The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-01-01
|SiN P(fSONS
The SOUL.
Major hilton's Timely
Talk to Y. M. G. A.
Young Men.

Major Hilton spoke at the Young Mems
Christian Association yos, erdry afternoon
to the largest con xregaJloD OF men that
has attended any Of the ines tings. His
subject was Soul Poison"
"ln looking over The room this AFTERNOON
soc The face. Of some children. This Is a
meeting for men, aud an going to speak
to you us men. When address children
/ speak o them as children When I ad-
! But this is strictly . meeting for snen;
4 therefore you must NOV be surprisod II
speak to You rather plainly, and give. my
self FREQ course; and 1t may seesll rather
strange because shall talk to you about
the sins OF men.
| ! an going to speak to you about soul
poison" am going t. read few verses
Of God does not give Iii u basis for ia hard
ly worth thinking about at all. You say,
that don't apply 10 our business" On!
yes, " dGesl "Ail kinds of bu, mess? yes
Bankers! all here Lawyers! all here, Dry
goods merchants? all here. The faot Is.
wherever your life touches anything, 1t
is here. and would l had found IL out
long years before did
| will read portion of the 18th CHAPTER
| Of Ezekiel "Ihe soul that sinneth! II shall
die, etc.
, THE soul that sinneth lit shall die.
Ibid you ever know Of dead hing dy-
IDgP 1t IL only that which has life that
can come to dea'h. Leu US take tho low
ests typa Of life-vegetab.e life, you pull
a blade OF grass up from the ground and
shake the dirt off 1t, and lay it here and 1t
will die, why! because 1t IL deprived of
that which The Creatorof that living hing
gave to title, moisture. all the clemens
that contribute to its life, and deprived of
that, 1t cannot live. You pull tree ont
OF he earth. Deprived of all the elements
Of life-it will die. 1t will not grow.
We have no difficulty whatever in rec
ognizing these iacts-we say that is
very simple statement.
Last us go q step higher than vegetable
life--animal iife--we see the same thing.
The brain is one of the active elelno IT'S Of
II 10, and how easlly the brain Is poisoned.
No eau 500 1t uvery where around us to-
day. l. there man here that ever road an
impure books DID you ever forget itp MOI
You may have pus it away and said:
Never will look At another. but 1t Is
there, IL has poisoned the mind, aud it
seeing. the effects of impure literature all
through the land. Thousands of those
Impure books are being absorbed by the
youth of our land, aud to-day in many of
our trans-contnental cities the police are
Kept busy all tho limo picking up boys. 49,
ID and 10 wears Of ag', aud sending them
back to Christian Homes in the East.
On! how easy the devil makes 1t
for boy to get upon tho terrible
downward slope to eternal death 1t is
poison. List us go step higher. A step
higher than human life? On! ye, Spirit
ual life-''as nigh as the heavens are above
the earth, - spiritual lifu abuvo human
life. L. the soul living tLing2 How
could it die II it were MOI? for-''lho soul
that ,inneth-it shall die" What shall
kill ii? Sin it Is sin-"aoul poison" More
powerful, more potent, than any poison
chat can be can bs taken into he ply ,icul
system. Why are We told that tne wages
OF sin are doatn2 Because 1t il death,
Don't wo see ity TO to our penitentiaries
what do We see there? men who have
committed crime, men who are getting
tho wages of sin-dsath. Death to char
acier. death to manhoo death to the soul,
Ii 1t were but the death Of the budy that
would be bad enough, but the soul of man
remains alter the body ha, been laid in
the grave Every day there are hundreds
yea, thousands of mon drawing the wages
OF sin. all their manhood, everything til t
God loves and man sh Juld holds dying.
Drawing the wages Of sin. So the 'ssoul
sinneLh 1t shall surely de- Not because
SAY SO. That is trus--from cover
cover, absolutely, positively, undeniably.
everlastingly truy-every jot and title
Sod say so. and ! take his word for it.
