El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-22
the wrong track. We had started

wrong.
1 remember, when a boy, working
by the side of the road with my faith
er. A man came riding hurriedly
along on u large black horse-I have
thought of him hundred times-aud
when he got opposite where We were
working he stopped very abruptly and
cried out Hello, is this the ROAD to
Rosendale?" "Yes,' said my father,
no always had a large vein of fun in
his make up, "this is the right road to
Rosendale but you are on the wrong
end of it," Aud that was fact, the
mau had probably started right but in
some way be had wound around until
he was going in exactly the wrong d.
rectiOn.
We must not only start right but
keep right if we expect to end right.
l have seen over the entrance to great
business establishments in large cities
these words, keep to the right" So
in life's journey when q young man or
they are not sure which way to 60 1
always want to say to them. Keep to
the right! Keep to the right!
II set before you the way of life"
Let US think of this as Gods highway
or railway, strait and narrow, leading
unto everlasting life. Then let us
notice some of the stations that the
devil has built on Gods railway, for
God never builds any stations on his
t. take through ticket. The first
station that the devil has built on God 3
highway is Disobedience street. There
ara many young people who get start
ed right by their Sunday school teach
ers and by their parents but they get
off the track at the very fret station
the first opportunity -''Disobedience
street." They become disobed1ent to
their teachers, disobedient to their
parents and after while disobedient to
the laws of their country and the laws
of God. There is perhaps more real
suffering caused by people getting off
Gods highway at disObedience street
than at any other station.
The next station that the devil has
built on Gods highway was bulls most
" for boys. Once in a while girl
gets off there but if go it is q bad case
indeed. And that station is called
"Profanity station" L have seen old
men who got off Gods highway, when
boys, at Profanity station and never
got on any more. Say, my reader. do
you remember the first oath you ever
swore? Did it not almost stick in your
throat? Did you tell your mother
about it? o no, you did not, know
all about how you felt because L got off
at tn at station once myself; but 1 did
not stay of very long. John Brown
used to say, "If there is God, it Is a
terribly wicked thing to swear: and if
there is no God, it is desperately fool =
ish." o young man, beware, don't
stop off Gods highway at Profanity
station.
The next station that the devil has
built or Gods highway was built most
ly for girls. Sometimes-I am sorry
to say-boys also stop there and this
station is called ''Purity crossing"
There is no wsy that girl can so
quickly and SO effectively destroy her
own character and that of her friends
as by getting off Gods highway at
Purity crossing" o, young lady, if
you are ever tempted to do this, turn
from your temper as you would turn
from the devil and escape his presence
as you would escape the gates OF hell.
The next station that the devil has
built on this highway has fallen very
much into disrepute. 1t is kind of
summer resort for "dead-beats' aud
the year, should be more definitely
pointed out. There are one or NOR e
of these places in almost every town.
They are poorly Enthusiastically
with a dry-gOods box, q Jack-knife,
Police Gazette and q New York
Ledger-the latter taking the same
place for the women as the former
does for the men. Do you recognize
this station by the description? 1t is
called ''Loafers' Corner"
There is plain path leading from
this station to the next, which is very
near and which draws its custom very
largely from the latter, yet destruc-
ton and death wait for almost all who
travel along this path. There are
more young men ruined at this station
than at any other. It is called
"Tiplers' Alley" o, young man, if
there is any station on all the route
that you would shun let it be
"Tiplers' Alley"
built On Gods highway is one of the
finest GA the road. Much time has
been wasted, much money spent,
much ingenuity displayed in renderin e
it attractive. Yet he who tarries
here must expect to see much OF tears
and sadness, many broken hearts and
ruined lives. 1 had brother tn at
stopped there once and 1 think he
never was quite so strong man as II
he had not done so. This place is
called "Dime Novel Avenue
o, it Is so refreshing( ITO see young
man or young woman with all his
youth and possibilities sitting up at th e
hour of midnight, pouring over such
trash-shedding great crocodile
tears" over some nonesnsical love
story; would to God that I could collect
all such literature in one great heap
and burn it in one immense bonfire
at the hour of midnight o young man
if in your reading you see an 'h" and
and SD" for consience's SAX e and for
God g sake throw the book aside an
look at it no more, don't stop at "Dime
novel avenue" The next station is in