Milford chronicle., 1908-03-06
Friends Who Are wronq.

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! their beauty.
? Friends Who Are Wrong.
: l know it is hard to turn our back
upon some friends when we know they
are doing wrong. / know that some Of
those friends WELD a powerful infu
enee over our lives. There is a breezi
ness, freshness. an originality about
some of them that holds us to them like
a magnet. We know, Furthermore. that
some of those wicked friends love us
with a devoted love, but if we do not
break away from them in time their
sins will corrupt us. There is an old
proyerb which says, "If man breaches
what he does not believe after awhile
he believes what he breaches" That is
true but another fact is also true. If
/ you make a bosom friend out of one
who is living contrary to all that you
believe to be right, after awhile you
will begin to sin as he sins and do as
he does. You cannot systematically as
sociate with an evil minded person and
not in time become evil minded YOUR
self. And the more fascinating the
friend the quicker your own spiritual
ruin
What right have you to go with a
man or a woman who will tell an i'm
moral story? And / would, warn my
hearers of both sexes on this subject.
FOR there are certain women who are
just as shameless In listening to such
stories as are some men. What right
have you to go with men who are loose
In their morals or with those whomalze
light Of the purity Of the home? What
right have you to make bosom COM
paniOns out of those who do not honor
the house of God and all that the house /
of God stands for? what right have
you to yoke yourself in business part I
nership with man whom you have to I
watch every moment for fear he viii /
bring a scandal and a disgrace on the
name of the firm? Did your Christian
father and mother ever go with such
associates as you select for your daily
companions? Would you be willing to
nave your companions make the coarse
'emarks before your Wife or children
which they often laughingly make be-
ore you? Either you must lift your
laily companions up to your moral and
piritual level or else they will drag
'ou down TO theirs, and there is no ex-
option to the rule. Have you a right
o associate with sinners and expect
o escape becoming in time companion
With them in their sins?
The Bands of Authority.
But there was another reason why
amuel chung to the royal apostate.
aul was king. He had been anoint-
d by the order of the Lord God Al ,
lightly. He had been selected from =,
Il the tribes to rule over Israel. There f
as a certain sanctity about him. OF +
purse he had proved false to his :
'ust, but still Saul was king. As king .
le people had been taught to do him f
sverence. The hardest bands to n
reak are the bands of regal authority. q
'e are ready to send the common thief =
the penitentiary, but we hate to i'm. f
each the honesty of those who have #
zen placed over us in properly con- Al
ituted authority. And vet when the =
ng does wrong should he not sufferf -
hen the president of the United =
ates or a legislator or governor or 4,
mayor does wrong, should he not also a,
fer? And when wickedness and cor 4,
ptiOn fasten themselves upon our =,
litical life should we not by the n
ace Of God cast off those sins and =.
50 cast off those politicians who are
sponsible for the moral obliquity? -,
had this truth most wonderfully -
rtrayed before me some time ago -,
len l heard Samuel P. Pearson adj -
essing a great popular meeting in =.
icago. Mr.. Pearson had been elect -
a few months before sheriff of Port ~
I'd, Me. Although Maine was a "dry" ~.
tie, there were many speak easies" n
ing run on the sly. The people Of ",
ines capital said those places could s
be shut up, but Mr.. Pearson said, ~
lect me your sheriff and in six NJ M
eks there will not be a speak easy D,
all the county," The people took a. ~.
q at his word. He shut up those ~
ak easies so quickly that the sa- u,
D keepers did not have time to ship y
II beer and whisky out of town, but u
to empty the barrels In the gutter -, "a
let their poisonous liquors run IN IN
~ into the sewers. where they be. ue
yed. Well Of course Parsons name
heralded from the Atlantic to the T
ific and praised by all good people for
was invited to address a ministers fail
IS meeting IN Chicago and there he in
us how he became a Prohibition. hin
and why he was sol bitter against hes
other two political parties. we
Sheriff PearsOn's STORY. sar
his was his story. asI remember IT. thy
en- Pearson was young man, there the
an electinn poirlr on n portland has