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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-3-8, Page 31 SPaal iALVJO EVIL OFBD Rey. Dr. Talmage Speaks on the Choice of Friends. EARNEST AND KINDLY WARNING, •'Mama Who Voluatarity Amisociate Wit• h thi Id h udInt:it/US Will Sn1.13' Morals and i•grtcy-The Tempta. Lions ni 6reat 1itk4 Depiet,d, Washington, March 4. — In this •dlscourse Dr. Talmage speaks on a theme which all men, young and old, will be glad to see discussed, and the eStindly warning will no doubt in imany eases be taken.; text, Proverbs NW, 20, "A companion of fools shall be destroyed.'' "'Ma' it please the court," said a vonvicte,d criminal whee asked by the • ludo what he had to say why Sea- eesesee. combed on toepi 110 W. Death wlll CO4le up, and this ebteptic will say GO him; tti ettenot die. 1 cannot die." Death will say: "You muse die. You have but ton geeonde.more to live our ioul—give it to me right away. . our "Oh, lno" say n the ..skeptic., "Do not breathe that 'eoid vr into. Iner face. You crowd 41,0 too hard. It is get- Ung dark in the Nem. - Here-44hp my rings and :take all the pictures in the recen, but lee erna says Death,: our soul! Your soul Then the dying 'skeptic be- gins to Say, tiOdt" , Death -says, " Y on .declared ettere was no God." Then. the dying seeptic says, "Pray, for -eue;" and Death says: -It is' .too late to pray; you have only:thtTe' pee - ends more to live, and I will count. then n off—one, two, three: Gone 11' Where? Where? Carry hi* out .and lay him down beside' his eldfather and mother, who died under the de- lusions of the Christian religion sing- ing the. songs of victory. Again, avoid the Wiens that is, those people who gather around the store or the shop .or the factory. and try to eeduza you away fronayour re- gular calling and in .your business. hours try to sedate.. You. away. There Is nothing that wouldplease them so well as to have you give up your employment and eonsort with them. . These idlers you will find standing around the engine 'houses or standing, at noonday or about noon o11 the steps of 'some hotel or fashionable re- set -tercet -it, giving the idea they have dined there. They have not dined there. They never dined there, 'Be- fore you invite a young than into your association ask him plainly, -Whet do yea do for a living?'' he says; "Nothing; L ani ia gentle - Man," look out for him_ I care not howsoft his hand or how elegant his apparel or how high sounding, his family name, his touch is death. idleness is the next door to vil- lainy. When the police go to find criminals, Where do they go to find them? They find them among the idle—those who have nothing to do, or, having eoracithing to do, refuse to engage in their daily work. Sairie one came to good old Ashbel Green and asked. him Why he worked at SO years of age when it was time for him to rest. -Oh," he replied, work to keep ,out of mischief." And no man, can afford to he .idle. I care 1101 ho W strong his moral character, he cannot afford to be idle. But • you say: "A great many peo- ple are suffering from enforced idle- ness. During the hard times there were a great maray people out of em- ployment." I know it, but the time of dullness in Misiness are the times when men ought to be thoroughly en- gaged in improving their minds and enlarging their hearts. The fortunes to be made 20 years from now will be made by the young men who in the times when business was dull cul- tivated their minds and improved their hearts. They will get the for- tunes after awhile, while those men who hang around their stores, never engagingin any useful occupation, will be as poor then as they are IOW. It is absurd for a Christian man to say he has nothing to do. I event into a, store in New York where, there were five Christian men, and they said they had nothing to do. The whole world 'lying in sin. Poverty to be comforted, sickness to be alleviated, a Bible in the back ofe ' tenet) of death should not be pronoun- ced upon' Lila, -may it, please the court, bad company has been my des- truction. I received the blessing el •good parents and in return therefor promised to avoid all evil associates. Had 1 Rept my promise I should have avoided this shame aud the burden of guilt Wh 1011, 1 i1e a vulture, threatens to drag me to justice for my many crimes.. Although 1 once moved in high circles stud was eaterte,thed by distinguished men, 1 ain lost. Bed icompany did the work for me." Only one out of a thotteand illustrations was that of the fact, that "a cono pardon of fools shall be destroyed." It is an invariable rule. Hero is a hospital with a hundred men down with the ship fever. Here ele a healthy man wilt) goes into it. lle does not so certainly catch the dis- ease as a good man will catch moral distemper if he eonsents to be shut, up with the -vicious and the aban- doned. In the prisons of the olden time it -was the