The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-01-27


but ! tell you that cards are In my
mind % associated with the temporal
and spiritual ruin Of splendid young
men that would - soon say to my
family. Come. let us have a game
Of cards." ~ would 90 into men
ageris and say. Come. let Us have a
game Of rattlesnskes." or into a cem-
etery and sitting down by a marble
slab say to tbs grayeaiSgers. Come.
let US have game at skulls."
Stock gambling comes into the same
catalogue. It must be very exhilar-
ating to 60 te the stock market and de-
posting a small sum Of money run the
chance Of taking out fortune. Many
men are doing an honest and safe bus
mess In the stock market and you are
an ignoramus II you do not know that
1t Is just as legitimate to deal In stocks
as 1t is to deal in coffee or sugar or
fiour. But nearly all the outsiders
who go there on q financial excursion
lose all. The old spiders eat up the
unsuspecting flies. had a friend who
put his hand on his hip pocket and
said IN substance, II have there the
value Of $250,000." His home is to-
day penniless. What was the matter?
Stock gambling. or the vast majority
who are victimized you hear not a
word. One great stock firm goes
down and whole columns OF newspa-
pers discuss their fraud or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their
features and their biography. But
where one such famous firm sinks 500
unknown men sink with them. The
great steamer goes down and all the
little boats are swallowed in the same
engulfment.
Gambling Is gambling, whether In
stocks or breadstuffs or dice or race
horse betting. Exhilaration at the
start. but a raving brain and shat
tered nervous system and sacrificed
property and q destroyed soul at the
last. Young men. buy no lottery tick
cts. purchase no prize packages, bet
on no baseball games or yacht racing,
have no faith in luck, answer no mys-
terious circulars proposing great in
come for small investment, drive
away the buzzards that hover around
our hotels trying to entrap strangers.
Go out and make an honest living.
Have God on your side and be a can
didate for heaven. Rsnsmhsr all tho
paths Of sin are banked with flowers
at the start, and there are plenty of
helpful hands to fetch the gay charger
to your door and hold ~ stirrup
while you mount. But farther on the
horses plunges to the bit In Q slough
inextricable.
The best honey 10 ~ hks that
which Jonathan took on the end Of
the rod and brought to his lips, but
that which God puts on the banquet
Ing table Of mercy. at which we are
all invited to sit. was reading of a
boy among the mountains OF Switzer-
land ascending q dangerous place with
his father and the guides. The boy
stopped on the edge Of tho cliff and
said. There Is a flower I mean to
get" Come away from there" said
the father. you will fall or" NO."
said he II must get that beautiful
flower" And the guides rushed to-
ward him to pull him back when, Just
as they heard him say. II almost have
1t" he fell 1000 fest. Birds OF prey
were seen a few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradu-
ally to the place where the corpse lay.
Why seek flowers of the edge Of a
precipice when you can walk knee
deep amid the full blooms of the par
adlse of God? When a man may sit
at the kings banquet. why will he go
down the steps and contend for the re-
fuse and bones of hounds kennel?
"sweeter than honey and the honey
comb" says David. = t4s 1..sA Of
God. With honey cut Of The rock
would have satisfied thee" says God
to the recreant. HsPo 70 honey gath
cred from the blossoms o. trees of life,
and with rod MAAa 0st q the wood
OF the cross l dip Il up for all your
souls.
The poet Hesiod tells OF an ambro-
sia and nectar the drinking OF which
would make men live forever, and one
sip Of the honey from the eternal rock
will give you eternal life with God.
Come off the malarial levels OF a sin
full life. Come and live on the up
lands Of grace. where the vineyards
sun themselves. "Oh, taste and see
that the Lord is gracious!" Be happy
now and happy forever. For those
who take a differen4 ees..Iea tia haR.
ey will turn to gall. For many things
have admired Percy Shelly, the great
English poet, but l deplore the fact
that 1t seemed great sweetness to
him to dishonor God. The poem
Queen Nab" has in 1t the maligning
OF the diety. Shelley was impious
enough to ask for Rowland Hills Sur
rey chapel that he might denounce
the Christian religion. He was in