EE — UU ———— DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: Ruinous Com pany. “A companion of fools shall be destroyed.” Prov. 13: A. “May it please the court,” said a convicted criminal, when asked if he had anything to say before sentence of death was passed upon him, “may It please the court, bad company has been my ruin. I received the blessings of good parents, and, in return, promised to avoid all evil associations. Had I kept my promise I should have been saved this shame, and been free from the load of guilt that hangs round me like a vulture, threatening to drag me to justice for crimes yet unrevealed. I, who once moved in the first circles of society, and have been the guest of dis- tinguished public men, am LOST THROUGH BAD COMPANY, This is but one of the thousand proofs ;hat the companion of fools shall be destroyed, It the invariable rule, There is a well man in the wards of a hospital, where there are a hundred people sick with ship fever. and he will not be so apt to take the disease as a good man would be apt to be smitten with moral distemper if shut up with iniquitous companions. In oller times prisoners were hearded together in the same cell, but each one learned the vices of all the culprits, so that instead of teing reformed by incarceration, the day of liberation turned them out upon society, beasts, nol men. We may, in our place of compelled to to and mingle with bad men; who deliberately Jhooses to associate himself with vicious people is engaged in carrying ona courts ship with a Delilah, whose shears will clin off all the locks of his strength, and he will be tripped into perdition. SIN A\TCHING, is infectious, is epidemic, Iwill let you ook over the millions of people now in- habiting the globe, and I challenge you to show me a good man who, after one year, has made choice and consorted with the A thousand dollars reward for one such instance. 1 care not how strong your character may be, issociate with gamblers, you will become 2 gambler; clan with burglars; and you will become a burglar; go among the unclean, and you will become unclean. Not appreciating the truth of my text, many a young man has been destroyed, He wakes up some morning in the great -ity, and knows noone except the per- sons into whose employ he has entered, As he goes into the mark him, measur. him. The upright store wish hin well, but ‘or a formal introduction, a ave some delicacy about It nto their associations, But the soung men of the store, at the ypportunity, approach and offer their services, They patronize him. They srofess to know all about the town. THEY WILL TAKE HIM ANYWHERE ‘hat he wishes to go—if he will pay the ;xpenses. For if a good young and a bad young man go to some where they ought not, the good young pan has invariably to pay the charges, At the moment the ticket is to be paid ‘or, or ad young man feels pockets and says: my pocket-book.”’ wfter the 1S business, be talk but he IS ( wicked, him, a ay around “1 have forgotten In forty-eight ours vonno young ment slap b ly, and, at his stupidity in taking cer ain allusions say: “My young friend, you will have be broken in;'’ and hey immediately proceed to break him Li. Young man, in the name of God 1 warn you to beware how you let a bad man talk familiarly with you. If such an one slap you on the shoulder fami- ltarly, turn round, and give him a with- sring look, until the wretch crouches in YOur presence. There is no monstrosity Jf wickedness that can stand unabashed to fast the Christian religion. They died singing; but the young infidel only said: “Don’t breathe that cold air in my face. You crowd me. It is getting dark in the room." II. Again, I urge you to shun THE COMPANIONSHIP OF IDLERS, There are men hanging around every store and office and shop who have nothing to do, or act as if they had not, They are apt to come in when the firm are away, and wish to engage you in conversation while you are engaged in your regular employment. Politely suggest to such persons that you have no time to give them during business hours. Nothing would please them so well as to have you renounce your occu- pation and associate with them. Much of the time they lounge around the club-rooms the doors of engine houses, or alter the dining hour stand upon the steps of a fashionable | otel or an elegant restaurant, wishing to give vou the idea that thatlis the place where they dine. But they do not dine there. They are sinking down lower and lower, day by day. Neither by Or with the idlers. Before you admit a man into your acquaintance ask. him politely: ** What do you do for a living?” If he “Nothing; Iam a gentle man,’ look out for him. Ie may have a very soft hand and very faultless apparel, and have a hizh sounding family name, but his tou s death. Be- fore you know it you will in his ence be ashamed of you Business will become to you drudgery, and after awhile you will your place, and afterwards your respectabil- {ty. and last of all your soul. Idleness 1s SAYS, Cit pres work dress, 1 sO il NEXT DOOR TO VILLAINY. 