The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-08-01

klnd ana tell me nothing more about him
if he be still alive The man is a wine
gnzzler, his wife broken hearted or pre-
maturely old, his fortune gone and his
home mere name in the directory.
Here are six secular nights in the week.
What shall do with them?" saws the
father and the husband 'T viii give four
of these nights to the Improvement and
entertainment OF my. family, either at
home or in good neiehborhood | will de.
vote one to charitable institutions. I will
devote one to my lodge" / congratulate
you. Here is a man who says, "Out of the
six secular nights of the week ] will de.
vote FIVE to lodges and clubs and associa.
tions and one to the home. which night /
Will spend in scowling like a March sduall.
wishing 1 was out spending it as | have
spent the other FIVE" That mans obitu-
airy is written. Not one out Of 10000 that
ever get so far on the wrong road ever
stops. Gradually his health will fail
through late hours, and through too much
stimuants he will be irstrate prey for
erysipelas and rheumatism of the l,vsrt.
The doctor coming in will at glance see
It is not only present disease he must
fight, but years Of fast living. The cler
gyman for the sake of the feelings of the
family. on the funeral day will only talk
in religious generaities. The men who
| got his yacht in the eternal rapids will
not be at the obsequies. They have press
| ing engagements that dav. They will send
flowers to the cctlil. will send their wives
| to utter words OF sympathy, but they will
shave engagements elsewhere. They never
4 come.
Another test by which YOU can fnd
whether your secret society is right or
wrong is the effect il has on your secular
occupation. can understand how through
% sucn an institution man can reach com
| mercial success. i know some men have
formed their best business relations
through such channel IL the secret So
| ciety has advantaged you in an honorable
calling it is good one. But has your
credit failed? Arc bargain makers now
| bale of goods? Have the men whose
| names were down in the commercial
| agency Al before they entered the society
been going down since in commercial
standing? Then look out
| You and | every dav know of CONNER
| c,al establishments going to ruin through
| the social excesses OF one or two mem
| bers, their fortune beaten to death with
| ball players bat or cut amidships with the
| front prov or the regatta or going down
under the swift hoofs of the fast horses
or drowned in the large potations of cog
| nae Monongahela. The secret society was
the, Loeb Earn. Their business was the
| Nile de Havre. They struck. and the
| Vile de Havre went underl
Inc third test by which YOU may know
| whether the society to which you belong
IS good or bad is this: What is its effect
on your sense OF moral and religious obli-
| CATION! Now. If | should take the names
OF all the people in this audience and put
them on roll. and then | should lay that
| roll back OF this organ, and n hundred
years from now some one should take that
roll and call it from A TO H. there would
| not one OF you answer. L say that any So
| eiety that makes me forget that fact is a
| bad society. ="
| Winch would you rather have in your
hand when you come to die--a pack of
cards or a Bible? Which would YOU
rather have pressed to your Inns in the
| ciosing moment-the cup Of Belshszzarean
wassail or the chalice of Christian COM
| munon! Whom would you rather have
| Tor your pallbearers-the elders of n
| Christian church or the companions whose
| conversation was full of slang and inuen-
| DO! Whom would YOU rather have for
| your eternal companions-those men who
| spend their evenings betting, gambling.
| swearing, carousing and telling vile stories
| or your little child that bright girl whom
| the Lord took? Oh YOU would not have
| been away so much nights, would you. if
| YOU nad known she was going away SO
| soon Dear me. your house has never
| necn the same place since. Your wife
| mas never. frightened up; she has never
gpt over It; she never will get over it.
| now long the evenings are with no one to
| put to bed and no one 10 whom to tell
| the beautiful Bible stories! What a pity
| u Is that you cannot spend more even
| lngs at home IN trying to help her hear
| that sorrow! You can never drown that
| Srlet IN the wine cup. You can never
| break away from the little arms that
| used to be flung around your neck when
| she used to say, Papa, do stay with me
Ton .o;,,n1ight-do stay with me tonight" You
your lips. the dying kiss of your little Qirl
| Inc fascination O: bad secret society is
| SO great that sometimes a man has turned
hisNback on his home when his child was
| anylng OF scarlet fever. He went away.
| nelore he got back at midnight the eyes
mad been closed, the undertaken had done
| his work, and the wife, worn out with
.nree weeks watching; lay unconscious
IN the next room. Then the returned
| iather comes up stairs. and he sees the
cradle gone; and he says. What is the
maiter an5 on the Judgment day he will
nnn out what was the matter
On, man astray, God help YOU, am
gong to make a very stout rope. You
Know that sometimes a ropemaker will
take very small threads and wind then To.
ge!her until after awhile they become a
yerv Sn,p can,ei ei and | am going to take some
very small, delicate threads and wind
them together until they make a vorv
stout rope. | will take all the memories
ol tne marriage day-a thread OF laughter
q thread OF light, a thread of music
thread OF banqueting, a thread of con0rot =
nlation-a and / twist them together and T
nave one strand. Then take a thread ~
the honr, of the first advent in yo,,r house
thread OF the darkness that preceded'
and thread OF the light that followed
ana thread of the beautiful scarf tbst
httle child used to wear when She bo,nd.
ed out at eventide to greet Won. and thon
thread Of the beautiful dress in which
you laid her away for the resurrection
and then twist all these threads TO-
gether and have another strand. Then
take thread of the scarlet robe III
suffering Christ, and thread OF The white
rraiment of your loved ones before tbe
throne, and a. string of the harp seraphic
and twist them all together, and / have
a third strand. "Oh" you saw "either
strand is enough to hold fast a world .
No. viii take these strands, and / will
TWIST them together, and one end of that
rope i will fasten not to the communion
table, for it shall be removed; not to a
pillar of the organ, for that win crumble
IN the ages, but | wind it round and
round the cross of sympathizing Christ.
and having fastened one end of the rome
to the cross throw the other end TO YOU.
Lay hold Of it! Pull for your lifel Pull
for heayenl
LABOR WORLD.