The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-24

cards? Is there any harm in a game of
WHIST or euchre?" Well, I know good
men who play whist. and euchre. and 9TH
er styles of games without any Wagers
l had friend who played cards with his
wife and children. and then at the close
SAD: Come, now, let us have prayers"
Will not judge other mems cOnsciences
out / tell you that cards are in my mind
SO associated with the temporal and spir-
itudl rum or splendid young men, that l
would as soon say to my family: Come,
let us nave a game of cards" l would
20 INTO a menagerie and say: Come, let
US nave a game of rattlesnakes,' or into
cemetery, and sitting down by a marble
slao. say TO the gravediggers: Come let
US nave game at skulls" Conscientious
young ladies' are silently saying: do you
thlnk card-playing will do US any HARM
Ferhaps not, but how will YOU feel if in
the great day of eternity, when We are
asked to give an account of our influence
some man should say: Il was introduced
10 games of chance in the year 1898, at
your mouse, and went on from that sport
TO something more exciting, and went on
down until l lost my business, and lost
my morals. and lost my soul, and these
chains that you see on my wrists apd
feet are the chains of gamester's doom,
and am on my way to a gamblers he'll.
Honey at the start, eternal catastrophe
at the last
Safeguarding comes into the same
SdtoiO6uSs II must ne very tAillldId AHlE
TO go into the stock market and, depos-
iting 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 igno-
ramus if you do not know that it is just
as legitimate to deal in stocks as it is
to ceal in coffee, or sugar, or flour. But
nearly all the outsiders who go there on
financial excursion lose all. The old
spiders eat up the unsuspecting flies. l
had a friend who put his hand on his
hip pocket, and said in substance: Il
have there the value of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars" 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 newspapers discuss their fraud
or their disaster. and we are presented
with their features and their biography.
But where one such famous
firm sinks five hundred unknown
men sink with them. The great steamer
goes down, and all the little boats are
swallowed in the same enguifment Gam
bling is gambling, whether in stocks or
| breadstuffs, or dice, or race horse betting.
Exhilaration at the start, but raving
| brain, and a shattered nervous system,
and sacrificed property, and a destroyed
soul at the last. Young men, buy no lot
! terry tickets, purchase no prizepackages,
| bet on no base ball games or yacht rae
ing, have no faith in luck. answer no mys-
| ferrous circulars proposing great income
| for small investment. drive away the buzz
| yards that hover around our hotels try
| ing to entrap strangers Go out and make
an honest living. Have God on
your side, and be a candidate for heaven.
Remember all the paths of sin are bank
! ed with flowers at the start, and there are
| plenty of helpful hands TO fetch the gay
! charger 10 your door and hold the STIR
! rt1n E(11t n the
| horse plunges to the bit in a slough in
| eXtricable.
The best honey 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 banqueting table of mercy, at
| which we all invited to sit. was read
! ing of a boy among the mountains of
| Switzerland ascending a dangerous place
| with his father and the guides. 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 fall off" mo" said he II must get
that beautiful flower" and the guides
| rushed towards him 10 pull him back
when, just as they heard him say, II al
most have it," he fell two thousand feet.
Birds of prey were seen few days after
| circling through the air and lowering
gradually to the place where the corpse
| lay. Why seek flowers off the edge of a
| precipce when you can walk knee deep
amid the full blooms of the very Para
| disc of God? When a man may sit at
| the Kings banquet, why will he go down.
! the steps and contend for the refuse and
| bones of a hounds kennel? ''Sweeter than
honey and the honeycomb" says David,
! is the truth of God. with honey out of
! the rock would / have satisfied thee?"
| says God to the recreant. Here is honey
| gathered from the blossoms of trees of life,
| and with a rod made out of the wood of
! the cross / dip it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesiod tells of an ambrosia
! and a nectar, the drinking of which would
make men live forever, and one sip of the .
honey from the Eternal Rock viii give
you eternal life with God. Come off the
malariai levels of a sinful life. Come
! and live on the uplands of grace, where
| the vineyards sun themselves "Oh, taste
and see that the Lord is gracious!' Be
/ happy now and happy forever. For
| those who take a different course the
| honey will turn to gall. For many things
| 1 have admired Percy Shelley, the great
| English poet. but l deplore the fact that
| it seemed a great sweetness to him to dis
! honor God. The poem Queen Nab" has
in 1t the maligning of the Deity. Shelley
was impious enough to ask for Rowland
Hnl's Surrey chapel that he might re-
| nounce the Christian religion. He was in
| great glee against God and the truth But
! he visited Italy, and one day on the Medi-
! terranean with two friends in a boat which
! was twenty-four feet long he was coming
! toward shore when an hours squat struck
! the water. A gentleman standing on
| shore through a glass saw many boats
| tossed in this squall. but all outrode the
storm except one, i'm which Shelley and
! his two friends We're sailing. That never
came ashore, but the bodies of two of the
| occupants were washed upon the beach. one
| of them the poet. A funeral pyre was
! built on the sea shore by some classic
friends, and the two bodies were consumed.
| Poor Shelley He would have no God
while he lived, and 1 fear had no God
when he died THE Lord knoweth the
way of the righteous, but the way of the
ungodly shall perish" Beware of the
| forbidden honey!
Coming to It.-Farnum-"It is claimed
| that there was crookedness in the recent
national golf tournament"
| Barber-"Jorusaeml The next thinc. NJ.