The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-16

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 un-
til the haft went in after the blade.
Judas Iscariot kissed Christ. .
Dishonesty Never Prospers.
want to tell you that the church
of God is not 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 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.
1 am willing to sell medicines on the
Lords day, for think that is right
and necessary, but can't sell this pat
ent backing" He was discharged
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 all over,
the land for his faith in God and his
good works as for his worldly success.
poral, financial good for the sake Of
his spiritual interests the Lord is on
his side, and one with God is ma
jority.
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 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
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
of the newspapers try 20 blacken his
character and to distort all his past
history, and after 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! If man shall go into
politics to reform politics and with the
right spirit, he will como out with the
right spirit and unhurt. That was
Theodore F'relinhuysen of New Jer-
sey. That was George Briggs of
Massachusetts. That was Judge Nc
Lean of Ohio.
Then look around and see the al
lurements 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 a
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
~, oil ho
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 it out.
/ stood one day at Niagara Falls,
and I saw what you may have seen
there-six rainbows bending over that,
tremendous plunge. never saw any,
thing like it before or since. Six beau
tiful rainbows arching that great
cataract! And so over the rapids and
angry precipices of sin, where so many
have been dashed down, Gods beau
tiful admonitions hover warning
arching each peril-six of them, so Of
them, 1000 Of them. Beware, beware,
beware!
Young men, while you have time
to reflect upon these things and before
the duties of the Office and the store
and the shop come upon you again,
look over this whole subject, and after
the day has passed and you hear in
the nightfall the voices and footsteps
of the city dying from your ear, and it
gets so silent that you can hear dis
tinctly your watch under your pillow
going, tick. tick" then open your
eyes and look out upon the darkness
and see two pillars of light, one hori-
zontal, the other perpendicular, but
changing their direction until they
come together, and your enraptured
vision beholds 1.-THE cross.
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