The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-25
TEMPERANCE LESSON.
Sunday school Lesson In the Interna-
tfonaI Lesson Series for November
~, 1898 : Proverbs 4,1O-19.
rBased upon Peloubet's Select Notesl

BIASED upon Peloubets Select NoteS.J
GOLDElT TEXT.-My son, if sinners en-
tice thee, consent thou not-Prov. lilo.
A FATHERS COUNSEL TO HIS SON.
The fourth Sunday il November is
observed as Temperance Sunday i'll
Great Britain.-Int. Com.
10. Hear, o my son. and receive my
sayings" This is one way of keeping
the Fifth Commandment. Honor thy
Gather and thy mother" and it wins
the blessing of this First Command
ment with promise" Disobedience
to parents quickly leads tc disobedi-
ence to the laws food and of country,
which. more than all other things,
shortens life and destroys prosperity.
.eAnd the years of thy life shall be
MANY" In accordance with the prom
Use in the Fifth Commandment, and
Fph. 6:1-3. Obedience TO parents is
connected with virtuous habits that
are conducive to long life. 1t will
make a child Industrious, temperate,
sober.
I. The Way of Wisdom.-ys. lib.
All that is true of the earthly parent is
infinitely more true of our Heavenly
Father and Divine Wisdom as per-
sonified in the Proverbs. II. Il have
taught thee" All that He says, and
every commandment He gives. have
for their purpose to lead His children
sin the way of wisdom" and Sin the
right paths:" No one ever followed
4ba Rihle into evil WAYS
IL. "ThS steps shall not be strait
ened:" Narrow ed. confined, as with
letters. On the contrary, he shall be
as ''free as the wind wherever it blows"
because he is going in the right way.
10. Take fast hold of instruction"
letc.: Instruction is ~ the material
with which wisdom works; ~ it is the
food of wisdom. ny which it grows;
80 1t is the guide of wisdom, directing
its energies: (4) it makes the work of
wisdom permanent For she is thy
ilife:" It is essential to a well-ordered
and successful life.
H. The Way of Folly.-Vs. 1917. IA.
Enter not into the path of the
wicked" He that does not enter will
never walk therein, or reach its terri
Bile end.
It is almost universally acknowl-
edged that strong drink is one of the
greatest incentives and encourage
ments to all kinds of sin and wicked
ness. One of the easiest and most
tempting ways of entering the path of
the wicked is through the gate of q
moderate use of intoxicating drinks.
They are so pleasant and seem so harm
less. But every drunkard in the world
entered through this gate. All who
travel on the Black Valley railroad
took the train in the beautiful valley
of the Crystal river.
IS. avoid IT." For you cannot see
the end CT the way. No one is safe
who enters the place of temptation.
16. They sleep not" etc. Crime is
wrought into their very natures. 1t
becomes part of their life as the
poison tooth is a part of the serpent.
IT, For they eat the bread of
wickedness:" They get their living by
wickedness, and injuring others. This
Is the true meaning rather than Schulz
tens rendering: "For wickedness do
they eat as bread, and violence do they
drink as wine" No one who enters
the path of the wicked realizes to what
it will lead, or he imagines that he will
turn away from that path before he
comes to its end.
III. The Contrast.-Vs. 10, 10. 10.
"The path of the just is as the shining
light" Not like the sun going from
dawn to midday, since Christ is that
light, but like the coming of the dawn,
from the first ray of light on the clouds
in the east, through a struggle be-
tween the darkness and the dawn,
growing brighter and brighter, light
ing the hilltops, scattering the fogs
and shades of the valleys, till at last
the eternal day of life and light has
fully dawned.
10. ''The way of the wicked is as
darkness" where men stumble, and
s'know not at what they stumble:" 1t
Is the darkness of ignorance, of sorrow,
of sin, of punishment, Of hopelessness,
of despair.
The result of observation by Hon.
'Chauncey M. Depew, president of the
New York Central Railroad company,
in a talk to railroad men: Twenty
i've years ago knew every man, WON
an and child in Peekskill. And it has
been study with me to mark boys
who started in every grade of life with
myself, to see what has become of
them. I was up last fall and began to
count them over. and it was an in
structive exhibit. Some of them be-
came clerks, merchants, manufacture
ers, lawyers, doctors. It is remark
able thai. every one of those that drank
is dead; not one living of my age.
Barring a few who were taken off by
sickness, everyone that proved a wreck
and wrecked his family did it from
rum and no other cause. Of those who
are church-going people, who were
steady, Industrious and Woodworking
men, who were frugal and thrifty
every single one of them, without an
exception, owns the house in which he
lives and has something laid by, the