The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-01-29

stronger than you or 1. Down under
Its power went glorious Olive Gold
smith, and Gibbon. the famous his
torian, and Charles Fox, the re
moved statesman, and in olden times
senators of the United States, who
used TO be rs regularly at the gambling
house all night as they were in the
halls of legislation by day. Oh, the
tragedies OF the faro table! l know
persons who began with "a slight stake
in ladies' parlor, and ended with the
suicides pistol ut Monte Carlo. They
played with the square pieces of bone
with black marks on them. not know
ing that Satan was playing for theil
bones at the same time, and was sure
to sweep all the stakes off on his side
of the table. State legislatures hav,
again and again sanctioned the mighty
evil by passing laws in defense of race
tracks, and many young men have
lost all their wages at such SO
called meetings" Every man who
voted for such infamous bills has on
his hands and forehead the blood OF
these souls
Stock gambling c ONES into the same
catalogue. 1t must be very exhilarat-
ing to go into the stock market and,
depositing Il small sum of money run
the chance of taking out a fortune.
Many men are doing an honest and safe
business in the stock market, and you
are an ignoramous if you do pot know
that il is just as legitimate to deal in
stocks us it is To deal in coffee, or SUI
gar, or flour. But nearly all the OUT
siders who go there on financial eX
cursion lost all. The old spiders eat
up the unsuspecting flies. / had a
friend who put his hand on his hip
pocket and said in substances: Il have
bere the value of $3.50, 0O0." His home
is to-day penniless. What was the
matter? Stock gam bling. OF the vast
majority who are victimizcd you hear
not one word. One great stock firm
goes down, and whole columns of news
papers discuss their fraud or their dis
aster, and we are presented with their
features and their biography. But
where one such famous firm sinks, 500
unknown men sink with them. The
great steamer goes down, and all the
little boats are swallowed in the same
engulfment. Gambling is gambling,
whether in stocks or breadstuifs, or
dice, or race-horse betting. Exhiliara-
ton at the start, but II raving brain,
and n shattered nervous system, and II
sacrificed property, and u destroyed
soul at the last Young men, buy no
lottery tickets, purchase no prize pack
ages, bet on no baseball games or yacht
racing, have no faith in luck. answer
no mysterious circulars proposing great
income for small investment, drive
away the buzzards that hover around
our hotels trying to entrap strangers.
Go out and make an honest living.
Have God on your side and be u candi-
date for Heaven. Remember all the
paths of sin are banked with flowers
at the start, and there are plenty of
helpful hands to fetch the gay charger
to your door and hold the stirrup while
you mount. But further on the horse
plunges to the bit in u slough inextri-
cable.
The best Eoney 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 are all invited to
sit. | was reading of Il boy among the
mountains of Switzerland ascending n
dangerous place with his father and
the guide. The boy stopped on the
edge OF the cliff and said:
There is flower | mean to
get" Come away from there
said the father; you will fall off"
NO said he; IL must get that beau
tiful flower" And the guides rushed
just as they heard him say, Il almost
have it," he fell 1000 feet. Birds of
prey were seen a few days later circ-
ling through the air and lowering
gradually to the place where the corpse
lay. Why seek flowers Off the
edge of precipice when you can walk
amid the full blooms of
the very paradise Of God? When
a man may sit at the Kings bang uet,
why will he go down the steps and
contend for the refuse and bones of a
kennel? ''Sweeter than honey
and 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 rod made out of the
wood of the cross dip it up for all
your souls.
The poet Hesiod tells Of an am brosia
and a nectar, the liking of which
would make men live forever, and one
sip OF the honey from the Eternal Rock
will give you eternal life with God. |
Come off the nalarial levels of sinful |
life. Come and live on the uplands of
grace, where the vineyards sun them
selves "Oh, taste and see that the Lord |
is gracious" BE happy now and happy
forever. For those who take u differ
ent course the honey will turn to gall.
For many things have admired Percy
Shelley, the great English poet, but
deplore the fact that it seemed great
sweetness to him to dishonor God. The
poem Queen Nab has in it the ma
ligning of the Diety. Shelley was inn
pious enough to ask for Rowland Hills |
Surrey Chapel that he might denounce
the Christian religion. lie was in great
glee against God and the truth. But
his visited Italy, and one day on the
Mediterranean with two friends in a
boat which was "a feet long he was
coming toward shore when an hour,s