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WATCHMAN, ATHENS, GEORGIA, JUNE 1S89
RUINOUS COMPANIONS.
•'CONSORT WITH
you Will be
BURGLARS AND
A BURGLAR.”
Dr. Tnlniaco Mul.r. Some New Remarks
on an Old Rnl-ject—Row Spendthrifts
nnd Dehnurhcee Are Made—Evil Wronght
by the Skoplle.
' Brooklyn, Juno 2.—The Rev. T.
De Witt Talmagn, D. D.. preached nt
the Tabcmaclo today. -After expound
ing tho Scriptures lie gave out that
liopular liymu by A. M. Toplady, be
ginning:
.. Your karpn, yo trembling saints.
; Down frost tho r.\.k>vv* taka.
He took for his text Proverbs xiii, 20:
“A companion of fools shall bo de
stroyed.’ Following i3a verbatim re
port of the sermons
; “May it please the court,” said a
convicted criminal, when usked if ho
'had anything to say before sentence
•bf death wan passed upon him, “may
at please tho court, bad company has
standing ready beside the couch, says:
and
_ . ^ ^ . gays: >*T
“You must die; you have only half a. go to baptize the moss. I lave the
■been my ruin. I received Lite blessings
bf good parents, and, i:i return, prom
ised, t,o avoid all evil associations.
Had 1 kept my promiss I should liave
"been saved this shame, and been free
.front tho load of guilt that hangs
round mo like a vulture, threatening
to drag mo to justieo for crimes yet
unrevealed. I, who once moved in the
first circles of society, and have been
the guest of distinguished public men,
!am lost, and all through bad com
pany.”
. This is but or.o of tho thousand
proofs that tho companion of fools
sliall bo destroyed. It is the invariable
rulk There is a well man in tlio
wards of a hospital, where there aro
a hundred people sick with ship fever,
and he will not bo so apt to take the
disease 03 a good man, would bo apt to
be smitten with moral distemper, if
shut up with iniquitous compamdfts.
In olden times prisoners were herded
together in tho same cell, but each one
learned tho vices of all the culprits, so
tliat, instead of being reformed by in
carceration, tho day of liberation
turned them out upon society beasts,
not men. * —
, DO NOT SEEK BAD COMPANIONS.
We may, in our places of business,
be compelled to talk to and mingle
with bad men; but ho who deliberate
ly chooses to associate himself with
vicious people is engaged in carrying
on a courtship with a Delilah, whose
shears will clip off all the locks of his
strength, and ho will be tripped into
perdition. Sin is catching, is infec
tious, is epidemic. I will let you look
over tho millions of people now in
habiting tho earth, and 1 challenge
you to snow moagood man who, after
one year, has made choice and con
sorted with tho wicked. A thousand
dollars reward for one such instance.
I care not how strong your character
may bo. Associate with gamblers, you
will become a gambler. Clan with
burglars, and you will become a burg
lar. Go among tho unclean, and you
will become unclean. Not appreciat
ing tho truth of my text, many a
young man lias been destroyed. He
wakes up some morning ‘in tho great
city, and knows no one except tho per
sons into whoso employ Uo has en
tered. * _ J*
^ As ho goes into the 6101*0 all the
clerks mark him, measure him and
discuss him. The upright young men
of tho storo wish Inin well, ( but per
haps wait for a formal introduction,
‘and even then liavo sorno delicacy
about inviting him into their associa
tions. But tho bad young men of the
store at tho first opportunity approach
and offer their services. They patron
ize him. They profess to-know all
about tho tewn. They will tako him
anywhero that he wishes to go—if ho
Jwill pay tho expenses. For if a good
young man anu a bad young man go
to some place whero they ought not,
the goocf young man has invariably to
tray tho charges. At the moment tho
ticket is to uo paid for, or tho cliam
pague settled for, tho bad young
xilan feels around in his pockets
and says: “I have forgotten my
pocket hook.” In forty-eight hours
after the young man has cn
tered tho store the bad fellow3 of
the establishment slap him on the
shoulder familiarly, and, at his stupid
itv in taking certain allusions, say
.“My young friend, you will have to
he broken inand they immediately
S rocecd to break him in. Young man,
i the name of God I warn you to be
ware how you led, a bad man talk fam
iliarly witn you. If such an one slap
you on the shoulder familiarly, turn
round and give him a withering look,
until the wretch crouches in your
presence. Thero is . no monstrosity of
Wickedness that can stand unabashed
under the glance of purity and honor.
God keeps the lightnings of heaven in
his Own scabbard, and no human arm
can wield them; but God gives to
every young man a lightning that he
may use, and that is the lightning of
an honest eye. Those who nave been
close observers will not wonder why I
* give warning to young men, and say,
jf’Bewaro of bad company."
