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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1889-6-14, Page 3JUNI9 14, L889, t HE t3R.USSELS POST ranaaseur stat - si stain 7;• t - . . _ _ -.. ate tt anCL Ga ante m les aaug't. w+xwsartally . us. taws IR GOJ 00IIP e r Dr. .Talln.agca 6 Dxs ort s Sunday Morning. Brooklyn, Ju110 2,—'1'hc Itov, T. De britt '1'aliingo, D.D., proao1ed at the Taborneest• today. l:Ie took for his text Pruvorbs xiii, 20 : "A aompauioa of feels anal! bo dos- troyed.'• Following le a verbatim report of the eeruion : "May it plcaso the court," said a ounviel cat criminal, when asked if ho bad ally thing to say before senteueo of (lentil was passed upon him, "may it please the court, bad comp• any has boon may ritiu. I received the bleesiugs of good parents, amcl, in return, promised to avoid all evil aanociations, Had I kept my prom- ise I should have boon saved this obamo, and boort freo from the load of guilt that hauge round we like a vulturo, threatening to drag me to justice for critutle yet unrevealed. I, who once moved in the (last circles of society, and have been the frusta of distinguished public leen, am lost, and all through bad company," This is but une of the thousand proofs that the companion of Nola shall be destroyed. It is the invari- able rale. There is a well man in the wards of a hospital, where there are a hundred people sick with ship fever, and lie will not be so apt to take the disease as a good man would bo apt to be smitten with amoral distemper, if shut up with iniquitous companions, Iu olden times priso11ere were herded together in the same dell, but each ono learned the vines of all the cuiprits, so that, iustead of be- ing reformed by incarceration, the day of liberation turned them out upon eoeiety beasts, not men, We may, in our places of brei• noes, be compelled to tallc to and mingle with bad men ; but he who deliberately obo08ea to associate himself with vicioue people as en- gaged in carrying on a courtship with a Delilah, whose shears will clip off all the looks of his strength, and he will be tripped into perdition. Sin is catching, is infectious, is epidomie. I will let yon look over the millions of people now inhabit- ing the earth, and I challenge you to show me a good man who, after one year, has made choice and con. sorted with the wicked. A thous- and dollars reward for ono such in. stance. I caro net how strong your character may be, associate with gamblers and you will become a gambler. Clan with burglars, and you will become a burglar. Go among the unclean and you wilt be- come uneiean. Not appreciating the truth Utley text, many a young man has been deetroyed. He wakes up some morning in the great oily, and knows no one except the person into whose employ lie luta entered. AB he goes into the store all the clerks mark him, measure him and discuss bun. Tho upright young men of the store wish him well, but perhaps wait for a formal introduc- tion, and even then have some clsli- caoy about inviting him into their associations. But tho bad young men of the store at the first oppor• tunaty approach and offer their seta vices. They patronize him. They profess to know all about the town. They will take him everywhere where he wiebas to go --if he will pay the expenses. for if a good young man and a bad young man go to some place where they ought not, the good young man bee invari- ably to pay the charges. At the moment the ticket is to bo paid for, or the champagne settled for, the bad young titan fuels around in his pockets and says : "I have forgot. ten my pooket•book." In forty h oars after the youngman Dight h has entered the store the bad fellows of the establishment slap him on the back familiarly, and, at his stupidity in taking certain illusions, say : "My young friend you tvill have to be broken in," and they immediately proceed to break him in. Young man, in the name of God, 1 warn you to beware bow you let a bad man talk familiarly with you. If each a one alae you on the shoulder familiarly, turn round, and give him a withering look, na- 111 the wretch crouches in your presence. There is no monstrosity of wickedness that can stand uta abashed ruder tho glando of purity and boner. God kerpa the light• uinge of;heaven in bis own scabbard, and no human arm can wield thorn; but God gives to every young man a lightning that he may use, and that is the lightiing of an honest eye. Those who have boon close obseryers will riot wonder why I give Warning to young mon, and say : "Boware of bad company," I urge you to shun the compan• ionshap of idlers. There aro mon hanging around every More aid Office and shop, who have nothing to do,.or aot as if they had not. 