Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-02

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But il is almost night. and you go
back to the hotel. Now comes the
mighty tug for the commercial travel
er. Tell me where be spends his even.
ipgs, and will tell you where he will
spend eternity. and will tell you what
will be his worldly prospects. There is
an abundance of choice. There is your
room with the books. There are the
Young Mems Christian association
rooms. There are the week night serv-
ices of the Christian churches. There
is the gambling saloon. There is the
theater There is the house of infamy
Plenty of places 10 go 10. But which.
Oimmorial man, which? % God. which.
We'll" you say. Il guess will guess
will go 10 the theater." Do you I hank
the tarrying in that place until II
O'Clock at night will improve your bod
lily health or your financial prospects
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 800. you will make $780, you will
make $1,000. you will make 81 .50O--then
you will lose all. Then you will bcr-
row some money SO as to start anew
You will make $50. you will make $500.
you will make $G00-then you will lose
all. These wretches of the gambling
saloon know how 10 tempt you But
mark this-all gamblers die poor. They
may make fortunes-great fortunes
but they lose them.
well" you say. "if | can't go to the
tbeater. and If ! can't go 10 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 in that direction. II
is far away from home. Nobody will
know 1t. Commercial travellers have
sometimes gone in that evil path. Why
not you? Halt! There are other gates
of ruin through which a 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.
| He may seem TO be compa ratively
free for little while. but he is only on
the limits. and the satanic police have
their eyes upon him TO bring him III al
any moment.
The hot curse of God is on that crime,
and because of 1t 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
| glaring eyebals down into the lowest
cavern of hell! Oh. destroyed spirit
why contest thou in here to-day? Dost
think have the power TO break open
the barred gateway of the penitentiary
of the damned? There is passage IN
Proverbs ! somewhat hesitate to read,
but ! do not hesitate long. al the
window of my house | looked through
my easement and beheld among the
simple ones, ! discerued among the
youths. young man void of under
standing. passing through the street
near her corner. and he went the way
10 her house. in the twilight. in the
evening, in the black and dark night.
He goeth after her straightway. as an
OK goeth to the slaughter. or as a fool
TO the correction of the stocks. till a
dart strikes through his liver"
But now the question is still open,
Where will you spend your evening?
Oh. commercial travellers. how much
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track? Without charging you farth-
ing will prescribe for you plan which
will save you for this world and the
next il you will take il. Go before you
leave home TO the Young Men's-thris-
tian association of the city where you
live. Get from them letters of intro
duction. Carry them out to the towns
and cities where you go. If there be no
association in the place you visit. then
| present them al the door of Christian
churches and hand them over to the
pastors. Re not slow TO arise in the
devotional meeting and say: Il am a
commercial traveller. | am far away
from home, and come in here tonight
to seek Christian society" The best
houses and the highest style of amuse-
ment win open before you. and instead
of your being dependent upon the
leprous crew who hang around the
hotels, wanting to show you all the
slums of the city on the one condition
tina, you will pay their expenses, you
will get the benediction of God in every
town you visit. Remember this. hat
whatever place you visit bad influences
will seek you out. Good influences you
must seek out.
D commercial travellers, | pray for
you the all sustaining grace of Goo!
There are two kinds of days when YOU
are especially in need of Divine grace.
The one. the day when you have 90 sue
cess-when you fail to make sale. and
you are very much disappointed, and
you go back to your hotel discounted.
That night you will be tempted to go TO
strong drink and rush into bad sur
roundings. The other day when you
will especially need Divine grace will
be when you have a day of great success
and the devil tells you you must go and
celebrate that success. Then you will
want the grace of God to restrain YOU
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