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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.
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lars, shoplifters,
f
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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.
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1 press it to thelr
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clusters, al
the
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of nal decision
night 1 sawa
the sireet corner evider
to which :
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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
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gained my ti
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halice 3
you are here are
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of tire, and drink 1
aud woe and deat,
wo
rether
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forth by Christ, y bad
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angel
angel
forth by sin, get
[heir wit
ADOVE
soul?
monent
your destiny,
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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
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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
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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
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LESSON BIBLE
THE
READING,
APPEARANCES
Mark
RISEN LORD'S
grdalens
ET
GUSLY
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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
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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