'They are apt to conte in Wilton the i lirnl aro a rats., anti wisfeto engage ' r'rt 1a o r1 yon;moor a a ttlld 01 aro } i in t you I engaged at year regular onjit y- )neat. Pt l)r ly Hal /1st to snail parsons that y,it have no time to give them during business flours. Nothing wouldpletsothem io well i as to iieve you r111Dtlneu your oc- Dapetion and tzsroctata with thein. kluo11 of the time they lounge arouzul the club rooms or the doors of engine huuees, or after tho dining hoar stand upon the steps of a bath, ionable hotel or all elegant restaur- ant, wiohing to give you the idea that that is the piece where tboy dose. But they do nob dino there, They are oinking down lower day by (lea, Neither by day or by night kava enytlatng to do with idiora. Bo - fore you admit 0 men into your acquaintor:ea asic him politely : "What do you do for a living 2" If ho says, "Nothing; I am a gantle- t/eau," look out for him. Ile may have it very soft hand and very faultless itpparsl, anis havo a high sounding family name, but his touch is death. Before you know it you will 111 hie presence be ashamed of ydur work dress, Business will been= to you drudgery, and after a while you will lose your piece, and afterwards your respectability, and last of all your soul. Idleness is next door to villany. Thieves, gamblers, burglars, shop -lifters and assasius aro made from the olaes who leave nothing to do. When the police go to hunt up and arrest a Culprit they seldom go to look in upon busy clerks or in the busy carriage factory, but they go among the groups or idlers. Tho play is going on at the theater, when sud- denly therein a ecafile in the top gallery. What is it 2 A police- man coming in, and, leaning over, has tapped on the shoulder a young man, saying : "I want kou, air," Ho has not worked during ' the day, but somehow has raked together a shilling or two to get into tho top gallery. He is an idler. The man 011 his right hand is an idler and the man on his left hand is an idler. Are you fond of pictures 2 If so I will show you one of the works of an old master. Isere it is : "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of an- derstendiug ; and lo 1 it was all grown over mall thorns, and nettles had covered tho taco thereof, and the sten° wall was broken down. Tben I saw and considered well. I looked upon it aid received instruc- tion. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy pov- erty come as one that travoleth and tbv want as an armed man. 1 don't know of another sentence is the Bible more explosive than that. It first hisses softly like the flues of a caunou, and at last bursts like a .fifty-four pout:der. Tho old pro• verb was right : "The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil." A young man Came t0 a man of ninety years of age and said to him : "How have you made out to live so long and bo so well 2" The old man took the youngster to an orah ard, and, pointing to sotto large trees full of apples, t sa11 : "I planted those trees when I was a boy, and do yon wonder that now I am per- mitted to gather the fruit of them 2" We gather in old age what we plant to our youth. Sow to the wind, aid we reap the whirlwind. Plant in early life the right kind of a Christian character, and you will eat lumens fruit in old age, and gather these harvest apples in eteru it Again : I urge you to avoid the perpetual pleasure -seeker. I believe in recreation and amusement. I needit as mioh as I need bread, and' go to my daily exercise with as ,00naoientious a purpose ae I go to the Lord's supper ; and all persons of sanguine temperament must have amusement and recreation. „ God Would not have made us with a capacity to laugh if he had not in. tended us eomatimes ta indulge in it. God bath bung in sky, and set in, wave, and printed on grass many a roundelay ; but be who chooses pleasure• seeking for bis life work door not understand for what God mad° him. Our amusements are intended to help us in some