* First, 1 warn you to shun tho skep
tic—tho young man who puts hb Au
gers in his vest and laughs at your old
fashioned religion, anu turnsover to
'some mystery of the Bible and says:
[“Explain that, my pious friend; ex
plain that.” And who says: “Nobody
shall scare me; I am not afraid of the
future; I used to believe in such
things, and so did my father and
mother, but I liavegot over it” Yes,
ho has got over it; and if you sit in
hb company a little longer, you will
get over it too. Without presenting
one argument against the Qhrbtian
religion, such men will, by their jeers
and scoffs and caricatures, destroy
your respect for that religion which
was tlio strength of your father in hb
declining years, and the pillow* of
your old mother when she lay
a-dying. Alas I a time will come when
that blustering young infidel mil
have to die, and then hb 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 bo uncombed upon the pil
low, and the dying man will say: “I
cannot die—I cannot die.” Death,
minute to live; let me have it right
away—your soul." “No," says the
young infidel, “hero are my gold
rings,.and these-pictures; take them
all. “No,".flays Death, “what do I
care for pictures 1—your soul.” “Stand
back,” says the dying infidel. “I will
not stand back,” says Death, “for you
have only ten seconds now to live; I
want your 'soul.” .Tlie. dying man
says: “Don’t breathe that cold
air into my face. You crowd
mo loo hard. It b getting dark
in tlio room. QGod!” “Hush,” says
Death; “you said there was no God.”
“Pray- for me,” exclaims the expiring
infidel. “Too late to pray,” says Death;
“but three, more; seconds to live, and
I will count them off—ono-^two—
three.” He has gone! Where? Where?
Carry him out—out, and bury him be
side his father and mother, who died
while holding fast the Christian re
ligion. They died singing; but. the
young infidel only said: “Don’t breathe
that cold air into my face. You crowd
uio too hard. It b getting dark in the
room.”
foams, and frolics, and
THE MAN WHO DOE3 NOTHING IS WORTH
NOTHING.
n, I urge you to shun the com-
mnionship of idlers. There are men
tanging around every store, anu office,
and shop, who have nothing to do, or
act as if they had not They arc apt
to come in when the firm are away,
and wish to engage you in conversa
tion while you are engaged in your
regular cm ploy menL 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 occupation
and associate with them. Much of the
time they lourigo around the club
rooms or tho-doors of engine houses,
or after the dining hour stand upon
the steps of a fashionable hotel or an
elegant rcstauraut, wishing to give
you the idea that that is the place
whero they dine. But they do not dine
there. They are sinking down lower
and lower, day bv day. Neither by
day nor by night have anything to do
with tlie idlers. Before you admit a
man into your acquaintance ask him
politely: “Wliat do you do for a liv
ing?” If he says, “Nothing; I am a
gentleman,” look out for him. He
may have a very soft hand and very
faultless apparel, and have a liign
sounding family name, but his touch
is death. Before, you know it you
will in hb preseuce be ashamed of
your work -dress. Business will be
come to you drudgery, and after
awhile you will lose your place, and
afterwards your respectability, and
last of all your soul. Idleness is next
door to villainy. Thieves, gamblers,
burglars, shop lifters and assas
sins aro made from' the class
who have nothing to do. When
the police go to hunt up and arrest a
culprit they Seldom go to look in
among busy clerks or in tho busy car
riage factory, but they go among the
groups of • idlers. Tlio play is going
on at tho theatre, when suddenly tliere
is a scuffle iu the top gallery. What
is it? A policeman lias come iu, and,
leaning over, has tapped on. the shoul
der of a young man, saying: “I want
you, sir.” He has not worked during
the day, but somehow has raked to
gether a shilling or two te get into the
top gallery. He is an idler. Tlio man
on his right hand b au idler and .the
man bn his left hand b an idler..
Shrink back from idleness in your
self and in others if you would main
tain a right position. Good old Ashbel
Grech, at more than eighty years of
age, was found busy writing, and some
young man said to him: “Why do
•you keep busy? It b timo for you to
rest.” He answered: “I keep busy to
keep but of mischief.” Nq man is
strong enough to be idle.
Are you fond "of pictures? If so I
will show you one or the works of an
old master. Hero it is:. “I went by
the field of the slothful, and by the
vineyard of the man void of under
standing; and loi it was all grown
over with .thorns, and nettles had cov
ered the face thereof, and the stone
wall Was broken down. Then I saw
and considered well. I looked upon it
and received instruction. Yet a-, little
sleep, a little slumber, a little folding
of tho hands to sleep. So shall thy
poverty come as one that traveleth and
thy want asim armed man.” I don’t
know of another sentence in the Bible
more explosive than that It first
hisses softly, like the fuse of a cannon,
and at last bursts like a fifty-four
pounder. The old proverb was right:
“The devil tempts most men, but idlers
tempt the devil.”
