Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-10-24

may wander away for awhile and fall into
sin and break your heart. but before he is
done with his life, you. having commend
ed him to God, he will come back again.
fol. 1 put the emphasis in the right place
and on the word "old' when / repent that
passage and say, Train up a child in the
way he should go. and when he is old he
will not depart from it."
Are you fond of picturesg Here is one
irawn by Solomon: Who hath woe?
Who hath sorrow? Who hath conten-
tions? Who hath babbling: Who hath
wounds without causeg They that tarrv
long at the wine, they that go to seek
mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine
when it is red, when it moveth itself Alright
in the cup. At the last it biteth like
serpent and stingeth like an adder"
| do you know what YOU are DOING"
| said mother who had broken into a res
taurant, the door locked against her, her
son inside. She came up to the counter
and saw the man of the restaurant min
Cling t'e Intoxicating cup for her own son.
She said to the man behind the counter,
DO you know what YOU are doing"
NO" said he: ~ don't" Says she, You
| are iattening graveyards.
| / told at Des Moines of "a ,r5in Of
cars going through a very stormy night
| over one of the western prairies. The
young man who was present told us the
story. In the night there little child
in the sleeping car fretful and worrying
and crying hour after hour. A man on the
| opposite side of the car lost his patience
| and said, Either make that child shut
| up or take it to its mother" Then another
man on the opposite side of the sleeping
| car. man with a broken heart, pushed
back the curtain and looked out and said.
Young man, that child's mother is dead
| in the baggage car. and the little thing IL
wailing for her Then the man who haG
| committed the affront rose and offered his
| services for the night and took care of the
|
| sengers in the car were broken down with
| emotion.
Oh, if the cry of one child could arouse
so many sympathes, what ought to be the
of orphanage and widowhood from the inc
briate's grave! God save this country
from the perils of strong drink.
My subject also impresses me with the
beauty of youthful character remaining
| incorrupt away from home. If Daniel had
plunged into every wickedness of the city
OF Babylon the old folks at home would
never have heard of it. Ii he had gone
through all the rounds of iniquity it would
have cast no shadow on his early home.
There were no telegraphs, there were
railroads. ISt Daniel knew that Gods
eye was on him.
That was enough There are young men
not SO good away from home at home.
Frederick tending his fathers sheep among
the hills or thrashing rye in the barn Is
different perhaps from Frederick the
Stock Exchange. Instead of the retiring
disposition there is bold effrontery. In
stead of an obliging spirit there is perhaps
oppressive selfishness.
Instead of open handed charity there is
tight listed stinginess. Instead OF reason
able hours there is midnight revel. | speak
to many Young men on this matter-you
| who may have left your fathers house and
others who, though still under the par
entail roof. are looking forward to the
time when you will go forth to conflict.
alone in this world with its temptations
and its sorrows, and when you will build
up your own character On, that the God
of Daniel might be with you in Babylon.
h l think the most thrilling passage of n
young mans life is when he leaves home
to make his fortune. The novelty and the
romance of the thing may keep him from
any keen sorrow. but the old people who
have seen the destruction of so many who
have started with high hope cannot he
but be anxious. As long he was in his
fathers house his waywardness was kindly
chided, and although sometimes he thought
the restraint rather bitter and rather
we're in his calmer moments, he acklowl-
edged it was salutary and righteous
Through the influence of metropolitan
friends the father has obtained a situation
for his son in the city. The comrades OF
the young man come the night before his
departure to bid farewell to the adven
turer. The morning of his going away he
at things, perhaps comes upon some OBJ
Ject that starts tear, some old familiar
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 eNcitements and amid associates who
are not ovcrcareful about their words and
thoughts and actions. Morning comes.
No fam, . altar. Sabbath comes. No
rural quiet. The sanctuary comes, but all
the faces are strange, and no one cares
fhar Ia .hr, l.Nsaa ,..,e
come On his way from the store he
placar1 announcing a rare and a vicious
amusement. He has no greeting at the
door of the boarding house. He has no
appetite for the food. No one cares
whether he eats or does not eat Rather
he would not eat 1t is cheaper After the
tea he goes into the parlor, takes up a
book. finds it dull, no sister tn look over
it with him. Goes upstairs to his room
in the third story, finds it cold and uniu-
viting, and in despair he rushes out, caring
for nothing but to get something to make
him stop thinking. He is caught in til"
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. if they could
speak. would tell of young men who went
off with high hopes and came back blasted
and crushed to disgrace the sepulcher OF
their fathers.
| And vet this exodus must go on. As
from distant hills the rivers are poured
down through tunnels to slake the thirst
| of our great cities, from distant coun-
| try places the streams of ncorrupt popu-
, lation must pour down to purify our great
; cities. Tomorrow morning on all the
thOroughfares. in every steamboat and in
every rail car will be young men going
forth to seek their fortunes in great
| towns. o Lord God of Daniel, help them
| to be faithful in Babylon they We're
| at Jerusalem! Forget not, o my young
| friend, in the great seaports the moral and
religious principles inculcated by parental
solicitude, and if to-day seated in the
| house of God you feel the advantage of
early Christian culture forget not those to
whom you most indebted and pray
| God that as old age comes upon them and
the shadow of death the hope of heaven
may beam through the darkness. God for
| bid that any of us through our misconduct
| should bring disgrace upon a fathers name
! or prove recreant to the love of a mother
| The dramatst ade no exaggeration wheI
he exclaimed, How sharper than a ser
| pent's tooth it is to have a thankless
child" Oh, that God would help you as
parents and as young people to take tc
| heart the lessons of this imDortant subject,
and if we shall learn that there is danger
| of being carried into captivity and that
early impressions are almost ineffaceable
| and that there is something beautiful in
| Christian sobriety and. that there is great
| attractiveness in piety away from home,
| then it will be to you and to me matter
| of everlasting congratulation that con-
J sidered how Daniel behaved when he be-
| came college student at Babylon.
Cannibalism is on the decline in the
| New Hebrides.