The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-10-26

time when q ships company makes
mutiny is when the Waterman is on
his guard. When a spider meets
fly, it does not say: go down with
me to the phase where I murder in
sects." No; it says: Come and take
a bright morning walk with me on
this suspension bridge of glittering
gossamer." Oh, there is a difference
between the sparkle of serpent's
eve and the crush of its Shiny folds.
There is difference between the
bears paw toying with kid and the
cracking of the bones in the terrific
hug. Pixies peak looks beautiful IN
the distance, but ask the starved
travellers by the roadside what they
think of Pixies peak. Are there
those around whom suspicious COM
panions are gathered? Do their jests
and their entertainments make the
hours go blithely by when you are
with them? Have you taken sip
from their cup of sin or gone with
them in one path of unrighteousness?
Turn back. From Babylon they came
and to Babylon they would carry you.
If SO many plague stricken men
would like to enter your companion
ship, before anyone is allowed to pass
into the intimacy of your heart put
on them severest quarantine.
Let me say to those Christian parents
who are doing their best in the eouca-
ton of their children: Take good heart;
YOUR sons this morning may be far
away from you and in distant Guy
but God, to whom you dedicated them,
| will take care of them. The Goa Oh
Daniel will take care of them far away
in Babylon. "Train up a 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 having
commended him to God, he will come
back again, for l put the emphasis IN
the right place and on the word "old
when l repeat that passage ana say,
Train up a child in the way he should
90. 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 righteousness
and peace! One with them on earth,
may you be one with them in Heaven:
But l learn also from this subject
the beauty of Christian sobriety. Inc
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 heathens, was
accustomed to ask blessings before he
partook of food, and in that blessing
thew 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'
Gated to idols. He chose pulse. 1t was
a miracle that he did not dwindle
away. There is nothing in pulse, such
poor herb, to make man rudy ano
healthful. Some people talk as though
that were a kind of diet which would
make man swarthy and competent tc
do the duties of this life. That il
not the lesson at all. But for pos
, tive miracle Daniel would have dwin
died away, and when God for his sell
! denial puts upon him this benedictior
He puts benediction upon all Chris
| tan sobriety. l would not have you
class your preacher among those wh'
would put unnecessary restraint upor
lawful appetites. There are those IL
| this day who dispute the grant which
t God gave to man for animal food, ant
they make a religion of their hunger al
the Pharisees expected Heaven fol
; their fasting. Daniel did not Away
| live on pulse. He was not Grahamite
E he was not a vegetarian. He wen
/ through that self-denial because thu
| food offered him was idolatrous food
j When | see God filling the earth will
all varieties of food, have not mucl
: confidence in the teaching of those VIII
e would put us on severe regimen. The.
= are parents who, with a wrong theor.
e in this respect, deny their children al
i harmless luxuries and without suff
2 Gent inquiry send them out to board
e ing schools where their intellects ar
i cultivated to the disadvantage of thei
t starved bodies, so that from many
= boarding school class of 20 will grao
e uate, 10 of them ghosts. Now, whe
= l see the three angels eating the cal
J. which Abraham slew and when l fin
Christ eating broiled fish even after Hi
e resurrection, l come to the conclusio
n that the theories of the vegetarian ar
r not from a religious standpoint we
e founded.
Il But, oh, how many temptations
" dissipation With so many things