The Penn's Grove record., 1900-03-30

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they be born, speaking lies"
Some go to work and try to correct all
this, and the boy is picked at and picked
at and picked at. That always is ruinous
There is more help in one good thunder.
storm thar In Ave days or cold drizzle.
Better the old fashioned style Of chastise-
ment, IL that be necessary, than the fret
ting and the scoIding which have de.
stroyed SO many.
There Is also O cause OF great solicitude
sometimes because our young people are
surrounded by so many temptations. A
castle may not be taken by a straightfor-
ward siege, but suppose there be inside the
castle AN enemy, n in the night he
shoves back the bolt and swings open the
door. Our young folks lave foes without.
and they have foes within. Who does not
understand 1t? Who is the man here who
is not aware OF the fact that the young
people OF this day have tremendous temp
t~ations?
Oh, how many traps set for the young!
Styles OF temptation just suited to them.
Do you suppose that u man who went clear
to the depths OF dissipation went down iu
one great plunge? Oh, mol At first it was
a fashionable hotel. Marble floor. No un-
clean pictures behind the counter. No
drunken hiccough while they drink, but
the click OF cut glass to the elegant senti-
ment. You ask that young man now to 20
into some low restaurant aud get a drink,
and he would say, do you mean to insult
hotel is not always close by, and now the
young man is on the down grade. Farther
and farther down until he has about struck
the bottom of the depths of ruin. Now he
is In the low restaurant. The cards SO
greasy you can hardly tell who has the
best hand. Gambling for drinks. Shuttle
away, shuttle away. The landlord stands
~, lSr 49, o1ra,,o. "a IL @t.--t 49, 80
hips, waiting for an order to fill up the
glasses.
The clock strikes twelve-the toliing OF
the funeral bell OF a soul. The breath OF
eternal woe fushes in that young mans
cheeks. In the jets OF the gaslight the
fiery tongue Of the worm that never dies.
Two O'Clock in the morning, and now they
are sound asleep in their chairs. Land
lord comes around and says "Wake up,
wake up! Time to shut up!'' 'tWhat!'s
says the young a crime to shut up?''
Push them NIL out into the night air. Now
they are going home. Going home! Let
the wife crouch In the corner and the chill
dren hide under the bed. What was the
history OF that young man? He began hts
designations In the barroom OF a Fifth ave.
nue. hotel and completed his damnatfon in
the lowest grogshop.
Sometimes sin does not halt In that way.
Sometimes sin even m to the drawing
room. There are leprous hearts some-
times admitted In the highest circles OF
society. He is so elegant, he is so bewitch-
ing in his manner, he is 50 refined, he Is so
educated, no one suspects the sinful de-
sign, but after a while the talons OF death
come forth. What Is the matter with that
house? The front windows have not been
open for six months or a year. A shadow
has come down on that domestic hearth, a
shadow thicker than one woven OF mid
night and hurricane. The agony of that
parent makes him say, ooh, I wish I had
buried my children when they were smaI!'
Loss Of property? No. Death in the
lain, kid gloved and diamonded, lifted
that cup OF domestic bliss until the sun
light struck it, and all the rainbows
played around the rim and then dashed 1t
into desolation and woe, until the harpies
OF darkness clapped their hands and all
the voices Of the pit uttered a loud "Ha,
hai''
The statistic has never been made up in
these great cities Of how many have been
have been overthrOwn. It the statistic
could be presented. 1t would freeze your
blood in u solid cake at your heart. Our
great cities are full OF temptations, and to
vast multitudes OF parents these tempta-
tions become a matter OF great solicitude.
But now for tho alleyiatIons. First OF
all, you save yourself a great deal OF
trouble, oh, parent, II you can early watch
tho children and educate them for God
and heaven! 'sThe first five years Of my
life made me nm inlldel,' said Tom Paine.
A vessel puts out to sea, and after it has
been five days out there comes a cyclone.
The vessel springs a leak. The helm will
not work. What is the matter? 1t is not
seaworthy. 1t never was seaworthy. Can
you mend it now2 1t Is too late. Down
she goes with $50 passengers into a watery
grave. What was the time to fix that YES
sci? What was the time to prepare 1t for
the storm? In the drydock. All, my
friends, do not wait until your children
get out into tho world, beyond the Mar,
rows and out on the great voyage Of lifel
1t is too late then to mend their morals
and their tanners The drydock of the
Christian home is the place. Correct the
sin now. Correct the evil now
just look at the character of your chill
dren now and get an intimation OF what
they are going to be. You can tell by the
way that boy divides the apple what his
proclivity is and what his sin will be and
what style OF discipline you ought to bring
Upon him. You see how he divides that
apple? He takes nine-tenths OF 1t for him
self and he gives one-tenth to his sister.
Well, let that go. and all his life he will
oiAe ~ OSos RoAs dAu Ito
will be grinding and grasping to the day OF
his death.
Begin early with your children. You
stnnd on the banks OF o river md you try
to change Its course. 1t has been rolling
now for 100 miles. You cannot change it.
But just 20 to the source OF that river, go
to where the water just drlps down on the
rock. Then with your knife make n chan
mel this way and a channel that way. and
1t will take 1t. Come out and stand on the
banks OF your child's life when it is thirty
or forty years OF age, or even twenty, and
try to change the course of that life.
1t is too late! It is too latei Go far
Their up at the source of life and near
est to the mothers heart, where the
the right direction. But, oh, my friend,
be careful to make a line, a distinct
line between innocent hilarity on the one
hand and vicious hilarity ON the other. Do
not think your children are going to ruin
because they make a racket. All healthy
children make a racket. But do not laugh
Mt your chiid's sin because it Is smart. n
it is malicious. Remember it is what you
do moro than what you say that is going
to affect your children. Dc you suppose
Noah would have got his family to 20 into
the ark il he staid out? No. His sons
would ave said, II am not going into the
DOal; there's something wrong; father
won't go in; ii father stays out, I'll stay
out"
Are all your children safe? I know it is q
stupendons question to ask, but I must
ask 1t. Are all your children safe? A
mother, when the house Was on fire, got
out the household goods, many articles OF
beautiful furniture, but forgot to ask till
too late, Are the children safer" When
the elements are melting with fervent heat
and God shall burn the world up and the
cry OF "Firel Firei" shall resound amid
the mountains and the valleys, will your
children be safe?
/ wonder II the subject strikes a chord in
the heart OF my man who had Christian
percentage, but has not lived rs he ought?
God brought you here this morning to
a your memory revived. Did you have
a Christian ancestry? son, yesl" says one
man.. "If there ever was a good woman.
my mother was good" How she watched
you when o were sick! Others wearied.
II she got weary, she nevertheless was
wakeful, and the medicine was given at the
right time, and when the pillow was hot
she turned ii. And, oh. then, when you
began to go astray, what a grief 1t was to
her heartl
All the scene comes back. You remem-
Der the chairs, you remember the table.
you remember The doorsill where you
played, you remembe. the tones Of her
voice. She seams calling you now, not by