earnest mieeton. The thunder cloud hath an edge oxgniaitely purpled, but, with voioe that jars the earth, it deolaree: " Z go to water the green fields," The wild flowers under tho fence aro gay, but they say : "Wo stand horn to make it beautiful edge for tho wheat field, anti to refresh the husbandman in their nooning." The stream sparkles and foams, and folios and says : "I go to baptize tko moss. I lave the spote on the trout. I slake the thirst of the btrl. :( turn the wheel of the laid. 1 rook in my erystal cradle muekshaw and water lily." And so, while tho world plays it works. Look out for the man who always playa and ter. or works. Yea will do wolf to avoid those whose regular business it is to play ball, spate or goa.beatiug. 13«31 those epode are grand in h eir )Iaaae, Ii ver d tt,d 137 1n!1A1a OIIVali thio fl'•nn any 1121111'Itul'Itp1 3313 ,'dation a from :4 minlitorial club that went out to play ball every Saturday afteru,,n in the oitslcirts of Philadelphia, Thews rocrantione are gratlrlto give us :wools anti spirits for our regular toil. 1 Ise Bove 131 nruionlar Christianity. A blain ie often not re) near G.idd with it weals etomld0h to when Iia bas a strong digestion But alma thoeo who make it their life ecoupetiou t•) apart. There are young mon wlzoso industry and usefulness have (alien ova/booth from the yacht on the Hudson or the Schuylkill. There are 11150 whose bnel1eae fall through the 100 of the skating pond, acd has never since been herd of. There is beauty in the gliding of a boat, iu the smug of skates, in tall; eoariog of a atoll struck ball, and 1 never see ono fly but I involuntarily throw up my hands to catch it ; and so far from laying an iojunotiou open ball playing, or any other innocent sport, I claim them all as belonging of right to those of Its who toil 1n the grand indttstriea of church and state. But the life business of pleasure seeking always makoa in the end a criminal or a sot. George Brum- mall was smiled upon by all Eng. ]and, and his lite was given to pleasure. He danced with peeress- es, and swung a round of mirth, and wealth, and .applause, until exhausted of purse, and worn out of body, and bankrupt of reputa- tion, and ruined of soul, he bogged a biscuit from a grocer, en 1 declae. ed that he thought a dog's life was bettor than a man's. Such men will crowd around your Beek or counter or work benab and seek to decoy you off. Cast them oat from your company. Do not be intimate with thele. Always be polite. There is no demand that you ever sacrifice politeness. A young man accosted a Christian Quaker with : '01d chap, how did you make all your •money 7' The Quaker replied : 'By dealing in an article that thou mayest deal In if thou wilt—civility.' Always be courteous, but at the same time firm. Say no as if you meant it. Have it underatood iu store, shop and street, that yon will not stand in tho oompauionship of the skeptic, the idler, tho pleasure seeker. Rather than enter the conspanion ship of such, accept the invitation to a better feast. The promises of God are the fruits. The harps of Heaven are the made. (Musters from the vineyards of God have been pressed into the tankards. The sous and datighters of the Lord Almighty aro tho guests. While, standing at the banquet, to fill the caps and divide the clusters and cerement"( the harps and welcome the guests, is a daughter of God on whose brow are the blossoms of paradise, and in whose cheek is the flue(' of celestial summer. tier name is religion. Her ways are ways of pleasant. 11058. And all her paths aro peace. Decide this soon, oh, young man, what direction you will take. Thera tomos aucb a momeut of final de- cision—why not this ? Ono night 1 saw a young man at a street corner, evideutiy doubting as to which direction he had better take, hie hat lifted high enough so that you could see he had an intelligent fore. heart, and he had a stout chest and a robust development. Splendid youug man. Cultured young man. Why did he atop there while so many were going up and down ? The faotie, that every young man has a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at the corner of the street. 