Evening journal., 1916-01-31

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your personal influence and example. !
to promote the cause Of Christ?
Every individual is going to reapl
exactly as he sows. You cannot SOW
the seeds Of vice and sin without
reaping an eternal harvest Of woe. Inl
a city where we had a campaign some
time ago, there had lived very tai
ented physician, whose practice had
extended over many counties. He
started to drink, and went farther
and farther down the hill When we
were in that city he was an occu-
pant OF the county poor-house about
two miles out Of town. and he walked
in every morning to clean out the
cuspidors in the saloons to get enough
money to pay for his morning drinks.
The devil is a poor paymaster. The
saddest part Of this tragedy OF SOW
ing the life OF sin is that the harvest
is reaped not only in the life of the
individual himself, but also in the
lives Of the generations yet unborn.
In William Dugdale's book on Grim
inals and criminology he tells the
story of the Jukes family. Jukes
was a drunkard in northern New
York about a century ago. He lived
with vicious woman, and as a result
Of that union during the past one
hundred years they have traced out
the career of seven hundred and
nine descendants. OF these seventy
six were professed criminals. One
hundred and eighty we're paupers on
public charge. More than half Of the
women we're prostitutes. That one
family cost the state OF New York
in the prosecution OF crime, one mil
lion two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. Crime and sin are the most
expensive luxuries in our civilization
Contrast that family with that Of
Jonathan Edwards, that man OF God,
who lived at about the same time. In
his line Of descendants there have
been two hundred and ninety-fve
college graduates. thirteen college
presidents. sixty-ive professors, sixty
doctors. one hundred preachers and
missionaries, one hundred lawyers,
thirty judges. sixty literary authors
seventy officers in the army and
navy. and three United States Sena-
, tors.
DR.. John Hall used to tell Of an in
2 cident in the life OF James Sterling
the converted drunkard and temper
p ance advocate of England. He said
that one evening he went to hear Mr..
Sterling speak in a great hall in
1 London. In the midst Of his address
, a messenger boy came TO the plat
Y form and handed Mr.. Sterling a mes
3 sage. II read something like this
Come and get your son. He is down
in a certain tavern drunk" Mr.
. Sterling turned to DR.. Hall and said
S "You take care OF this meeting unit
e return" and he went out to find
e his son. Some OF the ruffins of thai
I city, thinking TO play a practical JOKE
= upon Mr.. Sterling. had tempted thu
r boy into that haunt and had piled
e him with liquor. Mr.. Sterling tool
!. his son up to the hotel and prayed
s with him and put him to bed. HI
r came back to the lecture hall an,
n started TO 90 on with his address
t but he broke down and sobbed lik
a child. The next morning the hote
r proprietor stopped at Mr.. Sterling
door saying. Get up. we canno
Il awaken your SON" They broke dow
g his door and they found him lyinl
e dead with a bullet hole through hi
y brain. He had left a note saying
II Dear father. after you left me to
p night the old appetite came back.
S have disgraced you long enough. !
q is better this way. Goodbye for
II ever"
Said DR.. Hall, II saw James Ster
= ling throw himself PROSTATE over tn
body of his son. sobbing out his soul
y He cried. oh. God, you pardoned m
=" sins, but if in my youth l had live'
the kind Of a life I ought TO hav'
lived. this son of mine in place o
. being a self-murderer. might hav
;; been living. an honor to himself, t
his family and to God. I am to blame
- have reaped as I have sowed!"
n Young man, you may think it
~ small trivial affair to go ith an
y saturate your life with physical an
" moral poison. II you are going {
live that kind of life. why don't yo
- seek wife like yourself, Just as
e vicious and as vile as you yoursel
III are? Why do you have the impudenc
and brazenness to go into the HON
- Of a good citizen and ask for th'
II hand of that pure daughter in MAJ
riage?
=, In a city in another state wher
:, we had a campaign. they told me c
- one OF the wealthiest men in the
- town. who had rented his building
:, for saloons and houses of i'll FAM
~ =, because he got a bigger rent. Hi
,s own son in one OF those places be
:. came intoxicated and infected wit
disease which went to his brain. 4
l the time we were in that city ths
-, fellow with an old sack over hi
~ back, went up and down the railroad
!, picking up pieces of coal. He ha
=, become a driveling idiot. That mi
or lionaire father was paying big pri'
!, for his ill-gotten gains. He wa
- reaping as he sowed.
na There are others who would M
nj think for moment OF living an ey
al life. who are honest and upright
Il, their dealings with their fellowme
yn but they regard il matter of sma
Importance their coming out defnit
rs " into a Christian life and receivir
ho Jesus as their personal Saviour. B
on cause they never have opposed reli
~ ion. they feel that nothing more oug
- TO be expected. Supposing the on
- homes a farmer has of a harvest
- that he has not sown weed seeds. I
~ cows aT know I am going to get a b