Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-05-20

/ of tile arena. If any amusement sends
! you home longing for a life of romance
ard thrilling adventure, love that takes
poison and shoots itself, moonlight adj
ventures and hairbreadth escapes, you
nay depend upon it that you are the
sacrificed victim of unsanctified pleas
ure Our recreatiOns are intended to
build US up, and if they pull US down
; as to our moral or as to our physical
strength you may come to the conclu-
sion that they are obnoxious.
Depraving Influences.
There is nothing more depraving than
! attendance upon amuSementS that are
full Of innuendO and low suggestion.
The young man enters. At first he sits
far back, with his hat on and his coat
collar up, fearful that somebody there
may know him. Several nights pass
on. He takes off his hat earlier and
puts his coat collar down. The blush
that first came into his cheek when
anything indecent was enacted comes
no more to his cheek. Farewell, young
man! You have probably started on
the long road which ends in consum-
mate destruction. The stars of hope
will go out one by one until you will be
left in utter darkness. Hear you not
the rush of the maelstrom, in whose
outer circle your boat now dances, max
ing merry with the whirling waters?
But you are being drawn in, and the
gentle motion will become terrific agi-
tation. You cry for help in vain; you
pull at the oar to put back, but the
struggle will not avail. You will be
tossed and dashed and shipWrecked
and swallowed in the whirlpool that
has already crushed in its wrath 10000
hulks. Young men who have come
from the country residence to city resi-
dence will do we'll to be on guard and
let no one induce them to places of i'm
proper amusement. 1t is nightly al
Turing when a young man, long citi-
zen, offers to show a newcomer all
around.
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lead you into expenditure
beyond your means. Money spent in
recreation is not thrown away. 1t is
all folly for us to come from place Of
amusement feeling that we have vast
ed our money and time. You may by
it have made an investment worth more
than the transaction that yielded you =
hundreds Or thousands Of dollars. But
how many properties have been riddled
by costly amuSementS.
The first time l ever saw the city-it
was the city of Philadelphia was
mere lad. l stopped at Il hotel, and
in'the eyentide one of these
men piled me with his internal art He
T In To ch
me the sights of the town. He painted
the path Of sin until it looked like
emerald, but | was afraid of him. !
showed back from the basilisk-I made
up my mind he was a basilisk. | re-
member how he wheeled his chair
round in front of me and with Il con-
centered and diab0lical effort attempt
ed to destroy my soul, but there were
good angels in the air that night. Il
was no good resolution on my part,
but it was the all encOmpassing grace
OF a good God that delivered me. Be
ware, beware, o young man. There
is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof is death"
Woes Of Tnte1nperance.
The table has been robbed to pay the
club. The champagne has cheated the
chiIdrens wardrobe. The carousing
party has burned up the boys primer.
The tableclCth of the corner saloon is
in debt to the wife's faded dress. EX-
that in a. day make Il tour
around a whole months wages, ladies
whose lifetime business it is to go
large bets on horses, have
their counterparts in uneducated chill
dren. bankruptcies that shock the mon
ey market and appall the church and
that send drunkenness staggering
across the richly figured carpet of the
and dashing into the mirror
and drowning out the carol of music |
with the whooping of bloated sons |
come home 20 break their old mothers
heart.
| saw a beautiful home where the
bell rang violently late at night. The
son had been off in sinful indulgences.
His comrades were bringing him home |
They carried him to the door. They
rang the bell at l o'clock in the morn
ing. Father and mother came down.
They were waiting for the wandering |
son, and then the comrades, as soon as
the door was opened threw the prod
igal headlong into the doorway, crying: |
There he is, drunk as fool. Ha, hap
When men go into amusements that
they cannot afford, they steal what |
they cannot borrow. First they go into
and then into lying and |
then into theft, and when a man gets |
as far on as that he does not stop short |
of the penitentiary. There is not
prison in the land where there are not |
victims of unsanctified amusements.
Merchants, is there disarrangement |
in your accounts? Is there a leakage |
In your money drawer? Did not the |
cash account come out right last night? |