'Come with me,' said the good angel ; '1 will taste you home ; I wilt spread my wing over your pillow ; 1 will lovingly escort you all through life under eupernatural protection ; 1 will bless every dap you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you enter; I will consecrate your tears When you wasp, your sweat when you toil, and at last. l . will hand over your grave to the bright angel of a Christian resurrection. In answer to your father's petition and your mother's prayer, I have been sent of the Lord out of Heaven to be your guardian spirit. Come with me,' said the good angel, in a voice of unearthly symphony. It Was muaio like that which drops from a lute of Heaven when a seraph breathes on it. "No, no," said the bad aegoI, 'come with me; I have something hotter to offer ; tho wines I pour aro from chalices of be- witching carousal ; tido dance I lead is over fleets troesollated , with unrestrained indulgences ; there is no God to frown on tho temples of sin where I worship, The skies ate Itnliun, The 1 athe I tread are through meadows daisiod and • primrosed. Conte with me.' The young man hesitates at a time whon hesitation was ruin, land tho bad imam amet0 :he gest ar,•ral untli it dopar toil, tipre a11i,ig will: v O'Neal.; the starlight upward dull .away, until a door flaoitel nano in tate sky and forayer the wince valeelied, L)utt was the turixiltg plaint in that. yn11n5 31111t1's L11:itnry ; for, the gaol 'angel flown, lie !melte tad no longer, but started on a pathway which is beautiful at the opening, but blasted et the last. Thele the bail angel, leading the way, opened gate after gate and at e3011 gate the road boearne rougher and the sky more lurid, and what was /:miller, as the gate slammed shut it camp to with a jar that indicated that it would never open, Past wit ported, there was n grinding of Locke and a eboving of bolts ; and the scenery on Dither side )f the road changed from gardens to deserts, and the Juno air became a cutting Deeamber blast, and the bright wine of the bad angel turned to sackcloth, and the eyes of light ne0am0 hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at the etart had tossed with wine, poured forth babbling tears and foaming blood, and on tho right side the road there was a eerpent, and the mail said to the bad angel : 'What is that serpent ?' and the answer wise : 'That 1s the serpent of stinging remorse.' On the lett side the road there was a hon, and the man asked the bad angel : "What is tbat lion ?" and the answer was : "That ie the lion of all devouring deapair." A vulture flew through the sky, and the man asked the bad angel : 'What is that vulture ?' and the answer was : 'That is the vulture waiting for the carcasses of the elate.' And then the man tried to throw off of him the folds of something that had wound him round and round, and ho said io the bad angel : 'What is it that twists me in this awful con• volution ?' anis the answer teas : 'That is the worm that never dies I' And then the mac said to the bad angel : 'What does all this mean 2 I trusted in what you said at the corner of the street that night ; I trusted it all, and why have you thus deceived mo ?' Then the last deception fell off the charmer, and it said : '1 mss seat forth from the int to destroy your sant ; I watched my chance for many a long year ; when you hesitated that night on the street, I gained my triumph ; tow you are here. Iia 1 ha 1 You are bere. Come, uow, let us fill those two chalices of fira, and drink together to darkness and woo and death. Hail 1 Hail 1' Oh 1 young man, will the good angel sent forth by Christ, or tho bad angel sent forth by sin, get the victory ovet your soul 2 Their wings are inter- locked this moment above you, con• tending for your destiny, as above the Appsninea eagle and condor fight mid slcy. This hour may de. Aide your destiny. God help yon. To hesitate 16 to die 1 Mt by a eolnclacnce. The owner of a place o0 second avenue stood in the barn door on the alley the other day whop a man with a wooden leg and n crutch came along and passed the time o'day, ttu1 finally eat( "Say, I want you to do leo a favor. I want to leave my leg with you for a few mlintos," "Why 2„ "I want to go around ouliecoud avenue and work a boasts for half a dollar in money. I've got a pointer that the folks are very sympathetio. If I go with one log I'ut earn of it." ''Very well ; just leave your leg Loreand I'll take care of it," The wooden substitute 3005 nn• strapped and handed over, and the