Milford chronicle., 1901-10-18

ana WlclcneO. - W men your IaIler ana
mother forsake you, who win take you
up?" and the boy said, THE perlice"
Hour of Great Temptation.
In the third watch of the night gam
bling does its worst work. What though
the hours be slipping away and though
the wife be waiting in the cherries
home? Stir up the fire. Bring on more
drinks. Put up more stakes. That COM
mercial house that only a little while ago
pit out a sign of cOpartnership will this
winter he wrecked on a gamblers table
There will be many a money till that will /
spring leak. In the third watch of the
night pass down the streets of these cities
and you will hear the click Of the dice /
and the sharp, keen stroke of the balls /
on the billiard table. At these places /
merchant princes dismount and legisla- /
tors tired Of making laws. take respite
in breaking them. All classes Of people 1
are robbed by this crime-the importer of ]
foreign silks and she dealer In Chatham /
street pocket handkerchiefs The clerks 4
of the store take a hand after the shut
tiers are put up. and the officers of the /
court while away their time while the /
jury is out
In Baden Baden, when that city was
the greatest of all gambling places on
earth. it was no unusual thing the next
morning. in the woods around about the
city. to find the suspended bodies of sui
cideS. Whatever be the splendor of sur
rOundingS. there is no excuse for this
crime The thunders of eternal destruc
ton roll in the deep rumble Of that gam
bling tenpin alley, and as men come out
to join the long procession Of sin all the
drums of death beat the dead march of
Thousand souls.
In one year in New York city there
were seven million dollars sacrificed at
the gaming table. Perhaps some of your
friends have been smitten Of this sin.
Perhaps some of you have been smitten
by it. Perhaps there may be a stranger
here from some of the hotels. Look out
for those agents of iniquity who tarry
about the hotels and ask you, "Would
you like TO see the cityY' yes" "Have
you ever seen that splendid building up
town. "NO." Then the villain will
undertake to show you what he calls the
lions and the elephants" and after a
young man through morbid curiosity or
through badness of soul has seen the
lions and the elephants" he will be
on enchanted ground. Look out for
these men who move around the hotels
WIN olSth tulS-dlWd9S SICK uulS-ailG
patrOnizing air and unaccountable inter
est about your welfare and entertain
ment. You are a fool if you cannot see
through it. They want your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while
l was living in that city, an incident oc-
Cured which was familiar to us there.
In Chestnut street a young man went
, into a gambling saloon, lost all his prop
{ L. hoe
: the blood was washed from the floor by
: the maid the comrades were shutting
( cards again. You see there is more
mercy in the highwayman for the be
lated traveller on whose body he heaps
. the stones, there is more mercy in thu
q frost for the flower that it kills, there i
: more mercy in the hurricane that SILVER
k the steamer on the Atlantic coast, thai
{. there is mercy in the heart Of a gamble
! for his victim.
a When Drunkenness Most Prevails.
In the third watch of the night ais
drunkenness does its worst. The drinl
ing will be respectable at 8 o'clock
p the evening, little flushed at 8, tall
=, alive and garrulOus at 10, at IL bla
IN phemous, at - the hat falls off, {
Il 1 the man falls to the floor askin
I
drinking saloons of the city, father
husbands, sons as good as you are
= nature perhaps better. In the high ci
cles Of society it is hushed up. A me
chant prince, if he gets noisy and uncO
trOllable, is taken by his fellow reveler
who try to get him to bed or take hi
home, where he falls fiat in the entr
Do not wake up the children. They ha'
had disgrace enough. Do not let the
know it, Hush it up. But sometimes
cannot be hushed up when the ru
y touches the brain and the man becom
thoroughly frenzied. Such a one cal
home, having been absent for some tin
and during his absence his wife died, a
she lay in the next room prepared for
obsequies, and he went in and bragg
i her by the locks aad shook her out
III the shroud and pitched her out of
window Oh, when rum touches
III brain you cannot hush it I'M
My friends, you see all lSrg1nd abe
10 you the need that something radical
done. You do not see the worst. In
wv midnight meetings in London a gre
multitude have been saved. We wa
a few hundred Christian men and won
to come down from the highest circ
of society to toll amid these wanderi
and destitute ones and kindle up liz
in the dark alley, even the gladRess
heaven. Do not go wrapped In your
furs and from your well filed tables W
9A the idea that pious talk is going to s.
J the gnawing of an empty stomach or
warm stOckingless feet. Take bre
take raiment, take medicine, as well
take prayer. There is a great deal
common sense in what the poor won
said to the city missionary when he '
telling her how she ought to love I
and serve him. ooh" she said, II
were as poor and cold as l am and
, hungry you could think OF nothing els
A great deal Of what is called Oh
@ tan work goes for nothing for the sin
reason that it was not practical, as al
the battle of Antietam a man got
Of an ambulance with a bag Of ira
and he went distributing the tracts,
George Stuart, one of the best Christ
men in this country, said to him: Nv
are you distributing tracts for N
There are three thousand men bleed
to death. Bind up their wounds
then distribute the tracts" We
al more common sense in Christian "
IN taking the bread of this life in one
and the bread of the next life IN
other hand. No such inapt work as
done by the Christian man who du
our civil war went to a hospital
tracts and, coming to the bed OF
whose legs had been amputated,
him tract on the sin OF dancihg'
ioice before God that never are syi
tbetic words uttered, never a prayer
&c, fered. never a Christian almsglYlnl
lCOt Obliged in, but it is blessed. There
I'D Mace in Switzerland, / am told
ULlU the utterance of one word will bring
- score of echoes, and have to tell
III that a sympathetic word, Klhd
generous word, helpful word, Ut
III in the dark places of the town Will
hack ten thousand echoes from hes
Arc there in this assembage those
know by experience the tragedies II
third watch of the night! l am
here to thrust you back with one
word. Take the bandage from
bruised soul and put on it the 500
salve of Christ's gospel and of
commission. / tell you there is NOR
light in heaven over one man that
reformed by the grace of God than
~ ninety and nine that never got OF
~ track.
Attacking the Weak Point
l could give you the history in a N
of one of the best friends ] ever
Outside of my own family l never
better friend He welcomed me I
IN home at the west He was of sp
~ personal appearance, but he had an
of soul and a warmth Of affection
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