BREAD THAT 13 CAST UPON THE WATERS.
A young man came to A man of
ninety years of ago and said -to him:
' How have you made out t6 live solong
and be so well ?” The old man took the
youngster to an orchard, and, pointing
to some large trees full of apples, said:
“I planted these trees when I,was a
boy, and do_you wonder that now I
am permitted to gather the fruit of
them??’ -We gather in old age what
we plant in our youth. Sow (o the
wind, and wo reap the whirlwind.
Plant in early life tne right kind of a
Christian character, and you will eat
luscious fruit in old age, and gather
these harvest apples in eternity.
Again: I urge you to avoid the per
petual pleasure seeker. I believe in
recreation and amusement I need it
as much as I need bread, and go to
my daily exercbe with as conscientious
a purpose as I go to the Lord's Supper;
and all persons of sanguine tempera
ment must have amusement and recre
ation. God would not have made us
with the capacity to laugh if lie had
not intended us sometimes to indulge
it 'God hath hung in sky, and set
in wave, , and printed op-grass many
a roundelay: but he who chooses pleas
ure seeking for hb life work does not
understand for wliat God: made him.
Our amusements are intended to
help us iu some earnest mission,
The thunder cloud hath an edge
exqubitely nurpled, butj with voice
that jars the earth, it declares:
“I go to water the green fields.” The
wild flowers under the fence are gay,
but fli.ey say: “We stand here to rnako
a beautiful edge for. the wheat field,
and to refresh the husbandmen in
their . nooning.” The stream sparkles
spots on the trout ■. I slake the thirst
of tho bird. I turn the wheel of the
mill. I rock in my crystal cradle
muckshaw and water lily.” And so,
while the world plays', it works. Look
out for the mau who always plays
and never works.
You will do well . to avoid those
whose regular, business it is to play
ball, skate or go a-bouting. All these
sports aro grand in their places. 1
never derived so much advantage from
any ministerial association as from a
ministerial club that went out to play
ball every Saturday afternoon, in the
outskirts of Philadelphia. These rec
reations are grand to give us muscle
and spirits for our regular toil. I be
lieve in muscular Christianity. A man
b often not so near God with a weak
stomach as when he has a string
digestion. But shun those who make
it their life occupation to s]>ort.
Tliere aro young men v^Jiose in
dustry and usefulness have fallen
Overboard from the yacht on the Hud
son or the Schuylkill. There are men
whose business fell through the ice of
the skating pond, and lias, never since
been heard of. Thero is a beauty in
the gliding of a boat, iu tho song of
skates, in tho soaring of a well struck
ball, and 1 never see one fly but I in
voluntarily throw up my hands to
catch it; and, so far from laying an in
junction upon ball playing, or any
other innocent sport, I claim them all
as belonging of right to those of us
who toil in the grand industries of
church and state. ---. .
LISTEN NOT TO THE TEMPTER’S VOICE.
But the life business of pleasure
seeking always makes in the end a
criminal or .a sot. 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 ap-
plauso, until exhausted of purse, and
worn out of body, and bankrupt of
reputation, and ruined bf soul, he
begged a biscuit from a grocer, and
declared that ho thought a dog’s life
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 will want
you to break out iu the midst of your
busy day 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 day that
you ought to .dishonor. They will
tell you of exquisite 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 companionship
remember that whilo at tho end of a
useful life you may be able to look
back to kindnesses done, to honorable
tessellated with unrestrained indul
gences; tliere is io God to frown on
the temples of s n where I worship.
The skies are Italian. Tlie paths I
tread are through meadows, daisied
ami primrosed. Como with me. 1 be
voung man hesitated at a time when
hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel
smote tho good angel until it departed,
spreading wings through the starlight
upward and away, until a door Hashed
own in the sky and forever the wings
vanished. Tliat was the turn
ing point in that young mans
history; for, the good angel flown,
he hesitated no longer, but started
on a, pathway which is beautiful at
the opening, but blasted at tho lasL
The bad angel, leading the way, open
ed gate after gate, and at each gate the
road became rougher and the sky
more lurid, and what was peculiar, as
tho gate slammed shut it came to
with a jar that indicated that it would
never open. Passed each portal, there
was a grinding of locks and a shoving
of bolts; and the scenery on cither
sido the road changed from gar
dens to deserts, and the June air be
came a cutting December blast, and
the bright wings of the bad angel
turned to sack cloth, and tho eyes
of light became hollow with hopeless
grief, and the fountains, that at the
start had tossed with wine,poured forth
bubbling tears and foaming blood,
and on tlio right side tho road there
was a serpent, and the man said to the J
bad angel: “Wliat is that serpent?"
and the answer was: “That is the scr-
f ier.t of stinging remorse.” On the
eft side the road thero was a lion, and
the man asked the bad angeL: “What
is that lion?” and the answer was:.