1. i 3 1: ~~ lars, shoplifters, f } Thieves, gamblers, burgl i i i and assassins ma { who have to de | police go to up and prit, they seldom om the class . When the arrest a cul- go to look nn among in the busy carriage factory, but they go among the group of idlers, The on at the theatre, when suddenly there in the top gallery. What policeman has it over, | tapped young man saying: He had not worked during somehow had } t ars wthing i + uns play Is going is it? Tri ' 1 i ne in, and, ieanong Has on “*I wan under the glance of purity and bonor. God keeps the lightenings of heaven in young nan a lightening that he may use, and that is the ligntening of an honest eye. Those who have been close observers will not wonder why I give the warning, ‘‘Beware of bad com- pany”? I. First, Il warn you to SHUN THE SKEPTIC— the young man who puts his fingers In his vest, and joned religion, and tums over to some mystery of the Bivle, and says: ‘‘Ex- plain that, my pious friend; explain that.” And whosays: ‘Nobody shall scare me; I am not afraid of the future; 1 used to believe in such things, and so did my father and mother, but I have got over it.” Yes, he has got over it; and if you sit in lis company a little longer. you will get over it too, out presenting one argument against the Christian religion, such men will, by their jeers and scoffs and caricatures destroy your respect for that religion which was the strength of your father in his declining years, and the pillow of your old mother when she lay a-dying. "Alas! a time will come when the blus- tering young infidel will have to die, and then his diamond ring will flash no splendor in THE EYES OF DEATH as he stands over the couch, waiting for his soul, Those beautiful locks will be uncombed upon the pillow, and the dying man will say: “I cannot die—I cannot die.” Death, standing ready beside the couch, says: **You must die you have only balf a minute to live; let ine have it right away--your soul.” “No, says thé young infidel, **here are my gold rings, and these pictures, take them all.” *‘No,”’ says Death, “what do 1 care for pictures! your soul.” “stand back!” says the dying infidel. “1 will not stand back,” sa 8 Death; “for you have only ten seconds now to live; I want your soul” The dying man says: ‘Don’t breathe that cold air into my face. You crowd me too hard, It is getting dark in the room. 0 odl”’ “fi ,”’ says Death; *‘you said there was no God.” Pray for me,’ exclaims the expiring Anh “Too late to pray,” says Death; “but three more seconds to live, and I will count them off—one—two-—three,’’ He has gone! Where? Where? , Carry hom out —out and bury him beside lls father snd mother, who died while holding fa raked togelhe 0 the top roy 1 & man on ul md the mat . alli & Han ol or 1 eight; writin Are you fond nad bY Lihue of under- TOWN OVer covered and the stone wall hen vold was all ott] Lies had 1 I saw and upon it J ey al 11 PBA , + as one LLal warned travels L mal sentence than the fuse of a bursts like a fifty-four Id proverb was right: “The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil,’ 18 al know of ano more hisses 8 and jast pounder, Th explosive that. ftly, ise at @ 0 ty years of age and said to him: “How long and the out to live 50 be so well?” The old man took pubs ; ees il to some large ill of apples, sald: “I planted these trees when [ wasa Loy, mitted to gather the fruit of them?"’ We gather in old age what we plant in | our youth, Sow to the wind, and we the right kina of a will eat Christian character, juscious fruit in old eternity. 