The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-01-04


ness drive their husbands into dissipation.
The reason that thousands Of men spend
their evenings in clubhOuscs and tNycrns
is because they cannot stand it at home.
| know men who arc thirtyycar martyrs
in the fact that they are awfullv married
That marriage was not made in heaven.
Without asking divine guidanc" they On.
tered into an alliance which ought never
TO have been made That Is what is the
matter with many men you and ! know
They may bc very brave and heroic and
say nothing about it, but all the ncighbors
know.
Now, if the man going wrong has such
domestic misfortune bc very lcnicnt and
cXcusatory IN your word OF warning. The
difference between you and HIM may be
that you would have gone down faster
that hc is going down II YOU had the same
kind Of coniugal wrctChcdncss.
Besides that YOU had better hc mcrcliuI
in your word of warning, for the day may
come when YOU may need some one 70 be
lcnient and excusatory to you. There
may be somewhere ahead OF you a tcmpta
tion so mighty that unless YOU have sym
pathetic treatment YOU may go under
"Oh no." says some one; 81 am too old
for that" How old are youy oh YOU
say, 81 have been so long in active busi
ness life that ! am clear past the latitude
Of danger" There is n man in Sing Sing
penitcntary who was considered the soul
of honor until ne was fifty years of age,
and then committed a dishonesty that star
tied the entire commercial world
In mentioning fine arts people are apt
TO speak of music and painting and sculp
turc and architecture. but they forget 10
mention the finest of all the fine arts, the
art of doing good. the art of helping 9th
crs, the art of saving men
An art TO bc studied as YOU study music
for II is music in the fact that 1t drives
out moral discord and substitutes eternal
harmony. An art TO be studied like sculp
turc. for il is sculpture in the fact that It
builds a man not in cold statue. but IN i'm
mortal shape that will last long after all
pcutclcan marble has crumbled.
An art TO hc studied ns YOU study archi
lecture. for II is architecture in the fact
that il builds for him a house of God, ctcr
nal IN the heavens. But an art that we
cannot fully learn unless God helps us
Ourselves saved by grace divine, we can
60 forth to save others, and with a tender
ness and compassion and a pity that we
could not otherwise exercise we can pro
nouuco the warning word with mamih
cent result
The Lord said unto the prophet Amos,
amos, what secst thou" and he an.
swercd, "A basket of summer fruit But
| do not think Amos saw in that basket
of summer fruit anything more inviting
and luscious than many a saved man has
seen IN the warning word of some hearty,
common sense Christian adviser. for
word htly spoken is "likc apples of gold
in baskets of silver"
So also is a word OF invitation potent
and beautiful Who can describe the
drawing power of that word. so small and
yet SO tremendous, Come" IL is a shc-t
word, hut It's influence Is as long as cter.
nifty; not a sesqulpedalian word spreading
ITS energy over many syllahCs. but mono.
syllable. Whether calling IN wrong direc-
tion or right direction many have found
It irresistible. That one word has filled
all the places of dissipation and diSsolutc.
ness 10 Is responsible for the abomina.
tous that curse the earth Inquire al the
door OF prisons what brought the offender
there and az the door of alnshouscs what
brought the paupcr there, and at the door
OF the lost world what was the cause of
the Incarceration, and VI the inmates speak
the truth they will say, The word come
brought us here" Come and drink Come
and gamble. Come and SIN. Come and
die. Pronounce that word with one kind
of infection. and YOU can hear In IL the
tolllug OF all the bells Of couHagrat,ou and
woe.
.ac cnlct paEcr m prison m t'haraoh's
imc saw IN dream something quite differ.
mt from apples OF gold in baskets Of sil.
vcr, Tor he said 90 Ioscph. Il was also in
dream, and. behold. I had three white
baskets on my head. and in the upper.
most basket there was all manner Of
baked meats for Pharaoh. and the birds
did eat them out of the baskets on my
head Joseph interpreted the dream and
said u meant that the chief baker should
be hcheadcd. aud the birds would eat his
his flesh. So many a man has I'm his own
bad habits omens of evil that peek at him
and torctcll doom and death.