The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-02-12

smith, and Glbbon, the famous MS
torian,-, and Charles Fox, the re-
moved statesman, and in olden- times,
senators of the United States, who
used to be'as regularly at thegambling
house all~night as they were in the
halls of legislation by dsy.sl Oh, the
tragedies of the faro table! 1 know
persons who began with slight stake
in ladies' parlor, and ended with the
suicides pistol at Monte Carlo. They
played with the square pieces OF bone,
with black marks on them, not'know-
ing that Satan was playing for their
bones at the same time, and was sure
to sweep all the stakes off on his side
of the table. State legislatures have
again and again sanctioned the mighty
evil by passing laws in defense of race
tracks, and many young men have
lost all their wages at such So
called meetings" Every man who
voted for such infamous bills has on
his hands and forehead the blood Of
these souls.
Stock gambling comes into the same
catalogue. 1t must be very exhilarat-
ing to go into the stock market and,
depositing small sum of money, run
the chance of taking out fortune.
Many men are doing an honest and safe
business in the stock market, and you
are an ignoramous if you do not know
that it is just as Legitimate to deal in
stocks as it is to deal in coffee, or SUI
gar, or -four But nearly all the out
siders who go there on a financial ex-
cursion lost all. The old spiders cat
up the unsuspecting flies. had a
friend whoput his hand on his hip
pocket and said in substance: Il have
here the value of $3.50, 000." His home
is to-day penniless. What was the
matter? Stock gambling. OF the vast
majority who are victimized you hear
not one word. One great stock firm
| goes down, and whole columns of news
papers 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. Exhiliara.
ton at the start, but raving brain,
and a shattered nervous system, and
sacrificed property, and destroyed
soul at the last Young men, buy no
lottery tickets, purchase no prize pack
ages bet on no baseball games or yacht
racing, have no faith in luck, answer
nomysterlous circulars proposing great
income 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 candi-
date for Heaven. Remen Der all the
paths of sin are banked with flowers
at the start aud there are plenty Of
helpful hands to fetch the gay charger
to your door and hold hesLlrrup while
you mount. But further Oh the horse
plunges 10 the bit in slough inextri-
cable. ."@. o.r1
The best oney is not like that which
Jonathan took on the end of the rod
and brought to his lips, but that which
God puts on the banqheting table Of
mercy, at which we are all invited to
sit. 1 was reading of Il boy among the
mountains of Switzerland ascending u
dangerous place with his father and
the guide. The boy stopped ON the
edge OF the cliff and said:
There is flower l mean to
get" Come away from there
said the father; you will faA off :"
No" said he; Unjust get that beau-
tiful flow en-" And-the guides rushed
toward him to pull him back, when,
just as they heard him say, II almost
nave it," he fell 1900 feet. Birds of
prey were seen a few days later circ-
ling through the air aud lowering
gradually to the place W here the corpse
lay. Why seek flowers of the
edge OF precipice when you can walk
knee-deep amid the full blooms of
the very paradise OF Goi2 When
u man may sta the Kings ban quet,
why will he go down tue steps aud
contend for the refuse, and boues Of a
hounds kennel? "Sweeter than hone
and honeycomb," says David, is the
truth Of God. with honey out of the
rock woald | have satisted tliee," says
God to the recreant Here is honey
gathered from theaDlossoms of trees OF
life, and with rod lnaIe out OF the
wood Of the cross dip it up for ell
your souls.
The poet Hesiod tells of an ambrosia
and u nectar, tile 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 nalarial levels of sinful
life. Come and live on the uplands oil
grace, where the vineyards sun them
selves. "On, taste and see that the Lord
is graciousW BE happy now aud happy
forever. For those who take u differ
' ent course the honey will turn to gall
For many things have admired Percy
Shelley, the great English poet, but i
deplore the lact that it seemed great
, sweetness to him to dlshonor God. The
poem Queen Nab has in it the ma
liguing Of the Diety. Shelley was i'm
plous enough to ask for Rowland Hills
Surrey Chapel that he might denounce
. the Christian religion. lie was in grea
! gIee- against God aud the truth. But
his visited Italy, and one day on TIL,
Mediterranean with two friends in i
boat which was ~ feet long he was
coming toward shore when an hour,
squall struck the water. A gentleman
standing on the shore through glas.
J, saw many boats tossed in this squall