The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-10

ton in the wall 1t cannot further on
be corrected. Because by the law OF
gravltation n wall must be straight IN
order to be symmetrical and safe. A
young man is in danger OF getting
d,fect in his wall OF character that
may never be corrected.
One OF the best friends | ever had
died of delirlum tremens at 60 years or
age. though he had not since 81 years
OF age, before which he had been dis
sipated, touched intoxicating liquor
until that particular carousal that took
him off. Not feeling well in the street
on a hot summer day he stepped into
a drug store, just as you and ! would
have done. and asked for dose or
some thing to make him feel better.
And there was alcohol in the dose,
and that one drop aroused the old ap-
petite, and he entered the first liquor
store and staid there until thoroughly
under the power of rum. He entered
his home a raving maniac, his wife
and daughters fleeing from his pres
ence, and at first he was taken to the
city hospital to die. The combustible
material OF early habit had lain quiet
nearly 40 years, and that one spark
ignited it.
Fun Is Wholesome.
Remember that the wall may be 100
feet high, and yet a DETECTION one foot
from the foundations affects the entire
structure. And If you live 100 years
and do right the last so years you may
nevertheless do something at 20 years
of age that will damage all your earth
ly existence. All you who have built
houses for yourselves or for others, am
| not right in saying to these young
men, you cannot build a wall so high
as TO be independent of the character
of its foundation? A man before 80
years of age may commit enough sin
to last him a lifetime. Now, John, or
George. or Henry, or whatever be your
Christian name or surname, say here
and now: mo wild oats for me, no
cigars or cigarettes for me, no wine or
beer for me, no nasty stories for me,
no Sunday sprees for me. | am going
to start right and keep on right. God
help me, for l am very weak From
the throne of eternal Righteousness let
down TO me the principles by which
can be guided in building everything
from foundation to capstone. Lord
God, by the wounded hand Of Christ,
throw me plumb line"
But" you say, you shut us young
folks out from all fun" Oh, no! l
like fun. believe in fun. have had
lots of it in my time. But l have not
had to go into paths of sin to find it.
No credit to me, but because of an ex-
traordinary parental example and in
fluence was kept from outward trans
gressions, though my heart was bad
enough and desperately wicked. | have
had fun illimitable. though | never
swore one oath and never gambled for
SO much as the value of a pin. and
never saw the inside of haunt Of sin
save as when many years ago, with
commissioner of police and detective
and two elders of my church, | eXplor-
ed New York and Brooklyn by mid
night, not out of curiosity, but that
might in. pulpit discourse set before
the people the poverty and the hor-
rors of underground city life. Yet,
though | was never intoxicated for an
instant and never committed one act
of dissoluteness-rest only by
the grace of Cod without which re-
straint | would have gone headlong to
the bottom of infamy-I have had so
much fun that don't believe there is
a man on the planet at the present
time who has had more Hear it, men
and boys, women and girls. all the fun
is on the side OF right. Sin may seem
attractive. but it is beautiful and like
the manchineel, tree whose dews are
poisonous. The only genuine happiness
is in a Christian life