small price paid out for fire and brimstone; and yet thousands of poor, silly, giddy, gay, and fashionable people are bartering their souls every year to the world, the flesh, and the devil for the cheap enjoyment of social dissipation and personal display.

5. Please look at that old glutton who is hooked onto a ham of bacon. His god is his belly, and his only dream is of beefsteak and mutton, soups and stews, fish and oysters, ham and eggs, pies and puddings-things finer or coarser, according to the style of his menu, or bill of fare. If you want to get at his heart or his pocket-book, just appeal to his stomach. He has the dyspepsia and the gout and rheumatism and what not, but no doctor nor preacher can turn him from his gormandizing appetite, and the devil will get him at last through one of the beastliest temptations which ever entrapped a fool. Fortunate

ly, this is not a universal sin, from the fact that but few, comparatively, are able to pay for it; but Satan will have, in the end, not a few of this kind whom he has fattened for the slaughter of death.

6. Again, notice. that fellow who is caught with the pack of cards hook. He is the gambler, and under his head may be classed that whole fraternity who try to live by getting something for nothing upon the hazard of games and speculations. They do not live. by the law of that labor which gains an honest living in the sweat of the honest face, as God commands. They "haste to be rich," many of them, and God says that they "shall not be innocent." The cardpack, the lottery-wheel, the pool, the craps, keno, the billiard-table-all of these are sweeping their thousands into sin, misfortune, and hell every day. Gambling has increased. it is said, over one hundred per

cent. in ten years in this country, and it would seem as if the devil were about to hook in the whole nation as one great, big, huge gambler.

7. I want you now to look at that man with a crooked and angry serpent hooked into his malicious mouth. He is the representative of scandal and slander and murder-the man who is jealous and envious, full of malignity and hate; ever ready to stab your character, injure your business, and take your life. The devil knows how to bait him, as well as all the balance; and this is the vilest worm he ever puts upon a hook. Every day we read of vituperation and revenge and murder, and our country has reached the point-especially in the South-when lynch and mob law dominate justice. Public sentiment is too corrupt and weak to sustain the judge on the bench, and a petit jury has become the shame and the disgrace of the age of civilization which gave it birth. There is but one set of laws now which seem capable of execution—those which protect your pocket-book; but when it comes to life and character, men generally conclude now that the shortest and surest way to justice is the revolver or the lyncher's rope. Alas that the serpent cannot be scotched according to law! but so it is in our sunny land.

There are other kinds of hooks baited for infidelity, self-righteousness, ritualism, hypocrisy, ambition, amusement, indecision, melancholy, lying-every sin of which human nature is tempted; but I have not time to discuss them in detail. May God bless this lecture to you all, and may you ever see my picture before you when the devil is baiting you to ruin with any of the temptations of life!

LITTLE AND BIG END OF LIFE'S HORN.

HAVE drawn for this occasion two horns, representing the general course of successful and unsuccessful life; and this sketch is based upon one of the trite maxims which we so often hear: "If you wish to come out at the big end of the horn, you must go in at the little end." Into the little end of the upper horn you see a man going. He is of small stature, and is squeezing in. It is not much trouble, however, to get into the mouthpiece of the horn, for it is always larger than the neck. The great difficulty lies in squeezing through the neck into the gradual swell of the horn, which grows larger and larger until you reach the big end. The ladder which reaches up to the mouth is called education, and so this represents the early training essential to entrance upon the business of life. The neck of the horn is marked experience, and this is the difficult part and period through which every business of life is to pass. The big end of this horn is marked success, and this is the end reached when the finished man comes out. You will observe that the man comes out much enlarged in size-the same little fellow who was so small upon his entrance. He went in upon a small scale, he came through the difficult neck of experience, and he comes out successful and fully developed