The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-01-16

charitable institutions; / viii devote
one to the club" congratulate you.
Here is a man who says, Il viii make
a different division OF the six nights.
will take three for the club and three
for other purposes" / tremble. Here
is a man who says, "Out OF the six sec
ular nights of the week. will devote
FIVE to the club house and one to the
home, which night / will spend In
scowling like March squall, wishing
was outspending It as had spent the
other FIVE" That man S obituary Is
written. Not one out OF ten thousand
that ever gets SO far on the wrong
road ever stops. Gradually his health
will fail. through late hours and
through too much stimulus. He will
be first-rate prey for erysipelas and
rheumatism OF the heart. The doctor
coming in will at a glance see II is not
only present disease he must fight, but
years Of fast living. The clergyman, for
the sake OF the feelings Of the family.
on the funeral day. will only talk In
religious generalities. The men who
got his yacht in the eternal rapids will
not be at the obsequies- They will
have pressing engagements that day.
They will send flowers to the cofin lid,
and send their wives to utter words OF
| sympathy. but they will have engage
ments elsewhere. They never come.
Bring me mallet and chisel, and will
cut on the tombstone that mans cpl
taph, Blessed are the dead who 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" NO" you say. that
would not be appropriate" Then give
me the mallet and chisel, and will
cut an honest epitaph: Here lies the
victim of a dissipating club houseT'
think that damage is often done by the
scions of some aristocratic family, who
belong to one OF these dissipating club
houses. People coming up from hum
bier classes feel il an honor to belong
to the same club, forgetting the fact
that many OF the sons and grandsons
OF the large commercial establishments
of the last generation are now. as to
mind, imbecile; as to body. diseased; as
to morals, rotten. They would have got
through their property long ago IL they
had full possession Of II; but the Willy
ancestors, who earned the money by
hard knocks, foresaw how IL was to be,
and they tied up everything in the Will.
Now. there is nothing OF that unworthy
descendant but his grandfather's name
and roast beef rotundity. And yet how
many steamers there are which feel
honored to lash fast that worm-eaten
tug. though Il drags them straight into
the breakers.
Oh, my heart achesi see men strug-
Cling against evil habits. and they want
help. ! have knelt beside them, and I
have heard them cry for help. and
then We have risen. and he has put one
hand on my right shoulder. and the
other hand on ny left shoulder. and
looked into my face with an infinity OF
earnestness which the judgment day
will have no power to make me forget,
as he cried out with his lips scorched in
ruin. God help met For such there is
no help except in the Lord God Al
mighty. I am going TO make a very
stout rope. You know that sometimes
, a rope maker will take very small
threads and wind them together until
after a while they become ship cable
And l am going to take some very
small. delicate threads. and wind them
together until they make a very stout
/ rope. | will take all the memories oi
the marriage day. a thread OF laughter
a thread of light. a thread OF music. 8
! thread OF banqueting. a thread OF con
! graduation, and twist them together
and I have one strand. Then / take Z
thread of the hour OF the first advent il
J your house. a thread OF the darkness
. that preceded. and thread OF the ligh
. that followed. and a thread OF the beau
tiful scarf that little child used to veal
when she bounded out at eventide e
greet you. and then a thread OF thu
beautiful dress in which you laid he
away for the resurrection. And then
twist all these threads together. and
nave another strand. Then l take I
thread OF the scarlet robe OF a suffer
. ing Christ. and a thread of the whit
!, raiment Of your loved ones before tn
= throne. and a string OF the harp cheru
: bic. and a string OF the harp seraphic
and | twist them all together. and
2 have a third strand. oh. you say
G either strand is strong enough TO hol'
L fast a world" No. l will take thes
4 strands, and I will twist them together
: and one end OF that rope l will fasten
s not to the communion table. for II shal
d he removed-not to the pillar OF tn
l. organ. for that will crumble In tn
5. ages but | wind II round and 'roun
e the cross OF a sympathizing Christ an
e having fastened one end OF the rope I
e the cross, throw the other end to yoI
l. Law hold OF IL! Pull for your life! Pu
a for heaveni
le The LAplanders.
IS The Iaplanders inhabit the north
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