Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-11-24
TEMPERANCE LESSON.
Sunday school Lesson il. the Interna-
tIonnI Lesson Series fer November
-. 1s0s - Proverbs 4:IO-I9.

A FATHERS COUNSEL TO HIS SON.
The fourth Sunday in November is
observed as Temperance Sunday" in
Great Britain.-Int. Com.
10 Hear, o my son. and receive my
sayings:" This is one way of keeping
the Fifth Commandment, Honor thy
father and thy mother" and il wins
the blessing of this First Command
ment with promise" Disobedience
TO parents quickly leads tc disobedl-
ence to the laws Of God and of country,
which, more than all other things,
shortens life and destroys prosperity.
And the years of thy life shall be
many" In accordance with the prom
ise in the Fifth Commandment, and
Eph. G:1-3 Obedience 10 parents is
connected with virtuous habits that
are conducive to long life. 1t will
make a child industrious, temperate
sober.
1. The Way of Wisdom.-vs. 11-13.
All that is true of the earthly PARENTS
infinitely more true of our Heavenly
Father and Divine Wisdom as per-
sonifed in the Proverbs. II. II have
taught thee:" All that He says, and
every commandments lie gives, have
for their purpose to lead His children
'sin the way Of wisdom and ''in the
right PATHS: No one ever followed
the Bible into evil WAYS
12 Thy steps shall not be strait
ened:" Narrowed. confined. as with
letters. On the contrary, be shall be
as free as the wind wherever II blows,
because he is going in the right way.
49, Take fast hold Of instruction,
etc: Instruction is "a the material
with which wisdom works; ~ il is the
food of wisdom, by which il grows;
90 it is the guide of wisdom, directing
its energies; ca it makes the work Of
wisdom permanent. For she is thy
life" 1t essential to a well-ordered
and successful life.
II. The Way of Folly.-vs. 14-17. IA.
Enter not into the path of the
wicked:" He that does not enter will
never walk therein, or reach its terri
bic end.
1t is almost universally acknowl-
edged that strong drink is one of the
greatest incentives and encourage
ments to all kinds Of sin and wicked
ness. One of the easiest and most
tempting ways of entering the path of
the wicked is through the gate of
moderate use of Intoxicating drinks.
They are so pleasant and seem SO harm
less. But every drunkard in the world
entered through this gate. All who
tran on the Black Valley railroad
took the train in the beautiful valley
Of The Crystal river.
Is. "Avoid IT." For you cannot see
the end Of the way. No one is safe
who enters the place Of temptation.
16. They sleep not" etc. Crime is
wrought into their very natures. It
becomes a part of their life as the
poison tooth Is part of the serpent.
II. For they eat the bread of
wickedness:n They get their living by
wickedness, and injuring others. This
Is the true meaning rather than Schulz
tens renderingi "For wickedness do
they eat as bread and violence do they
drink as wine" No one who enters
the path of the wicked realizes TO what
1t VIII lead. or he imagines that he will
turn away from that path before no
comes TO its end.
III. The Contrast.-Vs. 1a 10. ID
the path of the just Is as tho shining
1IghtI" Not like the sun going from
dawn 70 midday. since Christ is thaa
hight, bat Ike the coming Of she dawn,
from sha arstray Of light on the clouds
IN the east, through struggle be-
tween the darkness and the dawn,
growing brighter and brighter, light
ing the hilltops. scattering the fogs
and shades of the valleys, till at last
the eternal day OF life and light has
fully dawned-
10 The way of the wicked is as
darkness" where men stumble, and
know not at what they stumble:" 1t
is the darkness of ignorance. of sorrow,
of sin. Of punishment, of hopelessness,
Of despair.
The result of observation by Hon.
Chauneey NJ. Depew, president of the
New York Central Railroad company,
In talk TO railroad men: Twenty
five years ago knew every man. wom-
an and child In Peekskill. And II has
been q study with me to mark boys
who started in every grade Of life with
myself, to see what has become of
them. l was up last fall and began to
count them over, and ii was an in
structive exhibit. Some of them be.
came clerks, merchants, manufacture
ers, lawyers, doctors. 1t is remark
able that every one Of those that drank
is dead; not one living of my age,
Barring few who were taken of by
sickness, everyone that proved a wreck
and wrecked his family did it from
rum and no other cause. OF those who
are church-going people, who were
steady, industrious and Woodworking
men, who were frugal and thrifty,
every single one Of them. without an
exception, owns the house in which he
lives and has something laid by, the
interest on which. with his house,
would carry him through many a rainy
day. When a man becomes debased
with gambling, rum or drink, he