| Show GETTING TO HEAVES HEAVE N BY WAY WAT or OF NEW 0 the philadelphia correspondent r esp on dent of the new york dispatch gives the following we have a methodist preacher pi eacher here who is a jolly wag A few days since since I 1 a young man who had long been attached to his church arid and who was ras about to leave leai e for new orleans came to bid his bis pastor farewell and so VOU you are going to that degenerate place new orleans are you 3 ou yes sir but I 1 dont expect to be influenced fluen ced by any extraneous pressure of any kind responded the young man mail with considerable earnestness well I 1 am glad to see you so confident I 1 hop the lord will guide you but do you know the temptations which exist there no not particularly well I 1 do find wanton ranton women in the guiss guise of paris tempting the very elect and rare wines and ardent drink drin lt and find gay company and night brawling and gambling m libling and dissipation and running g a after the lusts of the old man mail adam adain still sir I 1 hope to combat these successfully cess fully 1 I hope you will my dear christian brother was the reply 1 I hope you will and let me file give y you on this much for your consolation ionin in case you should fall from grace the tempter is worse than the sin and the g greater reater the temptation the more inore merit there is in resisting it the trivia man who goes to heaven by way of jaw lz w orleans Ore orleans eans is sure to have tw twice as high a place P a e in n eter eternal sze a I 1 glory as lie who be reaches paradise through the llie quiet portals of connecticut or Pen pennsylvania nyi |
