Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-03-26

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and see for myself" Farewell to in
nocence, which, once gone, never fully
comes back, Do not be under the de-
fusion that because you repent of sin
you get rid forever of it's consequences.
+ say farewell to innocence which,
once gone, never fully comes back!
Traps For the Young
Oh, how many traps set for the
young! Styles of temptation just suit
ed to them. Do you suppose that a
man who went clear to the depths of
dissipation went down in one great
plunge? Oh, no! At first it was a
fashionable hotel. Marble floor. No
unclean pictures behind the counter.
No drunken hiccough while they drink,
but the click of cut glass to the elegant
sentiment. You ask that young man
now to go into some low restaurant
and get a drink, and he would say, "DO
| you mean to insult me?" But the
fashionable and the elegant hotel is
not always close by, and now the
| young man is on the down grade. Far
Their and farther down until he has
about struck the bottom of the depths
of ruin. Now he is in the low restau-
rant. The cards SO greasy you can
hardly tell who has the best hand.
Gambling for drinks. Shuttle away,
shuttle away. The landlord stands in
his shirt sleeves, with his hands on his
hips, waiting for an order to fill up the
glasses.
The clock strikes 12-the tolling of
the funeral bell of a soul. The breath
of eternal woe Pushes in that young
tn, toto of
light the fiery tongue Of the worm that
never dies. Two o'clock in the morn
ing, and now they are sound asleep in
their chairs. Landlord comes around
and says: "Wake up, wake up! Time
to shut upr' "What! says the young
man. 'Time to shut up?" Push them
oil out into the night air. Now they
are going home. Going home! Let the
wife crouch in the corner and the chill
dren hide under the bed. What was
the history Of that young man? He
began his designations in the barroom
of Fifth avenue hotel and completed
his damnation in the lowest grogshop.
Sometimes sin does not halt in that
way. Sometimes sin even comes to
the drawing room. There are leprous
hearts sometimes admitted in the high
est circles Of society. He is SO elegant,
he is so bewitching in his manner, he
is so refined, he is so educated no one
suspects the sinful design, but after
awhile the talons Of death come forth.
What is the matter with that house?
The front windows have not been open
for six months or a year. A shadow
has come down on that domestic
hearth, a shadow thicker than one
woven Of midnight and hurricane. The
agony Of that parent makes him say,
ooh, I wish I had buried my children
when they were small!' Loss of prop
erty? No. Death in the family? No.
Madness? No. Some villain, kid glov-
ed and diamonded lifted that cup of
domestic bliss until the sunlight struck
it, and all the rainbows'playeda around
the rim and then dashed it into desola-
ton and woe, until the harpies of
darkness clapped their hands and all
the voices of the pit uttered a loud
'Ha, hap
Morals and Manners.
The statistic has never been made
up in these great cities of how many
have been destroyed and how many
beautiful homes have been overthrown
If the statistic could be presented, it
would freeze your blood in a solid cake
at your heart. Our great cities are full
of temptations, and to vast multitudes
Of parents these temptations become
matter of great solicitude.
But now for the alleviations. First
Of all, you save yourself a great deal
Of trouble. oh, parent, if you can early
watch the children and educate them
for God and heaven! '"The first five
years of my life made me an infidel,"
said Tom Paine. A vessel puts out to
sea, and after it has been five days out
there comes a cyclone. The vessel
springs a leak. The helm will not work.
What Is the matter? 1t is not sea-
worthy. It never was seaworthy. Can
you mend it now? 1t is too late. Down
she goes with $50 passengers into a
watery grave. What was the time
to fix that vessel? What was the time
to prepare it for the storm? In the
drydock. All, my friends, do not wait
until your children get out into the
world, beyond the Narrows and out on
the great voyage of life! It is too late
then to mend their morals and their
manners. The drydock of the Christian
home is the place. Correct the sin (
now. Correct the evil now.
Just look at the character of your
children now and get an intimation of
what they are going to be. You can
tell by the way that boy divides the ap-
pie what his proclivity is and what his
sin will be and what style of discipline
you ought to bring upon him. You see
how he divides that apple? He takes
1T,
gives one-tenth to his sister. Well, let
fbot oo ona oil bic Jifo ho want