The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-05-26
for heaven, Is the anxiety for e,sry Intel
llgent parent.

they are wicked. You see tnem AZ sno 49,
bath-school class. They are so sunshiny I
a I'd bright you would think they we're al.
WAYS so, but the mother looking over az
them remembers what an awful time shs
had to get them ready. Time passes ON.
They get considerably older, and the son ]
comes in from the street from q pug.lis.,o {
encounter bearing on his appearance tue ,
marks OF defeat, or the daughter practices
some little deception In the household.
The mother says, az can't always be scoid-
ing and iretting and finding fault, but TINS
must be stopped" So In many q mouse.
hold there is the sign OF sin, the sign OF tht
truthfulness OF what the Bible says whel
1t declares, 'They go astray as soon al
they be born, speaking les" ul
some go to work and try Ito correct all
| this, and the boy is picked at and piekeo
at and picked at. That always Is ruinoas'
| There is more help in one good thunder'
storm than in Ave days or cod drlzaie
Retter the old fashioned style OF cnastise'
ment IL that be necessary, than the lret'
ting and the scoIding which have 90
stroyed so many.
sometimes because our young people arr
| surrounded by so many temptations.
castle NAV not be taken by straigntfor,
ward siege, but suppose there pc inslae 'hs
castle an enemy, and In tue night ue
shoves back the bolt ana swings open ~.
door. Our young folks have foes without
and thew have foes within. Who does mol
udarstsnd m Who IL the man here who
ia not aware of the fact that the young
neople of this day have tremendous temp
tations2
Oh. how many traps set for the young
STYLES Of temptation just suited 10 them.
Do YOU suppose that man VINO went cieaI
TO the depths of dissipation went down In
one great plunge? Oh, mol At first 1t was
a fashionable hotel Marble floor. No IN |
clean pictures behind the counter. NC
, drunken hiecough while they drioK, put
the click OF cut glass to the elegant sensr
, ment. You ask that young man now 60 20
into some low restaurant ana get drink:
| and ha would say, "Do you mean to Insult
) mepn But the fashionable and the elegant
| hotel Is not always close by, ana now tue
Q Young man Is on the down grace. eaI.nI.
. and farther down until he has about struck
: the bottom of the depths Of ruin. Now ne
v ia in the low restaurant. The CARDS SC
a oreasv Won can hardly tell who mas tne
It best land. Gambling for drinks. onume
d away, shuttle away. The landlord stabu as
}. In his short sleeves, with us na nu un ths
J. hips. waiting for an order TO MA up TIC
g glasses. .,,o to,,,,, ~
" tina funeral bell OF a soul. The breath OF
n eternal woe Pushes in that young man
cheeks. In the jets OF the gasllgn' a ;uo
fiery tongue of the worm that never DIES.
If Two O'Clock In the morning, and now theY
3 ore sound asleep in their chairs. Land
:. lord comes arouud and says wake up,
Is wake up. Time to shut upl' 'Wnata
ty saws the young man. Time 10 snu' eps
ar Push them all out into the nigns ar: ~ u
ne the wife crouch Ia the corner and the chill
m dren hide under the bed. What was tn'
ed history OF that young manf ne pegan M
be designations In the barroom Oh ruth a' =, .
2" nue. hotel and completed bis damnation IL
at the lowest grogshop.
all
rs Sometimes sin even comes to the drawing
is room There are leprous hearts some
to times admitted in the highest circles o
es. society. He is so elegant, he Is so bewitcn
on ing in his manner, he Is so renneo, ne IS =,
nv edncated. no one suspects the sinful DC
nd sion hut after a while the talons OF deaf
OF come forth. What is the matter with tina
house2 The front windows have not bee
,us open for six months or year. A shauo
ne. has come down on that domestic hearth,
,ne shadow thicker than one GG woven Q, M ah.
hiy night and hurricane. The agony OF th'
not narent makes him say, ooh, wish ma 4,
rlv pnried nv children when they were small
Ter. Toss of property? No. Death In Il
, to family? No. Madness? No. SOFA "
,alI lain kid gloved and diamonded, iiIte
'th- that cup Of domestic bliss until tue su
re- light struck it, and all the rainpo'
ock niaved around the rim and then dashed
pm into desolation and woe, until the harpi
.om of darkness clapped their hands ana
the the voices OF the pit uttered loud II
,om hap
res The statistic has never been made up
the tbess great cities of how many have be-
he dastroyed and how many beautiful HON
II a have been oyerthrown. II the statist
re- could be presented, it would freeze 70
him blood in a solid cake at your heart, y
yfon great cities are full Of temptations, ana
vast muItitudes OF parents these temp
'aiI. tions become matter OF great sonc'uu1
4 IL, u,ifh
ock, stand on the banks OF o river and you
ock. to change its course. 1t has peen rom
key, now for 100 miles. You cannot change
airs But lust go to the source OF that river,
ays, to where the water just drlps down on
ays, rock. Then with your knife make ch'
out, nal tbis way and channel that way.
rted n will take it. Come out and stand on
and hanks of your child's life when 1t Is thi
t9er or forty years OF age, or even twenty, q
JONI trv to change the course OF tnat u
vest 1t IL too late! 1t Is TOO iatel uo
very ther up at the source of life and ne
has ast to the mothers heart, where
flied character starts, and try to take IL
SYM the right direction. But, Oh, my Irie
had be careful to make line. DIST
said line between innocent hilartty on the
gion; hand and vicious hilarity on the otner.
ived, not think your children are going 20 7
iroat because tney make a racket. AL neal
listed children make a racket. But do not la'
OF 1t Mt vour child's sin because 1t Is smart.
}. YOU do. you Will cry after awniie peca
ilure IL ia malicious, Remember 1t Is what
ather do more than what you say that Is GO
the TO affect your children. Do you supp
on, Noah would have got his family TO go
false the ark II he staid out? No. HIS
am would have said, 81 am not going into
other boat: there's something wrong; ial
.,.. won't go in; If father stays OUT In
lnat out"
- the Are all your children safe? know IL
~ 10. stupendous question to ask, but u
nave ask II. Are all your children safer
US " mother. when the house was ON nre,
p,ay ont the household goods, many article
pay beautiful furniture. but forgot 20 ask
n you 700 lass, 81. . 70 melting with fervent
GIVE and God shall burn the world up and
q not a arv ~ ~ aFlrel Firel'' shalI resound q
g way eIy y. and the valleys. will
. sti,J children be safer
SUI, wonder II the subject strikes chol
> nnu the heart OF any man who had Chris
sup narentage. but has not lived as he GU
u OK God brought you here this mornln
have YOUR memory revived. Did you
from n christian ancestry? "Oh, yesl'' sayi
avs " man. "If there ever was good wo
an NV mother was good" How she wat
> The you "nen sou she nevertheiess
oanvel wakeful. and the medicine was given
}, le RIGHT time. and when the pillow wa
in"to she turned It. And, oh, then, when
=. nv began to go astray, what GRIEF II VI
That her hearth