Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-02-23

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way. He will never make mer-
chant. The father came in agitation.
wondering what his boy had been dc.
,r". ard the head man of the firm said:
VIA. Your son stood here at this cnun-
ter and pointed out a fracture in the
silk. ard of course the lady wouldn't
take it. We are not responsible for the
ignorance of customers. Customers
must look out for themselves. and We
look out for ourselves. Your son will
never make a merchant" lis that ALE"
said the father. All, am prouder of
my hoy than | ever was. John. get
Your hat and come home"
But il is almost night. and YOU go
back To the hotel. Now comes the
mighty tug for the commercial travel
cr. Tell me where he spends his even
ings. and ! will tell you where he will
spend eternity and will tell you what
will he his worldly prospects. There is
an abundance of choice. There j. your
room with the books. There are the
Young Mems Christian association
rooms. There are the week night serv-
is the gambling saloon. There is the
theatcr. There is the house OF infamy.
Plenty of places To 60 to. But which,
d Immortal man. which? OGod. which :?
Wei" you say. II guess will guess
will go to the theatcr." DO you think
the tarrying in that place until II
o'clock at night will improve your bod
lily health or your financial poets
or your eternal fortune? No man ever
found the path to usefulness or honor
or happiness or commercial success or
Heaven through the American theater.
We'll" you say. Il guess. then. ! will
go to- guess | will go to the gambling
saloon" You will first go to look.
Then you will go To play. You will
make 500. you will make $500. youwill
make 81 TOO YOU will make 81. 5O0-thcn
YOU will lose all. Then you will her
row some money so as TO start anew.
You will make $50. you will make $500.
you will make S60G-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 fortuncs-great fortunes
but they lose them.
well" you say, III can't go to the
theater. and il cant go to the gamb-
ling saloon. then guess guess will
go to the house of infamy." CONNER
cial travellers have told me that in the
letter box at the hotel within one hour
after their arrival they have had letters
of evil solicitation ia that direction. IL
is far away from home. Nobody will
know il. Commercial travellers have
sometimes gone in that evil path. Why
not YOU? Halt. There are other gates
of ruin through which Il man may go
and yet come out. but that gate has a
spring lock which snaps him in forever.
He who goes there is damned already.
lie may seem to be comparatively
free for little while. but he is only on
the limits. and the satanic 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 ID 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 theil
glaring eyeballs down into the lowest
cavern of hell! Oh, destroyed spirit
why contest thou i'm here to-day? Dos
think have the power to break oper
of the damned? Thee is a passage il
but ! do not hesitate long. AT tho
window of my house looked through
my easement and beheld among tn,
simple ones, | discerned among tn,
youths. a young man void of under
standing, passing through the street
near her corner. and he went the way
To her house. in the twilight. in tn,
evening, in the black and dark night
He goeth after her straightway. as al
OK goeth to the slaughter. or as foo
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
Oh. commercial travellers. how mucl
will You give me to put YOU on the RICH
track? Without charging you farth
ing will prescribe for you a plan whicl
will save you for this world and tn,
next il you will take it. Go before yol
leave home to the Young Mems Chris
tian association of the city where YOU
live. Get from them letters of intro
duction. Carry them out to the town!
and cities where you 90. II there he NJ
association in the place you visit, theI
present them at the door of Christian
churches and hand them over to th'
pastors. BE not slow to arise in tn,
devotional meeting and say: Il am :
commercial traveller. am far ava,
from home, and come in here to-nigh
to seek Christian society" The hes
houses and the highest style of amuse
ment will open before you. and instead
of your being dependent upon th'
leprous crew who hang around hi
hotels, wanting TO show You all TIT
slums of the city on the one condition
that you will pay their expenses, yor
will get the benediction of God in every
town YOU visit. Remember this, tina
whatever place YOU visit bad influence
will seek YOU out. Good influences yo,
must seek out.
D commercial travellers, l pray fol
YOU the all sustaining grace of God
There are two kinds of days when 70,
are especially in need of Divine grace
The one. the day when you have no sue
cess-when you fail TO make sale, an,
you are very much disappointed. an'
you 60 back to your hotel discounted
That night you will be tempted to go t.
strong drink and rush into bad sur
roundings. The other day wher 20,
will especially need Divine grace vii
be when you have Il day of great success
and the devil tells you you must goan
celebrate that success. Then you vii
want the grace of God 10 restrain yol
from rollicking indulgences. Yes. ther'
will be third day when you will nee'
TO be Christians, and that will be tn,
last day of your life. | do not know
where you will spend il. Perhaps il
your house. more probably in rail car
or a steamer. or the strange hotel.
see you on your last commercial errand
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