The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-20


the distance. but ask the starved
travellers by the roadside what they
think of Pixies peak. Are there
those around whom suspicious com
panions are gathered? Do their jests
and their entertainments make the
hours go blithely by when you are
with them? Have you taken sip
from their cup of sin or gone with
them in one path of unrighteousness?
Turn back. From Babylon they came
and to Babylon they would carry you.
If so many plague stricken men
would like to enter your companions
ship, before anyone is allowed to pass
into the intimacy of your heart put
on them severest quarantineN
Let me say to those Christian parents
who are doing their best in the educa-
ton of their children: Take good heart;
your sons this morning may be far
away from you and i'm distant city,
but God, to whom you dedicated them,
will take care of them. The God OF
Daniel will take care of them far away
in babylon. Train up child in the
way he should go, and when he is old
he will not depart from it, lie may
wander away for awhile and fall into
sin and break your heart, but before
he is done with this life, you having
commended him to God, he will come
back again, for put the emphasis In
the right place and on the word odd
when ] repeat that passage and say,
'Train up child in the way he should
go, and when he is old he will not de-
part from it," May you all have the
glorious satisfaction of seeing your
children walk in paths of righteousness
and peace! One with them on earth,
may you be one with them in Heaven!
But l learn also from this subject
the beauty of Christian sobriety. The
meat and the wine that were to come
to Daniels table were to come from the
kings table. Well, Daniel had no right
to take that food. The king was n
heather, and, like all the heathens, was
accustomed to ask blessings before he
partook of food, and in that blessing
they always dedicated the food to the
gods. So that il Daniel had taken this
| food he would have broken the law
which forbade the taking of food dedi-
Gated to idols. He chose pulse. II was
n miracle that he did not dwindle
away. There is nothing in pulse, such
poor herb. to make n man ruddy and
healthful. Some people talk as though
that were n kind of diet which would
make man swarthy and competent to
do the duties of this life. That is
not the lesson at all But for pos
| tive miracle Daniel would have dwin-
| died away, and when God for his self
denial puts upon him this benediction
He puts a benediction upon all Chris
tian sobriety. ] would not have you
class your preacher among those who
would put unnecessary restraint upon
lawful appetites. There are those in
| this day who dispute the grant which
| God gave to man for animal food, and
| they make Il religion of their hunger as
the Pharisces expected Heaven for
their fasting. Daniel did not always
| live on pulse. He was not Grahamite;
he was not vegetarian. He went
through that self-denial because the
food offered him was idolatrous food
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all ,arieties of food, have not much
confidence in the teaching of those who
would put us on severe regimen. They
are parents who. with wrong theory
in this respect, deny their children all
harmless luNuries and without sufii-
cient inquiry send them out to board
ing schools where their intellects are
cultivated 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
| see the three angels eating the call
which Abraham slew and when ! find
Christ eating broiled fish even after II
resurrection, come to the conclusion
that the theories of the vegetarian ar,
not from religious standpoint wei
founded.
But, oh. how many temptations tC
dissipation! With so many things to
tempt the appetite, how many tempta
tions to gluttony! With SO many spark
ling beverages, how much temptation
to drunkenness! Could / bring befor,
you this morning the mothers and III,
wives and the sisters who have wept
at the graves of the inebriate, YOU
soul would be overpowered with thu
spectacle. Could | show you tn,
manly forms robbed of their beauty
the eye Hastings quenched in the win,
cup, the rudy cheek from which run
has wormed the rose, your soul would
recoil with horror, and you would ris,
up and cry: "Begone, thou dream o
hell"
Charles Lamb, who made all tn,
world laugh at his humor. and theI
afterward made all the world weep a
his fate. who outwitted everybod,
and was at last outwitted of his owl
appetites, wrote thus: THE waters
have gone over me: but out Of tn,
depths, could be heard, ! would or,
out to all those who have set foot IL
the perilous flood. Could the you'll
to whom the flavor of the first win
is delicious as the opening scenes o
his life. or the entering upon SOM
newly discovered paradise-could H.
looI into my desolation and be mad
to understand what n dreary thinl
it is when man shall feel himself go
ing down precipice with open eye
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