Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-08-17


'.;,',,s eonvocation. She aystematicai-
Iv deceived him away until now he
attends no church. waits upon no
institution and Is on
rapid way 90 destruction, hts morals
cone. his money gone and, tear' ms
soul gone.
Here are ak secular night- in TIE
week. "What shall do with them
saws the father and the husband
will give four OF these nights TO the
Improvement and entertainment OF
nv family. either ut home or I'm good
neirhborhood. 1 will devote one 10
charitable institutions. i will devote
one to my lodge" congratulate
Won. Here. is a man who says: Out
az the six secular nights of the week
will devote five 10 lodges and clubs
and associations and one TO the home =
which night will spend in scowhng
like a March squAll. wishing / was
out spending Il as I have spent the
other Eve" That mans obituary
written. Not one out OF ten thou-
sand that ever get so far on inc
wrong road ever stops GRADUALLY ms
health will fail through late hours.
| and through too much stimulants ne
will be first-rate prey for erysiPe'as
and rheumatism of the heart.
The doctor coming IN will at
Glance see il Il not only present dis
ease he must fight. but years Of fast
living. The clergyman, for the sake
of the feelings of the family, on the
funeral day will only talk Tn reli-
pious peneralities. The men who got
| his vacht in the eternal rapids VIII
not be at the obsequies. They nave
messing engagements that day Ihey
viii send flowers TO the coffin, Will
send their wives 20 utter words or
sympathy. but they viii have engage
ments elsewhere. They never come.
: Bring me mallet and chisel, and
. will cut that mans eFtaph; blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord"
"No- Won say. "that would not be
anpropriate." "Let me die tho death
OF the righteous md let my last end
e bc like his2" NO" you say, that
would not he appropriate. Then
give me the mullct and the chisel. and
p I will cut an honest epitaph; Here
y lies the victim Of dissIpating associa-
. tions!"
:, Another test by which you can find
+, whether your secret society rs right
. or wrong is the effect it has on your
"a secular occupation. I can understand
I, how through such an institution ma !
y can reach commercial success
= know some men have formed then
= hest business relations through suci
a channel. II the secret society ha
ndvantaged you in an honorable call
y inc. il Is a good one, but has you
~ credit failed? Are bargain maker
an now more anxious how they trus
r. VIM with n bale OF goods2 Have IN
men whose names were down IN IN
81 | commercial agency Al before the
el entered the society been going DO"
"A | sfncc in commercial standingf The
-, look out. You and / every day kno
IN Of commercial establishments goin
he 20 ruin through the social eNcess'
Ia Of one or two members, their fortui
ate beaten 10 death with ball players ID
,ut or cut amidships with the front pro
md az the regatta or going down una
20 tho swift hoofs OF the fast hors
or or drowned in the large rotations
ar cocnac or Monongahela. That seer
Al | society was the Loeb Earn Ih'
90 h,,st,rss was the Vile de Hav
NOT They struck, and the Vile de ha'
liza went underl
; in The third test by which you m
lem know whether the society 20 which y
ide- belong is good or bad is this; What
anc- It's effect on your sense OF morh
nm rclgfous obligation? Now, AZ sho'
onS t,lse the names OF oil the people
ated this audience and put them on a
hful and then I should lay that roll 81
: of OF this organ and a hundred ye
kind from now some one should take !
r my roll and call il from a 20 4 there We
and not one OF you answer. l say I
have any society that makes me forget I
when fact is n bad society.
c be- Oh, man sstray. God help you'll
ID in am going 20 make very stout r.
rould You know that sometimes a r.
md maker will take very small tire
r tes- and wind them together until a
cites awhile they become ship &C
hav- And ] am going TO take some
their small, delicate threads and
elves them together until they make
stout rope. / will take all the II
gave cries Of the marriage day-a tn
70, IN of laughter, a thread OF light
e of thread OF music, a thread OF
very quoting. n thread of congratulate
iction and twist them together, an
everal have one strand. Then i tai
ty TO thread OF the hour of the FIRST
lie. l vent in your house, thread OF
ir de- darkness that preceded, and n
= grip of the light that followed, an
q not thread OF the beautiful scarf tina
their tie child used 20 wear when
entire bounded out at eventide TO grees
st has and then thread OF the oea'