custom to put the prisoners in a, cell together, and 1 am sorry to say it is the custom etill in souse of one prisons; so that when the day of liberation coulee, the men, instead of being reformed, are turned out, brutes, not men, each one having learfuel the vices of all the rest. We may in our WOl1d1y o c cite i on be ohlie;ed to talk to and commingle with bad people, but lie Who .volun- teeny chooses that kind Of associa- tion is carry ing on a co lir ip with a Delilah tvhich tvill shear the locks of his strength, and he will be trip- ped into perdition. Look over all elle millions of the race, and you can- not show me a single instance where a, mien voluntarily aesociated with the bad for one year and maintained his integrity. Sin is catching; it is infectious; it is epidemic. A young mati wakes up in one of our great cities knowing only the gentlemen of the firm into whose ser- vice he has entered. In the morning he enters the store, and all the clerks mark him, measures him, dis- cuss' him. The bad clerks of that establishment, the good clerks of that establishment, stand in some re- lation to him. The good clerks will wish him well, but they will wait for a formal in trod uction., and even after they have had the introduction tioduction they are very cautious as ' to whether they shall call him into their association before they know 'him very well. but the bad young men in 1 hat establishment all gather around him. They patronize him, they offer to show him everything that there is in the city on one condition—that he will pay the expenses, for it always happens so when a good young man. . and a bad young man go together to -a place of evil entertainment — the , good young man always has to pay • the charges. just at the time the • ticket is to be paid for or the cham- pagne bill, is to be settled the bad young man will affect einbarrassment and feel around in his pockets and say, "Well,. well, really I have for- g,otten my pocket -book.", In 48 hours after this innocent young man has entered the store the baci young men will gather around hi in, slap him on the shoulders With familiarity, and, .if he is stupid in not being able to take certain allus- ions, will say, "Ah, my young friend, you will have to be broken in." And forthwith they go to work to "break him in." ' Oh, young man, let no fallen young man slap you on the shoulder' fam- iliarly!. Turn around and giye a withering glance that evill make the wretch cower in ;vole- presence. There Is 110 monstrosi ty of wicicedness that ,oan stand tIefore the. glance of pur- ity fi,nd honor., Ond keeps the light- nings Of heaven ill his own scab- bard, end no hernan hand can reach th e m , but God gi IS to every young man a lightning ti hich 'he may uee, and that is tho. lightlitng of an hon- est eye. A lesib o cly that d ers Lands the temptations of our great cities 'knows the use of one .sernion like this, in which I try to enforce the th ough t. that "a companion of fools -shall be destroyed:** Ain!, first, .0 elenige you, avoid the ,skeptic ---that is, the young man who puts his 1,huinli in his vest and swaggers ahoet; echillng at your old- fashioned geliei on, then taking- out • the Bible and eureing over to sham mysterions 1)0111111 '1) aria saying: "Ex- , plain that, in,v , friend, explain that, used .to think- j1.151 ELS you do. My father atel mother used to think just as you do. 1101, you can't 50.411e xne about teM fittere., I used to believe In thos things. hot Deei got over Yes,' he has got over it, and ,you Wil 1 get over it if you stely in his -companionship. much longee. .For ,ftwhile he may not bring one argil - Meat, agotese our holy Christianity. lie Will, by seen and jeers and car - ice terc9. destroy your faith in that ' -religion which WaS the, eotrifort ,ol your father in his declining yeaiis and the' pillow bri which your old mother • lay' asclyIng. That brilliant young ekeptie after- awhile have to die, and his Mee • Then you will be ono of them. oh, my' friende, befoee you go with these pleasure seekers, these men whoee entire life is fun and amusement and recreation, remember while after a man has lived a life of integrity and Christia,n consecration, kind to the poor and elevating to the world's condition, when he comes to die, he has a glorious reminiscence lying on his death pillow, the mere pleasurist has nothing by way of review but a torn playbill, a ticket for the race, an empty tankard or the cast out rinds of a carousal. And as in delir- ium of his awful death he clutches the goblet and presses it to his lips, the dregs falling on his tongue will begin to uncoil and hiss with the ad- ders of an eternal poison. Again, beware of Sabbath breakers. Tell nie how a young ma,n spends his Sabbath, and I will tell you what are his prospects in business, and I will tell you what are his prospects for the eternal world. God has thrust into our busy life a sacred