Connecticut western news., 1900-10-18

--S sa,, ,uae carry impressions ere we'll nigh ineffacCahle. When 1 see Jo- seph, a pious lad, in the house of his father, Jacob, am not surprised to see him acting so nobly down in Egypt. When I find Samuel a pious lad, In the house of his mother, Hannah, l am not surprised that he gives a terrible smit- ing to idolutry as soon as he comes to manhood. David planned the temple at Jerusalem and gathered the mate rials for its building, but Solomon, the son. came and put up the structure. and that goes on in all ages. The fla ther plans the character of the child and its destiny for time and eternity, then the son completes the structure. You might as well put down founda- ton ten feet by five and expect to rear on 1t great cathedral as to put down a contracted character in child's soul and yet rear upon 1t something exten- | sively grand and extensively useful. Let me say to those Christian parents | who are doing their best in the educa- | ton of their children: Taks good heart. Your sons this morning may be far away from you and in a distant city, | but God, to whom you dedicated them, will look after them. The God of Dan- | iel will takc care of them far away in | Babylon. "rrain up child In the way ] he should go, and when he is old he | will not depart from It." He may wan ! der away for awhile and fall into sin | and break your heart, but before he Is | h0 yfn mended him to God he will come back | again, for l put the emphasis in the right place and on the word "old" | when I 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 righteous | ness and peace! One with them on earth. may you be one with them In | heaven!
 | Restrain Appetite.
 | But learn also from this subject the | beauty of Christian sobriety. The meat | and the wine that were to come to I Daniels table were to come from the | kings table. We'll, Daniel had no right | to take that food. The king was a heather and, like all the heather, was | accustomed to ask blessing before he | partook of food, and in that blessing they always dedicated the food to the | gods. So that If Daniel had taken this food he would have broken the law which forbade the taking of food dedi- cated to idols. He chose pulse. It was | mir n hn " O away. There is nothing in pulse, such poor herb, to make man ruddy and healthful. Some people talk as though that were Q 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 a positive miracle Daniel would have dwindled | away, and when God, for his self de- nial, puts upon him this benediction he puts a benediction upon all Christian sobriety. l would not have you class your preacher among those who would put unnecessary restraints upon lawful appetites. There are those in this day who dispute the grant which God gave to man for animal food, and they make a religion of their hunger as the Phari- sees expected heaven for their fasting. Daniel did not always live on pulse. He was not Grahamite, he was not a vegetarian. He went through that self denial because the food offered him was idolatrous food. When I see God filling the earth with all varieties of food, have not much confidence In the teaching of those who would put us on severe regimen. There are par ents who, with wrong theory In this respect, deny their children all harm less luxuries and without sufficient in- quiry send them out to boarding schools where their intellects are cul- tured to the disadvantage of their starved bodies, so that from many a boarding school class of 20 will grad uate. 19 of them ghosts. Now. when see the three angels eating the calf which Abraham slew and when l find Christ eating broiled fish even after his resurrection I come to the conclu- sion that the theories of the vegetarian are not, from a religious standpoint
 we'll founded.
 Woes of Drunkenness.
 But oh, how many temptations to
 dissipation! With so many things tC
 fempt the appetite how many tempta
 tions to gluttony! With so many spar
 kling beverages how much temptation
 to drunkenness! Could l bring before
 you this morning the mothers and tho
 wives and the sisters who have wept
 at the graves of the inebriate your sou
 would be overpowered with the specta
 cle. Could show you the manly form.
 robbed of their beauty, the eye flash
 ings quenched In the wine cup the rud
 dy cheek from which rum has wormet
 the rose, your souls would recoil witt
 horror, and you would rise up and cry
 "Begone, thou dream of hellv'
 Charles Lamb, who made all tn
 world laugh at his humor and then aft
 erward made all the world weep at hi
 fate, who outwitted everybody an,
 was at last outwitted of his own appe
 tites, wrote thus: "The waters hay
 gone over me, but out of the depth
 could I be heard I would cry out to al
 those who have set a foot in the peril
 ous flood. Could the youth to whor
 the flavor of the first wine is deliciou
 as the opening scenes of his life or tn
 entering upon some newly discovere
 paradise-could he look into my desc
 lation and be made to understand wha
 dreary thing 1t Is when a man sha
 feel himself going down precipic
 with open eyes and a passive will;
 see his destruction and have no powe , to stop 1t, yet feel it all the way ema
 hating from himself; to see all godl
 ness empty out of him and yet not abl
 to forget the time when 1t was other
 wise; to bear about the piteous specta cle of his own ruin-could he see m feyerish eye, feverish with last night drinking and feverlshly looking for tt