“That is the lion of all devouring de
spair.” A vulture flew through the
skv, and the man asked the bad angel:
“Wliat is that vulture?” and tlie an
swer was: “That is the vulture wait
ing for the carcasses of the slain.”
And then the man began to try to pull
off of him the folds or something that
had wound him round and round, and
lie said to tlie bad augel: “What is it
that twists me in this awful con
volution?”' and the answer was:
“That is tlio worm that never
dies!” And' then tlio man said to
the bad angel: “What does all this
mean? I trusted in what you said at
‘ho corner of tho street that night; I
..rusted it all, and why have you thus
deceived me?” Then the last ueceptiou
fell off the -charmer, and it saiu; “1
was sent’forth from tho pit to destroy
your soul;. I watched my chance for
many a loiigycar; whoa you hesitated
that night on the street, I gained my
triumph; now you aro here. Ha 1 lia 1
You are here. Gome, now, let us fill
these two chalices of fire, and drink
together to darkness and woe and
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■gert,
death. Hail! Hail 1” Oh! young man,
will the good angel sent forth by Christ
* ’ i or the bad augel sent forth by sin get
influence exerted, to a Saviour s cause I -
advanced—these pleasure seekers on
their death bed liave nothing better to
review than a torn -.playbill, a ticket
for the races, an empty tankard and
the cast out rinds of a carousal: and
as in the delirium of their awful death
they clutch the goblet and ; press it to
their lips, the dregs-of tho cup falling
upon their tongue will begin to hiss
and uncoil with the adders of an eter
nal poison.
Cast out these men from your com
pany. Do not lie intimate with them.
A1 ways bo polite. There is no Uemaud
that you ever sacrifice politeness. A
young man accosted a Christian Qua
ker with: “Old chap, how did you
make all your money?” The Quaker
replied: “By dealing in an article that
thou mayest deal in if thou wilt-
civility.” Always be courteous, but
at the same timo firm. Say no as if
you meant it Have it understood in
store, and shop, and street, that you
will not .stand in the companionship
of- the skeptic, the idle, the pleasure
seeker.
Bather than enter the companion
ship of such, accept tho invitation to
a better feast. The promises of God
aro tho fruits. The liarps of heaven
aro the music. Clusters from the
vineyards of God have been pressed
into the' tankards. The sons and
daughters of the Lord Almighty are
the guests. While, standing at the
banquet, to fill the cups and divide
tho clusters and command the harps
and welcome the-guests, is a daughter
of . God on whose brow are the dIos-
soms of paradise, and in whose cheek
is the* flush of celestial summer. Her
name is Religion.
; Her way* *n» ways of pleasantness
■ And all her paths aro peace.
WHERE THE RIGHT ROAD LEADS TO.
Decide this soon, oh, young man,
what direction you will take. There
comes such a moment of final de
cision—why not this? One night I
saw a young man at the street corner
evidently doubting as to which direc
tion he had better take, his hat lifted
high enough so you could see he had
an intelligent forehead, and he had a
stout chest and a robust development.
Splendid young man. Cultured young
man. Honored young man. Why
did he stop there while so many were
going up and down? The fact is, that
every man has a good angel and a
bad angel contending for the mas
tery of his spirit, and there was 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: “I will take you home; I
will spread my wing over your pil
low; l will lovingly escort you ail
through life under supernatural pro
tection; I will bless every cup you
drink out of, every couch you rest on,
every doorway you enter; I will con-
secrate your tears when you weep,
your sweat when you toil, and St -the
last I will hand over your grave to the I
bright angel of a Christian resurrec
tion. In answer to your father’s peti
tion and your mother’s prayer, I nave
been sent of the Loid out of heaven to
be your guardian spirit. Come with
mo,” said tho good angel, in a voice of
unearthly symphony. It was music
like that which drops from a
lute of heaven when a seraph
breathes on it “No, no,” said the bad
angel, “come with me; I have some-
tiling better to offer; tlie wines I pour
are* from chalices of bewitching ca
rousal ; tho dance I lead is over floor
are interlocked this moment
abovo you, contending for your des
tiny, as above the Appeniues eagle
and condor fight mid-sky: This hour
may decide your destiny. God help
you. To hesitate is to die!
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