day when •we are to look after our souls. Is it exorbitant after giving six days to the feeding and the cloth- ing of. these perishable bodies that God should demand one day for the feeding and the clothing of the im- mortal soul? Our bodies are seven day clocks, and they need to be wound up, and if they are not wound up they run down into the grave. No man can continuously break the Sabbath and keep his physical and mental health. Ask those aged men, and they will tell you they never knew men who continuously broke the Sabbath who did not fail either In mind, body or moral principle. Oh, rny friends, keep the Lord's day. You may think it old fogy ad- vice, but I give it to you now: "Re- member the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in It thou shalt not do any work." A man said that be would prove that all this was a fallacy, and so he said, "I shall raise a Sunday crop." And he plowed the field on the Sabbath, and then he put in the seed on the Sabbath and - cultivated the ground ,on the Sabbath. -When the harvest was ripe, he reaped it on the Sab- bath, and he carried it into the mow on the Sabbath, and then he stood out defiant to his Christain neighbors and seed, "There, that is my Sunday crop, and it is all garnered" After awhile a storm come up and a great darkness, and the lightnings of heaven struck the barn, and away went his Sunday crop. Beware, young man, of all Sabbath breakers. Again, I charge you, beware of as- sociation with the dissipated. Go with them and you will in time adopt their habits, Who is that man fallen ago i nst the curbstone, covered with bruises a,nd beastliness? He was as bright faced a lad as ever looked up from your nursery. His mother rocked • him, prayed for him, fondled him, would not let the night air touch his cheek and held him up and looked down into his loving eyes and wondered for what hige position lie was being fitted.. He entered life With bright hopes. The world beck- oned hen, friends cheered him, but the archers shot a,t him; vile men set traps for him, bad habits hooked fast.to hitie with their iron grapples; his feet slipped en the way, and there he lies. Who 'would think- that that mic,omlied hair WaS once toyed with by a father's fingers? Who ' would think that those bloated cheeks Were ever kissed by a mother's lips'? Would you guess that that thick tongue once, made a household glad With its inno- cent pre I, tle.? U t ter 110 hareh words in his ear. Help him up. Put the hat over that oitee manly brow. Brush the duet from thee met that once, covered to generous heart, Show him the way to the home thet once rejoieed al, the sound of hisfootstep, *id with gentle words tell his chils fine, every opportunity of mental cul- ture, spiritual culture; every induce- ment to work, yet a Christian man, sworn before high heaven to conse- crate his whole life to usefulness, has nothing to do! If you have not any business for this world my Christian friend, then you ought to be doing business for eternity. People go to Florence and to Ven- ice and to Rome to see one of the works of the great masters. I think I can show you the picture of one of the great masters. 1 went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of under- standing, and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall: thereof was broken down. Then I saw and considered it well. I looked 'upon it and received instruc- tion. Net a little sleep, a lttle slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travoieth and thy want as an arniecl inane' There le no niore explosive passage in all the Bi- ble than that. It first begins to hiss like the fuse of a cannon and then lsursts like a 54 pounder. The old proverb was true. ''The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil!" • `,.I'llerefore seek some- thieg to' do. If no orldly business offers, then, in the name of the Lord Jestits Christ, go out on Christian toil, and the Lord will bless you, and the Lord will help you. Again I counsel you, avoid the pleasiire seeker, the man etthose en- tire business it is to seek for recrea- tion and amusement. I believe 10 the amusements of the world so far as they are innocient. I cOuld not live without 1110141. Any tnan of sanguine temperament. must hilve re- creation or die. And yet the amuse - num ts and recreations of life must achninister to hard svm•k. They are only • preparative for the occupation to evhich God has (tailed us. God would 114)1, hitve given us the capacity to lageloiflic <lid not sonic - times intend us to indulge it. ,God bath hong in sky and set in 'wave and printed on grilse many a, 1-011311(10- 1113. But all the music .atid the brightness of the natural tvorld,\vere entirely intended to fit us for the ear- nest WOr IC, of life. The thundercloud hes edges exquisitely. purpled, but it jars the mountain ns it says, coolie down to water the fields." The flotvers standing eihter the fenceloole gti,y and beitutifel, hut they say, "We stand here to refresh the husbanchnen at the nooning." The, brook.