Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-03-08

Ouo oI tue 6tOItS VI N0W 1Ork was S0lifng
some silks. He was binding them up when
he said to the lady customer, at is my
duty to show you, that there Is q fracture
In that silk" She looked at 1t and rejected
the goods. The head of the firm. hearing
OF IT. wrote to the father of the young man
in the country, saying: Come and take
your son away. He will never make a
merchant" The father came in agitation,
wondering what his boy had been doing,
and the head men OF the firm said: "Why.
your son stood here at this counter and
pointed out q fracture In the silk, and Of
course the lady wouldn't buy it. We are
not responsible for the ignorance of Gus
toners. Customers must look for them
selves. Your son will never make a mer-
chant" SIS that all?" said the father,
"Ah! am prouder Of my boy that ever
was. John, get your hat and come home"
But It Is almost night, and you go back
to the hotel. Now comes the mighty tug
for the commercial traveller. Tell me where
he spends his evenings, and will tell you
where he will spend eternity, and willtell
you what will be his worldly prospects.
There is an abundance OF choice. There "a
your room with the books. There are tie
Young Mons Christian Association rooms
There are the week night services of the
Christian churches. There is the gamb-
ling saloon. There is the theatre There
is the house OF infamy. Plenty of places
to 60 to. But which, immortal man,
which7 o God, which? "Well," you say,
II guess WILL guess I will go to the
that place until II O'Clock at night will i'm
prove your bodily health, or your financial
prospects, or your eternal fortunes? No
man ever found the path to usefulness, OF
honor, or happiness, or commercial sue
stre. well" you say, II guess, then, I
will 60 to-I guess will 20 to the gambl-
ing saloon" You will first go to look
Then you will 60 to play. You will make
e100. you will make $500, you will make
el000, you will make a15OO. Then you will
80 a. to start ANEW Sou will maee
ESQ, you will make el0O, you will make
e600. Then you will lose ALL These
wretches Of the gambling saloon know how
to tempt you. But mark this: All gamblers
die poor. They may make fortunes
great fortunss-but they lose them.
''Well." you say, "if I can't go to the
theatre. and II can't go to the gambling
saloon, then I guess-I guess 1 will go to
the house Of infamy." Commercial trav-
elers have told me that in the letter box at
the hotel, within one hour after their ar
rival. they have had letters Of evil soiicita-
tion in that direction. 1t is far away from
home. Nobody will know it. Commercial
have sometimes gone in that evil
path. Why not you? Haiti There are
other gates Of ruin through which a
man may go and yet come out, but
that gate has spring lock which snaps
him in forever. He who goes there is
damned already. He may seem to be
comparatively free for a little while, but
he Is only on the limits, and the sa-
tanic police have their eyes upon him to
bring him in at any moment. The hot
curse Of God Is on that crime, and because
Of it there are men whose heaven was
blotted out ten years ago. There is no
danger that they be lost; they are lost now.
look through their glarinH eyeballs down
into the lowest cavern Of hell. o destroyed
spirit, why comest thou in here to-day?
Dost think have the power to break open
the barred gateway Of the penitentiary
OF the damned2 There Is a passage in
Proverbs l somewhat hesitate to read
but do not hesitate long: ''At the win
dow of my house looked through my
easement and beheld among the simple
ones, / dtscerned among the youths,
young man, void Of understanding, pass
ing through the street near her corner,
and he went the way to her house in the
twilight. in the evening, in the black and
dark night. Ho goeth after her straight
way, as an OK goeth to the slaug hter or as
fool to the correction OF the stocks, till
dart strikes through his liver"
But now the question Is still open
Where will you spend your evening? o
commercial travellers, how much will you
give me to put you on the right track2
WIluOut CudIBlhS yOu u Will
prescribe for you a plan which will save
you for this world and the next, il you will
take 1t. Go, before you leave home, to the
Young Mems Christian Association OF the
city where you live. Get from them letters
of Introduction. Carry them out to the
no such association in the place you visit,
then present them at the door of Chris
tian churche, and hand them over to
he pastors. Be not slow to arise In the
devotional meeting and say: Il am COM
mercial traveller. l am far away from
home, and come in here tonight to seek
Christian society,"" The best bouses and
highest style of amusement will open be-
fore you, and instead Of your being de-
pendent upon the leprous crew who hang
around the hotels, wanting to show you all
the slums of the city, on the one condition
that you will pay their expenses, you will
get the benediction Of God in every town
you visit. Remember this, that whatever
place you visit bad Influences will seek you
out. Good influences you must seek out.
While I stand Lere l bethink myself of a
traveller who was a member of
splendid young man, the pride Of his wild
owed mother and of his sisters. 1t was his
Joy to support them. and for that purpose
he postponed his own marriage day. He
thrived In business, and after awhile
set up his own household. Leaving that
city for another city, had no oppor-
tunity for three or four years of making
inquiry in regard to him. When / made
such inquiry, l was told that he was
dead. The story was, he was largely
generous and kind hearted and genial and
social and he got into the habit of treat
ing" customers and Of showing them all
the sights Of the town, and he began rapid
ly to go down, and he lost his position In
the church of which he was member, and
he lost his position in the commercial
he use OF which he was the best agent, and
his beautiful young wife and his sick old
mother and his sisters went into destitu-
tion, and he, as q result of his dissipation,
died in Kirkbride Insane Asylum.
o commercial travellers, pray for YOU
the all sustaining grace OF God. There are
two kinds OF days when you are especially
In need OF divine grace. The one, the day
when you have no success--when you fail
to make sale and you are very much
tel discounted. That night you will be
tempted to 70 10 strong drink and rush in
to bad surroundings. The other day,
when you will especially need divine grace,
will be when you have had day of great
success and the devil tells you you must
go and celebrate that success. Then you
will want the grace or God to restrain
you from rollicking indulgences. Yes,
there will be u third day when you will
need to be Christians, and that will be the
last day Of your life. 1 do not know where
you will spend it. Perhaps in your house,
more probably in a rail car, or steamer,
or the strange hotel. 1 see you on your
last commercial errand. You have hidden
goodby to the family at home for the Iast
time The train OF your earthl existence
is nearing the depot of the grave. The
brakes are falling. The bell rings at the
terminue. The train stops. All out for
eternity. Show your ticket now fer get
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red ticket washed In the bio od OF the Lamb.
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80 to 40 times a minute. of an OK 45
to SO, of a pig 20 to so, and of a sheep
20 to so times.
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