Let us Take two soul polsons There are
hundreds OF them. but We will nob have
time to discus, them sjl. As there ure
thousands and thousands of polsons for
tho bouy,-so there are thousands for the
soul. and gentlemen, you don't need to
lLok to discover them
Now whatever does not save the soul.
lends TO destroy IL just put that down
with large nIarg'n. and you will not mss
1t. Inc hr,t soul poison that ! would
speak OF l. one that Is very prevaien It
Is SO prevalent thai 1t can cvutunnin ate
our system. and we may not notice It,
PROFANITY. We are becoming nu lon of
swearers. Francs Used to b. considered a
,'oiluteu nation, Infamous, degraded, but
v.-lay, profanity is no mo 9 prevalent in
my nation than In ths Uni cd Sta, as.
You viii Ind little boys To-day standing
upon the stree corners, and sometimes
shey Will rip out an oath, that would az.
ar an old drunken man- '.wurs-man
md whore do they get i:9 Possibly they
,ot it at home. have known some
.thers, mon Who PROBES led to be resppct-
.Dle, that did nov hesitate To II tsr an
oath. some persons thiuk it glvos elnphn-
SIS to utter IN OATH We hear men some
times lake this atement Il hops GOl
may kill me if it is not 30" They do mott
mean it. They call upon God 10 wtne,s
TO u lie. They do nuL reailzs what they
are saying But IN Every ms ance it Is
IN. Ihey do not realize what they are
doing at all.
some men who occupy responsible posi- |
tions in society Will make u Iulsa STATE |
mem and call upon God to witness 1t, 1t
eeins to me that If IL nun has NOT sufIi- |
Gent character to make u statement ln.5 !
may be believed he should nob ask God to
witness TO 1t. Aud thea We hear men say
when asked about these hing OIL |
didn't say anything--l didn't mean any |
hing Now IN the frs p ace they did |
say some hing, and in the second place
they Deantit. They did mean 1t. 1t Is u
seit evident iact that We are educated by |
our su roundlngs, by our sociely and SO |
that Is the reason. would hat wherever
there was u saloon thore " ould BE- u Y, NJ. |
Z. A. next 10 1t. Whls is what we ueUd in |
this laud to-day We need Mis,ions- |
Missions by the hundred. Is what need,
Missions that will build up-rather than
drag dOWn-that Will mako manhood !
ratner than demon hood
This Is what tbs world is in need OF, As
men, we need to be followers of Christ
aud of the blessed word Of tho Son of God,
that MS we cuino in touch with people we
may lift them up, II Christ reached forth
his hand and restored the young man who
" AS possessed OF IL devil This Ia What the
world needs to-day. But do we do il? All!
l fear not, We shr.nk away from Them,
and fear to touch Ihein; our fellow clea
ures. whom God has tod us to love as we |
love ourselves. We nesu more hand-Rra,ps.
more words Of love and encourage meat
for the agencies Of evil arc every VIM re-
around lis. Thou shalt not take the name
OF the Lord Thy God in vain." shalt not
do it, why nov? Because 1t is soul poison.
God knows what will hill. He gavv lie.
God knows what will destroy That life, II
We come INTO All aJmOsphnro pregnant
with fever germs, We arc expected TO get
dipltheria or what ever the fever may b.
We could not escape 1t. If we minsle in
a poiuted atmosphere, we aro likely to
pay ths penalty by catching the disease,
Whatever IL is, My dear friends, it Is lust
tho Same with the soul. We are eduuatrd
by the atmospheric we are in, We find it In
tho saloon2 Did you ever L0nr tell of q
Sunday School Superintendent Keeping a
sa,oonYI hayo been looking for one for IL
good many yetrs but can't fluid him
somehow, have been locking fer u bible
class teacher who is liquor seller. | nm
looking for minister, u deacon, ! cannvt
find him
Down In Washington City we find two
justices OF supreme Court sitting there