The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-03-10
A KINDLY WARNING.
D.. TLlmage Speaks Concerning
Evil Associations
Ap,iJ mustratss His TsHt rhai -
Conpani0s Of FOols shall Ds
Destroyed--Advfee fer
IsuRE aad Ola
Lcspynsa. 100 sy Lou. Klss.eAl

tcopynrhL 1900. BY Louis Kls7seAl
washisCton. NAresA
In this discourse Dr.. Talmsge
speaks on a theme which all men.
young aad old. siIl be glad TO see dis
cussed. and the kindly warning will
no doub, in many cases be taken;
text, Proverbs 1870; a companion
OF fools shall Be destroyed
May il please the court said .
convicted criminal when asked BY the
judge what he had to say why sen
n Of death should not be pro
nouneed upon him, may il please the
court, bad company has been my de
struetion- l received the blessing Of
good parents and in return therefor
promised to avoid ell evil associates
Had | kept ny promise ] should have
avoided this shame and the burden Of
guilt which, like a Vulture, threstens
to drag me 70 justice for my many
crimes Although | once moved in
high circles and was entertained by
distinguished men. / am lost Bad
company did the work for me-" Only
one out Of = thousand illustrations
was that Of the fact that "a com
pAnion Of fools shall be destroyed
Il is an inTzrizble rule
Here is a hospital With a hundred
men down with the ship fever. Here
is a healthy man who goes into IT.
He does not 80 certainly catch the
disease As a good man will catch
moral distsmper IL he consents TO be
shut up with the vicious and the
abandoned In the prisons Of the
olden time il was the custom to put
the prisoners in a cell together, aud
I an sorry TO say it is the custom
still in some Of our prisons; 70 that
when the day Of liberation comes, the
men, instead Of being reformed. are
turned out brutes, not men. each one
having learned the vices Of all the
rest.
We may in, our worldly occupation
be obliged 20 talk 70 and commingle
with bad people. but he who volun-
tarily chooses that kind Of Associa-
ton is carrying on a courtship with
9 Delilah which will shear the locks
Of his strength, and he will be tripped
into Perdition. Look over all the
millions Of the race, and you cannot
show me a single instance where .
man voluntarily associated with the
bad for one year aud maintained his
integrity. Sin is catching; It is in
fectious; IT is epidemic
A young man wakes mp In one Of
our great cities knowing only the
gentlemen Of the firm into whose
service be has entered. In the morn
ing he enters the store. and all the
clerks mark him. measure him, dis
cnss him. The bad CLERKS OF that es.
tablishment. the good clerks of that
establishment, stand in some relation
10 him. The good clerks will wish
him we'll. but they will wait for a for
NAL introduction. and even after they
have had the Introduction they are
very cautions as to whether they shall
call him into their association before
they know him very well.
But the bad young men in that es'
Enlistment all gather around him
They ~patronize him, they offer to
show him everything that there is In
the city on n condition-that he
will pay the expenses, for 1t always
happens 50 when a good young mar
and a bad young man go together &c
a place OF evil entertainment-ths
good young man always has TO pay
the charges. just at the time tbs
ticket is TO be paid for or the cham
payne bill is to be settled the bsC
young man will affect embarrassment
and feel around in his pockets anC
say: "Well. we'll, really ! have for
gotten my pocke'hook."
In As hours after this innocent
young man has entered the store tn
bad young men will gather srounc
him, slap him on the shoulder will
familiarity, and. il he is stupid in no
being able 10 take certain illusions
will say: "Ah, my young friend, yoi
will have to be broken in" And forth
with they go 10 work TO "breal
| HIM in"
Oh, young man, let no fallen younI
man slap you on the shoulder familiar
lyi Turn around and give a witherinl
/ glance that will make the wretch cove
in your presence. There Is no mon
strosity OF wickedness that al stan
! before the glance Of purity and honor
| God keeps the hghtningS Of heaven i
l his own scarbard, and no human ms.
! reach them, but God gives to ever.
young man q lightning which he ma.
use, and that IS ihe lightning Of q
, honest eye. Anybody that understand
! the temptations of our great cite
knows the use Of one sermon like thii
! in which I try to enforce the though
that "a companion Of fools shall b
! destroyed"
And, first, l charge you, avoid tn
! skeptic-that is, the young nan VII
puts his thumb in his vest and swa[
! gers about, scofing at your OLD fssf
I Toned religion, and taking out th
Bible and turning over TO some my
terous passage and saying: "EHplsi
that, my friend, explain that. l use
to think just az you do. Ny father an
mother used TO think just as you d.
But you can't scare me about tbs II
ture. I used to believe In those thing
but I've got over it. Yes, he has ~
over II. and you will get over II II yO
stay in his companionship much longe
For awhile he may not bring one arg
ment against u holy Christianit.
BE will by SCOTS and jeers and caric'
. lures destroy your faith in that rel
zion which was the comfort Of you
u father in his declining years and Il
pillow on which your old mother Ia
s-dying.
" That brilliant young skeptic will AZ
or awhile have To die. and his damon
will flash no splendor into the eye
death. His hair will lie uncombed
the pillow. Death will ZONE up, al
this skeptic will say TO him: II ca
not die. Icannot die" Death will sa
You must die. You have but ten "
onds more L live. Your soul-give
10 rue right away. Your SOUL" 20
mol" says the skeptic. do n
breathe that cold air into my fa'
You crowd me too hard. II IL RettiI
dark in the room. Here-thke q
rings and take all the pictures in t
room, but let me or" NO" "a
Death. "Your soul! Your soul" Tn
the dying skeptlc begins to say,
J. Cod" Death says: You declsr
there was no God" Then the dyil
. akeptic sayHi pray for me-" a
Death ssyE: at Is too late 10 prs
you have only three seconds more
live, and | will count them oh-ol
two, three, Gonei" where2 Wher
Carry him out and lay him down beAi
his old father and mother, who di
under the decisions Of the Christi
RELIGION singing the songs Of victory