Year: 1878

the world has pounded him. mean genuine boys
boys that can't sit still three minutes at times boys
that wrestlc. and and swini and y kites, and
defend sickly pla. .nlates from imposition, and
leap fences, and get hungry hair hour after they
have keep everything stirred up
and vely-Sfatthew Arnold's boys. There they were
in the Newsboys' Lodging House. They knew me
and knew thcm-that is, We met each other with an
instinct of friendliness.


The work of emigration to the West goes per-
petualy. There is absolutely chance for reforma-
ton in the dens of New York What must be the
sensation when lad from Water street wakes up
AN Iowa prairie with hundred miles OF room each
side OF himy We down stairs saving ..The sins
OF New York not more wonderful than its char
ity" Making our way into New Bowery We
found the Howard Mission, famous earth and in
heaven for what the best bankers and merchants and
Christian philanthropists have through it done for
tho rescue of boys and girls ON the edge OF eternal
calamity.


Turning homeward from my carriage window
tragedy on the corner OF broadway and Houston
street. A young man had halted as though in doubt
to which way he had better go. Splendid young
man! Cultured young mani Honored young man!
Why does he stand there when many are going up
and down. The fact is that every man has good
angel and bad angel near him. and these two this
moment under the gaslight on broadway trying to
get the supremacy OF this young man. Come with
me says the good angel, II will lovingly escort you
all through life under supernatural protection.
will consecrate your tears when you weep, the sweat
OF your brow when you toll and deliver your grave
into the hands OF the bright angel OF a Christian
resurrection In answer to your fathers petition
and your mothers prayer am sent of the Lord from
heaven to be your guardian spirit Come with me-


mo! no." said the bad angel Il have something
better to offer. The wines ! pour from chalices
OF bewitchng carousal. The dance 1 lead is over
floors tesseliated with unrestraincd indulgences
There is no god to frown in the temples OF sin where
l worship. The skies Italian. The paths tread
are through meadows, daisied and primrosed Come
with me-.


hesitation was ruin that the bad angel snote the
good angel till it departed. In the sky door flashed
open and forever the wings vanished. That was the
turning point i'll the young mans life. The good
angel flown, the man longer hesiated but started
downward path bright at the opening, but
blistered and parched at the last The bad angel
leading opened gate after gate and at each gate the
road became roughor and the sky more
in to et the twain MaS pass na' but no
shut with jar that indicated they could
open to let them out. Each portal
passed, there grinding of locks and showing OF
bolts. The scenery each side of the road was fast
changed from garden to desert. The fountains that
Dubblng tears and foanling blood. Ana there
great serpent the right side OF the road And the
man asked the bad angel, What is that serpcnt?
and the answer was, That is the serpent of stinyng
rcmorse.'' There lion the left side OF the
road And the asked "what is that lionY and the
answer WAS THAT is alldcvourng despair" And
yulturc flew over head And the man asked .What is
that vutureY' And the answer was THAT is the
vulturc waiting tor the Of the sain. And
the began to pull of from his body the folds of
something that had wound him round and round
And he asked What is this that twists me
in its awful convolution? And the answer
was This is the worm that never dies" Then the
cried out to the bad angel what does all this
mean? / trusted what you told me on earth that
night at the of Broadway and Houston street.
and why have you served me thus?'' Then the last
deception fell OFF the charmer and it said Il sent
forth from the pit to destroy your soul. watched
my chance for many year. The night you hestated
gained my triumph You here! Ha-ha! Ha-
ha! Let fill high these two chalices of fire. while
we together drink 10 darkness ana woe and death.
Hail. HALL"


Young man. will the good angel in the name Of
Christ the bad angel in the name of sin get the
victory your Their wings this moment in
terlocked in combat for your spirit above the APP
pennies eagle and condor fight mid-sky. Your des-
uny is being decided. God help you! 10 hesitate is
to liic