The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-02-01

"'""Hu whom suspicious con
panions are gathered? DO their les,
and their entertainments make n
= hours go blithely by when you ar
with them? Have you taken a 81
from their cup of sin or gone Wit
them in one path Of unrighteousness
Turn back. From Babylon they cam
and to Babylon they would carry yor
II SO many plague stricken me-
+ would like to enter your companion
e snip, before anyone is allowed to mas
/ into the intimacy of your heart On
5 on them severest quarantine.
; Let me say to those Christian parent,
p who are doing their best in the educa.
, tion OF their children: Take good heart;
: your sons this morning may be far
away from you and in a distant CITY
out God, TO whom you dedicated them.
VIII take care of them. The God of
Daniel will take care Of them far away
In Babylon. Train up a child in the
way he should go, and when he is old
ne will not depart from it," lie NAV
wander away for awhile and fall into
sin and break your heart, but before
ne Is done with this life, you having
commended him to God. he will come
back again, for l put the emphasis in
the right place and on the word "old"
when ! repeat that passage and saw
Train up a child in the wav he should
60 and when he is old he will not de-
part from it," May you all have the
glorious satisfaction of seeing vour
children walk in paths of righteousness
and peace! One with them on earth.
may you be one with them in Heavenl
But l learn also from this subject
the beauty OF Christian sobriety. The
meat and the wine that were to come
to Daniels table were to come from the
kings table. Well, Daniel had no RIGHT
TO take that food. The king was a
heather, and. like all the heathens. WAS
accustomed TO ask blessings before he
partook of food. and in that blessing
they always dedicated the food 10 the
gods. So that il Daniel had taken this +
1000 he would have broken the law
which forbade the taking of food dedi-
Gated TO idols. He chose pulse. II was
miracle that he did not dwindle
away. There is nothing in pulse. such
poor herb, to make man ruddy and
healthful. Some people talk as though
that were a kind Of diet which would
make a man swarthy and competent to
do the duties of this life. That is
not the lesson at all. But for a DOS
itive miracle Daniel would have dwin-
died away, and when God for his self
denial puts upon him this benediction
lie puts a benediction upon all Chris
ian sobriety, | would not have Won
GLASS your preacher among those who
would put unnecessary restraint upon
awful appetites. There are those in
his day who dispute the grant which q
iod gave to man for animal food. and !
hey make religion Of their hunger as {
he Pharisees expected Heaven for c
heir fasting. Daniel did not always a
i've on pulse. He was not a Grahamite. r.
e was not a vegetarian. He went p
through that selfdenial because the /,
bod offered him was idolatrous food. a
When | see God filling the earth with W
II varieties OF food, have not much W
In the teaching of those who NJ
ould put us on severe regimen. They 81
re parents who, with wrong theory 5,
this respect, deny their children all ST
armless luxuries and without sufi- CT
ent inquiry send them out to board o.
E schools where their intelects are So
lltivated to the disadvantage OF their Vi
arved bodies, so that from many pr
arding school a class Of 20 will grad he
tie, 10 of them ghosts Now. when TO
see the three angels eating the calf or
lich Abraham slew and when find ca
Irist eating broiled fish even after His go
come to the conclusion fin
at the theories of the vegetarian are wi
from religious standpoint we'll in
inded nm
But, oh, how many temptations 10 on
sipatiopl With so many things 10 sor
npt the appetite. how many tempta- lie
ms to gluttony! With so many spark He
g beverages. how much temptation VIII
Could I bring before fla.
l this morning the mothers and the is {
res and the sisters who have went Oh.
the graves of the inebriate. your cou
i would be overpowered with the cou
ctacle. Could | show you the VIII
My forms robbed Of their beauty. can
eye fiashings quenched in the wine gra
, the ruddy cheek from which rum 4
wormed the rose, your soul would AS
,il with horror and YOU would rise pou
and cry; "Begone. thou dream of the
J" dist
larles Lamb. who made all the OF
Id laugh at his humor. and then dow
rward made all the world weep AT NOR
fate. who outwitted everybody fare
was at last outwltted Of his own rail
titles, wrote thus: "The waters 10
gone over me: but out Of the toWl
his, could ! be heard. / would cry then
TO all those who have set foot IN they
perilous flood. Could the youth q m
HON the flavor of the first wine poru
'licious as the opening scenes of eiple
life. or the entering upon some 'uoe'
Y discovered paradise-could-h he OF u'
into my desolation and be made thrls
nderstand what a dreary thing "hoi
when a man shall feel himself 20 pray
Iown a precipice with open eyes them
passive will: TO see his destruc- nope
and have no power to stop it. 'ne
eel il all the way emanatinp OF us
himself; to see all godliness prihs
J out of him, and yet not able to Vt y