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FORTilDDEX SWEETS, i DR. TALMAGE EXPOSES TRAPS SET FOR UNWARY FEET. TemptatlonB Whlrli Atlrart and Tlirn Pa- j atroy- Corrupt Hooka, Alcoholic Stitiiu- I lanta and Ganihlini; InvciKhcd A|;niiiat, Honey I'roiu the Ktcrinil Kock. fCopyright, 1808. by American Press Asso ciation. | Washington, Jun. 28.—Dr. Talmatfe hert! starts with an oriental scene, from which he draws practical lessons as to tho allurements which entrap the un wary, and tho discourse will put many | on their guard. Tho text is 1 Samuel j xiv, 48, “I did but taste a little honey i with tho end of tho rod that was in my baud, and, lo, I must die.” The honeybee is a most ingenious ar chitect, a Christopher Wren among in sects; geometer drawing hexagons and pentagons, a freebooter robbing the fields of pollen and aroma, wondrous creature of God, whose biography, writ ten by Huber and Swammerdam, is an enchantment for any lover of nature. Virgil celebrated tho bee in his fable of Aristicus. and Moses and Samuel and David and Solomon and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and St. John used tho delicacies of bee manufacture as a Bible symbol— a miracle of formation is tho bee. Five eyes, two tongues, the outer having a sheath of protection, hairs on all sides of its tiny body to brush up tho parti cles of flowers, its flight so straight that all the world knows of the bee line. Tho honeycomb is a palncn such as no one but God could plan and tho honeybee construct, its cells sometimes a dormi tory and sometimes a storehouse and sometimes a cemetery. These winged toilers first make eight strips of wax. and by their an femur, which are to them hammer and chisel and square and plumb line, fashion them for use. Two and two these workers shape the wall. If an accident happens, they put up buttresses of extra beams to remedy the damage. When about tho year 177(1 an insect before unknown in tho nighttime at tacked the beehives all over Europe, aud tho men who owned them were in vain trying to plan something to keep out tho invader that was tho terror of tho beehives of tho continent, it was found that everywhere the bees had ar ranged for their own protection ami built before their honeycombs an espe cial wall of wax with portholes through which tho bees might go to and fro, hut not largo enough to admit the winged combatant called tho Sphinx atropos. Divine Direction. Do you know that tho swarming of the bees is divinely directed? The moth er boo starts for a new home, aud be cause of this tho other bees of the hive get into an excitement which raises the heat of tho hive some four degrees, and they must die unless they leave their heated apartments, and they follow the mother beo and alight on tho branch of a tree and cling to each other aud hold on until a committeo of two or three bees have explored the region and found the hollow of a tree or rock not far off from a stream of water, and they here set up a new colony aud ply their aro matic industries aud givo themselves to tho manufacture of tho saccharine edible. Hut who can toll tho chemistry of that mixture of sweetness, part of it the very life of the beo aud part of it tho life of the fields? Plenty of this luscious product was hanging in tho woods of Bcthaveu dur ing tho time of Saul and Jonathan. Their army was in pursuit of an enemy that by God’s command must be exter minated. Tho soldiery were positively forbidden to stop to eat anything until tho work was done. If they disobeyed, they were accursed. Coming through the woods, they found a place where the bees had been busy—a great houcy manufactory—honey gathered in tho hollow of tho trees until it had over flowed upon the ground in great profu sion of sweetness. All tho army obeyed orders and touched it not save Jona than, and he, not knowing tho military order about abstinence, dipped tho end of a stick ho had in his hand into the candied liqnid, and as yellow aud tempt ing it glowed on tho end of the stick; he put it to his mouth and ate the hon ey. Judgment fell upon him, aud but for special intervention ho would have been slain. In my text Jonathan an nounces his awfnl mistake, “I did hut taste a littlo honey with tho end of the rod that was in my baud, aud, lo, I must die.” Alas, what multitudes of people in all ages have been damaged by forbidden honey, by which I mean temptation, delicious and attractive, but damaging aud destructive! Evils of Bud Literature. Corrupt literature, fascinating, but deathful, comes in this category. Where one good, honest, healthful book is read now there are a hundred made