The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-02-25

er. Tell me where he spends his even
ings. and ! will tell you where he will
spend eternity. and will tell you what
will be his worldly prospects. There ID
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 TO 60 to. But which.
Oimmortal man, which? o God. which
well" you say. II guess will guess
will go to the theater." Do you think
the tarrying in that place until IL
o'clock Mt 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.
Well" you say. IL guess, then. will
go to-I 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. you will
make $1,000. you will make 81 ,5OO-then
you will lose ALL Then you will Dor
row some money so rs 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 TO tempt you. But
mark ths-all gamblers die poor. They
may make fortunes-great fortunes
but they lose them.
well" you say. IF can't go TO the
theater, and if can't go TO the gamb-
ling saloon. then guess guess will
so 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. IL
is far away from home. Nobody will
know it. Commercial travellers have
sometimes gone in that evil path. Why
mot YOU? Halt! There are other gates
of ruin through which Il man may go
and yet come out. but that gate has
spring lock which snaps him in forever.
He who goes there is damned already.
He may seem TO be comparatively
free for little while, but he is only on
luC illilAss anu NhS BOIlNC nav
their eyes upon him TO bring him in at
any moment.
The hot curse of God is on that crime,
and because OF it 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
glar!rg eyeballs 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,
hut 90 not hesitate long. AT the
window Of my house looked through
my. easement and beheld among the
| simple ones. | discerneG 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 10 the slaughter, or as fool
| 10 the correction of the stocks, till a
dart strikes through his liver"
But now the question is still open,
Where MI you spend your evening?
| Oh. commercial travellers, how much
will you give nae TO put you on the right
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 it. Go before you
| leave home 10 the Young Mems Chris
| iian 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 at the door Of Christian
| churches and hand them over TO the
| pastors. BE not slow TO arise in the
devotional meeting and say: Il am a
| commercial traveller. | am far away
| from home, and l come in here tonight
to seek Christian society,"" The best
houses and the highest style of amuse-
inent will 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
| Nbd' yOu NiIi pay CNpSHSSs, 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.
commercial travellers, pray for
you the all sustaining grace of God!
There are two kinds of days when you
are especially in need of Divine grace.
The one. the day when you have no 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 10
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
from rollicking indulgences. Yes, there
will be a third day when you will need
TO be Christians, and that will be the
last day of your life. do not know
where you will spend it. Perhaps in