The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-03-31

tude sometimes because u Young pee
pie are surrounded by 50 many temp,
tations a castle may not be taken by
straightforward siege, hut suppose
there he inside the castle an enemy. and
in the night he shoves back the bolt
snd swings open the door. Our Young
folks have foes without, and they have
foes within. Who does not understand
So Who il the man here who is nov
aware OF the tact that the Young peo-
pleofthis day have tremendous tempta-
tons?
Some man will come 10 the young
people and Try to persuade them that
purity and honesty and uprightness
are q sign Of weakness. Some man will
take a dramatic attitude, and he will
talk TO the youRg man, and he will say;
You must break away from your
mothers apron strings You must get
out Of that %puritanical straightjacket.
II is time you were your own master.
You are verdant. You are green. You
are unsophisticsted. Come with me;
III show you the world. I'll show you
life. Come with me. You need to see
the world. II won't hurt you" After
awhile the Young man says: We'll.
/ can't afford 10 be odd. Ican't afford
To be peculiar. can't afford to saeri-
ice all my friends. I'll just go and see
for myself" Farewell TO innocence,
which once gone never fully comes
back. Do not be under the delusion
that because You repent OF sin you get
rid forever of its consequences. say
farewell to innocence, which one gone
never fully back.
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 10 the depths Of dissi-
patton went down in one great plunge?
Oh. no. At first it was a fashionable
hotel Marble door. No unclean pic
lures behind the counter. No drunken
~hieeough whila 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. Further and further down, un-
I'll he has about struck the bottom of
the depths OF ruin. Now he Is in the
low restaurant. 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 FIJI up the glasses.
The clock strikes l9-the tolling of
the funeral bell OF a soul. The breath
OF eternal woe hushes in that young
mans cheeks. In the jets Of the gas
light the fiery tongue OF the worm that
never dies. Two o'clock IN the norm
ing. and now they are sound asleep in
their chairs. Landlord around
and says; Wake up. wake up Time
10 shut up!" 'What?" says the young
man. Time to shut up?" Push them
all 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? lie he
gan his designations in the barroom OF
q Fifth VENUE hotel and completed his
damBation in he 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 sus-
poets the sinful design. but after awhile
the talons OF death some forth. What
is the matter with that house? The
front windows have not been opened
for six months or a year. Ashadow has
come down IN that domestic hearth, a
shadow thicker than one woven OF mid.
night and hurricane. The agony Of that