Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1902-01-17

selves.
Notice also my text takes IL for
granted that YOU must put on the hsr-
ness. else how can You take IL OF? Life
is a battles 80 years. 20 years or
so years war. Helmet you must have, 4
for the hattlesxes of skeptieism and !
aCnoS;icism are aimed at your heal. !
Every possible effort will be made to
make you think wrong. The young
man who gets his head filed with
wrong notions about God. about Christ,
about the soul. about the great beyond,
is already captured. Put on the helmet.
the iatcket well adjusted under the
chin. Think right and you will act
right. Yes. breastp.Rte for the heart.
That is the most important part 10 be
defended. That decides what you love
and what YOU hate. what you hope for
and what YOU despise. That 6tcides
earthly happiness and eternal destiny.
Keep the heart pure and the life viii
be pure. Have the heart corrupt and
your actions viii De corrupt. Oh. that
al ~ US might have = new hear; COW
cred with a divinely wrought breast
plate, Yes. greaves for the feet. SO
many dangerous roads are we COM
on sharp prongs Of temptation aud go
lame and limping all the rest Of their
DAYS. Iron mailed shoes for the feet
Young man. see that you have on a
complete armor. IL looks bright now.
and 81 seems as n you could march
right on without opposition or attack,
but be not deceived. There are hidden
Coca ready 20 halt you on your way.
The same cup that Benhsdad drank out
Of just before his defeat viii be offered
20 effect your defeat. His intoxicated
brain saw victory when there was
nothing but rout and ruin What work
, Benhada6's cup made for Benhadad's
army. What shipwrecks on the sea
/ what disasters on the land. caused BY
I iniaming liquids put upon the tongue
4 10 set seething the brsini How many
\ kings Of thought and influence. with
/ crowns brighter than the one Ben
/ ha6ad wore, have by strong drink been
| put into flight as base as that in which
| Benhada6 rodei give them to me.
says the demon OF inebriacy. Give
them 20 me; hand them down-the
! brightest legislators OF she land.
VII thicken their tongue; / VIII bloai
their cheeks; I viii stagger heir
steps; I viii Damn their soul. Hand
them down &c me-the physician out
OF his laboratory. the attorney from
the courtroom. the minister Of the
/ Gospel from the affairs OF God. Hand
them down 10 me. the queens OF The
6ra wing-room. and viii disgrace
their names and blast their homes and
throw them down farther than Jezebe
fell 20 the dogs that crunched her car
cass.~
We hold our breath IN horror as once
An awhile we hear Of some one, eithcl
by accident OF suicide. going over Nj
agara falls. but the tides. the depths
the awful surgeE Of insemperance az
eVNry hour OF the day rushing score
of immortalS dawn into the unfath
omed abysm. Suicides by the hundred
Of thousands. Suicides by the million
Beware OF the cup out Of which Ben
hadad drank personal and nations
demolition.
] congratulate all those who AT
now in the thickest OF Efe's oattl
that the time is coming when IN
struggle VIII end and you viii put tn
harness of. helmet and greaves an
4
sion. You cannot in one visit 10 Lor
r. don Tower zee all You must g. agai
e and again TO that place which is a
2 ISOLATED with the story OF Lady Jan
3, Grey and Anne Boleyn and Waite
j. Raleigh and Sir Thomas More. 70
= Will see the crowns Of kings an
l. queens. the robe worn BY the Blac
il Prince. and silver baPtismal font
, from which royal infants were chri
y tened. and the block on which Lol
e Lovat was bebeaded. But no part
y | London Tower Will more intereSt "
q than the armory. in which is skillfu
q IL and impressively arranged cole
1f | tIon OF al styles OF armor worn ID
ID tween the thirteenth and eighteen
X centuries, Ciggesting 600 years
le | eonaict-cuiras and neck guard al
D / chin piece and lance rest and gauntl
and girdle and mailed apron You >
- | inst how from head 10 heel those OF
A. | time warriors were defended again
p sharp weapons that would cut
a. thrust or bruise and allowing the
8. 20 come out OF battle unhurt VIII
At otherwise they would have been sla
y. o We soldiers Of Jesus Christ, wb
Al the war OF life r. over and the victe
e. rest in the soldiers home on I
II heavenly heights. perhaps there m
% | be ir the city Of the sun a tower
- | spiritual armor such as incased I
r. | warriors for Christ in earthly co
IN | bat. Some day we may be in II
-. armory and hear the heroes talk
ne | how thev fought the good fght
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