The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-07
A PICTURE OF THE DEVIL.
Drawn by Rev. DR.. schaener I'm Leo
ture Before Y. VI. c. A.

ture before \. VI. 4. A.
Rev. DR.. w. c. Schaeffer of the
Lutheran Church Of the Ascension, for
the special benefit of the Y NJ. C. A.
repeated last night an interesting il
lustrated lecture that he delivered at
the anniversary of the Sunday-school
a week ago.
The lecture was founded on an allie
gorical picture representing a young
man hesitating in the choice of TWO
roads, the one, the broad way, SEEM
ingly smooth and even and by the way
side of which can be seen attractive
looking fruit and pleasant fountains,
but at the end of which death awaits
the traveller; the other rough and rug
ged at the beginning and blocked by
many boulders, opposition, competition,
hard work. dfscoura cement and the
ike but which grows clearer and
broader in the ascent and leads finally
to the Temple of Success.
Inc young man in the picture, -
Or. Schaeffer said, has come to the
parting Of the ways and must make
a choice as TO which he win follow 1t
Is cnolce that must be made sooner
or later by every one. boy and girl
Many are choosing every day; life is
made up OF the result of these selec-
tons"
DEPRESSING from his subject for a
moment the speaker said the young
men now have the right of way, OPP
portunities never before accorded
them; that the world takes an inter-
est in their welfare, and that many
helpful forces are at work to care for
them. Among the helpful forces he
said was the Y p. c. A. which, he
said, in many towns business men are
spending thousands of dollars to keep
up because of its value to young men.
Il understand" he continued, chat
a new building for the Y. NJ. C. A.,
with all modern improveme nts, is to
be built in this city and that many
VIII give as much as $4,000 apiece to
help build it. With all these advan-
ages accorded him the young nan
who fails in doing so assumes a ire
mendous responsibility"
Again referring to the picture and
discussing the obstacles that
must be overcome to reach success, the
speaker said that they could be over
come with perseverance, and with hard
work, backed by enthusiasm. AS ex-
amples of what these qualities will ac-
complish, he cited the case OF Whitfield
to whom, he said, Bethesda Orphan
Home is monument, and Charles
Schwab, the head of one of the great
est businesses in the country
In drawing the picture of the folly of
following the broad way, DR.. Schaeffer
drew vivid likeness of the devil ac-
cording to his conception of him. He
is usually thought of as with a cloven
hoof; my conception of him is with a
manner polished to perfection, hair in
graceful ringlets; eyes a little blood
shot, perhaps, but beautifully languid;
conversation faeile, Frenchy, maybe;
and lips perfumed as with myrrh and
balsam, but with a heart filled with
pride and deafness and recltlessness
and death.
II wish that l had the power of dis
solving the enchantment so that I
might show him as he is-his eyes the
baleful orbs of the adder: with the
clammy hands of the corpse, and lips
to which rise the nauseous foam of
intoxication; while out of his heart
rises the cracking fury of an all-de-
vouring fame. There is such a devil
in the broad way and there is such
a devil in Savannah"
AS instances of the DEVILS work the
speaker asked his hearers to recall how
many young men had become fallen
and disgraced in Savannah within the
last few years. The DEVILS recruits, he
said, are found in the broad way; he
doesn't get them from the narrow
path and from the Sunday school. and
yet there are young men who think
they are too large to come to Sunday
school and to church. Instead, they
stand outside and ogle the young wo-
men who do.
For every rineteen out of twenty
young men who go astray their fathers
are directly responsible, he said, and
the blood of their children is on their
head. The musical part of the, service
was exceptionally good and was so ar
ranged as to fit in with the subject of
the lecture and emphasize it's chief
pointS