- frolies and speritles and 1001110, bat it says: "I go to baptize the moss; I go to shake, the thiest of the bird; I turn the wheel of the 111111; in Illy crystal cradle I reek unicicshaw ttncl water 11/3(1 1 play, lnit 1 -work," Theee mere ple,aeurists will come around you While you are engaged in your work and they will try to Mond Will flash no splendor into • the take you away. They have lost their 0 of death, His hair will lio un- iels.ces, Why not 'you lose your place? ttren to stand back as you le p through the hall. 011, if I had smile art by which could break the charm of the tempter's bowl and with mailed hand lift out the long serpent of eterual (teepees zind shake out its coils and cast it down and crusll it to death, Shake off the Sabbath breaker. Oh, turn your back upon these men. Shake off the sceptic Shake off 01 e idler. Shake off -the pleasurist. You may do this work of ejection in 'po- liteness, but you may do it firmly. You are not under any circumstances to lose all the remembrance of the fact that you are a gentleman and must always act the gentleman. A young man said to a Christian Quak- er, "Olcl chap, how did you get your monee?" "Well," said the Q-uaker, "I got it by dealing in an article in which thou mayest deal if thou wilt—ci- vility." Be courteous, be polite, but be firm. Say "No" as if you meant it. If you say '''No" in a feeble way, they will keep on with their implore; don and their temptation, and after awhile you evill stand in silence, and then you will say, after they have gone on a little longer, "Yes," and then you are lost. Oh, turn your back upon the ban- quet Of sin! I call You to a better feast to -clay. The promises of God are the fruits, The harps of heaven are the music. The clusters of Es- chol are pressed into the tankards. The sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty are the guests, while stand- ing at the banquet to pour the wine and divide the clusters and command the music, awl welcome the guests is a daughter of God, on her brow the blosstans of paradise and in her cheek the flush of celestial summer. And her name is Religion. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are, peace." feces,. reed. Mexico Ines a elever bird called the inelancii•pes, which lias discovered a new use for the telegraph pole. At the foot, of the, ji0St thiS bird makes it large hole, in which it rears its family. Somewhat higher up the post it makes an observatory, for which bored holes permit it to ob- serve the horizon in every direction. Still higher this sagacious bird makes its storehouse, mild thus the pole ser- ves as its house, fortrese and ware- house. When Trees Go to Sleep. Trees and plaids have their regelar times for going to sleep as well as boys and girls. They need the same chance to rest from the week of growing and to re- pair and' oil the machinery of life. Soule plants do all their sleeping in the Winter while the ground is frozen and the Beebe are bare of leaves, in trcpical counteies, where the SilaW never falls nod it is always growing weather, the trees repose during the veiny season or during tne periods of drought. They always choose the most UrifaVirit- ble WOrking time for doing their, sleep, ;just as man chooses the night, when he cannot see to work. The t3uneriovi1y taf Man. "Were the pipes fleizeie dear?" asked Mrs. Benefield' when her, husband return- ed from a long executive eeesion in the cellar. "No," replied Mr. Benefield; "the wa- ter in the pipes wns frozen- That WAN all."--sPittsburg Chronicle -Telegraph. THE HAIR. Best Nelms of Keeping It In Good Condition. Comparatively few women realize how much the hair is benefited by being al- lowed to hang hose so that the air may pass through it freely. It should be left floating upon the shoulders a little while every day, and if it is fair sunshine will additionally improve it, but dark hair sometimes is faded by sunlight. It is a very bad plan to wet the hair when dress - tug It daily. It should be thoroughly Why, indeed? "That's a fenny habit the ostrich has of sticking his bill in the sand," remarked the Monkey. "Yes," snickered the laughing hyena. "It he bas and cm -High to cover the bill, why doesn't he pay Ittc-rialladelphia Press. The Lollipops Coasting. Here are the Lollipop children Sliding down Sugarloaf 01111 Fun by the sledfull Dear me, thottele One of (hem's in for a spill! RECEPTION GOWN. washed occasionally and dried quickly by warm air, but should never be sopped with water so that it is dank and clammy and so allowed to remain until the warmth of the head dries it. The comb should be used as little as possible, as It drags and breaks the hair, and a fine comb is always to be avoided. A stiff brush with long bristles will clear the hair as well as a comb without doing it