The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-04-04

] Ter uuA'A aAt imam 'f'it tHA' Oui-
selves.
Notice also my text takes il for
granted that you must put on the har-
ness, else how can you take ii of? Life
is a battle-a 80 years, 40 years or a
60 years war. Helmet YOU must have.
for the battleaxes Of skepticism and
agnosiicism are aimed 40 your head.
Every possible effort will be made to
make you think wrong. The young
man who gets his head filled with
wrong notions about God. about Christ,
about the soul. about the great beyond.
is already captured. Put on the helmet.
the latchet well adjusted under the
chin. Think right and you will act
right. Yes, breasip.ate for the heart.
That is the most important part to be
defended. That decides what you love
and what you hate, what you hope for
and what you Gespise. That decides
earthly happiness and eternal destiny.
Keep the heart pure and the life viii
be pure. Have the heart corrupt and
your actions will be corrupt. Oh. that
all Of MS might have new heart COW
cred with divineiy wrought breaat-
PLATED Yes, greayes for the feet. SO
many dangerous roads are we COM
PEELED to walk. So many people tread
on sharp prongs Of temptation and 20
lame and limping all the rest Of their
days. Iron mailed shoes for the feet.
Young man. see that you have on
complete armor. II looks bright now,
and it seems as n you could march
right on without opposition or attack.
but be not deceived. There are hidden
foes ready 90 halt You on your way.
The same cup that Benhadad 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 RUM What work
Benhadad's cup made for Bcnhadad's
army! What shipwrecks on the sea.
what disasters on the land, caused by
infaming liquids put upon the tongue
to set seething the brainl How many
kings Of thought and influence, with
crowns brighter than the one Ben
hadad wore, have by strong drink been
put into flight as base as that in which
Benhadad rodel "Giye them to me-"
says the demon Of inebriacy. Give
them to me; hand them down-the
brightest legislators Of the land.
will thicken their tongue; viii bloat
their checks; | will stagger their
steps; l will damn their soul. Hand
them down to me-the physician out
Of his laboratory. the attorney from
the courtroom, the minister of the
Gospel from the aiiars OF God. Hand
them down TO me, the queens of the
drawing-room, and ! viii disgrace
their names and blast their homes and
throw them down farther than Jez, bel
fell to the dogs that cruuched her car
cass"
We hold our breath TO horror as once |
in awhile we hear Of some one. either |
by accident or suicide. going over Nj
agara falls, but the tides. the depths,
the awful surges Of iniemperance are
every hour OF the day rushing scores /
of immortals dawn into the unfath-
omed abysm. Suicides by The hundreds /
Of thousands. Suicides by the millionl
Beware Of the cup ont of which Ben
hadad drank personal and national
demolition.
congratulate an those who are
now IN the thickcst OF life's battle
that the time Is coming when the
struggle will end and you will put the
harness of. helmet and greaves and
breastplate having fulfilled their mis-
sion. You cannot in one visit to Lon
Ion Tower see all You must go again
and again TO that place which is as
sociated with the story Of Lady Jane
Grey and Anne Boleyn and Walter
Raleigh and Sir Thomas More. You
will see the crowns OF kings and
lueens, the robe worn by the Black
Prince, and silver baptismal fonts
rom which royal infants were chris
tened, and the block on which Lord
Lovat was behcadcd. But no part OF
London Tower will more interest you
han the armory, In which is skillful-
Y and impressiyely arranged a collec-
lion Of all styles of armor worn be-
ween the thirteenth and eighteenth
centuries, suggesting 800 years Of
and neck guard and
hin piece and lance rest and gauntlet
nd girdlc and mailed apron. You see
ust how from head to heel those old
ime warriors were defended against
harp weapons that would cut or
hrust or bruise and allowing them
y come out of battle unhurt when
|therwise they would have been slain.
0 We soldiers Of Jesus Christ. when
be war Of life is over and the victors
Irst in the soldiers home on the
|eavenly heights, perhaps there may
|e in the city Of the sun a tower Of
biritual armor such as incased the
|arriors for Christ in earthly COM
bat. Some day we may be 10 that
|rmory and hear the heroes talk OF
low they fought the good fight Of
|ith and see them with the scars OF
bounds forever healed and look at
le weapons Of offense and defense
Iith which they became more than
Inquerors. IN that tower Of Heaven,
/ the weapons Of the spiritual con-
4 ct are examined. st. Paul may point
TO us the armor with which he
vised the Ephesians to equip them
| I1ves and say. "That is the shield