The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-15

| wlfe DrOken-nearted or prelnaturely
old, his fortune gone or reduced, and
his home mere name in directory.
Here are six secular nights in the
week. "What shall / do with themp'
says the father and the husband. II
will give four of those nights to the inn
provement and entertainment of my
| family, either ut home or in good neigh
borhood; will devote one to charita-
BILE institutions; l will devote one to
the club" / congratulate you. Here
is n man who says: IL will make n
different division Of the six nights.
l will take three for the club and three
for other purposes" l tremble. Here
is a man who says: "Out of the six
secular nights of the week l will de-
vote five to the club house and one to
the home, which night l will spend in
scowling like n March squall, wishing
i was out spending it as l had spent
the other FIVE" That mans obituary
is written. Not one out of 10000 that
ever gets so far on the wrong road ever
'stops. Gradually his health will fail,
through late hours and too much
stimulus. He will be first-rate prey
for erysipelas and rheumatism of the
heart. The doctor coming in will at
n glance see it is not only present dis
ease he must fight, but years of fast liv-
ing. The clergyman, for the sake OF the
feelings of the family, on the funeral
day will only talk in religious general
tiles. The men who got his yacht in
the eternal rapids will not be at his
obsequies. They will have pressing en-
gagements that day. They will send
flowers to the coffin lid, and send their
wives to utter words of sympathy, but
they will have engagements elsewhere.
They never come. Bring me mallet and
chisel, and will cut on the tombstone
that mans epitaph: blessed are the
deadOwho die in the Lord.
NO" you say, that would not be
appropriate" Let me die the death
of the righteous, and let my last end
be like his" mo" you say, that
would not be appropriate. Then give
me the mallet and chisel, and l will
cut an honest epitaph: Here lies the
victim of II dissipating club house" |
think that damage is often done by
the scions OF some aristocratic family,
who belong to one of these dissipat-
ing club houses. People coming up
from humber classes feel it an honor
to belong to the same club, forgetting
the fact that many of the sons and
grandsons of the large commercial es-
Establishments of the last generation
are now. as to mind, imbecle; as to
body, diseased; rs to morals, rotten.
"a
property long ago if they had had full
possession of it; but the willy nnccs-
tors, who earned the money by hard
knocks, foresaw how it was To be, and
they tied up everything in the will.
Now, there is nothing of that UNI
worthy descendant but his grand
fathers name and roast beef ratundi-
ty. And yet how many steamers there
are which feel honored to lash fast
that worm-eatcn tug, though it drags
them straight into the breakers.
The way to conquer wild beast is
to keep your eye on him, but the way
for you to conquer your temptations,
my friend, is to turn your back on them
and fly for your life.
Oh, my heart aches! l see men
struggling against evil habits, and
they want help. l have knelt beside
them, and | have heard them cry for
help, and then we have risen, and he
has put one hand on my right shoul-
der, and the other hand on my left
shoulder, and looked into my face
with an affinity of earnestness
which the Judgment day will have
ma IN
as he has cried out with his lips
scorched in ruin God help me-"
For such there is no help except in the
Lord God Almighty. | am going to
make very stout rope. You know
that sometimes II ropemalier will take
very small threads and wind thefHSto,
gether until after awhile they NbG-
come ship cable. And | am go
ing TO take some very smalB del
icate threads and wind them to-
gethcr until they make a very stout
rope. | will take all the members of
the marriage day u thread OF laughter,
a thread of light, a thread of music, a
thread of banqueting, thread OF con-
graduation and | twist them together,
and | have one strand. ThenSI take
II thread of the hour of the first
advent in your house, u threadjo OF the
darkness that preceded and IL thread |
of the light that followed, and athread
of the beautiful scarf that little child |
used to wear when she boundedbout at |
evcntide togreet you, and then a}thread
of the beautiful dress in WHICH you
laid her away for the resurrection. |
And then L twisted all these |
threads together, and l have Another
strand. Then take n thread of |
the scarlet robe of suffering Christ,
and thread of the white raiment of |
your loved ones before the throne, and |
II string of the harp cherubic, and
string of the harp seraphic, and Twist
them all together, and L have third
strand. on" you say, either strand |
is strong enough To- hold fast n world."
No. | will take these Strands and |
will twist them together, and one end |
of that rope l will fasten, not to the
communion table, for it shall be sre-
moved-not to the pillar of the organ,
for that will crumble in the ages, but
wind it round and round the cross
of sympathizing Christ, and having |
fastened one end of the rome tn the |