injury, and the friction stimulates the scalp and removes dust. The hair should be left free at night or at tnost loosely braided, and any covering were on the head which induces perspiration tends to cause the hair to fall. The cut shosvs a reception costume of white crepe de chine. Around the foot are three scant circular ruffles. The bod- ice, which is fitted at the back, is draped in front and closed at the side. The yoke of shirred wlaite mouseeline de soie is en- circled by a bertha of white mousseline de soie. The sleeves of elbow leugth are of wrinkled mousseline de soie and are finished with a frill; Bows composed of loops of white satin baby ribbon eve placed at the shoulders. waist and el- bows. The belt is of white satin. alsole efTOLLET. 1. Tnrit nod Ilisilloiber. The strongest sentiment oe the Turk Is his reverence tor his motile!. He nt- tveYs elands' in her presence teen 1111'! Lod 10 Sit down, a 00111p11111011 11 he pays to no else else. A Stage 1Pr13t11. SiCIlit---So that homely elise Witherupp Is not to anneal' le yew' private theatrie- ale after all? elella---No. She was fraid she might stiffer from stage fright. • Stel,!a-lt 'seems' to me the andience would have suffered >nest from Chit cause if she had gone on.-Philatlelphia Press. Apparently the Case. Indulgent elothet-You mustn't be too hartl on Johnny 00 aceouut of his catie- less dressing,. He'll get over it as he grovvs older. It is only a habit he has fallen into. Faetidious Vather (inspecting hlm)- Yes, he looks as lf he had fallen Into the habit he has on now. --Chicago Tribune. Track, track, track. below there! Over the bumper she goes! There! Dkl she get a big tumble Right on her lollipop nose? -Primary Education, How Much? Mira, aged 4, went into a drug store the other day and, stepping up to the proprietor, said in a half whisper, "Sup- pose a little girl hasn't any money, hove much chewing gum would you give hoe for a cent?" THE WEST A Galt Hotel Man Has a Wort; . to Say About Dodd's Kidney Fills. rianeOeh, of the Iroquois, Grateful.. Cured of Pains in the Back of Loag Standing -Says Thanes Are Due to Doti d's Eittue y Galt, Feb. 20..—Mr. H. Hancock, of this lively town, is known by the travelling fraternity all over the coun- try as the joint peoprietor with Mr. Wm. Sadler, of one of the finest dol - las -a -day hotels in the Dominion a Canada, and he is known further as one of the most genial and go-ahead hotel men in the country, his house being the equal in comfort and ap- pointments of the average hotel of double the rates. it -will interest travelling men to know that Mr. Han- cock thoroughly endorses Dodd's Kid- ney Pills. Some time age guests of the Iro- quois raig,ht-; have noticed that Mr. Hancock seemed to be troubled with, backache. Indeed that gentleman, often complained with great vigor about the pain and inconveniencOl it caused him. 'Toll, all that is now of the past. Mr. T-tancock is bap' to =ounce that, Dodd's Kidney Pills have cured him. :it cannot be too often impressed upon the minds of those • suffering witli backache 13114111 111 is the kidneve that are affected. The kidneys are internal, and exdorital treatment can- not do any good, Liniments and oilm can only soft -oil the muscles, they (le not reach the kidneys. Dodd's Kid- ney Pill, have ct-trecl more cases of baelmzhe than any other medicine in the world simply because they ac,t oo t he kidneys. Mr, liancook, of the Iroquois Hotel, - Galt, writes: "I have been troubled for one year with severe' pans across my back. Nothing T. tried would relieve ,the pain until I used two boxes of DodtPe Kidney Pills. r.t.lhe pains have now left me, 13(1 all thanks aro to the credit of Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1 have_ no oWeetions to allowing this state. ment to be published for the benefit, of the many otherd who suffer With\ brieknohe," ' I li d 9 t tS dli u.„, 99 ana a s Gre es ee o c e This picture (printed in beautiful colors) may be seen in the stores of leading merchants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 3939 A GUIDE TO BUYERS WHO WANT A GOOD GARDEN --SC14-,-, . . ,.. __ mr4t,.. ki _ _. , 474, i. s , • , ..., • 4 t: ..4...fIy ,_,,I, Aloft ..„..,.. ...,... • (i___At k ._ 4 A' IIfl1JLTUIIM 4 •',' .r.' ,•,. t .1 - • , , . . c „......, ,,...:.......,.... - .,...:......,;„ ,/ ./ „.,...,...„-.........___-_,.., _ \ '-` AP V . RiliE EST ..........1:. ,, f *00 /3 'Ar ,4- ‘ • - ,t1". R , — t..,...., • , ...,,. ' ,I. • ij , V ,,,,, 2 i r . 1 -- • !„. • 1 t e 4&< 11 • „4,,,,,,, 4 gP. 1...."',-,,,,,.... 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If your merchant cannot supply you with Steele, Briggs Seeds' refnse sub - Where is the economy in buying untried or "bargain" seeds, for a possible stitntes, and send your order direct to them.• small saving in first cost, with the added risks of losing your labor and crop? Catalogue sent free for the asking. Address --- - .., Te ., ,:,.) 