The Newtown bee., 1901-08-02
the call and temptation of evil in the

the call ana LempCaLlOn or evil In the world to-day.
 There was place, there always has been and there is to-day place and need for Ulysses way of meeting sin; there is still wisdom in the Old Testa ment rule: "Avoid it. Pass not by it." Stop the ears and put out every sug- gestion of the evil thing. When the tempta tiOn isle is near then get ready by running away. Flight is sometimes herOism; absence of body is often presence of mind. When a sudden, a fearful danger comes how many weak and cowardly lose their heads, stand trembling and perhaps crying; while the one or the few cool, clear headed brave men run away themselves, and guide others in speedy flight. To burning down, even though the door is open and the halter cut, is not the sign of the bravery of horse, but of it's panic. Even so it takes
 COOL. BRAVE. DECIDED CHARACTER to discern moral danger, and to have sense enough to runaway from it. It takes decision of real and valuable kind for man to stop his ears when he goes by the sirens isle. The fool saith in his heart I am a strong rover, and will go nearer the edge of Niagara than anybody ever did before, whilenthe wise men keep away, when he finds the current begins to flow Niagarawards. There is still a place in the world for the will to say no! For the resolutions which escapes fha evil Inv koQninu nlf. tomnfo finn We commend the example of the men who had once fallen into the drunk ards snare, and then recovered himself and was asked by an interested friend if he found it difficult to go by the sa- loon door; oh no, not a bit was his re- ply; Why how is that? Why you see always go by on the other street. He was fortunate if he lived in some of American villages and towns if. he could find another street, but he was wise indeed in using it if he did find it. Indeed it may be wise at times in our lives to shut out some perfectly things which other people can use without blame and without injury, it may be wise for us to shut them out of our lives if for any reason they happen to come in accompaniment with that which is temptation and hurt to us ourselves. Cucumbers are all right in their way and' place, no harm in them in themselves; but you don't put them in your melon garden, because somehow in a peculiar way they seem to cross with the melons and give the wrong flavor to them. So there are ex- cellent and useful things in life, right and proper, we have to shut them out even though they be good, because we find that for some perhaps personal reason they do us harm. A man with the gambling mania will sensibly keep himself from games of chance which perhaps do no harm to another. A woman who finds it is her temptation to exaggerate or even to spread evil reports which she hears may decide on a refusal to gossip even harmlesSly, and with strict adhesion to the truth, lest she get started on the road which leads to her special sin. Jesus told the man who wanted to leave all and fol- low Him to go back home and take care of his family: and he told the rich young man who wanted to be saved and yet held coveteously by his riches to leave all and follow Him, and so it is; one mans meat is another mans poison. We'll is it when we know for ourselves in what Uhicket of prosperity or pleasure, or business our personal devil is hiding and have grace given us to go around another way.
 In Southern France there is tower on the shore of the Mediterranean, called the Tower of Constance, and this is the reason it is so called. In the old days of persecution of the Hu- guenots, under Louis XIV, Marie Du- ran was imprisoned with certain others in this tower, her only crime being that her brother was Huguenot min ister, and she herself one of the hated sect; and there they tried to have her forsake her faith. She spent all the long years in her cell, cutting deep in- to the granite rock with some scrap of iron the one word "Resist," and there it stands to this day deeply inerradica- ply graved in the stone; "Resist." And by the grace of God she had that word engraved on her heart; perhaps it help ed'the heart thus to give her time cary ing the word on the rock: so she resist ed, too, for 40 long years, unto the end. That kind of heroism truly is demand ed often and not only in times of per secution. Many a faithful desciple of God has lived in a Tower of Constance with Resist" graven deeply on the wall of it, and that for more than 40 years, only perhaps it was not wicked King Louis XIV, but wicked King Temper, or King Selishness, or King Pride, or King HatefulneSS whom they