The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-11-17

this afternoon. and you'll have 10
excuse me and come another day.
But some DAY my lady's little girl
comes in from It's play, and lis mead
aches, and the fever brings II low,
and maybe it wings its way on Of
the home. and away from its mother 5
arms. and then how good it Is for
the preacher 10 come and speak a
few words of consolation. Strange
that We never think of the preacher
till we reach the valley OF the shad-
ow of death. There are lot OF peo-
pie that have no use for the preacher
excepting when somebody wants 10
get married, or some one has a fn-
neral on his hands The time 10 send
for the preacher is when We are liv-
ing. 1t is serious 10 die. but it is
far more serious to live. and If a
man lives right. there's no question
but he'll die right"
In closing his sermon. Mr.. Gilman
said:
II this sermon is anything at all.
it is a missionary sermon. would
remind you of the fact that all over
of sheep that have no shepherd
far off lands live millions of human
beings without any preachers, mill
lions who have never heard the Cos
pei. In our country there are innu-
merable hosts that never darken the
church doorsEthere are many
churches without any pastors. many
Sunday schools without any super
intendents, many Sunday school
classes without any teachers. What
are the unehurched masses doing2
Why, they are doing just what any
flock will do when it hasn't any shep-
herd They are running around
loose Just as the sheep Will stray
into forbidden fields. up 10 the top
of the barren range and into the pit
falls that abound. so great hosts are
wandering off into ruin-into the
pitfalls that exist for man. One of
these pitfalls is the saloon. How
many lives are irretrieyably ruined
and become lost because of the sa
loon. One of the reasons for the ex-
istence of sheep is that they may be
fieeced. and YOU may be sure that
in the saloon the sheep are beauti-
fully fieeced. Ny. how they are
shorn. When the booze dealer and
The gambler and the tyro gets
through with him. he hasn't got wool
enough left TO cover his body. |
passed a man the other night as /
was entering a camp in the darkness.
He had been 10 the saloon. and they
had fieeced him 10 a finish. He lay
-. vii
dust. | stopped down. and spoke TO
him. and tried 10 raise him mp. but
he lay like a log. He wouldn't
bulge. and he just had sense enough
left TO hold his hat tightly down over
his face, so that no one could dis
tinguish who he was by the dim light
that fickered across from the camp.
Truly. he was a lost sheep-just like
the one the good shepherd went out
TO find another dark night, long ago.
| was talking with a young lady the
other day. and she told me that her
mother owned the lands on which
a mining camp is situated. in ARR
IONA. and she doesn't allow a saloon
to exist there. said by informant, en-
] wish il was true Of ev-
cry BilulHE camp W Ouiu thdi Ahb
camps would get into line on
the temperance question. All over
this country the temperance senti-
ment is rolling like a mighty tidal
wave. Every county in the state of
Ohio excepting one has passed local
option. Oklahoma joins the union
with a prohibitoTy plank in its plat
form. State after state is swinging
into the column. Nevada must not
lag behind"
While Mr.. Gilman believed that
the saloon ought not 10 exist. he
thought it was useless To wage war
against it, unless something could be
given to take its place Men go to
the saloon" he said, because IL is
If We would have men
their visits to the saloon,
we must offer something equally as
He believed that If the
of mining camps would en-
courage attractive places where peo-
pie could gather in a wholesome So
cial way. instead of lending their
support to the saloon. it would be
something far worth while.