Weekly Chemawa American., February 07, 1908, Image 1

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VOL. 10.
FEBRUARY 7, 1908,
NO. 83
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JDvil Ways Entail Dogradation
and Remorse,
A wealthy contractor, who built the
tombs in New York, slept in it aB a pris
oner not long ago, In his prosperous
days he did a business of a half a mil
lion a year, but when caught in hard
ciroumstances he forged a note f o r
$2,000 and wag convicted and sentenced
to imprisonment. The building of the
Tomba wap hip last contract? and into it
he stepped a? a priponer
'l never dreamed" he aid, when I
built this prison that I would be an in
mate one day, But her I aim It is. a
hard luok.M It is not hard luck, for it
h not luck at all, but it is the hard way
in which the traniigresiQr walks and
which he builds fop himself, Ivery
man imprisoned in Pin hap built his own
prison, The retribution which wrongs
doing brings ia not an arbitrary punilW
mont inflicted by the revenge or caprice
of an outride judge or fate, but it is just
tho ncoessapy oonsequenei of the wrong
itsfiif ' - : ' "
Dfunkoanogs shuts a ihaa up iri his
own habits, unyielding m im wall!
and iron barS and with his OWil fifcry
appetite, What mm prismi - ediild
ho have? vol he built it hlthBeli Of
course he never dreamed" while he was
indulging his appetite, and especially
when he was beginning the habit, that
he wa building such a prison for him
self -j but po he wa
Every glass of intoxicating drink put
a stone into the wall and a bar into the
' windows of hh body and soul, until he
found himself shut in behind those walla
and bars in a prison more dreadful than
one of stone and steel, So every sin
builds it own prison, Lying cuts off
the confidence of others and shuts the
liar up in a cell of gqcial isolation,
Pride encases the soul in a hard shell
that inflamep and irritate the se)f and
excludes the sympathy and fellowship
of others gelfighnesg crystalipes the
?oul into a narrow cell from which no
generous impulse can escape, All wrong
doing tends to build itself into the habits
and are the wallg and bars of hi prison,
Je may Hnever dream!, that he will
one day be chained in pueh a prison,
but he is building the priion all the
while he i shaping hh habits in sin,
Even the final retribution of in will be
the eternal priionhouia which thiiinuer
hai built around his own iouL it i a
good thing to tear away these walk
while w can, and, better itill, to build
m habits that may become our'- prisons
It ii not' luok but law that builds a
mmh tihmiMm and deathly; and this
kmi Is . in' our hftMi,PribFtifiaii