Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-10-19

uOn ten rect by I'VE and expect TO rear
on IL great cathedral as to put down
contracted character I'm child's soul
aud yet rear upon it something exten-
sively grand ana extensively useful.
Let me say TO those Christian parents
VINO are doing their best I'm the educa-
ton OF their children: Take good heart.
Your sons this morning may be far
away from you and in a distant city.
but God. To whom you dedicated them.
will look after them. The God OF Dan.
lei will take care of them far away i'm
Babylon. Train up child i'm the way
he should so, and when he is old he
will not depart from it." He may wan
der away for awhile and fail into sin
and break your heart. but before he Is
done with his life. you. having com
mended him TO God. he Will come back
again. for ! put the emphasis in the
right place and ON the word old
when | repeat that passage and say.
Train mp child in the way he should
20, and when lie is old he Will not de
part from IT," May You all have the
glorious satisfaction of seeing your
children walk in paths of righteous
earth. may you be one with them in
heaven,
Restrain Appetite.
But learn also from this subject the
beauty OF Christian sobriety The meat
and the wine that were to come TO
Daniers table were to come from the
kings table. Well Daniel had no right
to take that food. The king was a
heather and. like all the heather. was
accustomed to ask blessing before he
paTtook of food. and i'm that blessing
they always dedicated the food to the
gods. So that if Daniel had taken this
food he would have broken the law
which forbade the taking of food dedi-
Gated to idols. He chose pulse. 1t was
n miracle that he did not dwindle
away. There is nothing in pulse. such
poor herb. TO make a man ruddy aud
healtEful. Some people talk as though
that We're Il kind OF diet which would
make man swarthy and competent to
do the duties of this life. That is not
the lesson ut all. But for a positive
miracle Daniel would have dwindied
away, and when God. for his self de-
NAL. puts upon him this benediction he
puts benediction upon all Christian
sobriety. | would not have you class
your preacher among those who would
put unnecessary restraints upon lawful
appetites. There are those i'm this slay
VINO dispute the grant which God gave
to man for animal food. and they make
4 religion OF their hunger as the Phar,-
sees expected heaven for their fasting.
Daniel did not always live on pulse.
lie was not Il Grahamite, he was not n
vegetarian. lie went through that self
denial because the food offered him
was idolatrous food. When / see God
hllinS the earth with all varieties OF
food. | have not much confidence in
the teaching of those who would nut
us on severe regimen. There are par
ents who. with wrong theory i'm this
respect. deny their children all harm
less luXuries and without sufficient in
quiry send them out to boarding
schools where their intellects are cul-
tured TO the disadvantage OF their
starved bodies so that from many n
boarding school a class Of 20 will grad
uate. 10 OF them ghosts. Now. when I
see the three angels eating the calf
which Abraham slew and when I find
Christ eating brolled fish even after
his resurrection | come to the concIu-
sion that the theories of the vegetarian
arc not. from religious standpoint
well founded.
Woes OF DrunLcuness
But oh. how many temptations to
dissipation, With so many things to
tempt the appetite how many temptn-
tons to gluttonyl With so many spar
King beverages how much temptation
to drunkenness, Could bring before
you this morning the mothers aud the
wives and the sisters who have went
az the graves of the inebriate your soul
would he overpowered with the specta.
Gle. Could show you the manly forms
robbed OF their beauty. the eve FASH
ings Quenched in the wine cup. the rud-
dy cheek from which rum has wormed
the rose, your souls would rccoil with
horror, and you would rise up aud cry,
"Bcgone, thou dream OF hellw
charles Lamb, who made all the
world laugh ut his humor and then aft
erward made all the world weep at his
rate, who outwitted everybody and
was ut last outwitted of his own appe-
tiles, wrote thus: THE waters have
gone over me, but out of the depths
could he heard | would cry out to all
those who have set a foot in the peril
Gus flood. Could the youth to whom
the flavor of the first wine is delicious
as the opening scenes of his life or the
entering upon some newly discovered
paradise-could he look into my DESC
lation and be made to understand what
dreary thing II is when a man shall
feel himself going down precipice
with open eyes and passive will; to
see his destruction and have no power
TO stop Ii, yet feel II all the way ema-
mating from himself; to see all godli-
ness empty out OF him and yet not able
to forget the time when it was other.
wise; 10 bear about the piteous specta-
Gle of his own ruln-could he see INV
feverish eye, feverish with last nights
drinking and feverlshly looking for to-
nights repetition of that folly; could
he but fee! the body OF the death out
or which / cry hourly with feeble out
cry TO be delivered, ii We're enough to
make him dash the sparkling beverage
to the earth in all the pride of its man.
ting temptation"
Are you fond OF pictures? Here Is
one drawn by Solomon: who hath
woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath
Who hath babbling? Who
hath wounds without cause? They that
tarry long Mt the wine, they that go to
seek mixed wine. Look not thou upon
the wine when it is red. when 1t NOV
eth itself Alright in the cup. At the last
IL biteth Ike a serpent and stingeth
like an adder"
DO you know what you are doing?"
said a mother who had broken into
restaurant. the door locked against her,
her son inside. She came up to the
and saw the man OF the restau-
rant mingling the Intoxicating cup for
her own son. She said to the man be-
hind the counter. do you know what