Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-08-21
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and your death when you can afford
to read a book lacking in moral prin-
ciple.
Another temptation lowering all
around our watering places is intoXi-
eating beverages. / am told that it is
becoming more and more fashionable
for women to drink. I care not how
well a woman may dress, if she has
taken enough Of wine to flush her
cheek and put a glassiness on her eye
she is drunk. She may be handed into
$4,000 carriage and have diamonds
enough to astound the Tiffanys-she is
drunk. She may be a graduate of the
best young ladies' seminary and the
daughter Of some man in danger Of
being nominated for the presidency
she is drunk. You may have a larger
vocabulary than 1 have, and you may
say in regard to her that she is "con-
vivial," or she is merry" or she is
FESTIVE" or she is 'exhilarated," but
you cannot with all your garlands of
verbiage cover up the plain fact that
it is an old fashioned case of drunk
Dangers of Tipping.
Now, the watering places are full of
temptations to men and women to tip
pie. At the close of the tenpin or bill
lard game they tipple. At the close of
the cotillon they tipple. Seated on the
piazza cooling themselves off they tip
pie. The tinged glasses come around
with bright straws and they tipple.
First they take eight Wines" as they
call them, but eight vines are heavy
enough to debase the appetite. There
is not very long road between cham
payne at SIS bottle and whisky at 10
cents glass. Satan has three or four
grades down which he takes men to
destruction. One man he takes up and
through one spree pitches him into
eternal darkness. This is a rare case.
Very seldom, indeed, can you find a
man who will be such a fool as that.
Satan will take another man to a
grade, to a descent at an angle about
like the Pennsylvania coal shoot or the
Mount Washington rail track, and
shove him off. But that is very rare.
When a man goes down to destruction,
Satan brings him to plane. 1t is al
most a level. The depression is so
light that you can hardly see it. The
man does not actually know that he is
on the down grade, and it tips only
little toward darkness-just a little.
And the first mile it is claret, and the
second mile it is sherry, and the third
mile it is punch, and the fourth mile
it is ale, and the fifth mile it is whis-
ky, and the sixth mile it is brandy,
and then it gets sleeper and sleeper
and sleeper until it is impossible to
stop. Look not thou upon the wine
when it is red, when it giveth it's color
in the cup, when it moveth itself
Alright. At the last it biteth like a SER
pent and stingeth like an adder"
The Safe Shelter.
Whether you tarry at home-which
will be quite as safe and perhaps quite
as comfortable-or go into the coun-
try, arm yourself against temptation.
The grace of God is the only safe shell
ter, whether in town or country. There
are watering places accessible to all Of
us. You cannot open a book of the
Bible without finding out some such
watering place. Fountains open for
sin and uncleanness. Wells of saliva
ton. Streams from Lebanon. A flood
struck out of the rock by Moses.
Fountains in the wilderness discover
ter to battle in. The river of God,
which is full Of water. Water of
which if a man drink he shall never
thirst. Wells of water in the valley
of Baca. Living fountains of water
A pure river of water as clear as crys-
tai from under the throne of God.
These are watering places accessible
to all of us. We do not have a labori-
Gus packing up before we start-only
the throwing away of our transgres-
sions. No expensive hotel bills to pay.
1t is without money and without
price" No long and dusty travel be-
fore we get there. It is only one step
away.
In California in five minutes 1 walk
ed around and saw ten fountains all
bubbling up, and they were all diff
ferent, and in five minutes 1 can go
through this Bible parterre and find
you so bright, sparkling fountains bub-
bling up into eternal life-healing and
therapeutic. A chemist will go to one
Of these summer watering places and
take the water, and analyZe it, and tell
you it contains so much Of iron, and
so much Of soda, and so much Of lime,
and so much of magnesia. l come to
this gospel well, this living fountain,
and analyze the water, and find that
it's ingredients are peace, pardon, for
giveness, hope, comfort, life, heaven.
''Ho, every one that thirsteth, come We"
to this watering place! Crowd around
this Bethesda. Oh, you sick, you lame,
you troubled, you dying, crowd around
this Bethesda! Step in it, oh, step in
it! The angel of the covenant today
stirs the water. Why do you not step
in it? Some of you are too weak to
take a step in that direction. Then we
take you up in the arms of prayer and