up of rhe torical trash cousumed with avidity. When the boys on the cars come through with a pile of publications, look over the- titles and notice that nine out of ten of the books are injurious. All the way from hero to Chicago or New Orleans notice that objectionable books domi nate. Taste for pure literature is poi soned by this scum of the publishing house. Every book iu which sin tri umphs over virtue or iu which a glamour is thrown over dissipation or which leaves you at its last line with less re spect for the marriage institution and less abhorrence for tho paramour is a depression of your own moral character. The book bindery may be attractive and the plot dramatic and startling and the style of writing sweet as the honey that Jonathan took up with bis rod, but your best interests forbid it, your moral safe ty forbids it, your God forbids it, and one taste of it may lead to such bad re sults that you may have to say at the close of the experiment, or at the close of a misimproved lifetime, ”1 did but taste a little honey with tho rod that was in mi hand, aud, lo, I must die.” ^Corrupt literature is doing more to day foe the disruption of domestic life TIIK LEDUEK: GAFFNEY, N. .IANUAUY ‘>7. 181)8 than any other cause. Elopements, mar ital intrigues, sly correspondence, ficti tious names given at postoflloo win dows, clandestine meetings in parks and at ferry gates aud in hotel parlors and conjugal perjuries are among tho ruin ous results. When a woman, young or old, gets her head thoroughly stuffed with tho modern novel, she is in appal ling peril. But some one will say, ‘‘The heroes are so adroitly knavish and the heroines so bcwitchingly untrue ami tho turn of tho story so exquisite and all tho find on some of tho liquor signs in all our cities the words “Old ( row,'' mightily suggestive of the carcass and the filthy raven that swoops upon it.. “Old Grow!” Men and women without numbers slain of rum, hut unburied, and this evil is peeking at their glazed eyes, and pecking at their bloated check, and pecking at their destroyed manhood and womanhood, thrusting beak and claw into tho mortal remains of what was once gloriously alive, hut now morally dead. “Old Crow!” But. alas, how many take no warning! They make me think of Caesar on his way to assassination, fearing nothing, though his statue in the hall crashed into frag- nnd a destroyed soul at tho last. Young men, buy no lottery tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet on no baseball games or yacht racing, have no faith in luck, answer no mysterious circulars proposing great income for small invest ment. Drive away the buzzards that hoverr.round our hot ds trying to entrap strangers. Go out and make an honest living. Have God on your side and ho a candidate for heaven. Remember all tho paths of sin arc banked with flowt rs at tho start, and there are plenty of help ful hands to fetch Hie gay charger to your door aud hold tho stirrup while you mount. But farther on the horso plunges to tho bit iu a slough iuuxtrica- charactcrs so enrapturing I cannot quit them.” My brother, my sister, you can find stylos of literaturo just asehanniog that will elevate and purify and ennoble and Christianize while they please. The devil does not own all tho honey. There is a wealth of good books coming forth from our publishing houses that leave no excuse for tho choice of that which is debauching to body, mind aud soul. Go to some intelligent man or woman and ask for a list of books that will be strengthening to your mental and moral condition. Life is so short aud your time for im provement so abbreviated that you can not afford to fill up witli husks and cin ders and debris. In tbo interstices of business that young man is reading that which will prepare him to be a mer chant prince, and that young woman is filling her mind with an intelligence that will yet either makt her tho chief attraction of a good man’s home or give her an independence of character that will qualify her to build her own home and maintain it in a happiness that re quires no augmentation from any of our rougher sex. That young man or young woman can by the right literary aud moral improvement of tho spare ten minutes here or there every day rise head aud shoulders in prosperity and character and influence abovo the loun gers who read nothing or read that which bedwarfs. See all tho forests of good American literature dripping with honey. Why pick up the honeycombs that have iu them the fiery bees which will sting you with an eternal poison while you taste it? One book may for you or mo decide everything for this