The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-13

hurled into lnebriety and the grave one
of the best friends ever had. Retreat
is victory!
Here is a converted infidel He Is so
strong now in his faith in the gospel
he says he can read anything. What
are you reading? Bolingbroke? An
drew Jackson Davis tracts? Tyndalls
Glasgow university address? Drop
them and run. You will be an inhdel
before you die unless you quit that.
These men of Al will be too much for
you. Turn your back on the rank and
file of unbelief. Fly before they cut
you with their swords and transfix you
with their iavelins. There are people
who have been well nigh ruined be-
cause they rlsked a foolhardy expedi-
ton In the presence of mighty and
overwhelming temptations, and the
men of Al made a morning meal OF
them
| Reasons for Retreat.
But there Is a more marked illustra-
ton of victorious retreat in the life OF
our Joshua, the Jesus Of the ages First
falling back from an appalling height
to an appalling depth, falling from ce-
lestial hills to terrestrial valleys, from
throne to manager; yet that did not
seem to suffice him as retreat. Fall
ing back still farther from Bethlehem
to Nazareth from Nazareth to Jerusa-
lem, back from Jerusalem to Golgotha'
back from Golgotha to the mausoleum
in the rock, back down over the precl-
pieces of perdition until he walked amid
the caverns of the eternal captives and
drank of the wine of the wrath OF Al
mighty God, amid the Ahabs, and the
Jezebels and the Belshazzars. Oh, men
of the pulpit and men of the pew,
Chrst's descent from heaven to earth
does not measure half the distance! 1t
was from glory to perdition. He de-
scended into hell All the records OF
earthly retreat are as nothing com
pared with this falling back.
Sins Triumph Brief.
The triumph of the wicked is short
Did you ever see an army in panic?
There is nothing so uncomfortable. II
you had stood at Long bridge, wash
ington, during the opening of our SAD
civil war, you would know what it is
TO see an army run. And when these
men of All looked out and saw those
men of Joshua in a stampede they ex-
pected easy work. They would scatter
them as the equinox the leaves. on,
the gleeful and jubilant descent of the
men of All upon the men of joshua
But their exhlaration was brief, for
the tide of battle turned, and these
qucndam conquerors left their mlser-
able carcasses in the wilderness of
Bethaven. So it always is. The trl-
umph of the wicked is short. You
make $40 900 at the gaming table. DO
you expect to keep it? You will die in
the poorhouse You made fortune by
iniuuitous traffic. Do you expect to
; keep it? Your money will scatter, OF
it will stay long enough to curse your
children after you are dead. Call over
the roll of bad men who prospered and
see how short was their prosperity
For awhile, like the men of Al, they
went from conquest to conquest, but
after awhile disaster rolled back upon
them, and they were divided into three
; parts. Misfortune took their property
the grave took their body and the lost
, world took their soul. l am always
interested in the building of the pal
aces of dissipation. | like to have
, them built of the best granite and have
the rooms made large and to- have the
pillars made very firm. God is going
to conouer them, and they will be turn
ed into asylums and art galleries and
churches. The stores in which fraud
ulent men do business, the splendid
banking institutions where the presi-
dent and cashier put all their property
in their wives hands and then fail for
$500, 900. all these institutions are to
become the places where honest Chris
tian men do business.
How long will it take your boys to
get through your ill-gotten gains? The
wicked do not live out half their days
For awhile they swagger and strut
and make a great splash in the news
papers, but after awhile it all dwindles
down into a brief paragraph: Died
suddenly, April s, 1900, at 80 years OF
age. Relatives and friends of the fam
lily are invited to attend the funeral
on Wednesday at 2 O'Clock from the
late residence on Madison square. In
terment at Greenwood or Oak Hill.
Some of them jumped off the docks
Some of them took prussic acid. Some
of them fell under the snap of Der
ringer pistol. Some of them spent
their days in lunatic asylum. Where
are William Tweed and his associates!
Where are Ketcham and Swartwout
absconding swindlers? Where are
James Fisk, the libertine, and all the
other misdemeanants? The wicked dc
not live out half their days. Disem-
bogue, o world of darkness! Come
I'D. Hildebrand and Henry ii. and
Robespierre and, with blistering and
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