Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-01-13

make YOU more and more OF man. II
you live on 20 old age. he will make the
evening twilight as bright as and per
baps brighter than was the morning
twilight, aud when your work on earth
is done the gates Of a better world will
open on expansions and enthronements
and felicities which ST. John describes,
sometimes as orchards, sometimes as
shaded streets and sometimes as crys-
taline river and sometimes a. an or
chesira With mighty instruments, blown
on by lips cherubic or thrummed by
fingers seraph &c and inhabitants always
fearless and songful and resplendenE, so
that the mightiest calamity Of the uni
verse is the portion Of that one who fails
to enter il.
SIN Il Expensive.
Young man. seek only eleyating and
improving panionsbip. Do not let
the last scion Of a r oble family, a fell
low with a big name, but bad habits,
for be drinks and swears and is disso-
Lutte. take your arm 10 walk down the
street OF spend an evening with you,
ti.ber at your room or his room. Re-
member that sin is the most expensive
thing in Gods universe. l have read
that Sir Brasil. the knight, tired out
with the chase, hsd a falcon on bis
wrist, as they did in days Of fslconry.
when with hawks or falcons they went
forth to bring down partridges OF grouse
or pigeons, and being very thirsty came
to stream struggling from rock.
and, releasing the falcon from bis wrist,
he took the bugle which be carried.
and stopping the mouthpiece Of bis
bugle with a tuft Of moss. be put this
extemporized cup under the water
which came down drop by drop from the
rock until Tie cup was fall. and then
lif-ed it to drink, when the falcon 10
had released with sudden swoop dashed
tie cup from his hand By the same
process be filled the cup again and was
about 70 drink when the falcon BY an
other swoop dashed down the cup. En-
ragged at this iusolence and violence Of
the bird. be cried, - Will wiring thy
neck II thou doest that again. Bot,
having filed the cup third time and
trying 10 drink a third time, the falcon
dashed il down Then sir Brasil with
his hsr struck the bird. which futtered
and looked lovingly and reproschfuliy
at him and droppei ieai Ten Sir
BRASIL, looking M % the topo sbe rock
whence dl gel Tie lt-i saw Z great
green serpent coiiei fold above fold, tie
venom from bis mouth dropping into
that from which Sir Brasil had filed
bis CUP Then exclaimed the knight,
"What a kIud thing it was for the fall
con 10 dash down that poisoned cup,
and hat a sad thing that | killed him,
and what a narrow escape l had !" So
now there axe no more certainly waters
that refresh than waters that poison.
This moment there are thousands OF
young men, unwittingly and not know
ing what they do, taking into their
bugle cup Of earthly JOY that which is
deadly because it drips from the jaws
of that old serpent, the devil, and the
dove Of God IS spirit IN kindly warning
dashes down the cup, but again 10 Is
filed and again dashed down and again
filled aud again dashed down. Why not
turn away and slake your thirst at the
clear, bright, perennial fountain that
breaks from the Rock Of Ages, fonn-
tain SO wide and so deep that all the IN.
habitants of earth and all the armies OF
heaven may stoop down and fill their
chaiCes.