The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-16


me to read and write. Didn't lie take
away my father so long ago ! never re.
member to have seen him. And haven't
had to 20 along the streets to get some.
thing to fetch home to cat for the folks
And didn't !. as soon as ! could carry a
basket, have to go out and pick up Gin.
ders, and never have no schooling, siry
God don't want Inc to read, sir ] can't
read nor write neither
In all cities, east, west. north. south. |
notice great temptations to commercial
fraud. Here is man who starts in busi.
ness. He says, I'm going to be honest"
but ON the same street on the same
block, in the same business are Shylocks.
Those men. to get the patronage OF any
one. will break all understandings with
other merchants and will sell at ruinous
cost. putting their neighbors at great dis
advantage, expecting to make up the de.
ct in something else. II an honest prin-
clple could creep into that mans soul it
would die of sheer loneliness. The man
twists about, trying to escape the penalty
ot the law, and despiscs God. while he is
lust q little anxious about the sheriff
The honest man looks about him and
says: well. this rivalry is awful. Per.
haps am more scrupulous than | need be
This little bargain | ann about to enter is
a little doubtful, but then | shall only do
Us the rest And so | had a friend who
started in commercial life and as q book
merchant with high resolve. lie said
I'm my store there shall be no books that
! would not have my family read Time
passed on. and one day | went into his
store and found some niquitous books ON
the shelf. and | said to him. How is it
possible that you can consent to sell such
books as theset' oh" he replied, 81
have got over those Puritanical notions!
man cannot do business in this day
unless he does 1T in the way other people
do it, 10 make a long story short, he
lost his hope of heaven, and in little
while he lost his morality, and then he
went into madhouse. In other words,
when It man casts off God, God casts him
off
Hundreds OF men going down in our
cities every year through the pressure OF
politics.
That man in the fear and love of God
goes into politics with that idea and with
the resolution that he will come out un-
contaminated and as good as when he
went in, but generally the case is, when a
man steps into politics, many of the news
papers try to blacken his character and to
distort all his past history, and after a
little while has gone by, instead OF con
sderng himself AN honorable citizen, he
Is lost in contemplation and in admiration
of the fact that he has so long been kept
out OF jail!
II man should go into politics to re-
form politics, and with the right spirit,
he can come out with the right spirit and
unhurt That was Theodore Frelinghuy-
sen, OF New Jersey. That was George
Briggs, OF Massachusetts,. That was
Judge Mclean, of Ohio.
Then look around and see the allure
ments to diss pated life. Bad books, un-
known to father and mother, vile as the
reptiles OF Egypt. crawling into some of
the best of families of the community,
who may 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
periditon some OF your sons and daugh-
ters.
Reading bad books, one never gets over
it. The books may be burned. but there
is not enough power in all the apothe-
cary's preparations 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
it out.
And what is more perilous in regard to
some OF these temptations we may not
mention them. While God in His Bible
from chapter to chapter thundered His
denunciations against these crimes people
expect the pulpit and the printing pres,
to be silent ON the subject and just in
proportion as people are impure are they
iastidious on this theme. They are sc
full of decay and death they do not want
their sepulchers opened. God will turn
into destruction all the uncean, and nc
splendors of surrounding can make de
cent that which He has smitten. God
will not excuse sin merely because 1T ha.
costly array and beautiful tapestry anc
palatial residence any more than He vii
excuse that which crawls, blotch o
sores, through the lowest cellar. Ever
and anon, through some lawsuit there
flashes upon the people of our great cities
what is transpiring in seemingly respecta
BILE circles. You call it high life yor
call it fast living YOU call it people
eccentricity," and while we kick OIL Tho
sidewalk the poor wretch who has not tn,
means to garnish his inquity, these lord'
and ladies, wrapped in purple and il
linen, go unwhipped of public justice. All
the most dreadful part of the whole thinl
is, that there are persons abroad whos'
whole business it is to despoi the young
What an eternity such a man will have
As the door opens to receive him thou
sands of voices will cry out, See here
what you have done" and the wretcl
will wrap himself with fiercer flame ant
leap into deeper darkness, and the multi
tude he has destroyed win pursue him ant
hurl at him the long, bitter, relentless
everlasting curse of their own anguish |
there be one cup of eternal darkness NOR,
bitter than another, they will have e
drink it to the dregs. Ii in all the ocear
of the lost world that comes billowing NJ
there be one wave more fierce than an
other, it will dash over them. But there
is hope for all who will turn.
| stood one day at Niagara Falls, and
saw what you may have seen there-sil
rainbows bending over that tremendou
plunge / never saw anything like it be
fore or since. Six beautiful rainbow
arching that great cataract! And so owe
the rapids and angry precipices of sin
where so many have been dashed down
Gods beautiful admonitions hover,
warning aTching each peril-siX OF them
fifty of them, thousand OF them. lie
ware, beware, beware!
Young men, while You have time to re
fleet upon these things and before th'
duties of the Office and the store and th'
shop come upon You again, look over thu
whole subject, and after the day ha
passed and you hear in the nightfall TIL,
voices and footsteps of the city dyinl
from your ear, and it gets so silent tina
you can hear distinctly your watch unde
your pillow going tick, tick, then opei
your eyes and look out upon the darkness
and see two pillars of light, one horizontal
their direction until they come together
and your enraptured vision beholds it
! the cross.
TIyo Thousand Against Custer.
There is student at the Carlisle II
dian school whose father was q Leaf