word and tho next. It was a turning point with mo when iu a bookstore iu Syracuse one day I picked up a book called “Tbo Beauties of Ruskiu. ” It was only a book of extracts, but it was all pure honey, and I was not satisfied until I had purchased all his works, at that time expensive beyond an easy ca pacity to own them, and with what de light I went through reading his “Sev en Lamps of Architecture” and his “Stones of Venice” it is impossible for me to describe except by saying that it gave me a rapture for good books and an everlasting disgust for decrepit or immoral books that will last me while mv life lasts. All around tho church and the world today there are busy hives of intelligence occupied by authors and authoresses from whoso pens drip a dis tillation which is the very nectar of heaven, and why will you thrust your rod of inquisitiveness into the deatbful saccharine of perdition? Beware of Strong Drink. Stimulating liquids also come into the category of temptation delicious but deatbful. You say, “I cannot bear the taste of intoxicating liquor, and bow any man can like it is to me an amaze ment. ” Well, then, it is no credit to you that you do not take it Do not brag about your total abstinence, because it is not from any principle that you re ject alcoholism, but for the reason that you reject certain styles of food; you simply don’t like the taste of them. But multitudes of people have a natural fondness for all kinds of intoxicants. They like it so much that it makes them smack their lips to look at it. They are dyspeptic, aud they like to aid digestion; or they are annoyed by in somnia, and they take it to produce sleep; or they are troubled, aud they take it to make them oblivious; or they feel happy, and they must celebrate their hilarity. They begin with mint julep sucked through two straws on tho Long Branch piazza and end in the ditch, taking from a jug a liquid half kerosene and half whisky. They not only like it, but it is nn all consuming passion of body, mind and soul, aud aft er awhile have it they will, though one wineglass of it should cost the temporal aud eternal destruction of themselves and all their families and the whole hu man race. They would say, “I am sorry it is going to cost me and my family and all tho world's population so very much, but here it goes to my lips, and uow let it roll over my parched tongue and down my heated throat, tho sweet est, the most inspiring, the most deli cious draft that ever thrilled a human frame.” To cure the habit before it comes to its last stages, various plans were tried in olden times. This plan was recommended in the books: When a man wanted to reform, be put shot or bullets into the cup or glass of strong drink—one additional shot or bullet each day, that displaced so much liquor. Bullet after bullet added day by day, of course the liquor became less aud less until the bullets would entirely fill up the glass and there was no room for the liquid, and by that time it was said the inebriate would be cured. Whether any one ever was cured iu that way I kuow not. but by long experiment it is found that tbo only way is to stop short off, aud when a man does that he needs God to help him, and there have been more cases than you can count when God has so helped the man that ho left off the drink forever, aud 1 could couut a score of them, some of them pillars in the house of God. Moral Death. One would suppose that men would take warning from some of the ominous names given to the intoxicants and stand off from the devastating influ ence. You have noticed, for instance, that some of the restaurants are called “The Shades.” typical of the fact that it puts a man’s reputation in the ahade, and his morals in the shade, and his prosperity in the shade, aud his wife aud children in the shade, and his im mortal destiny in the shade. Now, I meats at his feet, aud a scroll con tain- j ing the names of tho conspirators was thrust into his hands, yet walking riuht ! on to meet tho dagger that was to take his life. This infatuation of strong drink is so mighty in many a man that, though his fortunes are crashing, aud his health is crashing, aud his domestic : interests are crashing, aud wo hand him a long scroll containing tho names of perils that await him, he goes straight on to physical and mental and moral assassination. In proportion as any style of alcoholism is pleasant to your taste and stimulating to your nerves, and for a time delightful to all your physical and mental constitution, is the peril avvful. Remember .Jonathan and tho forbidden houcy iu tho woods at Beth- aven. Furthermore, tho