The Yale expositor., 1901-05-24

! for a life OF romance and thrilling adj
venture, love that takes poison and
shoots itself moonlight adventures and
hair-breadth escapes. you may depend
upon IL that you are in the sacrificed
victim OF pnsanctifed pleasure. Our
reereations are intended to, build us up
and II they pull us down 4as to, our
I-Roral as well as to our physical
strength you may come to the eohclu-.
sion that they are obnoxious. ~ 4
Live Within Your Means. 81
Still further, those amusementsl 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 a place of
amusement feenng that we have vast
ed our money and time. You may by
1t have made an investment worth
more than the transaction that yield
| ed you hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. But how many properties have
been riddled by costly amusements.
The first time | ever saw the city
it was the city of Philadelphia was
a mere lad l stopped at a hotel, and
l remember in the eventide one of
these men piled noe with mis- internal
art. He saw was green. He wanted
to show me the sights of the town! lie
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.
l remember how he wheeled his chair
round in front of me and. with con
centered and diabolical effort 81 at
tempted to destroy my soul, but there
were good angels in the air that night.
1t 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 way that seemeth right unto a
man, bat the end thereof is DEATH.
The table has been robbed to pay
the club. The champagne has cheated
the ehildren's wardrobe The carols-
ing party hasburned up the boys pTim
err. The tablecloth OF the. corner sa-
loon is in debt to the wife's faded
a tour around whole months wages
ladies whose lifetime business it Is
to go shopping" large bets on horses,
have their coupterparts in upeducated
children. bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appall the church
| and that send drunkenness staggering
ACROSS the richly figured carpet of the
l. eli IN q NJ tn ;,to he yv,fr
and drowning out the carol of music
with the whooping of bloated sops
come home to break their old mothers
heart. 60
Look Out for tho LEAKAGE.
Merchant, is there a disarrangement
in your accounts? Is there leakage in
your money drawer? Did the cash ac-
count. come. out right last night? l
i will tell you. There is young man
in your store wandering off into bad
amusements. The salary you give him
may meet lawful expenditures. but not
the sinful indulgences in which he has
entered, and he takes by theft that
which you do not give him in lawful
salary i5uI' ;-i..t.
How brightly the path of unre-
strained amusement opens! The young
man says: Now I am off for good
time. Never mind economy I'll get
money somehow What a fine road!
What a beautiful day for ridel Crack
tue whip, and over the tgrnpike! Come
boys, fill high your glasses. Drink
Long life. health, plenty of rides just
like this!' Handwriting men hear the
clatter of the heofs and look up and
say: why, wonder where those fell
lows get their money from. We have
to toll and drudge They do nothing"
To these gay men life is.a thrill and
excitement They stare at other peo-
PIE and in turn are stared at The
watch chain jingles. The cup foams.
The cheeks flush The eyes flash.
The midnight hears their guffaw. They
swagger. They jostle decent men off
the sidewalk. They. take the name of
God in vain. They parody the hymn
they learned at their mothers knee,
and to all pictures of coming disaster
they cry out. who caresi" and to the
counsel of some Christian friend,
Who are your" rHf l..f. -...'
Passing along the street some night
you hear a shiek in grogshop, the
rattle of the watchman's club, the rush
of the police. What is the matter now?
Oh. this reckless young man has been
killed in a grogshop fight Carry him
home to his fathers house. Parents
will come down and wash his wounds
and close his eyes in death. They for.
give him all he ever did, although he
cannot in his silence ask It. The prod
/ igal has got home at last. Mother will
60 to her little garden and get the
sweetest flowers and twist them into
a chaplet for the silent heart Of the
wayward, boy and push back from the
bloated brow the long locks that were
once her pride, And the air will be
rent with the agony, Inc great. dram
atist says. r'iHow sharper than SER
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