Late Hours

Ileniy Ward J?eeo,her preachcd rficentW 011 " late hours " and the Unfruitful Work of Darkness. " If you want to make the ruin of a ehild sure, givo him liberty after dark: You cannot do anything nearer to ensure his damnation than to let him have liberty to go where he will without restrainti After dark he will be sure to get into cbiu" raunication with people that will undermine all his good qualities. I do not liko to speak to parcnts about their children; Their children cannot, will not lio, when his tongue is like a bende! bow ; he will not drink when thcre is hot a saloon with1 in a niile of hisfather's house where he is not as woll known a,s one of its own docantera ; he never does iniquitous things, when ho is reoking in filth. Nmetecn out of overy twenty illowed perfect freedotti at ñigni 'irill be wounded by it. Theï jíj notliing moro important than for a child to bo at homo at niglit, or if ho is abroad, you should be with hira. If he is to seo any sights or take any ploasure, there ia nothing that heshould set) that youshould not sor with him. It is not merely that the child should bo broken down, but there are thoughts that never ought to fmd a passagre into a nian's brain. As an pol, if he wriggle aeross your carpet, wiil leavc its slime whioh no brushing can ever off.) co, so tliore are thoughts tliat never oan be got rid of, onoo permitted to enter; and there are individuals going round with obsoenfi books and pictures under the lappels of their coats that will leavo idnafi in the mind of your child that will never be Bffikéedi Thore ave men here who have heard a salaoióús soilg and they never %vill forgot it. Thoy will regret it to the end oí' tlieir Uves. Í do not Dclieve in a child's seeing lifo, as it is called, with its damnable lust and wickedness, to have ají his imagination set on firu with tho flames of heil. WéIihtT wn. ■' ' " ■