Connecticut western news., 1900-10-18

the opposite side of the sleeping car, 0 man with broken heart, pushed back the curtain and looked out and said, Young man, that chlld's mother Is dead In the baggage car, and the little thing Is wailing for her" Then the man who had committed the affront rose and offered his services for the night and took care of the child until the morning. and all the passengers in the car were broken down with emo- ton. Oh, If the cry of one child could arouse so many sympathies what ought to be the effect of the ten thousand voiced shriek of orphanage and widow hood from the inebriate's grave! God save this country from the perils of strong drink.
 My subject also impresses me with the beauty of youthful character re- maining incorrupt away from home. If Daniel had plunged into every wicked ness of the city of Babylon, the old folks at home would never have heard of 1t. If he had gone through all the rounds of iniquity, 1t would have cast no shadow on his early home. There were no telegraphs, there were no rail- roads. But Daniel knew that Gods eye was on him. That was enough. There are young men not so good away from home as at home. Frederick tending his fathers sheep among the hills or thrashing rye In the barn Is different perhaps from Frederick on the Stock Exchange. Instead of the retiring disposition there Is bold effron- tery. Instead of an obliging spirit there is perhaps oppressive selfishness. Instead of open handed charity there Is tight listed stinginess. Instead of req sonable hours there Is midnight revel. I speak to many young men on this matter-you who may have. left your fathers house and others who, though still under the parental roof, are look ing forward to the time when you will go forth to conflict, alone In this world, with It's temptations and its sorrows, and when you will build up your own character. Oh, that the God of Daniel might be with you in Babylon!
 Beware of Temptation.
 think the most thrilling passage of a young mans life Is when he leaves home to make his fortune. The novel ty and the romance of the thing may keep him from any keen sorrow, but the old people who have seen the de- struction of so many who have started with high hope cannot help but be anx- lous. AS long as he was in his fathers house his waywardness was kindly chided, and although sometimes he thought the restraint rather bitter and tv, h naI, atNtsa he acknowledged 1t was salutary and righteous. Through the influence of metropolitan friends the father has ob- tained situation for his son in the | city. The comrades of the young man rome the night before his departure to bid farewell to the adventurer. The morning of his going away he walks around the place to take a last look at | things, perhaps comes upon some ob- | ject that starts tear, some old famil- | far place, but no one sees the tear. The trunk Is put upon the wagon, the young man Is off for the city. He Is set down amid settlements and amid | associates who are not overcareful about their words and thoughts and actions. Morning comes No family | altar. Sabbath comes. No rural quiet. The sanctuary comes, but all the faces l are strange, and no one cares whether ne comes to church or does not come. | On his way from the store he sees a { placard announcing rare and vi- cious amusement. He has no greeting at the door of the boarding house. He has no appetite for the food. No one | rrrl,A l,0 A, zA nnA
 Rather he would not eat. It Is cheap CT. After the tea he goes into the par Tor, takes up book, finds 1t dull, no sister to look over 1t with him. Goes | up stairs to his room in the third story, | finds 1t cold and uninviting. and In de | spair he rushes out, caring for nothing but to get something to make him stop thinking. He Is caught in the first whirl of sin. He has started out on the dark sea where the gleam of the joy Is the flashing of the pit and the laughter Is the creaking of the gate of the lost. Oh, how many graves there are in the country churchyard which fl they could speak would tell of young men who went off with high hopes and came back blasted and crushed to dis
 grace the sepulcher of their fathers.
 And yet this exodus must go on. AS from distant hills the rivers are pour. ed down through tunnels to slake the thirst of our great cities, so from dis
 tant country places the streams of In
 corrupt population must pour down to purify our great cities. Tomorrow morning on all the thoroughfares, lr every steamboat and in every rail cal
 will be young men going forth to seek
 their fortunes in our great towns. c
 Lord God of Daniel, help them to be as faithful In Babylon as they were at Je
 rusalem! Forget not, O my young
 friend, in the great seaports the mora
 and religious principles inculcAted by
 parental solicitude, and If today seated
 in the house of God you feel the ad
 vantage of early Christian culture
 forget not those to whom you are most
 indebted and pray God that as old ags
 comes upon them and the shadow oi
 death the hope of heaven may bean
 through the darkness. God forbid that
 any of us through our misconduct
 should bring disgrace upon a father:
 name or prove recreant to the love of {
 mother. The dramatist made no exag
 geration when he exclaimed, How
 sharper than serpent's tooth 1t Is tt
 have thankless childw Oh. that Coo
 would help you as parents and a:
 young people to take to heart the les
 sons of this important subject, and |
 we shall learn that there Is danger o
 being carried Into captivity and tha | nrtx ir,,,N t.,.
 ble and that there Is something beauti
 ful in Christian sobriety and that ther'
 Is great attractiveness In piety away
 from home, then 1t will be to you anC
 to me matter of everlasting congrat