Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-01-19
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THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.

THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.
Text, Every one that committeth s.r
is the bond servant of sin."-(R. W Jo!l.
viii, a.
Ever visit prison? Gray stone, ire
bars, locks aDd keys; hard faced. ca
footed guards; pallid faced, leaGe:
heeled prisoners; silence, labor. ever
and always a deadening sense of r.
straint. The dungeon. the "chamber
Of horrors" the lock step, the striped
suits, the shaved heads, the averted
faces, the ever present consumptiv,
cough, were just the surface thing
your eye and ear caught. You mui
INJURED, THE way Of the transgressor is
hard" But those things told nothin-
of the real horrors Of that house G.
bOndage-tears. remorse. bitterness, dc
spair. Prison walls tell no tales. IL.
spections and Investigations mean eX-
ternal things only. The life and sou
grow smaller and smaller. The prison
cemetery; the cells grave. A tritle
is remembered for weeks. The coming
of new man, time up for another,
death by tuberculosis, another by sui
eide. execution day with its suppressed
excitement, are red lette days in tn
calendar of stone. When the "bit" is
served and once more the thin haired,
low voiced. paste faced. furtive eyed
creature goes forth he will be a marked
man. Police. detective and plain clothes
man will shadow him. He's Jail
bird" he's done time" has "a record"
he will be "pinched" on suspicion, he
will be bounded and harassed until
man handled and driven he is back in
the cell. Say, when you came out from
your visit you took great big breath
OF fresh air and thanked God for free
DOM didn't you? Well you might. One
of the darkest and most pathetic sto-
ries ever writ in hearts blood is that
of our brother in the house of bondage
The Slave Drivers Whip.
But. listen. friend. These hundred
thousand more or less of the caught
and uncaught are only few. We're
all bond servants of sn-veritable
slaves in the devils prison house.
Bondage of bad habits, temper. appe-
tite, lust and greed. We're often
chained to them. Paul said, "WhO
shall deliver me from the body Of
this death:" Know this figure? Man
chained to the dead, rotting, stencil
full body of his victim. Eat, drink,
or sleep, the sickening carcass is
there Whose sins is compelled to
bear its consequence. Notice the drink
slave. See his master drive him out
of bed at o'clock in the morning,
walk the streets in a binding snow
storm, waiting for the corner saloon
to open. The appetite cracks the
whip and he tramples over home and
wife and child to answer his master.
He must obey. He is slave! See
him as an unholy passion leads him
to the gates Of perdition. Hat down
over eyes he skulks through the red
light district The tigers in his
veins. For the woman with the
scarlet kimona he forsakes respect
ability. manhood. honor. He's a
slave. The conductor taps another
on the shoulder. Fare, please" II
paid you when got on" Conductor
glances at the fare register He
knows he didn't. but what's the use
arguing? He laughs when the mer-
chant makes mistake in change or
when he holds the hard pushed seller
to an evident slip of tongue or pen.
He's sly. deceitful tricky, supremely
selfish. Greeds got him! His
hearts freezing His souls dead. But
all sins servitude. No jailer's so cruel
and merciless Sin is fire in the blood.
Scorpions sting in every nerve cell
and fiber.
Christ the Deiverer.
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