1 _ . . , 1 ' 's. , A • TORONTO. _e. Limited5 ONT. Then you will be ono of them. oh, my' friende, befoee you go with these pleasure seekers, these men whoee entire life is fun and amusement and recreation, remember while after a man has lived a life of integrity and Christia,n consecration, kind to the poor and elevating to the world's condition, when he comes to die, he has a glorious reminiscence lying on his death pillow, the mere pleasurist has nothing by way of review but a torn playbill, a ticket for the race, an empty tankard or the cast out rinds of a carousal. And as in delir- ium of his awful death he clutches the goblet and presses it to his lips, the dregs falling on his tongue will begin to uncoil and hiss with the ad- ders of an eternal poison. Again, beware of Sabbath breakers. Tell nie how a young ma,n spends his Sabbath, and I will tell you what are his prospects in business, and I will tell you what are his prospects for the eternal world. God has thrust into our busy life a sacred day when •we are to look after our souls. Is it exorbitant after giving six days to the feeding and the cloth- ing of. these perishable bodies that God should demand one day for the feeding and the clothing of the im- mortal soul? Our bodies are seven day clocks, and they need to be wound up, and if they are not wound up they run down into the grave. No man can continuously break the Sabbath and keep his physical and mental health. Ask those aged men, and they will tell you they never knew men who continuously broke the Sabbath who did not fail either In mind, body or moral principle. Oh, rny friends, keep the Lord's day. You may think it old fogy ad- vice, but I give it to you now: "Re- member the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in It thou shalt not do any work." A man said that be would prove that all this was a fallacy, and so he said, "I shall raise a Sunday crop." And he plowed the field on the Sabbath, and then he put in the seed on the Sabbath and - cultivated the ground ,on the Sabbath. -When the harvest was ripe, he reaped it on the Sab- bath, and he carried it into the mow on the Sabbath, and then he stood out defiant to his Christain neighbors and seed, "There, that is my Sunday crop, and it is all garnered" After awhile a storm come up and a great darkness, and the lightnings of heaven struck the barn, and away went his Sunday crop. Beware, young man, of all Sabbath breakers. Again, I charge you, beware of as- sociation with the dissipated. Go with them and you will in time adopt their habits, Who is that man fallen ago i nst the curbstone, covered with bruises a,nd beastliness? He was as bright faced a lad as ever looked up from your nursery. His mother rocked • him, prayed for him, fondled him, would not let the night air touch his cheek and held him up and looked down into his loving eyes and wondered for what hige position lie was being fitted.. He entered life With bright hopes. The world beck- oned hen, friends cheered him, but the archers shot a,t him; vile men set traps for him, bad habits hooked fast.to hitie with their iron grapples; his feet slipped en the way, and there he lies. Who 'would think- that that mic,omlied hair WaS once toyed with by a father's fingers? Who ' would think that those bloated cheeks Were ever kissed by a mother's lips'? Would you guess that that thick tongue once, made a household glad With its inno- cent pre I, tle.? U t ter 110 hareh words in his ear. Help him up. Put the hat over that oitee manly brow. Brush the duet from thee met that once, covered to generous heart, Show him the way to the home thet once rejoieed al, the sound of hisfootstep, *id with gentle words tell his chils fine, every opportunity of mental cul- ture, spiritual culture; every induce- ment to work, yet a Christian man, sworn before high heaven to conse- crate his whole life to usefulness, has nothing to do! If you have not any business for this world my Christian friend, then you ought to be doing business for eternity. People go to Florence and to Ven- ice and to Rome to see one of the works of the great masters. I think I can show you the picture of one of the great masters. 