The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-12-19

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perity, ks WIFI shcs. ,you how to manage .
iortune II your EARTHLY arQjects fall and
iou srs nut IN financial st1aitS. !. will ses
TO II that that Ii the best condition fQl
your soul, and ths discipline and the hard.
6hip viii make you more apd mory Of {
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make t1s sysnlpE twilight a. Rasht AZ
and pefhapa brighter ti1n was the morn
Ing twilight, and when your work on
earth 10 done tho gates Of better world
will open on expansions and enthroDe-
ments and felioities which st. John de-
scribes sometimes a. orchards sometimes
as shaded streets and sometimes as crys.
talline river and sometimes as an orchestra
with mighty Instruments, blown on by
lips cherubic or thrummed by fingers
seraphic, and inhabitants always fearless
and songful and resplendsnt, 90 that the
mightiest calamity Of tho universe is the
portion Of that one who fails to enter 1t.
Young man, seek only eleysting and
improving companionship. Do not let tho
last scion Of noble family, follow with
big name, but bad habits, for he drinks
and swsars and 40 dissolute take your
arm to walk down the streIt Or spend an
evening with you, either at your room or
his room. Remember that sin Is the most
expensive thing In Gods universe. / have
read that Sir Brasil. the knight, tired out
with the chase bad q. falcon on his wrist,
as they did in days Of faloonry, when with
hawks or falcons they went forth to bring
down partridges or grouse or pigeons,
and, being very thirsty, came to stream
struggling from rock, and, releasing the
falcon from his wrist, he took the bugle
which he carried, and, stopping the mouth
piece of his bugle With tuft of moss, he
put this extemporized cup under the water
which came down drop BY drop from the
rock until the cup was full and then lifted
1t to drink, when the falcon he had re-
leased with sudden swoop dashed the cup
from his hand. By the same process no
filed the cup again and was about to
drink when the falcon by another swoop
dashed down the cup. Enrassd at this In
science and violence of the bird, he cried,
II will wiring thy neck II thou dosst that
again." But, having nlled the cup third
time and trying to drink. . third time the
falcon dashed 1t down. Then Sir Brasil
with his fist struck the bird, which fut-
tered and looked lovingly and rsproach-
fully at him and dropped dead. Then Sir
Brasil, looking up to the top Of the rock
wbence dripped the water, saw great
green serpent oolled fold abays field, the
venom from his mouth dropping into that
from which Sir Brasil had filled his cup.
Then exclaimed the knight, What kind
thing 1t was for the falcon to dash down
that poisoned cup, and what . sad thing
that I killed him, and what narrow
escape had!" So now there are no more
certainly waters that refresh than waters
that poison. This moment there are thou
sands OF young men, unwittingly and not
knowing what they do, taking into their
bugle cup of earthly joy that which Is
deadly because 1t drips from the jaws Of
that old serpent, the devil, and the dove
Of Gods Spirit in kindly warning dashes
down the cup, but again 1t 10 filed and
again dashed down and again filed and
again dashed down. Why not turn away
and slake your thirst at the clear, bright,
perennial fountain that breaks from the
Rock Of Ages, a fountain SO wide and so
deep that all the inhabitants Of earth and
all the armies Of heaven may stoop down
and fill their chalioesP