With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . 98 TRAPS. spring to choke the mouse to death, is concealed, and he does notknow that there is a wire there at all. He simply smells the pieceof cheese. This tempts his appetite, and, as he is fond of cheese,he desires to obtain it, and so he attempts to crawl in through thissmall hole to get the cheese; but the moment he nibbles at thecheese, it disturbs the little catch which holds the spring, and whenit is too late to escape, the little mouse finds that he has been he does not think of the
With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul . 98 TRAPS. spring to choke the mouse to death, is concealed, and he does notknow that there is a wire there at all. He simply smells the pieceof cheese. This tempts his appetite, and, as he is fond of cheese,he desires to obtain it, and so he attempts to crawl in through thissmall hole to get the cheese; but the moment he nibbles at thecheese, it disturbs the little catch which holds the spring, and whenit is too late to escape, the little mouse finds that he has been he does not think of the cheese, but struggles to get looseand escape out of the trap. But all of his struggles are in vain,. Mice and Trap. and after a few moments he is choked to death. Then the man,or the housewife comes, takes the little mouse out of the trap, andwith the same piece of cheese the trap is again set for another unsus-pecting mouse. So people go on, day after day, catching onemouse after another, with the same trap and with the same bait. Now, there are traps which men set for boys and girls, andmen and women, such as story papers, bad books and pictures,that might be called pest papers, printed poison, moral the innocent, the unthinking and the unsuspecting these thingsmay not appear very dangerous, but they are very deadly in theireffects, and they result in the temporal and eternal ruin of thou-sands upon thousands of people every year. Then there are also the saloons, with gilded signs, frostedwindows, and showy looking glasses. Rooms which are made TRAPS. 99 attractive only to catch men, to rob them of their money, and oftheir self-control, and of their reason, and of their
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