111. Again: I urge you to avoud { need it as much as I need ULread, and and go to my daily exercise with ascon- scientious a purpose ask go to the Lord's Supper; and sll persons of san- guine temperment must have amuse- ment and recreation. God would not have made us with the capacity to laugh if He had not intended us some- times to indulge it. God hath hung in sky, and sel in wave, and printed on grass many a roundelay; but he who chooses pleasure-seeking for nis life work does not understand for what God made him, Our amusements are inten- ded to help us in some earnest 1ission. The thunder-cloud hath an edge exquis- itely purpled, but, with voice that jars the earth, it declares: “1 go to water the green fields.” The wildflowers under the fence are gay, but they say: “We stand here to make a beautiful edge for the wheat field, and to re« fresh the husband men in their nooning.”” The stream sparkles and foams and frolics, and says: ‘I go te baptize the moss, I lave the spots on the trout. I slake the thirst of the bird. I turn the the wheel of the mill I rock in my crystal! cradle muckshaw and waler- lily.” Aud so, while the world plays, it works, Look out for the man who always plays and never works. Y on will do well to avoid those whose regular business it is to play ball, skate, or go a-boating. All these sports are grand in their places, 1 sever derived so much advan from any minister. 1al association as from a ministerial club that went out to play ball every Satur- day afternoon in the outskirts of Phila. delphia. These recteatious are grand to give us muscle and spirits for our regular toil. I believe in MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY. A man is often not so near God with a weak stomach as when lie has a strong digestion, Dut shun those who make it thelr life occupation to sport, There are young men whose industry and use. fulness have fallen ovetbourd from the vacht oa the Hudsou or the Schuylk i There men whose business fell through the ice of the skating-pond, and has never since been heard of. There isa beauty in the gliding of a boat, in the song of skates, in the soaring of a well struck ball, and I never see one fly but I involuntarily throw up my hands to catch it; and, so far from laying an in- junetion upon ball-playing, or any other innocent sport, I claim them all as be- longing of right to those of us who toil in the industries of church and state. But the life business of pleasure-seek- ing always makes in the end A CRIMINAL OR A BOT, George Brummell was smiled upon by all England, and his life was given to pleasure. He danced with peeresses, and swung a round of mirth and wealth and applause, until, exhausted of purse and worn out of body, and bankrupt of reputation, and ruined of soul, he beg- ged a biscuit of a grocer, and declared that he thought a dog’s lite was better than a man's Such men will crowd around your desk or counter or work bench, or seek to decoy you off. They want you | to take a ride with them to Coney Island or to Central Park, They will tell you of some people you must see; of some excursion that you must take; of some Sabbath-Jday that you ought to | dishonor. They will tell you of exqui- | site wines that you must take; of costly | operas that you must hear, of wonderful dancers that you must see; but before | you accept their convoy or their com- panionship, remember while at the end of a useful life you may be able to look | back to kindnesses done, to honorable i work accomplished, to poverty helped, | to a good name earned, to Christian in- fluence exerted, to a Saviour’s advanced—these | PLEAS RE- SEEKERS ON THEIR DEATH- BED thing better to review than a | torn playbill, a ticket for the races, an | empty tankard, and the cast out rinds | of a caronsal; and as in the delirium of | their awful death they clutch the goblet lips, the dre upon thei 1iss and uneoll with the ad Cast © company. ly » { have Iie i 1 1 press it to thelr » cup falling } ¥ i = tongue wil eternal | men fro | intimate with them. 1H3I80n0n. i “ oF } out th » Do nat |} ) Always be polit ¥ OL i fice politen:ss, Lian Qu A young man Ac ker with: Old fi Mi IAKe All your mnoue 1 ' we + Quaker replied; “Py deal il vi nd thou mayest deal i * Always be cou x ti ari. fave it 1 Liaw from U have been ed rr TE i » an i are bang jet, clusters, al the f Reval dani of nal decision night 1 sawa the sireet corner evider to which : LiOn iment DOS this ne man at direc ugh igent fore- head, and he had a chest and a robust development, Splendid man, Cultured young man. young man. while so many were &2 31d stout young A GOOD ANGEL angel contending for the spirit, and there was a and a bad good angel and “Come with me,’ “1 will take you pillow; I will lovingly escort you all | tion; I will bless every cup you drink j out of, every couch you rest on, every { doorway you enter; I will consecrate { your tears when you weep, your sweat | when you toil, and at the last I will | hand over your grave to the bright | angel of a Christian resurrection. | answer Lo your | 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. 