
bite Of the tiger snake OF Australia.
Persons bitten die almost instantly.
and the government has standing Of.
fer Of $1,000 for any one who will dis.
cover remedy some few years ayc
"a man actually discovered an eHica.
cIous autdotc. To prove It's value b.,
allowed himself 20 be bitten rcpeatcd
ly by snakes iu full possession Of tl.
power tp ISL. One day he gave an o..
Dol bliIOu before Some rpysrr-..rt 90.