The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-10
\ KINDLY WARNING.
Dr.. Taimage S7e7lls Concerning
Evil Associations.
APPLY Illustrates His Text That aa
Companion of Fools Shall He
DcstFoycd"-Advice for
as4 XounE and Old.
Copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,

young and old will be glad TO see dis
cussed, and the kindly warning vii
no doubt in many cases he taken
text, Proverbs 1920; "A Communion
of fools shall be DESTROYED
May it please the court" said ,
convicted criminal when asked nv III,
judge what he had to say WHY sen
tence OF death should not he nro
nounced upon him. "may it please the
court. bad COMPANY has been nv de.
struction. | received the blessing of
good parents and in return therefor
promised to avoid all evil associates.
Had kent nv nromise l ebouId bavs
avoided this shame and the burden of
guilt which, like a yulture. threatens
to drag me to justice for my many
crimes. Although | once moved in
high circles and was entertained by
distinguished men am lost. Bad
company didsthe work for me-" Only
one out of a thousand illustrations
was that of the fact that "a com
panion of fools shall be destroyed"
1t Is an invariable rule.
Here is a hospital with hundred
men down with the ship fever. Here
is healthy man who goes into it.
He does not so certainly catch the
disease as good man will catch
moral distemper il he consents to be
shut up with the vicious and the
abandoned. In the prisons of the
olden time it was the custom to put
the prisoners in cell together and
am sorry to say 1t is the custom
stu IN some of our prisons; so that
when the day Of liberation comes, the |
men. instead OF being reformed, are |
turned out brutes, not men, each one I
having learned the vices of all the
rest.
We may in our worldly occupation
be obliged to talk to and commingle
with bad people, but he who volun-
tarily chooses that kind of associa-
ton is carrying on courtship with
Delilah which will shear the locks
OF his strength, and ne will be tripped
into perdition. Look over all the
millions OF the Face, and you cannot
SHOW me single instance where a
man voluntarily associated with the
bad for one year and maintained his
integrity. Sin is catching; it is in
fictitious; it is epidemic.
A young man wakes up in one of
our great cities knowing only the
gentlemen of the firm into whose :
service he has entered. In the morn
ing he enters TIE store, and all the ,
clerks mark him. measure him. dis ,
cuss him. The bad clerks of that es- :
Enlistment, the good clerks of that {
establishment, stand in some relation Z
to him. The good clerks will wish +
him well, but they. will wait for for
NAL introduction, and even after they q
have had the introduction they are q
very cautious as to whether they shall $
call him into their association before :,
they know him very well, o
Blt the BAD young men IN that es- O
Enlistment all gather around him.
They patronize him, they offer to Il
show him everything that there is in fl
the CITY on one condition-that he O,
Will pay the expenses. for it always c,
happens so when good young man al
and bad young man go together to 81
place OF evil entertainment-the oil
good young man always has to pay D,
the charges just at the time the al
ticket is to be paid for or the cham IT
payne bill is to be settled the bad al
young man viii affect embarrassment OF
md feel around in his pockets and al
say: well, well, really l have for IT
rotten my pockctbook." de
In As hours after this innocent tie
'oung man has entered the store the so
'ad young men will gather around ne
lin. slap him on the shoulder with Lie
amiliarity, and, if he is stupid in not to
icing able to take certain illusions, tn
will say: "Ah, ray young friend, you
vill have to be broken in" And forth ur
nth they go to work to "break bu
I'm in" an
Oh, young man, let no fallen young an
ian slapyouon the shoulder familiar tn,
r! Turn around and give whitening wi
lance that will make the wretch cover ter
i your presence. There is no mon die
trosity of wickedness that can stand ere
efore the glance of purity and honor. hal
cd keeps the lightnings of heaven in tiv
s own scabbard, and no human may ha.
ZACH them, but God gives to every c
oung man a lightning which he may pat
Sc, and that is the lightning of an tim
onest eye. Anybody that understands bur
e temptations of our great cities ed ,
lows the use of one sermon like this, the
which L try to enforce the thought nat
at "a companion of fools shall be to 1