1 went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of under- standing, and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall: thereof was broken down. Then I saw and considered it well. I looked 'upon it and received instruc- tion. Net a little sleep, a lttle slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travoieth and thy want as an arniecl inane' There le no niore explosive passage in all the Bi- ble than that. It first begins to hiss like the fuse of a cannon and then lsursts like a 54 pounder. The old proverb was true. ''The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil!" • `,.I'llerefore seek some- thieg to' do. If no orldly business offers, then, in the name of the Lord Jestits Christ, go out on Christian toil, and the Lord will bless you, and the Lord will help you. Again I counsel you, avoid the pleasiire seeker, the man etthose en- tire business it is to seek for recrea- tion and amusement. I believe 10 the amusements of the world so far as they are innocient. I cOuld not live without 1110141. Any tnan of sanguine temperament. must hilve re- creation or die. And yet the amuse - num ts and recreations of life must achninister to hard svm•k. They are only • preparative for the occupation to evhich God has (tailed us. God would 114)1, hitve given us the capacity to lageloiflic <lid not sonic - times intend us to indulge it. ,God bath hong in sky and set in 'wave and printed on grilse many a, 1-011311(10- 1113. But all the music .atid the brightness of the natural tvorld,\vere entirely intended to fit us for the ear- nest WOr IC, of life. The thundercloud hes edges exquisitely. purpled, but it jars the mountain ns it says, coolie down to water the fields." The flotvers standing eihter the fenceloole gti,y and beitutifel, hut they say, "We stand here to refresh the husbanchnen at the nooning." The, brook.- frolies and speritles and 1001110, bat it says: "I go to baptize the moss; I go to shake, the thiest of the bird; I turn the wheel of the 111111; in Illy crystal cradle I reek unicicshaw ttncl water 11/3(1 1 play, lnit 1 -work," Theee mere ple,aeurists will come around you While you are engaged in your work and they will try to Mond Will flash no splendor into • the take you away. They have lost their 0 of death, His hair will lio un- iels.ces, Why not 'you lose your place? ttren to stand back as you le p through the hall. 011, if I had smile art by which could break the charm of the tempter's bowl and with mailed hand lift out the long serpent of eterual (teepees zind shake out its coils and cast it down and crusll it to death, Shake off the Sabbath breaker. Oh, turn your back upon these men. Shake off the sceptic Shake off 01 e idler. Shake off -the pleasurist. You may do this work of ejection in 'po- liteness, but you may do it firmly. You are not under any circumstances to lose all the remembrance of the fact that you are a gentleman and must always act the gentleman. A young man said to a Christian Quak- er, "Olcl chap, how did you get your monee?" "Well," said the Q-uaker, "I got it by dealing in an article in which thou mayest deal if thou wilt—ci- vility." Be courteous, be polite, but be firm. Say "No" as if you meant it. If you say '''No" in a feeble way, they will keep on with their implore; don and their temptation, and after awhile you evill stand in silence, and then you will say, after they have gone on a little longer, "Yes," and then you are lost. Oh, turn your back upon the ban- quet Of sin! I call You to a better feast to -clay. The promises of God are the fruits, The harps of heaven are the music. The clusters of Es- chol are pressed into the tankards. The sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty are the guests, while stand- ing at the banquet to pour the wine and divide the clusters and command the music, awl welcome the guests is a daughter of God, on her brow the blosstans of paradise and in her cheek the flush of celestial summer. And her name is Religion. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are, peace." feces,. reed. Mexico Ines a elever bird called the inelancii•pes, which lias discovered a new use for the telegraph pole. At the foot, of the, ji0St thiS bird makes it large hole, in which it rears its family. Somewhat higher up the post it makes an observatory, for which bored holes permit it to ob- serve the horizon in every direction. Still higher this sagacious bird makes its storehouse, mild thus the pole ser- ves as its house, fortrese and ware- house. When Trees Go to Sleep. Trees and plaids have their regelar times for going to sleep as well as boys and girls. They need the same chance to rest from the week of growing and to re- pair and' oil the machinery of life. Soule plants do all their sleeping in the Winter while the ground is frozen and the Beebe are bare of leaves, in trcpical counteies, where the SilaW never falls nod it is always growing weather, the trees repose during the veiny season or during tne periods of drought. They always choose the most UrifaVirit- ble WOrking time for doing their, sleep, ;just as man chooses the night, when he cannot see to work. The t3uneriovi1y taf Man. "Were the pipes fleizeie dear?" asked Mrs. Benefield' when her, husband return- ed from a long executive eeesion in the cellar. "No," replied Mr. Benefield; "the wa- ter in the pipes wns frozen- That WAN all."