The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-10-02


sands suffer where hundreds gain. Wrecks
of characters lie all along the pathway Of
specul,tion. In all ranks and grades OF
society are found the victims of wild,
reckless gambling. Greed of wealth is be.
coming too much an American vice. Its
allurements are proving too strong for our
bright, energetic and ambitious young
men, and there is a call for steadierl
wiser and safer spirit in business affairs"
Second, there are many people insane to.
day because of self.indulgence, the lack OF
selfrestraint. Self-indulgence ruins men,
selfdenial makes them; self-indulgence
sells a mans birthright for mess of pot
find that it is impossible; self-denial
makes one to be possessed of increasing
strength; self-indugence led Belshazzar
on until we find him in the centre of the
feast where the fingers of mans hand
write upon the wall, Weighted in the
balances and found wanting" and the
same thing is true to-day, it is the lack oil
self-restraint that has made many man
to lose his soul. DR.. Talmage tells of the
man whom he saw on the shores of lake
in Scotland creeping out from under the
hull Of an old wrecked vessel and lifting
up his hands tremblingly said, please
sir, will you give me penny For
whatH said the minister. The answer
was, "For strong drink" DR.. Talmage
said to him, 81 am a minister and / cannot
give you the money for that, but / will
help you. What is your name? and he
said the man buried his face in his hands,
shook with emotion, and then finally said
my name is"-and he sobbed it out.
"Why," said DR.. Talmage, II knew man
by that name in Edinburgh, a prominent
merchant; did you know him." God
pity me, SIR" SAID he, II am that man;
sin slew me, and 1 am here; my wife is
dead, my children are in the, poor house
and | am on my way to he'll" What
warning for every man who gives way in
the least to sin.
There are many men in the insane insti.
tutions to-day because of self.indulgence
and lack of self.restraint. Who was il
that said, Better is he that ruleth his
spirit than he that taketh a city," Why
If man could only take a city what
hero he would bel The word of God says
that every man may be greater than he
spirit. Self-indugence ruins, self-denial
makes men. Self-indulgence sells a mans
birthright for less than a mess of pottage
Be not deceived. God is not mocked
whatsoever man sows that shall he reap.
came across one young man in the in
sane asylum who came from one of the
first families in the country. There is not
a man better born than he. He had every
thing that money could buy, Not only
was he lacking in self-restraint himself,
but his people were lacking in self-re
straint. If the boy desired to go to
school he was at liberty to go; if he pre-
ferred not to go to school he could stay at
home. After while there came a defect
in the brain; after little while it was in
sanity, so that now he is in an insane
asylum. heard him say, ''Will you per.
init me to go to father and mother?"
Certainly, certainly" the keeper said.
"IIe will never CO. He win never be
1x- 70 Ha in ba
then he falls back on his cot; he begins to
dress and then stops; he will just about
be ready tonight; tomorrow morning he
will have the delusiop again. He never
quite gets up to his desire. That is his
mania" There is many a boy, possibly
in our church, whose home atmosphere is
like that. and it is a most dangerous one.
do not know that the fathers were strict
enough. | do not think my father was too
strict. In my boyhood's home life was
the forming of my character. l should
like to hold up to every boy and every
young man the highest ideals of manhood,
and l ask you to take Christ.
Third, there are very many people men,
tally unbalanced to-day because of some
hallucination. A poor woman cried out as
| passed along through the wards of the
institution. doctor, / am burning up; if
l could only have a breath OF fresh air l
would feel perfectly well again" A man
who used to be leader of society was ac-
tually burrowing in the ground like an ami
NAL, all the dignity of his manhood gone,
and the woman who was once the pride of
her home a mental wreck, and when l
said to the doctor, '.What is it that causes
this?" his answer was, at is sin in very
many cases." 1 know very we'll that there
are many who are insane because of in.
herited tendency and some because of over
work, their poor overstrained nerves have
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number in these latter days insane be.
cause of sin, and it is against this that
cry out.
There is kind of insanity in the posi-
tion which men occupy with regard to
being Christians.
First, let us suppose case OF sickness
where the patient gradually grows worse,
the temperature is high, the pulse is rapid,
the heart is entirely wrong, the skin is
dried and parched, the case is critical, a
you go to the afflicted one and propose a
cure because your disease was the same
and you have been cured. Suppose the
patient should remark, 81 do not feel that
this remedy will cure me, after while
will try it." Possibly that is a specie OF
insanity, but suppose he declares that he
will wait until he grows better and the
disease has practically left him; in this
too, he is insane. But suppose he tells you
that he cannot understand how the rem.
edy would cure him, and that until he can
comprehend it he will not accept it. Could
anything be more insane than such DO.
sition! Or suppose he should say, 81
would take it, but 1 know one who tried
it and failed.' ask you, is not this q
species OF insanity?
Second, what would you say concerning
the position OF such sick MANI | know
him and say, Poor man; he is insane
feelings have nothing to do with the mat
ter; you cannot grow better without a
remedy. The doctor understands the case
and you do not need to understand it,"
This is what you would say, but / know
thousands of people who are away from
Christ and staying away from Him fol
these very reasons.
Some years ago young man threw him
self into the river from a steamboat, and
at once the. cry of MAN overboard!'
startled all Che passengers. They threw
back the searchlight in the darkness o.
the night and could see that he was sink
ing, but suddenly some one threw him q
rope, and a cheer went up because he ha6
caught hold of it. He drew the rope to
ward him until at last they saw him lif'
himself out of the water and then throw il
as far as he could and go down beneath
the waves. He was an insane man, hav
ing escaped from his keepers, but the mar
who rejects Christ, it would seem to me
is more insane for ht has turned away
from the only cure for sin and rejected tn
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