Milford chronicle., 1901-05-24

could weep tears OF Dlood. Joiu Inv
people that day: "This man had his vir-
tues, and a good many Of them. He had
his faults, and a good many of them
But il there is any man in this audience
who is without sin, let him cast the first
stone at this coffin lid" On one side the
pulpit sat that little child, rosy, sweet
faced, as beautiful as any little child that
sat at your table this morning. l warrant
you. She looked up wistfully, not know
ing the full, sOrrows OF an orphan child.
Oh, her Sountenance haunts me today,
like some sweet face looking upon US
through a horrid dream. On the other
side Of the pulpit were the men who had
destroyed him. There they sat, hard Wis
aged, some Of them pale from exhausting
disease, some Of them flushed until it
seemed as if the fires Of iniquity famed
through the cheek and cracked the lips.
They were the men who had done the
work. They were the men who had
bound him hand and foot. They had kin
died the fires. They had poured the
NORWOOD and gall into that orphans
cup. Did they weep2 No. Did they
sigh repentingly2 No. Did they say,
What a pity that such a brave man
should be slain?" No, no; not one bloat-
ed hand was lifted to wipe away a tear
from a bloated cheek. They sat and
looked at the coffin like vultures gazing
at the carcass OF a lamb whose heart
they had ripped out. I cried in their ears
as plainly as I could, "There are a God
and a judgment day" Did they tremble?
| Oh, no, no. They went back from the
house Of God, and that night, though
their victim lay in lakewood cemetery,
was told that they blasphemed, and they
drank, and they gambled, and there was
: not one less customer in all the houses of
iniquity. This destroyed man was a
! Samson in physical strength, but Delilah
| sheared him, and the Philistines of evil
companionship dug his eyes out and threw
him into the prison Of evil habits. But in
the hour of his death he rose up and took
hold Of the two pillared curses Of God
against drunkenness and uncleanness
and threw himself forward until down
upon him and his companions there came
the thunders Of an eternal catastrophe.
Delight In the Home Life.
Again, any amusement that gives you a
distaste for domestic life is bad. How
many bright domestic circles have been
broken up by sinful amusements! The
father went of, the mother went off, the
child went off. There are today the
fragments before me Of blasted house
holds. Oh, if you have wandered away
would like to charm you back by the
sound Of that one word, ''hOme." Dc
you not know that you have but littl,
more time to give to domestic welfare
Do you not see, father, that your chill
dren are soon to go out into the world
and all the influence for good you are t,
} have over them you must have now
Death will break in on your cOnjugal re
lations, and alas il you have to stanC
over the grave Of one who persisted from
, your neglect
saw a hayward husband standing a
the deathbed of his Christian wife, and
saw her point to a ring on her finger AM
} heard her say to her husband, do yo
, see that ring?" He replied, Eyes, Sc
! it" WELL" said she, do you remem
] Der who put it there?' 'Yes," said ht
= 81 put It there" And all the past seen
2 ed to rush upon him. By the memory @
: that day when, in the presence Of me
r and angels, you promised to be faithfU
In joy and sorrow and in sickness and !
health; by the memory Of those pleasaI
e hours when you sat together in your me-
t home talking Of a bright future; by tn
+ cradle and the joyful hour when one lii
e was spared and another given; by tbs
5 sickbed. when the little one lifted u
{ the hands and called for help. and 70
knew he must die, and he put one ar
' around each Of your necks and brougl
I you very near together In that dying kis