gamester’s indul gence must bo put iu tho list of tempta tions delicious, but destructive. You who have crossed tho ocoau many times have noticed that always one of the best | rooms has from morning until late at | night been given up to gambling prac tices. I heard of men who went on board with enough for a European ex cursion w’iio landed without money to get their baggage up to tbo hotel or railroad station. To many there is a complete fascination in games of hazard or the risking of money on possibilities. It seems as natural for them to bet as to eat. Indeed, tho hunger for food is often overpowered by the hunger for wagers. It is absurd for those of us who have never felt tho fascination of tho wager to speak slightingly of the temp tation. It has slain a multitude of intel lectual and moral giants, men aud wo men stronger than you or I. Down uu der its power went glorious Oliver Goldsmith aud Gibbon, tho famous his torian, and Charles Fox, tho renowned statesman, and in olden times senators of the United States, who used to be as regularly at tho gambling house all night as they were in the hulls of legis lation by day. Oh, tho tragedies of the faro table! I know persons who began with a slight stake in a ladies’ parlor and ended with the suicide’s pistol at Monte Carlo. They played with tho square pieces of bono with black marks on them, not knowing that satan was playing for their bones at tho same time and was sure to sweep all the stakes off on his side of the table. State legislatures have again and again sanc tioned the mighty evil by passing laws iu defense of race tracks, and many young men have lost all their wages at such so called “meetings.” Every man who voted for such infamous bills has on his hands and forehead the blood of these souls. Eternal Catastrophe. But in this connection some young converts say to me: “Is it right to play cards? Is there any harm in a game of whist or euchre?” Well, I know gootl men who play whist and euchre and other styles of games without any wagers. I had a friend who played cards with his wife and children, and then at the close said, “Come, uow, let us have prayers. ” I will not judge oth er men’s consciences, but I tell you that cards are in my mind so associated with tho temporal and spiritual ruin of splen did young men that I would as soon say to my family, “Come, let us have a game of cards” as I would go into a menagerie and say, “Come, let us have a game of rattlesnakes’’ or into a ceme tery and, sitting down by a marble slab, say to the gravediggers, “Come, let us have a game at skulls." Conscien tious young ladies are silently saying, “Do you think card playing will do us any harm?” Perhaps not, but how will you feel if in the great day of eternity, when we are asked to give an account of our influence, some man should say, “I was introduced to games of chance iu the year 1898, at your house, and I went on from that sport to something more exciting and went on down until I lost my business and lost my morals and lost my soul, aud these chains that you see on my wrists and feet are the chains of a gamester’s doom, and I am on my way to a gambler’s hell. “ Hon ey at the start, eternal catastrophe at the last Stock gambling comes into the same catalogue. It must be very exhilarating to go into the stock market and, depos iting a small sum of money, run the chance cf taking out a fortune. Many men are doing an honest and safe busi ness in the stock market, and you are an ignoramus if you do not know that it is just as legitimate to deal in stocks as it is to deal in coffee or sugar or flour. But nearly all the outsiders who go there on a financial excursion lose all. The old spiders eat up the unsus pecting flies. I had a friend who put his hand on his hip pocket and said in substance, “I have there tho value of 1250,000.” His home is today penni less. What was tho matter? Stock gam bling. Of the vast majority who are victimized you hear not one word.. One great stock firm goes down, and whole columns of newspapers discuss their fraud or their disaster, and we are pre sented with their features aud their bi ography. But where one such famous firm sinks 500 unknown men sink with them. The great steamer goes down, and all the little boats are swallowed iu the same engulfxnent. Gambling is gambling, whether in stocks or breadstuffs or dice or race horse betting. Exhilaration at the start, but a raving brain and a shattered nerv ous system and a sacrificed property hie. Tbn Truth of God. The best honey is not like that which Jonathan took on tho end of tho rod and brought to his