Milford chronicle., 1901-07-05

than have yet been gathered and that
with God for their friend they will be
provided for here and through the Sa-
viour's mercy they may reign forever in
the land where there are no losses and in
finite gains. While you may redden in the
face at the fact that gambling is the dis
graceful mother of multitudinous crimes,
Of envies, jealousies, revenges. quarrels,
cruelties, falsehoOds, forgeries, suicides,
murders and despair, be careful what you
say Of the victim Of the vice and what
You do. He needs more sympathy than
the man who came up from inebrety and |
debauch and assassination. for many
such repent and are saved, but confirmed |
gamblers hardly ever reform.
During the course Of prolonged minis |
try / have seen thousands redeemed, |
many Of them who were clear gone in |
sin, by Almighty grace rescued. In all |
parts of this land and in some parts |
Of other lands | have seen those who /
were given mp as incorrigible and lost |
recovered for God and heaven, but how
many confirmed gamblers have I seen
converted from their evil ways? A thou
sand? No. Five hundred? No. Fifty? |
No. Two? No. One? No. / read in
book of one such rescued. ] have no
no evil does its work so thoroughly and
eternally as gambling. Such almost
hopeless of reformation ought to call
forth from you deeper sympathy than you
feel for any other unfortunate. Pity by
all means. for those who, shipwrecked
and bruised among the timbers. have new
ertheless climbed up to the fshermans
cabin and found warmth and shelter, but
nit Eos ,E,
shore. but are dashed to death in the
breakers. Be angry at the sin, but sym
pathize with its victims.
Indignation Over Fraud.
There is another sin that we are often
times called to be angry with, and that
is fraud. We all like honesty, and when
| 1t is sacrificed we are vehement in de-
nunciation. We hope that the detectives
will soon come upon the track Of the
| absconding bank official, of the burglar
who blew up the safe, Of the clerk who
! skillfully changed the figures in the ac-
count book. of the falsifier who secured
| the loan on valueless property, Of the
agent who because of his percentage
wrongfully admits a man to the benefit
of life insurance policy when his heart
is ready to stop and who comes from an
ancestry enthusiastically short lived.
One act Of fraud told of in big headlines
in the morning papers rightfully arouses
the nations wrath. It is the interest Of
every good man and good woman who
reads of the crime to have it exposed and
punished. Let it go unscathed, and you
put premium on fraud. you depress pub
lie morals. you induce those who are on
the fence between right and wrong to get
down on the wrong side, and you put the
business OF the world on a down grade.
The constabulary and penitentiary must
do their work. But while the merciless
and tie goddess cry: Good for him!
am glad he is within the prison doorsP'
be it your work 20 find out il that man is
worth saying and what were the causes
of his moral overthrow. Perhaps he
started in business life under "a tricky
firm. who gave him wrong notions Of
business integrity; perhaps there was a
combination Of circumstances almost un-
, paralleled for temptations; perhaps there
were alleviations; perhaps he was borT
wrong and never got over It; perhaps hC
did not realize what he was doing, and il
/ you are merciful man you will think Of
j other perhapses which, though they ma!
not excuse, will extenuate. Perhaps b,
blood of the Lamb and is as sure O.
heaven as you are. What an oppOrtunit!
: you have now for oheying my text. Yol
. were angry at the misdemeanor, but yol
are hopeful for the recovery of the re
. calcitrant. Blessed all prison reformers
: Blessed are those governors and pyesi
a dents who are glad when they have
= chance to pardon! Blessed the forgivin
:, father who welcomes home the prOdigal
Blessed the dying thief whom the Lor
i. took with him to glory, saying. "This da
!. shalt thou be with me in paradiseW
! There is another evil that we ought t
v abhor, while we try to help the victim
o and that is infdelity. 1t snatches the lii
10 preserver from the man afoat and afford
10 not so much as a spar or a plank as sui
,e stitute. 1t would eXtinguish the onl
e light that has ever been kindled for I'll
l. troubled and the lost. Let the spirit
% infdelity take hold of q neighborhoo
and in that town the marriage relation
70 farce, and good morals give place to d
il styles of minerals. Let it take posse
q sion of this earth. and there would be
of virtue left in all the worlds circuI
A. ference. All the sins rebuked in the I,
o. Commandments would be dominant. n
10 torch that shall kindle the conhagrati,
So of the earth in its last catastrophe W
ut not do as much damage as would infid
IS ity and agnosticism if they got t
no chance. Be angry with such theories
unbelief and hatred of God. Never lOu
n at the witticisms of those who would
ok little the Bible with their joculaPi
of Quote to them the four lines Of White
MS And weary seekers Of the best
at We cone back laden with our quest
nd To find that all the sages said