Milford chronicle., 1902-05-23

you to come nome Win MIN anu WISH ]
his mother. That dear old lady vel
comes you as only his mother can. She
knows your own home is so far away
that it is impossible for you to go there
and get back to the store when the two
holidays are over.
Some False Friends.
But the bad young man is never hard
to become acquainted with. He will
slap you upon the back as soon as you
enter the store. He offers you a Gig
arctic or invites you later 10 take a
drink. He stops you in the hall and
wants to Lave a long talk. He is al
ways loGfing when the head of the de |
partment is away. After a little while |
he begins to make fun Of your Bible. |
He ridicues you as stingy because you |
send most of your money home TO sup
port a widowed mother and Eve fl |
therless children. and then. if you have |
money to spend, he and his evil COM |
panions will gather around you to help |
spend it If you will let them, as Il field |
Of clover tops will empty all the bee
hives from far and near But after
your money is gone and position gone
and health gone and honor gone they
will care no more for you than for
dead cur in the street. The night you
die the saloons will be as crowded, the
glasses will click just as merrily as
ever At that bar which you now fire.
quent there will not be tear shed over
you. The day your body is buried the
very friends who are now enticing you
away will gamble just as recklessly
and laugh just as loud with others as
they now do with you, and if necessary
hnd they could lind no other place they
would be willing to gamble at your
grave.
Some years ago in Glasgow a team
of horses took fright and ran away
The coachman was hurled from his
/ box. The carriage was tossed about
! from side to side With snort and
/ lathered TANKS the mad creatures ran
on. Inside Of the vehicle was seen
the pale face of woman. whose arms
clasped to her bosom a little child
You might as well have tried to stop a
thundprbolt as to stop that runaway
Down the street they came faster and
faster. The carriage grazed this post
and that wheel. The people cleared
the track. Suddenly from out Of the
crowd man sprang. He was dressed
in the common clothes of a laborer
With almost superhuman strength he
caught the bits Of the wild animals.
Though they trampled him underfoot
and were beating cut his life, he hung
on until they were halted. The by
ISLANDERS helped the fainting woman
Out of the carriage. Loving hands car
lied the poor bleeding body of the la
borer to the hospital. That night one
Of the finest mansions of all Scotland
was lighted. A party was going on.
The guests and friends We're congrat.
ulating the hostess upon her escape
from almost certain death In the ear
~ hours of morning the neighbOrs
heard the noise of song and mirth and
merriment Not far from that man.
sion. in one of the public wards of the
hospital. hero's life was ebbing way.
1t was the life Of the poor man who
, that afternoon flung himself under the
sharp iron hOOfs AS the nurse was
/ hOistening the dry lips and lifting him
Just a little. and as the gurgle was
/ sounding in the throat, he asked. HAS
she not been to see meg" NO" was
the answer: 'she is at party and
? can't come" "Oh." said the dying
] man. 81 did hope she would think
] enough of me to come just for one mo
t ment" Such will be the Indifference
4 of evil companions after they have
j. wrecked your life. Are yod ready {,
+ sacrifice all that you hold dear for sucl
friends2
One day some gentlemen were talk
@ ing to my uncle, and one said, rs
+ not strange how willing the wcrld i
/. TO kick a man when he IS down?
NO" answered my uncle, Il do no
, think the world kicks a man so muc
!. when he is down as when he is tryin
~ to stand up" my son, if sinners Ell
!. tice thee, consent thou not"
e King soIOmOn's Warning.
e King Solomon warns the young pc,
If pie not to consent to sin because afte
y we have once yielded we will never l
u the same again. 1t would be pleGsaI
if we could go on SHINING and then af
ID er awhile say, Il guess | will stop an
re start over again." But we cannot sd
Or or do that Whatsoever a man soviet
to that shall he also reap. If man mai
- bed of roses. he sleeps in a cloud
es / incense. If he gather only the thorn
I'd he must be lacerated by the thorn
ut | After you have once robbed the fir
he will never fully trust you. After yC
n have once wrecked your health VI
ct can never be anything but sufferil
H. invalid. After you have once led
ch immortal soul astray and that soul h
,e- departed from earth to meet its jud
RS ment at the bar of God you can new
It change its eternal destiny Many
nv man today would willingly cut off |
re right arm if he could only change t
ID. past He cannot. The past is forev
of dead unless that past can be chang
IDS in heavenly sense through the mer
ne and the pardon of God. Make not t
nd mistake which so many older m
have made of having a bad record d
a ing the period of youth and then III
lis ing that record curse all the midno
ted and the twilight of your existence a
I've curse you down to the grave.
he During the persecution of the Hug
hat | nOts in France father and mother Il
md to flee from the city for their liv
md They had to leave behind an only z
on Fearing lest he Should not recogn
nd his child again, the father took Il sh,
vas knife and cut the arm Of the oh
apt. almost to the bone. Time passed
ap- The war was ended. and the father d
hou mother returned to the French CAPT
the They went everywhere looking
hou their long lost daughter When
Its. father thought he saw mis- child.
md would examine the arm just above
, or wrist. At last he found his child
up found her by the proof of red 81
h a So Satan puts the fatal mark of
ike! upon every one of his disciples. Thou
am we may repent of our past. though
to may agOniZe before the mercy S
say and ask God to forgive us our S
of though we may receive a heavenly I
life! don, we cannot in an earthly sense
literate the telltale signs Of the p
olks We cannot destroy the earthly eff,
ions of youths follies any more THAI
ight Lady Macbeth could cleanse the bl
man off her fingers by plunging them
with an ocean Of tears, or a Jean Vatican
very cane JaYert. the merciless sleuthhol