lips, hut that which God puts on tho banqueting table of mercy, at which wo are all invited to sit. I was reading of a bey among tho moun tains of Switzerland ascending a dan gerous place w’ith his father and tho guides. Tho hoy stopped on tho edge of tho cliff aud said, “There is a flower 1 mean to get.” “Como away from there,’’ said the father. “You will fall off.” “No, “said he. “I must get tha- beautiful flower.” Aud tho guides rushed toward him to pull him Lack, when just as they heard him say, “I almost have it,” ho fell 2,000 feet Birds of prey wero seen a few days after circling through tho air and lowering gradually to the place where tho corpse lay. Why seek flowers off tho edge of tho precipice when you can walk knee deep amid the full blooms of tho very paradise of God? When a man may sit ut the king’s banquet, why will ho go down tho steps and contend for tho ref- uso and bones of a hound’s kennel? “Sweeter than honey and tho honey comb, ” says David, is the truth of God. “With honey out of tho rock would I havo satisfied thee, ” says God to the recreant. Here is honey gathered from the blossoms of trees of life, and with a rod made out of tho wood of the cross I dip it up for all your souls. The poet Hesiod tells of an ambrosia and a nectar tho drinking of which would make men live forever, and one sip of tho honey from tho Eternal Rock will give you eternal life with God. Como off the malarial levels of a sinful life. Come and live on the uplands of grace, where tho vineyards sun them selves. “Oh, taste and see that tho Lord is gracious!” Bo happy uow aud happy forever. For those who take a different course the honey will turn to gall. For many things I have admired Percy Shelley, tho great English poet, but I deplore the fact that it seemed a great sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem “(jueeu Mab” has in it tho maligning of tho Deity. Shelley was impious enough to ask for Rowland Hill’s Surrey chapel that he might de nounce the Christian religion. He was in great glee against God and the truth. But be visited Italy, aud one day on tho Mediterranean with two friends in a boat which was 24 feet long ho was coming toward shore when an hour’s squall struck the water. A gentleman standing on shore through a glass saw many boats tossed in this squall, but all outrode tbo storm except one, in which Shelley and his two friends wero sailing. That never came ashore, bnt the bodies of two of the occupants wero washed up on tho beach, cue of them the poet. A funeral pyre was built on the seashore by some classic friends, and the two bodies were consumed. Poor Shelley! Ho would have no God while he lived, and I fear bad no God when he died. “The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but tho way of the ungodly shall perish.” Beware of the forbidden honey 1 The Whipping Post. A whipping post for tho correction of bad boys has been set np in Evansville, Ind. The judge of the local police court is responsible for the innovation. He was puzzled what to do with boys in different to parental control and hesi tated to inflict the penalty of a flue, which was really a punishment on the parent. He discovered that an old stat ute permitting the flogging of lawbreak ers had not been repealed, and at once set up the whipping post Now wbeu a boy is found guilty of misdemeanor his father is sent for and given his choice of paying a fine, seeing his boy go to jail or giving him a sound flog ging with a strap in the presence of an officer whose duty it is to see that there is no sham about the puuishment. There is seldom need of tho mentor’s interfer ence, the angry parent wielding the strap to good purpose. Tbo Humane so ciety felt impelled to interfere, but the judge stood upon tbo law, and there has been a marked decrease in the num ber of boys brought before the court.— New York Post. An Oft Vaccinated Man. Probably tho most thoroughly vacci nated man on earth is Chief Veal of the health department at Atlanta, but he has never felt the effect of tho virus that has been put into his arm. Since he has been in charge of the health de partment Chief Veal has handled many cases of smallpox and has been exposed too many times to estimate. Since he began the work Chief Veal has been vaccinated 2G3 times with the purest and freshest virus, but not once has it had the desired effect Although phy sicians have done everything known to medical skill to make vaccination “take” on him, they have failed.— Savannah New& I had the rheumatism so badly that I could not get my hand to my head. 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