The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-10-19

distant city, but God to whom you
dedicated them, will look after them.
The God of Daniel will take care OF
them far away in Babylon. Train up
q child In the way he should go, and
when he Is old he will not depart from
it." He may wander away for awhile
and fall into sin and break your heart,
but before he Is done with this life,
you have commended him to God, he
will come back again, for / put the
emphasis in the right place and on
the word "old" when / repeat that
passage and say Train up child in
the way he should go, and when he Is
old he will not depart from it." May
you all have the glorious satisfaction
of seeing your children walk in paths
Of Righteousness and peace! One with
them on earth, may you be one with
them in heaven.
But / learn also from this subject
the beauty of Christian sobriety. The
meat and the wine that were to come
to Daniels table were to come from
the kings table. Well, Daniel had
no right to take that food. The king
was heather, and like all the heather
was accustomed to ask blessing be-
fore he partook of food, and in that
blessing they always dedicated the
food to the gods So that II Daniel
had taken this food he would have
broken the law which forbade the
taking OF food dedicated to idols. He
chose pulse. 1t was a miracle that he
did not dwindle away. There is
nothing in pulse, such a poor herb, to
make a man ruddy and healthful.
Some people talk as though that were
kind of diet which would make
man swarthy and competent to do the
duties of this life. AThat is not the
lesson at all. But for positive mir
acle Daniel would have dwindled
away, and when God for his self de-
NAL puts upon him this benediction he
puts a benediction upon all Christian
sobriety.
Temptation to Dissipation.
But, oh, how many temptations to
dissipation! With so many things to
tempt the appetite, how many tempta-
tons to gluttony! With so many
sparkling beverages, how much temp
tation to drunkenness! Could bring
before you this morning the mothers
and the wives and the sisters who have
wept at the graves of the inebriate,
your soul would be overpowered with
the spectacle. Could | show you the
manly forms robbed of their beauty,
the eyefashings quenched in the wine
cup, the rudy cheek from which rum
has wormed the rose, your souls would
recoil with horror, and you would rise
up and cry, "Begone, thou dream OF
hell"
Charles Lamb, who made all the
world laugh at his humor, and then
afterward made all the world weep at
his fate, who outwitted everybody and
was at last outwitted of his own APP
petites, wrote thus: THE waters have
gone over me; but out Of the depths,
could l be heard, would cry out to all
those who have set a foot in the peril
Gus flood. Could the youth to whom the
| flavor of the first wine is delicious as
the opening scenes of his life, or the
entering upon some newly discovered
paradise-could he look into my DESC
| lation and be made to understand what
dreary thing it is when man shall
| feel himself going down a precipice
with open eyes and passive will; to
see his destruction and have no power
to stop it, yet feel it all the way en-
anating from himself; to see all god
Illness empty out of him, and yet not
able to forget the time when it was
otherwise; to bear about the piteous
spectacle of his own ruin-could he see
my feverish eye, feverish with last
nights drinking and feverishly looking
for tonight's repetition of that folly
could he but feel the body of the death
out of which l cry hourly with feeble
outcry to be delivered, it were enough
to make him dash the sparkling bev-
erage to the earth in all the pride of
it's mantling temptation"
A Touching Rcproof.
was told at Des Moines of train
OIL cars going through very stormy
night over one of the western prairies.
The young man who was present told
us the story. In the night there was
a little child in the sleeping car fret
full and worrying and crying hour after
hour. A man on the opposite side OF
the car lost his patience and sad,
Either make that child shut up or
take it to its mother!" Then another
man on the opposite side of the Sleep
ing cara man with broken heart
pushed back the curtain and looked out
and said, young man, that childs
mother is dead in the baggage car, and
the little thing is wailing for her."
Then the man who had committed the
affront rose and offered his services for
the night and took care of the child
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