The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-30
BY Jove Manhattan's pressed pants
With the boys are all the go,
They always look SO deucedly charming,
Really don't you know.
Trousers pressed, oO6 King street.
ML.oI,s unMIse Choica.o .

L0is Unwlse Choice"
A sermon by Rev. Ezra Tinker, d. D
LID. at Asbury last Sunday evening, be
fore large congregation. The reverend
gentleman took his text from Genesis IL
IL, "Then Lot chose him all the plain o
Jordan, etc." He discoursed as follows
That was an important interview which
Abraham had with his nephew Lot In re
spect to the difficulties that had arisen be
tween the herdmen Of the former ant
those Of tho latter.
How beautiful and touching are Abrams
words: Let there be no strife l pray
thee between Inc and thee, and between
my herdmen and thy herdmen for we be
brethrenS Is not the whole land before
us? Separate thyself, pray thee from me.
III thou will take the left hand then will
go to the right, or If thou will go to the
right hand, then l will go to the left.
We have too few examples of this kind
of generosity inf sacred writ, and too few
in everyday life. IL is much easier for poor
sinful human nature to be harsh and ex-
acting than 1t is to DO generous and for
giving. But, If mankind had been built
upon the same noble ami generous pattern
of Abram, the world would have seen
less of bloodshed, war and rapine. Ere
long we might beat our swords into
plough shares and our spears into pruning
hooks.
If Abram manifested o commcndable
generosity, Lot likewise manifested q
remarkable readiness to make the most Of
his uncles generous offer.
The record is full. And Lot lifted up
his eyes and beheld all the plain OF Jordan
that 1t was well watered everywhere
before the Lord destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah even as the garden Of tho Lord.
Like the land Of Egypt. as Thou CONTEST
unto Boaz"
BY the generosity of Abram, Lot was
fully empowered to make his own choice.
He became the arbiter of his own destiny.
Ii he had gone northward he might have
pitched his tent upon the rich and beauti-
full plains of Esdraelon, fed his tlocks and
herds on the gentle slopes facing the Jor-
dan and Mount Gilead beyond, or on those
other slopes reaching down towards the
west until they are lost in the plains
stretching along the Mediterranean Sea.
He yields to the facinations of the eye and
to the glowing prospects of large supplies.
He turns southwark. He pitches his tent
toward Sodom.
God in His infinite wisdom has placed
these things which belong to our present
and eternal welfare within the power of
choice, after having given us all neceS-
sary light.
1t is great bestowment, and with the
gift comes large responsibility.
1t Is far more honorable to be man
tban u machine; Il rational being than
mere lump of clay.
The value of machine Is estimated by
the number of its wheels, their revolutions
or their power Of endurance. Bit not SO
do we estimate the value of men.
Moral, intellectual and spiritual forces
are not graded by material measurements
The power Of choice if exercised with
the highest wisdom and under the guild.
ance of tho Divine Spirit will prove
blessing to every recipient Of such
power.
We my dear hearers are not unlike the
nephew Lot If left entirely to ourselves
we would almost invariabe make the un-
wise choise Little did Lot think that
when he departed soutbward and east
ward and pitched his tent toward Sodom
that he was pitching it in the midst of
Divine wrath and Divine fire. There was
no voice that spake to him from the skies
like the voice that called Samuel.
But even if he had heard voice he
might have rejected it, rs many another
person has done when God has spoken to
him. The antediluvians heard the word
of the Lord at the hands of Noah laughed
and continued their debaucheres and de-
fled the Most High.
Beware how you make the unwise
choice and pitch your tent toward Sodom.
Lot barely escaped with his life, and left
behind record of his folly as warning
to all on coming generations.
Beware! Beware! Make the wise choice
and not the unwise, and happiness and
heaven shall be your eternal inheritance.