--sPittsburg Chronicle -Telegraph. THE HAIR. Best Nelms of Keeping It In Good Condition. Comparatively few women realize how much the hair is benefited by being al- lowed to hang hose so that the air may pass through it freely. It should be left floating upon the shoulders a little while every day, and if it is fair sunshine will additionally improve it, but dark hair sometimes is faded by sunlight. It is a very bad plan to wet the hair when dress - tug It daily. It should be thoroughly Why, indeed? "That's a fenny habit the ostrich has of sticking his bill in the sand," remarked the Monkey. "Yes," snickered the laughing hyena. "It he bas and cm -High to cover the bill, why doesn't he pay Ittc-rialladelphia Press. The Lollipops Coasting. Here are the Lollipop children Sliding down Sugarloaf 01111 Fun by the sledfull Dear me, thottele One of (hem's in for a spill! RECEPTION GOWN. washed occasionally and dried quickly by warm air, but should never be sopped with water so that it is dank and clammy and so allowed to remain until the warmth of the head dries it. The comb should be used as little as possible, as It drags and breaks the hair, and a fine comb is always to be avoided. A stiff brush with long bristles will clear the hair as well as a comb without doing it injury, and the friction stimulates the scalp and removes dust. The hair should be left free at night or at tnost loosely braided, and any covering were on the head which induces perspiration tends to cause the hair to fall. The cut shosvs a reception costume of white crepe de chine. Around the foot are three scant circular ruffles. The bod- ice, which is fitted at the back, is draped in front and closed at the side. The yoke of shirred wlaite mouseeline de soie is en- circled by a bertha of white mousseline de soie. The sleeves of elbow leugth are of wrinkled mousseline de soie and are finished with a frill; Bows composed of loops of white satin baby ribbon eve placed at the shoulders. waist and el- bows. The belt is of white satin. alsole efTOLLET. 1. Tnrit nod Ilisilloiber. The strongest sentiment oe the Turk Is his reverence tor his motile!. He nt- tveYs elands' in her presence teen 1111'! Lod 10 Sit down, a 00111p11111011 11 he pays to no else else. A Stage 1Pr13t11. SiCIlit---So that homely elise Witherupp Is not to anneal' le yew' private theatrie- ale after all? elella---No. She was fraid she might stiffer from stage fright. • Stel,!a-lt 'seems' to me the andience would have suffered >nest from Chit cause if she had gone on.-Philatlelphia Press. Apparently the Case. Indulgent elothet-You mustn't be too hartl on Johnny 00 aceouut of his catie- less dressing,. He'll get over it as he grovvs older. It is only a habit he has fallen into. Faetidious Vather (inspecting hlm)- Yes, he looks as lf he had fallen Into the habit he has on now. --Chicago Tribune. Track, track, track. below there! Over the bumper she goes! There! Dkl she get a big tumble Right on her lollipop nose? -Primary Education, How Much? Mira, aged 4, went into a drug store the other day and, stepping up to the proprietor, said in a half whisper, "Sup- pose a little girl hasn't any money, hove much chewing gum would you give hoe for a cent?" THE WEST A Galt Hotel Man Has a Wort; . to Say About Dodd's Kidney Fills. rianeOeh, of the Iroquois, Grateful.. Cured of Pains in the Back of Loag Standing -Says Thanes Are Due to Doti d's Eittue y Galt, Feb. 20..—Mr. H. Hancock, of this lively town, is known by the travelling fraternity all over the coun- try as the joint peoprietor with Mr. Wm. Sadler, of one of the finest dol - las -a -day hotels in the Dominion a Canada, and he is known further as one of the most genial and go-ahead hotel men in the country, his house being the equal in comfort and ap- pointments of the average hotel of double the rates. it -will interest travelling men to know that Mr. Han- cock thoroughly endorses Dodd's Kid- ney Pills. Some time age guests of the Iro- quois raig,ht-; have noticed that Mr. Hancock seemed to be troubled with, backache. Indeed that gentleman, often complained with great vigor about the pain and inconveniencOl it caused him. 'Toll, all that is now of the past. Mr. T-tancock is bap' to =ounce that, Dodd's Kidney Pills have cured him. :it cannot be too often impressed upon the minds of those • suffering witli backache 13114111 111 is the kidneve that are affected. The kidneys are internal, and exdorital treatment can- not do any good, Liniments and oilm can only soft -oil the muscles, they (le not reach the kidneys. Dodd's Kid- ney Pill, have ct-trecl more cases of baelmzhe than any other medicine in the world simply because they ac,t oo t he kidneys. Mr, liancook, of the Iroquois Hotel, - Galt, writes: "I have been troubled for one year with severe' pans across my back. Nothing T. tried would relieve ,the pain until I used two boxes of DodtPe Kidney Pills. r.t.lhe pains have now left me, 13(1 all thanks aro to the credit of Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1 have_ no oWeetions to allowing this state. ment to be published for the benefit, of the many otherd who suffer With\ brieknohe,"