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One man said to another, “Whatever became of your boyhood friend Fitch?” “Well,” replied the other, “ he died be fore he was 20 years old from eating coffee. He acquired the habit in early childhood and so weakened his body in his teens that disease too*k him off.” Life’s conflict with intemperance. At the confluence of the rivers Rhone and Arve there begins a battle between mud and clearness. The Rhone is clear, while the Arve is muddy, and this con flict continues for miles, until the mud defeats the crystal clearness. Let every pure soul take warning from the muddy Rhone. Two liyes cannot be as sociated except the dirt of one is found in the other; occasionally the reverse is also true. Have you got the strong pure stream of Christ’s life flowing in you? If not the muddy stream will conquer some day. The Golden Text illustration. Dr. Henry Herbert Goddard, who is the director of" the training school at Vineland, N. J., traces the ancestry of a feeble-minded girl back for six gen erations, at which time the feeble minded line was started by Martin Kal- likak, a Revolutionary soldier with four honorable generations behind him. This Revolutionary soldier stepped aside to dishonor a feeble-minded girl, and pass ing on his way, afterward established a respectable home, marrying a normal woman, of good family. Sharply dividing at this point, the history of the family shows upon the legitimate side six generations of doc tors, lawyers, judges, educators, traders, landholders, with only one in sane, only fifteen children who died in infancy, no feeble-minded, no immoral. Upon the other side are six genera tions, which, out of 480 descendants, developed 143 feeble-minded, with, only 46 known positively, to be normal, 36 illegitimates, 33 prostitutes, 3 epilep tics, 82 who died in infancy, 3 ,crim inals, 8 keepers of disreputable houses,
(10) The Ark was only a glossy box without the glory of God. (11) We must have Immanuel—God with Us. m Sow whiskey—Reap woe. A wagon is overturned on the moun tain. Three men, all drunk, are in it.
One of them is caught under the heavy wreck, and crushed out. Only a few months pre his life ; slowly
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vious he had, in a rage, dragged his sis ter from the meeting where she had gone with others to “ seek the Lord.” Now, as he lay pinned to the earth by the great weight that was rapidly cut ting ' short his breath, his agonizing cry was, “ Oh, lift.” “ O God,- have mercy!” A prosperous liquor seller was boast ing to a group of men in the bar of the amount of money he had made. Said he, “ I’ve made 200 pounds ($1,000.00) the last three months.” “ You have made more than that,” quietly remarked a listener. “What is that?” he re sponded- -, ¡“ You have made my two sons drunkards. You have made their mother a broken-hêarted woman. You have made' more than I can reckon, but you’ll get the full account some day.” Intemperance along other lines. The young man at school or college who burns the midnight oil is to be commended but too often i e burns out his brains at the same time with the cigaret. Usually the. waste and.injury to the nervous system is greater than the repair, and the result is mental bankruptcy. Investigation shows that prominent business men positively re fuse to engage men for responsible po sitions, who smoke cigarets. The cigaret smoker, sooner or later, proves to be unreliable either physically, men tally, or morally, or all three.
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