Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1906-01-06

remember those years of panic and
hard times? Would you like to live
those years over again? Your bust
with nervous prostitution. He died in
an insane asylum. Your own brain
was almost craZed Your hair Is white
today from those trials. Would you
like to live them over again! How
10 you know you would come through
them next time as successfully as you
have done! You know that 1t seemed
mere chance that your fathers old
friend came to your rescue at that
time or that oil was discovered upon
your farm land. which land you could
never give away before and which
land YOU We're almost tempted to let
go to liuuidate the taxes. Would you
like To be caught again in that rail
road accident? Perhaps you were on
train that was wrecked in which
many passengers were crushed or mu-
tilated. You do not know how 1t hap
pened. You were sitting in the car
reading. Suddenly the engine gave a
shrek; the brakes We're damned hard
down. Then you awoke in dazed
condition. You heard groanings and
prayers being uttered all about you.
You escaped, like job, by the skin of
your teeth. The man who sat within
three feet of you was dead or, what
Is worse, physically mangled for life.
II YOU had TO 20 through that accident
again. would you be physically well
and whole as you are today! oh. no!
Most of us do not wish to run again
the risks we ran during our past lives.
Financial risks, domestic risks, phys
zeal risks. They nearly destroyed us.
We could not be sure that we should
have the same chances for success
over again If we had to meet the
same dangers. Most OF our friends
who have been destroyed were wreck
cd by II chance trivial us hair. Most
Of us. IL not all of us, on the other
hand. have been saved by that turning
of Il hair Almost We're we destroyed,
but almost was not quite enough to
annihilatc us.
We fear 10 meet our past financial
and physical and domestic dangers
again We should also tremble when
we look back upon our past spiritual
temptations. 1t is absurd for some of
us To say II we had our lives to live
over again we would do any different
spiritually from what We did in days
that are gone. In all probability we
would do just the same as we did in
the past If not worse. Why? Because
today, with all our experiences and
shortcomings, we are going ahead sin
ming all the time. Edward Young,
the author of the famous might
Thoughts" well expresses the idea
when he wrote
AT thirty man suspects himself fool:
Knows it al forty; then resolves
And re-resolVes and dies the same.
Does knowledge about the dietary
and gastronomic laws make the physi-
elan careful about what he eats and
how he catSi oh, no Doctors can
prescribe all right for their patients.
But they are proverbial icun0clasts AT
all the ShrineS of health when they APP
ply those laws 10 their own tables.
Their doctrine is. "DO not eat as | do,
but cut as | say" Let Il convention OF
physicians assemble, and they will
have the most intellectual papers read
before them upon the proper treatment
OF dyspepsia Then they adjourn and
10 TO the table and eat twice as much
a. they ought 10 eat and eat that un-
mastculcd food in half the time they
ought 10 eat it, Then they will return
to their homes ANA have their meals
nj irregular hours The physician
would never let his dyspcptic patients
eat aS he does. He knows what he
ought TO do, but ne does it not Now,
il we had TO live our lives over again
in all probability we would do in refer
ence 10 temptation just as the average
physician does in reference to his well
known 2astronomic laws We would
fan before temptation rs he yields to
the temptation of the palate And for
one would be- very much surprised if
we would turn out again spiritually as
Well as we have done.
Fruits of Experience.
force myself 10 this belief for sec
ond reason We had but little expert
encc iii the past But We did have
some experience and knowledge Of sin.
We did not fall into sin as Il trap Is
sprung upon the unwary bird. We
walked straight over tire precipce OF
Sim Wltl our eyes wide open For
mauy wears YOU were addicted to
drn6 You have been in the past a
duuhard Nou arc reformed one
uov You know am tire miseres and
horror ol druukard's lie But tell
MEGA your first glass bid YOU not
aate u-t as much horror Of liquor
nu 9H aa now nid you NOT lie
uuer Halt long feeling that fiery
..u#r NHuc it- WAY down your
M our he4rt after your
let did chat experience
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