The Yale expositor., 1900-08-17

the heroes of the street. Mighty were
their temptations, mighty was their
deliverance, and mighty shall be their
triumph.
HoiIowness of Society.
Again. in all these cities l am i'm
pressed with the fact that life is full
of pretension and sham. What sub
terfuge, what double dealing, what
two facedness! Do all people who wish
you good morning really hope for you
happy day? Do all the people who
shake hands love each other? Are all
those anxious about your health who
inquire concerning it? Do all want to
see you who ask you to call? Does
all the world know half as much as it
pretends to know? Is there not many
wretched stock of goods with bril-
liant store window? Passing up and
down the streets to your business and
your work, are you not impressed with
the fact that society is hollow and that
there are subterfuges and pretensions?
Oh, how many there are who swagger
and strut and how few people who
are natural and walk? While fops
simper and fools smoker and simple
tons giggle, how few people are nat
ural and laugh! / say these things
not to create in you incredulity or mis-
anthrophy, nor do l forget there are
thousands of people a great deal bet
ter than they seem, but do not think
any man is prepared for the conflict
Of this life until he knows this par
ticular peril. Ehud comes pretending
to pay his tax to King Eglon and,
while he stands in front of the king,
stabs him through with a dagger I'M
til the haft went in after the blade.
Judas Iscariot kissed Christ.
Dishonesty Never Prospers.
l want to tell you that the church
Of God is not a shop for receiving
stolen goods and that IL you have
taken anything from your fellows you
had better return it to the men to
whom it belongs. In a drug store in
Philadelphia a young man was told
that he must sell backing on the
Lords day. He said to the head man
Of the firm: II can't possibly do that.
/ am willing to sell medicines on the
Lords day. for l think that is right
and necessary, but l can't sell this pat
ent backing" He was discharge
from the place A Christian man hear
ing of it took him into his employ,
and he went on from one success to
another until he was known ell over
the land for his faith in God and his
good works as for his worldly success.
When man has sacrificed any tenn
poral, financial good for the sake or
his spiritual interests the Lord is on
his side, and one with God is a ma
iority.
But if you have been much among
the cities you have also noticed that
they are full of temptations of po-
litical character. 1t is not so more in
one city than in all the cities. Hun
dreds of men going down in our cities
every year through the pressure OF
politics. Once in awhile a man will
come out in a sort of missionary spirit
and say: 81 am going into politics
now to reform them, and I am going
to reform the ballot box and I
am going to reform all the people l
come in contact with" That man in
the fear and love of God goes into
politics with that idea and with the
resolution that he will come out I'M
contaminated and as good as when he
went in. But generally the case is
when a man steps into politics many
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character and to distort all his past
history, and after a little while has
gone by instead OF considering him
self an honorable citizen he is lost in
contemplation and in admiration OF
the fact that he has so long been kept
out OF JAIL IL man shall 90 into
politics TO reform politics and with the
right spirit, he will como out with tile
right spirit and unhurt. That was
Theodore Frelinhuysen of New Jer-
sey. That was George Briggs of
Massachusetts,. That was Judge Nc
Lean OF Ohio.
Then look around and see the al
lure1nents to dissipated life. Bad
books, unknown to father and mother,
vile as the reptiles of Egypt. crawling
into some of the best families OF the
community; and boys read them
while the teacher is looking the
other way, or at recess, or ON
the corner of the street when the
groups are gathered. These books are
read late at night. Satan finds them
smooth plank on which he can slide
down into perdition some of your sons
and daughters. Reading bad books
one never gets over it. The books may
be burned. but there is not enough
power in all the apothecary's prepara-
tions to wash out the stain from the
soul. Fathers hands, mothers hands,
sisters hands will not wash it out;
none but the hand Of the Lord can
wash IL out.
1 stood one day at Niagara Falls.
and l saw what you mt4 have seen
there-six rainbows bending over that
tremendous plunge. l never saw any