The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29


ish, and the heroines SO bewitchingly
untrue, and the turn OF the story SO ex
quisite, and all the characters SO en-
rapturing, l can not quit them" Ny
brother, my sister, you can find style!
OF literature just rs charming tina
will elevate, and purify. and ennoble
and Christianize while they please
The devil does not own all the
honey. There Is u wealth of gooC
books coming forth from our publish
ing houses that leave no excuse for tn,
choice of that which is debauching u
body, mind and soul. Go to some in
telligent man or woman, and ask for {
list OF books that will be strengthening
to your mental and moral condition
Life is so short and your time for i'm
provement 80 abbreviated that you car
not afford to I'LL up with husks, anc
cinders, and debris. In the interstices
of business that young man is reading
that which will prepare him to be O
merchant prince, and that young won
an is filling her mind with an intelli
gence that will yet either make hei
the chief attraction OF good mans
of character that will qualify her
to build her own home and main.
tain it in happiness that re-
quires no augmentation from any OF
our rougher sex. That young man or
young woman can, by the right liter
| airy or moral improve ment of the
spare ten minutes here or there every
day. rise head and shoulders in pros
perity, and character, and influence
above the loungers who read nothing,
or read that which bedwarfs. See all
! the forests OF good American literature
dripping with honey. Why pick up
the honeycombs that have in them the
fiery bees which will sting you with
an eternal poison while you taste it?
One book may for you or me decide
everything for this world and the
next.I Twas turning point with me
when in IA book store in Syracuse one
day | picked up IA book called The
Beauties Of Ruslsin." 1t was on V II book
of extracts, but it was all pure honey,
and | was not satisfied until |
had purchased all his works, at that
time expensive beyond an easy cap
acity to own them, and with what de-
light | went through reading his
''Sevcn Lamps Of Architecture" and
his Stones of Venice" it is impossible
for mo to describe, except by saying
that it gave me rapture for good
books and an everlasting disgust for
decrepit or immoral books that will
last me while my life lasts. All around
the church and the world to-day there
are busy hives of intelligence occupied
by authors and authoresses from whose
pens drip "A distillation which is the
very nectar OF Heaven, and why will
you thrust your rod of inquisitiveness
INTO the beautiful saccharine of per-
dition?
Stimulating liquids also come into
the category of temptation delicious
but beautiful. You say: IL can not
bear the taste of Intoxicating liquor
and how any man can like it is TO me
an amazemcnt." Well, then, it is no
credit to you that you do not take it,
DO not brag about your total absti-
nence, because it is not from any prn-
ciple that you reject alcoholsm, but
for the reason that you reject certain
styles of food-you simply don't like
the taste OF them. But multitudes of
people have a natural fondness for all
kinds of intoxicants. They like it SO
much that it makes them smack their
lips to look at it. They are dyspeptic
and they like to aid digestion; or they
are annoyed by insomnia, and they
take it to produce sleep; or they are
troubled, and they take it to make
them oblivious; or they feel happy. and
they must celebrate their hilarity.
They begiu with mint julep sucked
through two straws on the Long
Branch piazza and end in the ditch
taking from jug liquid half kero-
sene and half whisky. They not only
like it, but it is an all-consuming pas
sion Of body, mind and soul, and after
awhile have it they will, though one
wineglass of IL should cost the tenn
poral and eternal destruction of them
selves, and all their families, and the
whole human race. They would say:
Il am sorry it is going TO cost me, and
my family, and all the wod's popula-
ton so very much, but here it goes to
my lips, and now let it roll over nv
parched tongue and down my heated |
throat the sweetest, the most inspir-
ing the most delicious draught that
ever thrilled n human frame. To cure
the habit before it came to its last
stages, various plans were tried in |
olden times. This plan was recommend |
ed in the books; when man wanted |
to reform he put shot or bullets into
the cup or glass of strong drink-one
additional shot or bullet each day, that
displaced so much liquor. Bullet after
bullet added day by day, of course the |
liquor became less and less until the
bullets would entirely fill up the glass,
and there was no room for the LID uid,
and by that time it was said the in
ebriate would be cured. Whether any,
one ever was cured in that way know
not, but by long experiment it is found
that the only way is to stop short OFF,
aud when n man does that he needs
God to help him. And there have been
more cases than you can count when
God has 30 helped the man that he left
off the drink forever; and / could
count q score of them, some of them
pillars in the house of God.
Furthermore, the gamester's indul-
gence must be put in the list of temp
tations delicious but destructive. You