cripple used the crotch to help him• self down the alley. k ive minutes later he rang the doorbell of a house around the avenue, to have it open• ed by the man he had soon at the barn. "W—wlra—what 1" he gasped in aetoaishment. "Very. sympa'thetio family lives bere'1" quietly replied the other. "You seem to have met with a sad loss, and I'm 'anxious to help you. Here is a wooden leg which may fit you." The leg was handed over, the man sat down on the steps and strapped it on, and as ho got up and stumped through the gate, be said to himself : "I've heard of coinoidenooe ever since I was knee•high to hop.toad, but this is the first one that ever hit ins with both feet at once 1" Tho prospectus was issued on Friday at London, Eng„ of the Do- minion Brewery Co,, which ie form. alt to acquire and work the Davies' brewery in Toronto, The capital consists of 480,000 of eight per Dont. Dumttlative profereneo relieves, the same amount ordinary shares and of eix per cent. first mortgage debentures, Tho London director. ate is fairly strong. Tho Chairman of the Board is a inomber of Perlin, meat. and chief of a wall•kticwin firm of distillate. scam taalcc,xaeaars :OCACE,y"^,^r, ar4l •a: to . etxr.wxsODALllalleavr [41.3 "�'U T 1 I'll, I. I1,1; 1'I:L d 1d11ianAtdi %blf" ti "v' . , ,►. Off", "Lucky Getter," maxim 133 !•11(181.1 ANA nn IV0111`n, Irnoky (letter will skint' for mares wooltly, during swoon of 18811, health noel weather permitting, a' fohows : Monday, will leave leis own st,3ble, Ethel, aril proceed nerili to Jewish Ilaynard's, 8r,1 con. (11:3, for noun ; thence north to Alex, Itoberlson'a for the nulla. Tn'sday, will proceed north to Mr. Hntollinson's, and coo., Howiok, for noon ; thence to ilr. Gildasr's, lot 8, coo. 7, llowick, for night. Wein ,lay, will 1•tunnel to Iter, Sandora', lot 15, eon. 12, Howtok, for noon ; thooca to \Vmn. Weir's Jlowlok, for night. Thnrecday, tett1 pr000ed to Jaa..Elliott'a, 13 line, 'fnrnborry, for noon ; thence sontll ID Mr. 111olCinney's, lot 25, con. 1, Morris, for night. Friday, will pro- ceed to Henry Green's, lot 7, eon. 2, Grey, for noon ; thence to ,Ino. Lowe's, lot 10, con. 5, Grey, for night, Saturday, will proco"d to the (211000'5 Lotti, Brussels, for noon ; thence to itis own stable, where ha will remain until the fol lowing Monday. ,Two. Itonr')1Tsox, Groom, Baby Carria'es Baby Carriages Y A -lam -Y CARRIAGES! Handsome Display of Baby Carriages in all the LATES2' STYLES, mad p sold at isawMaleValieMB' PRIORS: Call in and See our Stock before yoct order elsewhere. Buggy Rugs, Dusters, F11 Nets, Whips; dee., always on hand. Splendid Assortment of Trunks, Valises and Satchels in Stock. 11. Dennis, Ny001) J] i1 0:11:2) Wanted For Sea='on of 1889. 01112 011 I ran prepared to pay the high- est Cosh Prices for good fleece Wool delivered at the histo iTei Ifioolen J[illsl Ilaving been 15 yoarsh' business hero, it has always been ley en- deavor to pay higher prices than the market allows, and in the past years have paid city market prices. Wool being so low in price, it will afford. me pleasure to pay the highest price going. In exchanging wool for goods will allow a few cents more. Will also guarantee to sell my goods at cash prices. 1 don't have two prices—cash and trade—my rule is one price only. Running the year round enables me to carry a large stock. This year leaving a larger stock than usual, will offer you Tkts rest Clock orrweetls la the Domin- ion to Choose from. Double and histsd Ft►1i Cloths MINN EL8, ILLA8ait1T0, .411 Goods 01' the Newest pattrrf, and totem!. 1)4,41,1;31u. Colne early with your Wool and you will find us rend' and will- ing to give you our best atten- tion. Wo will be happy for you to Inspect Goods and Prices be- fore disposing of your wool. I remain, Yours Respectfully, L�. 2i . IMO°if., 44.3ms LISTOWEL, RUSSELS E M PO tIEUT I . tat ►a THE Undersigned desire to intimate to the Public generally that they have Removed to the, Brick Block (!pp' W, Nightingale : Op.'s Store, ---and are prepared to Pay the • -• Highest Market Price, in Cash, for any,,Quantity of Freslz EOss. GIV US A Mrs. Ballantyne & Son. Brussels EggE77142Orizt7n2. I�uortaui to Farmers ave Dtliers. See the New Noxon Binder 66 66 66 6L Drill NOKON HAKES ANp MOWERS. GENHINN WILKINSON PLOWS, Davis Sewing Machines, Stoves, Tinware, &a, at JACK N'S