The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-08-24

iquitous gains anu tha' -
to God a portion OF an unrighteous
bargain then the Lord Will lorgi'e
him the rest. The secretary OF pen
eyolent society came to me ana salo'
"Mr. So-and-So has given a large
amount of money to the missionary
cause." mentioning the sum. l SAID;
AZ can't believe it," de said: 1t Is
So" Well, i went home, staggered
and confounded. l never knew the
man to give anything. But after
owb;le 7 found out that he had been
enoapedl in the most infamous KIND
of q swindle, and then he promised TO
compromise the matter with the Loro'
sayino. snow, here is SO much for
.hoa lord Please to let me off"
7 want to tell you that the church
Of God is not shop for receiving
stolen Foods and that il you have
taken ANYTHING from your fellows you
ID halter return it to the men TO
whom It belongs. In drug store IN
pbi1adelphia a young man was told
that he must sell backing on the
Lords day. He said to the head man
Of the firm: 81 can't possibly 90 tnat'
am willing to sell medicines on tne
Lords day. for think that is right
and necessary, but 1 can't sell TINS
natent backing" He was discharged
from the place. A Christian man heai
ing of it took him into his employ
and he went on from one success 10
another until he was known all over
the land for his faith in God and MS
rood works as for his worldly success
When a man has sacrificed any tenn
Moral financial good for the sake OF
his spiritual interests the Lord IS on
h;s side and one with God is a major
ity.
: But If YOU have been much among
1 the cities YOU have also noticed that
l thew are full of temptations OF poll1-
ical character. 1t is not so more IN
one city than in all the cltles' nun
dreds of men going down in our clties
: every year through the pressure o,
o notifies. Once in awhile a man VIII
/ come out in a sort of missionary spirit
o and saw: II am going into polltlcs
now to reform them, and | am going
l. to reform the ballot box, and am 60
'e ing to reform all the people 1 come IN
IT contact with" That man in the rear
r, and love of God goes into politics with
20 that idea and with the resolution that
* he will come out uncontaminated ana
lie as good as when he went in. But gen.
II erally the case is when man steps
~ into politics man, of the newspapers
SIS try to blacken his character and to
IN distort all his past history, and attel
ny a little while has gone by instead o.
of considering himself an honorable citi
Id zen he is lost in contemplation and II
Up admiration of the faca that he has 81
i'll long been kept out of Jail! If mai
ou shall go into politics to reform polite
n, and with the right spirit, he Will com
ne out with the right spirit ana urh'T'
n That was Theodore Frelinghuysen' o
at New Jersey. That was George Briggs
nd If Massachusetts, That was Judge nc
on Lean, of Ohio.
ry Then look around and see the
ye lurements to dissipated life. ba
on books. unknown to father and mothe
lid vile as the reptiles of Egypt, crawiin
cts into some of the best families of tn
community; and boys read them VIII
m tbe teacher is looking the other wa.
ull or at recess, or on the corner OF II
err street when the groups are gathere
yo- These books are read late at nlgh
ish Satan finds them smooth plank {
you which he can slide down into perd
rho tion some of your sons and daughter
all Reading bad bookstore never ge
Who over it. The books may De purhe
to but there is not enough power in
all the apothecary's preparations to wal
IRE ont the stain from the soul. Father
v a hands. mothers hands, sisters han
,ril- will not wash it out; none but Z
and hand of the Lord can wash it out.
and stood one day at Niagara falls, al
With I saw what you may have seen the
and six rainbows bending over that u
ten mendous plunge. l never saw an
who tbipg like it before or since. {
peo- beautiful rainbows arching that gre
lille cataract! And so over the rapids a
sim angry precipices of sin, where
are many have been dashed down, Go
inps beautiful admonitions hover, wal
, or inc arching each peril-six of the
are ,o of them, 1000 of them. Bewa
bet beware, beware!
bink Young men, while you have time
,Aict reflect upon these things and bef'
par the duties of the Office and the ST.
ding and the shop come upon you aga
and. look over this whole subject, and al
King, the day has passed and you hear
un- the nightfall the voices and footst
lade. of the city dying from your ear, AM
Gets so silent that you can hear
Ds in tinctly your watch under your Pill
,v Il going stick, tick" then open y