1t was music like that which drops from a lute of heaven when a seraph breathes upon it. “No, no,” said THE BAD ANGEL: | ssoome with ne; I bave better to offer; the wines pour are from chalices of bewitching carousal; the dance 1 lead is over floors tessellated where 1 worship. The skies are Italian, The paths i tread are through meadows daisied and primrosed, Come with me." The young man hesitated at a time when hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel smote the good angel until it de- parted, spreading wings through the starlight upward and away, until a door flashed open in the sky and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning. point in that young man’s history; for, the good angel flown, be hesitated no longer, but started on a pathway which is beautiful at the opening, but blasted at the last, The bad angel, leading the way, opened gate after gate, and at each gate the became rougher and the sky more lurid, and what was pecu- liar, as the gate slammed shut it came to with a jar that indicated it would open. each 1, there was a grinding of locks and a shoving of bolts; and the scenery on either side of the road changed FROM GARDENS TO DESERTS, and the June air became a cutting De- cember blast, and the bright wings of the bad angel turned to sackcloth, and the eyes of light became hollow with » hopeless gzlef, and the fountains that at the start had tossed with wine poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on the right side of the road there was a serpent, and the man said to the bad angel: “What is that serpent?” and the answer was: ‘‘That is the ser- pent of stinging remorse,”” On the left side of the road there was a lion, and the man asked the bad angel: “What is that lion?’ and the answer Was “That 18 the lion of all-devouring des- pair.” 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 slain,” And then the man began to try to pull off of him the folds of something that had wound him round and round, and he said to the bad angel: “What is it that twists me in this awful tion?’ and the answer was THE WORM THAT And then the man angel: “What does all this mean? I “That is NEVER DIES. said to the trusted in what you said at the corner of the street that night; 1 trusie i it all, and why have you L me?’ Then the last deception off jus deceived fell the soul; 1 a long from pit my to destroy chance Yai fit WL Hany gained my ti Ha! bal ul ti Pe Here halice 3 you are here are ne, n let us fill of tire, and drink 1 aud woe and deat, wo rether Haill ng man, wil the good forth by Christ, y bad iclory ovel 1193 Halll angel angel forth by sin, get [heir wit ADOVE soul? monent your destiny, ¥ I 5 . ict hour may deci Use Both Hands y, from my © Capacity iffering 1phas ut par My %1% or what 1s otis have been = rowise Known as COTESe, With am be «ft hand very uss ralval } 1 ¢ oh PArid yas, he rest, of h tha ard member, | inning to make my Us of sonstant writing wi AE of that more 11m feature than tie rtant we usually 1m of ealtivat should from early the flexibality be amd the night hand saved from the great strain upon it. It is not st all necessary to be what 1% termed “loft handed” to be enabled to nse that hand. 1 know think halnt established one young can tse the left hand as well as the right w riectly by eultivation She can draw with the left hand as easily as she can with the right one, right. My case should be a warning to especially, not to leave service of the other, or at least its as. now have to do much of writing with my left, and accom- plish it quite as woll as with the right, a—- > oe - Never Do It. Never leave a dust pan, brush, or other obstacle on the stairs. Never carry pencils, scissors, or other sharp pointed missiles in your pocket unless the points are protected by a sheath. Never leave pins on clothing you are sending to the washerwoman. Naver leave poisons about unlabelled, or if labelled within reach of little fingers. Many a cake and batch of bread are ruined by slamming the oven door. A maker of celebrated sponge cake will not allow any one to touch the stove or walk heavily across the kitchen floor while the sensitive compound is taking. CL Photographs of Travel. A pretty way of arranging photo- phs of travel is to arrange neatly around the Jargin ressed leaves and flowers collected at the places depicted, Fasten the garland in p with mueil- ages you have thus a double souvenir of that whieh you do not wish to forget, a ns 05 Foxp Morner—‘Jave, give the baby some laudanum and put it to sleep and bring me my parasol. Iam going to a Reting for the amelioration of the condition of the human race.’ SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, SUNDAY Jung Zi, 15%), Jesus Risen. LESSON TEXT, (Mark 16 : 1-13, Memory verses, 6, 7. LESSON PLAN. Toric or tHE QUARTER ishing His Work, Gorpex Texr vor THE Jesus Fin- John 17 : 4 given ni to do, Leassox Toric: Rising antly. LessoNx OUTLING 4 thie 1 Cor Gorpex Text Now ix C1 the dead, then and Lecorie that firatl 15 slept LESSON ANALYSIS FAITHFUL WOMAY Ti "heir Errand; THE ATTENDANT ANGE! Personal Appearance: i 8 ting Jolus 20 : 12 11. His Cheering Words } ff atnage VBA Directions: before woe him (7 111. His Explicit He goeth | the Tre you into Galilee shall y¢ Matt, ™~ 1H Go quickly, and tell his diseipl Matt. on: 7 Remember how hie Luke 24 : 6) This Jesus shall so ¢ manner (Acts 1 : 11) 1. “A young man sitting, in a white robe.” (1) The appearance; (2) The angel's The angel's position; angel's purpose I. “Be not amazed: ... he 1s risen " The ressurrection of Jesus no reason for surprise: becsuse (1) Of matehless character; (2) Of his wonderful works; (3) Of his explicit assurances; (4) Of its biblical neces Kity. 3. “I'rembling and astonishment had come upon them.” (1) Their grounds for surprise; (3) Their grounds for joy. spak attire; (3) Ti THE RISEN LORD, i. Appearing: He appeared first to Mary. _..unto two of them (9, 12). And behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail (Matt, 28 : 9), When they saw him, they worshipped him (Matt. 28 : 17). Jesus himself drew near, them (Luke 24 : 15). He himself stood in the (Luke 24 : 36). 11. Reported: She went and told, And they went away and told (10, 18), Go toll my brethren (Matt. 28 : 10). The Lord is risen indeed, and hath ap- red to Simon (Luke 24 : oA). They rehearsed. . . how he was known of them (Luke 24 : And after and went with midst of them 30). We have seen the Lord (John 20 : 25). 111. Doubted: And. they... disbelieviad. Neither believed they them (11, 13). Some doubted (Matt, 28 : 17). O foolish men, and slow of heart to be. lieve (Lake 24 : 25). They still disbelic ved for joy (Luke 24 : 41 J Except 1 shall put my hand into hie side, I will not believe (John 20 : 205). i. “He appesred first to Mary.” (1 The risen Lord; (2) The loving dis ciple : (8) The high honor 9, She went and told.” (13 A gia messenger; (2) A sorrowing audi ence F. She went: (2) Bhetold she went; (2) What she + «Neither believed thes {2 (3) essa e hearers (1yCon (2) Stubborn disbelie > -—— LESSON BIBLE THE READING, APPEARANCES Mark RISEN LORD'S grdalens ET GUSLY tdvin wes v4 } gaving esl vd pract d * li hing, Ww wit: regeneration © hold gods are due the superior health strength of civilized nations. Men bhouse-cleaning because they are for their present dignity. It galis a tea and eat a cold the kitchen pantry. A man has no in the front hail, ture to himself the splendor of the af- terglow. Dui sc ence now proclaims that dangerous disease germs, wicked and alkali woman with a towel head and dust broom in ber Science has silenced wan save Soap her i —————————— Sgverat rules of deportment found in an old book on etiquette, printed in When vou sit at the table of a super- you should above all have your hands and finger-nails clean, you should not do this at the table but when you are alone. When you drink lift the cup with his cart. Farther you should not laugh in the eup or drink when you have food in your mouth like a child, nor drink with a voice like an ox. Always wipe off the nose and the mouth after drinking. One should not gnaw a bone like a dog, till the marrow runs out of the bone. Eat not an apple alone but cut it and give thy neighbor a Piece Wouldst thou peel a pear, thou must SOBImenes by ¢ - etm, but with an apple in at the blow end. Spread not ER with thy amb and drink not thine soup from the plate, but take it with the spoon, and thou shouldst not thereby lap like a calf. N—— English electricians boast that they aro far ahead of us in their knowledge of the science of electrotechnics, but acknowledge themselves behind us in iy practical applications of elec ris ston Gop designs that a charitable inter. course should be maintained amo men, mutually pleasant and benefice
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