Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-04-07

your loSom, on whom You have Law
iShcd all the favnrs of your declining
wears. hut should feeling of joy
for a moment spring up in your
hearts when YOU should receive this
from me- cherish it not ] have fallen
deep, never Ia rise. Those gray
hairs. that should have honorcd
and protected, | shall bring down in
sorrow L. til" grave. will not
curse nv destroyer; but, oh, may tod
avcngc the wrongs and impnNitinns
practiccd uTun the unwary. in way
that shall best please him. This, my
dear parents, is the last letter You will
ever receive from me. | humbly pray
your forgiveness. II is my dying
prayer. Long before you will have re-
ceivcd this from me, the cold grave
will have closed upon me forever. Life
tn me is iueupportahlr. can not, nay,
| will not suffer the shame of having
ruined YOU. Forget and forgive is
the dying prayer of your unfortunate
son.
The old father came to the post Of
flee. got the lcttcr. and fell tothe floor.
They thought he was dead at first. hut
they brushed back the white hair from
his brow aud famed him. lie had
only tainted. "Accldama, the field of
blood"
When things go wrong at a gaming
table they shout: Foul. FOUL over
all the gaming tables of the world cry
out: Foul! foul. Infinitely FOUL
Gift stores are abundant through
out the country. With a book or knife,
or sewing ma, hiuc, or coat ar carriage,
there goes a priz'. At these stores
people get something thrown in with
their purchase. 1t may he "a gold
watch. or set of silver, n ring or "A
farm. Sharp way To- get off unsuitable
goods. Ii has filled the land with
fictitious articles. and covered up our
population with brass finger rings.
and dcspoiled the moral sense of the
community, and is fast making us a
nation of gamblers.
The Church of God has not seemed
willing Ia allow the world Ia have all
the advantages of these games OF
chance. \ church bazaar opens, and
toward the close il is found that some
of the more valuable articles are I'M
Sala bile. Forthwith, the conductors
of the enterprise conclude that they
will rattle for some of the val
liable articles, and, under prctensc
of anxiety Ia make their minister
a present or please some popular
member of the church, fascinat-
ing persons are dispatched throuS h
the room, pencil in hand, To solicit
shares, or perhaps each draws for his
own advantage. and scores of people
go home with their trophies, thinking
that il is all right, for Christian ladies
did the embroidery and Christian men
did the railing, and the PROCEEDS went
toward a new communion set. But
you may depend ON it, that as far as
morality is concerned, You might as
well have won by the crack of the
billiard ball or the turn of the dice
box
Do YOU wonder that churches built,
light or upholstered by such processes
as that come To great financial and
spiritual decreptitudc? The devil says:
Il helped Ia build that house OF wor-
ship. and have as much right there
as You have" And for once the
devil is right. We do not read that
church at CorRth, or at Antioch. or
for getting up an cmbr oidered sur
piice for st. Paul. All this | style &C.
clesiastical gambling. More than one
man who is destroyed can say that his
first step on the wrong road was when
he won something at n church fair.